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$Incitement p.3 ADAPT To Congress: Free Our People! A good portion of the credit for keeping long term care on the health reform agenda goes to ADAPT, a grassroots group of activists with disabilities that since 1990 has sought to redirect 25% of Medicaid dollars toward the creation of a national attendant services policy. [quote] from the National Coalition of Citizens for Nursing Home Reform newsletter, July\August 1994 issue. Photo by Tom Olin: A huge crowd, led by people in wheelchairs with posters across their legs, crosses a bridge. With shorter people in the front and taller walking people behind it looks almost like a giant wave crashing toward you, [Headline] ADAPT’S CAPITOL ACTION by Jim Parker Be an agent of change. an agent of empowerment, never forget that you are carrying on your shoulders now not only your cause, but ours as well President Clinton told ADAPT and other disability activists invited to the White House. Fifty members of ADAPT were joined by representatives from the National Council of Independent Living, NCIL, the Consortium on Citizens with Disabilities, CCD, and other Beltway disability establishment groups to meet with the President and press for inclusion of long term care in the Health Security Act. In his address to the group Clinton added we cannot run away from this, because we cannot afford to either have everybody forced into a nursing home or living in abject neglect... And we need to provide the opportunity for every American to live up to his or her capacity in the least restrictive environment that person might choose [subheading] A BRIDGE TO FREEDOM ADAPT, along with NCIL, CCD, and many other groups joined in a call-to-action that mobilized over 2,500 disability right supporters from 35 states and two nations on the Bridge to Freedom march across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial. ADAPT led the historic march to rally for community-based attendant services; a real change from the nursing horne\institution based services currently available. ADAPT national organizers Mike Auberger and Stephanie Thomas along with Senator Tom Harkin, President’s Committee Chair Tony Coelho, Justin Dart, and many other disability rights leaders all strongly voiced the need for a community-based national attendant services program in Health Care Reform. Auberger said as we were gathered here, Congress, lobbyists for the insurance, nursing home and medical industries are deciding our futures and counting their profits If we passively hand over that future to the same industries, which have controlled and profited from our lives, - until today — I can guarantee that the only future we will have is one that will sentence our brothers, our sisters and ourselves to nursing homes and institutions for generations to come. Photo by Tom Olin: A man (Charles Johnson) in a manual wheelchair and a Piss on Pity t-shirt raises his right arm with the power fist as he leads a chant. In front of him and below you can see a crowd riled up. Behind him is a darkened doorway and a man (Frank Krall) stands and chants, as another man (Erik von Schmetterling) in a wheelchair chants and signs. Caption reads: Charles Johnson of Michigan ADAPT leads a chant to FREE OUR PEOPLE. The March to Freedom also called for universal coverage; affordable. comprehensive benefits; consumer driven psychiatric services; durable medical equipment; as well as prescription drugs. subheading: NO MORE BAND-AIDS! REAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL [Subheading] Tuesday May 3rd ADAPT was the first organization to shut down both the Democratic and Republican national headquarters to demand assistance in arranging a meeting with ranking congressional leadership of the committees responsible for health care reform. ADAPT divided its force of 500 to occupy the two headquarters. ADAPT took over all three ﬂoors of the DNC and occupied the main floor of the RNC. ln the end neither party succeeded in setting up a single meeting. ADAPT took over both the headquarter buildings simultaneously to drive homo the point that attendant services MUST be part of any health care reform. that people's lives go beyond party politics. People with disabilities told the leadership at both party buildings that without a strong long-term care component as part of health care reform. society will continue to warehouse innocent citizens young and old, with disabilities in modern day concentration camps - nursing homes and institutions And, that the acquittal of Dr. Kevorkisn, means society is already on the road to sanctioning systematic extermination of people with disabilities -people who are just as much a part of the life cycle as able-bodied people. The Congressional leadership's inability - or refusal - to meet drove ADAPT to our next step. [Subheading] Wednesday May 4 Cold, wet and windy it was, but ADAPT's message was the powerful element as we took to the hallways and offices of the Russell Senate and the Rayburn House Office Building. Although seemingly rebuffed by the Congressional Leadership at party headquarters buildings on Tuesday, the message got through to the members of Congress. The effect of Tuesday's actions became very clear when the ADAPT folks who went to the House Offices were greeted with an invite to meet with Representative Dingell (D- IL) Chair of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee. 250 of the troops packed into a hearing room for the meeting. After some smaller meetings, the ADAPT House crowd moved on to the office of [then] Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R - GA). Lining the halls and packing the office, ADAPT calmly said we would wait when his staffers told us he was not available all day. Shortly thereafter Gingrich miraculously found the time to meet with us. And it was well worth the wait. Gingrich endorsed ADAPT's position on attendant services, promised to work to include such a position in any health care reform and introduce a stand-alone bill for a national attendant services program. Currently, some 1.7 million men, women and children are incarcerated in nursing homes and MUST be liberated! ADAPT‘s demand is simple: re-direct 25% of Medicaid billions currently budgeted for nursing homes to establish s national system of community-based personal assistance services created and controlled by the real experts — people with disabilities. On the Senate side, 250 ADAPTers met with top aides for Senators Kassebaum (R-KS), Kennedy (D-MA), and Moynihan (D- NY) and were assured follow-up meetings back at home. While the walk home was cold and wet, a fire had been lit and a message sent that people with disabilities are not going to sit idle until we have a national attendant services program. [IMAGE] [Caption] Rick James and his mom, Iris, arrested together in Vegas protesting AHCA. Photo: Tom Olin$

Incitement p.3

"ADAPT To Congress: Free Our People! A good portion of the credit for keeping long term care on the health reform agenda goes to ADAPT, a grassroots group of activists with disabilities that since 1990 has sought to redirect 25% of Medicaid dollars toward the creation of a national attendant services policy. " [quote] from the National Coalition of Citizens for Nursing Home Reform newsletter,
July\August 1994 issue.

Photo by Tom Olin: A huge crowd, led by people in wheelchairs with posters across their legs, crosses a bridge. With shorter people in the front and taller walking people behind it looks almost like a giant wave crashing toward you,

[Headline] ADAPT’S CAPITOL ACTION
by Jim Parker
"Be an agent of change. an agent of empowerment, never forget that you are carrying on your shoulders now not only your cause, but ours as well" President Clinton told ADAPT and other disability activists invited to the White House. Fifty members of ADAPT were joined by representatives from the National Council of Independent Living, NCIL, the Consortium on Citizens with Disabilities, CCD, and other Beltway disability establishment groups to meet with the President and press for inclusion of long term care in the Health Security Act. In his address to the group Clinton added "we cannot run away from this, because we cannot afford to either have everybody forced into a nursing home or living in abject neglect... And we need to provide the opportunity for every American to live up to his or her capacity in the least restrictive environment that person might choose"

[subheading] A BRIDGE TO FREEDOM

ADAPT, along with NCIL, CCD, and many other groups joined in a call-to-action that mobilized over 2,500 disability right supporters from 35 states and two nations on the "Bridge to Freedom" march across Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial. ADAPT led the historic march to rally for community-based attendant services; a real change from the nursing horne\institution based services currently available.

ADAPT national organizers Mike Auberger and Stephanie Thomas along with Senator Tom Harkin, President’s Committee Chair Tony Coelho, Justin Dart, and many other disability rights leaders all strongly voiced the need for a community-based national attendant services program in Health Care Reform.

Auberger said "as we were gathered here, Congress, lobbyists for the insurance, nursing home and medical industries are deciding our futures and counting their profits If we passively hand over that future to the same industries, which have controlled and profited from our lives, - until today — I can guarantee that the only future we will have is one that will sentence our brothers, our sisters and ourselves to nursing homes and institutions for generations to come."

Photo by Tom Olin: A man (Charles Johnson) in a manual wheelchair and a Piss on Pity t-shirt raises his right arm with the power fist as he leads a chant. In front of him and below you can see a crowd riled up. Behind him is a darkened doorway and a man (Frank Krall) stands and chants, as another man (Erik von Schmetterling) in a wheelchair chants and signs.
Caption reads: Charles Johnson of Michigan ADAPT leads a chant to FREE OUR PEOPLE.

The March to Freedom also called for universal coverage; affordable. comprehensive benefits; consumer driven psychiatric services; durable medical equipment; as well as prescription drugs.

subheading: NO MORE BAND-AIDS! REAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

[Subheading] Tuesday May 3rd

ADAPT was the first organization to shut down both the Democratic and Republican national headquarters to demand assistance in arranging a meeting with ranking congressional leadership of the committees responsible for health care reform.

ADAPT divided its force of 500 to occupy the two headquarters. ADAPT took over all three ﬂoors of the DNC and occupied the main floor of the RNC. ln the end neither party succeeded in setting up a single meeting.

ADAPT took over both the headquarter buildings simultaneously to drive homo the point that attendant services MUST be part of any health care reform. that people's lives go beyond party politics.

People with disabilities told the leadership at both party buildings that without a strong long-term care component as part of health care reform. society will continue to warehouse innocent citizens young and old, with disabilities in modern day concentration camps - nursing homes and institutions And, that the acquittal of Dr. Kevorkisn, means society is already on the road to sanctioning systematic extermination of people with disabilities -people who are just as much a part of the life cycle as able-bodied people.

The Congressional leadership's inability - or refusal - to meet drove ADAPT to our next step.

[Subheading] Wednesday May 4

Cold, wet and windy it was, but ADAPT's message was the powerful element as we took to the hallways and offices of the Russell Senate and the Rayburn House Office Building. Although seemingly rebuffed by the Congressional Leadership at party headquarters buildings on Tuesday, the message got through to the members of Congress.

The effect of Tuesday's actions became very clear when the ADAPT folks who went to the House Offices were greeted with an invite to meet with Representative Dingell (D- IL) Chair of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee. 250 of the troops packed into a hearing room for the meeting.

After some smaller meetings, the ADAPT "House crowd" moved on to the office of [then] Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R - GA). Lining the halls and packing the office, ADAPT calmly said we would wait when his staffers told us he was not available all day. Shortly thereafter Gingrich miraculously found the time to meet with us. And it was well worth the wait. Gingrich endorsed ADAPT's position on attendant services, promised to work to include such a position in any health care reform and introduce a stand-alone bill for a national attendant services program.

Currently, some 1.7 million men, women and children are incarcerated in nursing homes and MUST be liberated! ADAPT‘s demand is simple: re-direct 25% of Medicaid billions currently budgeted for nursing homes to establish s national system of community-based personal assistance services created and controlled by the real experts — people with disabilities.

On the Senate side, 250 ADAPTers met with top aides for Senators Kassebaum (R-KS), Kennedy (D-MA), and Moynihan (D- NY) and were assured follow-up meetings back at home.

While the walk home was cold and wet, a fire had been lit and a message sent that people with disabilities are not going to sit idle until we have a national attendant services program.

[IMAGE]
[Caption] Rick James and his mom, Iris, arrested together in Vegas protesting AHCA. Photo: Tom Olin

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