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■ THE CITY PAPER 3-23-06 CITY NEWS [image] [image caption] Photo by Josh Anderson. An unidentified motorist honks his horn as he is blocked by protesters on the corner of Eighth and Charlotte avenues on Monday. On Wednesday, state and Metro officials came to an agreement on how to better coordinate further such demonstrations. [Headline] Nicely, Serpas near agreement on protests [Subheading] Pair say 'higher level' personnel will plan more for future demonstrations BY JOHN RODGERS jrodgers@nashvillecitypapercom A day after bickering over the disruptive protests in downtown this week, an agreement appears to have been reached between the state and Metro Police to involve "higher-level" personnel when planning for future demonstrations. The disagreement began Tuesday after interim Department of Safety Commissioner Gerald Nicely sent an e-mail to state employees that said Metro Police "was well aware" that the protesters were coming Monday and that the traffic jam state workers experienced was a "Metro issue." Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas then denied the city knew in advance that the protesters from the health care advocacy group American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) were coming to block downtown streets. Tuesday night, Nicely and Serpas spoke. Wednesday, Nicely said, and Serpas confirmed, that the two have agreed to involve "higher-level" officials in planning for protests next time. "We agreed that we're going to get together and make sure that we work together and plan better for future events," Nicely said. [Subheading] Planning should've been better In retrospect, Nicely said higher-ups from the state and Metro should have met before the disruptive protests this week. "[The planning] was probably down at a lower level, and there's nothing wrong with the guys who are doing it," Nicely said. "It just should have been escalated to a higher level earlier." Serpas said after speaking with Nicely that he is "satisfied that we are moving forward" and that he had a cordial conversation with the commissioner. On Wednesday, the protesters, Who are pushing for more dollars and choices for home- and community-based health care as opposed to nurs-ing homes, moved their demonstrations from downtown to Metro Center, making stops at the state's TennCare Bureau and then traveling to the Nashville office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Meanwhile at the Capitol, Col. Mike Walker, the head of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, instituted a restricted access policy Tuesday and Wednesday, meaning that "people without legitimate business" were not allowed inside the Capitol, said Melissa McDonald, a spokeswoman for the Department of Safety. Overall, Metro Police arrested more than 100 demonstrators Monday and Tuesday. No arrests were made Wednesday, according to an ADAPT spokesperson. CP - ADAPT (1437)
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Page 8 Apri11988 [Headline] Religion and the disabled [Subheading] Disability + Power Civil, human rights by Rev. Wade Blank This article is about power, a word that has many negative connotations about it. While we admire people who have power, and people who use power, we still fear getting and using power for ourselves. We believe the meek shall inherit the earth," it is better "to be seen and not heard," [boxed text] These people gained power by acting, by laying aside social etiquette and taking action in their self interest; they gained power by taking risks. [text resumes] and being liked means not being too outspoken. Not only do we have some fear of power; we have great difficulty applying the term to people with disabilities, because our society does not recognize the possibility of a disabled per-son having power or being powerful. Our feeble attempts at gaining power are done in more accepted and passive ways of urging the vote, writing our congressperson or going to meetings. If the disability movement really wants power so it can address its oppression, then it needs to learn how to get power and how to use it. In Denver, there are twenty thousand people who use wheel-chairs for mobility. In 1978, the city of Denver had no wheel-chair accessible buses on its mainline system. That meant that there were twenty thousand people in wheelchairs that were not permitted on buses. To change that situation obviously required power and a lot of it. You could go to all the meetings you wanted, write all the letters you could write, but the situation wouldn't change. A group of twenty five disabled people got together and pledged to each other their willingness to take personal risk and personal action that would change the situation. First, the actions they would take would educate the public about their need for public transportation. Secondly, they would disrupt the able-bodied to the extent that it would get media coverage and to the extent that civil disobedience would occur and people would be arrested. In July of 1978, 25 people surrounded two buses at a main intersection of Denver and held the buses for two days. The police didn't arrest anyone because they were afraid of a bad public image. That action started a year of civil disobedience by those 25 people who did actions every three or four weeks. Today all 700 buses in Denver have wheelchair lifts. A re-markable demonstration of power! Twenty five people, willing to act, changed the situation for 20,000 people. These people gained power by acting, by laying aside social etiquette and taking action in their self interest; they gained power by taking risks. Once they showed them-selves and others how serious they were, and once people understood that these people with disabilities would be back over and over again until they got what they wanted, these once powerless people gained power, and to this day have maintained it. For the disability movement to succeed, every community in the United States needs disabled people willing to act in their own self interest to gain power. Only with power will all the issues affecting disabled people be won. That power network is now developing but we have a long way to go! We Will Ride, We Will Be Free! - ADAPT (1802)
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PHOTO [from Incitement] by Tom Olin: A woman [Marva Ways] with her hair in braids in a top-knot bun, sits in her wheelchair, legs crossed in front of her. She looks tired but assured as she gazes out in front of her. In her two hands she cradles a microphone. She is wearing black fingerless gloves and her fingers are extended so the microphone is between her palms. [caption below reads:] Marva Ways charged up the crowds at the Nashville action. - ADAPT (806)
The Tennessean, Tuesday September 28, 1993 Local News [Title] Health-care plan too little, groups agree By-TAMMIE SMITH, Staff Writer Two health-care groups at odds over home-based care agree on one thing: President Clinton's plan for health-care reform doesn't go far enough in addressing long-term care needs. The 239-page draft copy of Clinton’s plan devotes 15 pages to long-term care, principally calling for creation of a new long-term care program under the Social Security Act. The new program would concentrate on: - Expanding home- and community-based services. - Improving Medicaid coverage for institutional care. - Improving the quality and reliability of private long-term care insurance and creating tax incentives to encourage people to buy it. - Creating tax incentives that help individuals with disabilities to work. - Piloting a study intended to pave the way toward greater integrjation of acute and long-term care. The American Health Care Association, an organization representing 11,000 nursing homes, thinks the plan is a first step but falls short of comprehensive reform. The association, which has drawn 4,000 people to its annual convention this week at Opryland Hotel, maintains Medicaid has been “masquerading as a long-term care system for far too long." Under the President’s plan, Medicaid would still be the main resource for taking care of the poor, but people would be encouraged to take out private insurance to pay for long-term care should they need it. Clinton’s proposals don't go far enough, said association representatives and members of ADAPT, a group representing disabled people, which has its own beef with the American Health Care Association. “He hasn’t really tackled the whole issue," said Linda Keegan, spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association. “He has taken two small areas — home health services and long-term insurance — and builds in proposals to deal with those issues. He doesn’t address respite care, adult day care, nursing home care, residential care, hospice care or subacute care." The association maintains a comprehensive plan would incorporate all these types of care. ADAPT, which is short for American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, agrees with the health care association that Clinton's plan fall shorts. - ADAPT (1791)
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[title] Victory in Olmstead by Homer Page On June 22, 1999, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Olmstead Case. Olmstead originated in Georgia and involved two women with disabilities who desired to live in an integrated setting. For the first time the court affirmed the right of persons with disabilities to live in the most appropriate integrated setting... - ADAPT (1564)
[Headline] Congressional Proposal for Basic Access in All New Federally Assisted Homes Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has re-introduced the Inclusive Home Design Act (HR 2353), the national Visitability bill. Visitability is the most basic level of access. In this and most local and state bills there are three main requirements: *at least one no-step entrance; *doors and hallways wider than usual; *and at least a half-bathroom on the first floor big enough to accommodate a person in a wheelchair and allow that person to close the door. You can think of it like a stair step, with Visitability being the most basic, adaptability (as in the Fair Housing Standards for new multifamily housing) being the lower middle level, accessibility (as required by Section 504 and UFAS) being the upper middle level and individually customized access being the top level of access. According to Schakowsky 95% of federally supported homes are not required to meet any standard of accessibility. Yet, architecture and design experts estimate the total average cost per dwell-ing is $98 (on a concrete slab) and $573 (for a dwelling with a basement or crawl space). Several of the communities that already have Visitability laws have found it even less expensive than these estimates. The concept of Visitability has been catching on in pockets around the country for the past decade or so. The first place to require Visitability features in single-family housing paid for with public money was Atlanta in 1992, and was largely as a result of the efforts of the grassroots group Concrete Change. Other cities were quick to follow, including Austin, Chicago, Champaign, Urbana and Bolingbrook, IL and some states have even enacted Visit-ability laws Arizona, Vermont, Texas, Kansas, and Oregon. Visitability improves livability for homeowners as well as their guests. It lasts the lifetime of the house, so even if the first occupants don't need it, it is there for future residents and guests. It supports lifetime living, so as people age and their needs change the house can change with them. It promotes integration through visiting. It makes housing safer as every-one can get in and out. It allows people who develop a disability to continue to enjoy basic access to their homes. In short, it really improves housing. Schakowsky's bill has been referred to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Benefits. Supports of the bill want more co-sponsors. For more information on this and other Visitability initiatives check out Concrete Change's website www.concretechange.org Incitement - ADAPT (1612)