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Page A2 • CECIL WHIG, Tuesday, September 9, 2003 LOCAL [image] [image caption] CECIL WHIG/Matt Given. 'Making their way along Route 40 in Elkton, members of the group ADAPT pass through Cecil County on Monday. Their destination is Washington, D.C. [Headline] Group carries message to D.C. By Mike Spector jnspector@cecilwhig.com ELKTON — About 160 people An wheelchairs left motorists on Route 40 in the dust here Monday afternoon. Escorted by state police and slowing down traffic beside them, disabled people "marched" approximately 10.4 miles from Elkton to North East as part of the "Free our People" march sponsored by ADAPT, a national grassroots disability rights group. The group is marching to send a message to Congress demanding the passage of the Medicaid Community-based Attendant Services and Supports Act (MiCASSA). The proposed legislation would guarantee disabled and older Americans a choice in where they receive their long-term care services and supports, according to ADAPT. Current Medicaid regulations force elderly and disabled citizens into nursing homes, ADAPT charges, because such federally mandated programs aren't allowed to be cut. This means optional programs that allow those people to receive services at home are first on budget cut lists, according to ADAPT. The march began in Philadelphia and culminates in Washington, D.C., at a 20,000 person rally on Capitol Hill. A few minutes before 4 p.m., marchers were near Nazarene campground, where they will spend the night before continuing to Havre de Grace. Teams with 50 tents, 12 port-a-potties and a 350-gallon water tank set up and strike camp each night for the marchers, according to ADAPT spokesperson Bob Kafka. The group also carries a generator to charge power wheelchairs overnight. Monday night will be unusual, because the marchers will have an indoor facility at their disposal, Kafka said. Kafka said most assume elderly and disabled people have to get their services in nursing homes, when they could be getting them at home. Kafka said up to 2 million people in those institutions don't have a real choice when it comes to where they live and receive assistance. He believes MiCASSA is the answer. "We're challenging Congress' leadership," Kafka said of the marchers, "saying this piece of legislation has to be the number-one priority of the 108th Congress." The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration, Maryland Transportation Authority, Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland State Police and local police agencies assisted the group, establishing right lane closures on Pulaski Highway to protect the participants. A pollee motor-cade, crash-attenuating truck and arrow board vehicle escorted the marchers. Portions of Route 40 will be affected across the state Sept. 8 until Sept. 16, as the protestors continue toward Washington, D.C. Marchers Monday afternoon were enthusiastic. Daniese McMullin. Powell, 57, of Newark, Del., carried an American flag and a message. "For our people, our home is not nursing homes," she said. - ADAPT (1381)
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ADAPT organizers aimed this week's protests not a the Opryland Hotel, but at the hotel's guests--the American Health Care Association, which was holding its annual convention here. As the nation's nursing home industry lobby, the association is ADAPT's archenemy. ADAPT is demanding that the United States provide more health care for disabled people in their own homes by redirecting more than $5 billion in Medicaid funds from nursing homes. The activist group says 1.7 million institutionalized citizens could live independently at home if these services were offered. What's more, the group says it would cost less-- $8000 a year for each patient receiving in-home care compared to $30,000 for nursing-home care. The nursing home industry opposes ADAPT and makes millions of dollars in political contributions to ensure its voice is heard in Washington. ADAPT claims profit is the motive for the industry's opposition. ADAPT demonstrators have laid siege to the previous two association conventions. In 1992 at San Francisco, more than 100 ADAPT members were arrested, and 75 went to jail in 1991 at the convention at Orlando, Fla. ADAPT members have been in Nashville since Sunday to protest and try to meet with the American Health Care Association, which is having its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel. The group is demanding that 25 percent of all Medicaid dollars be diverted from nursing homes to home health care. ADAPT protesters demonstrated Sunday at the entrance to the Opryland Hotel before being told they'd be able to meet with AHCA officials Tuesday. - ADAPT (1080)
[Headline] Victories from Fall 1997 ADAPT Action in Washington DC ADAPT's DC trip was very successful. Among other things we were able to get: * Congressman Bilirakis, Chair of the Health and Environment subcommittee, to commit to hold hearings on HR 2020, MiCASA before March 31st 1998, * the Congressional Budget Office to re-look at the numbers and assumptions on which they made their initial cost estimates for MiCASA, *major aging, disability and long term care groups to meet regarding plans to work together for passage of HR 2020. We also learned the bill is being discussed all over the hill among the House and Senate as well as government officials and advocacy groups (both for and against us). The Voice of the Retarded (the pro institution parent group) is hard at work against the bill, as is the American Health Care Association, AHCA, the nursing home lobby. [Image] Clipart of protesters holding signs that read "HR 2020" and "Free Our People!" - ADAPT (362)
Time Magazine October 12, 1987 American Notes PHOTO by Michael Jones: Four men in wheelchairs block a cable car on Powell St. Left is JT Templeton, dark glasses, fist raised; the two men in the middle appear to be chanting. On the right side is Mike Auberger. Frank Lozano is sitting just inside the car and his service dog Frasier is on the steps going in the front of the car. A few people are standing on the sidewalk looking on. Caption reads: Protests: blocking the path of San Francisco's cable cars. Title: Wheelchair Warriors The whir of wheelchair motors and chants of We want access" filled the air last week. as some 200 disabled demonstrators from across the U.S. picketed the annual convention of the American Public Transit Association in San Francisco. The protesters blame association members for engineering the repeal of a 1979 federal mandate that required wheelchair lifts on all new buses and rail systems as well as the phased modification of existing systems. On Powell Street some protesters chained their wheelchairs to the city's century-old cable cars. Others crawled or rolled onto the tracks. shutting down the system for two hours. Many of the 134 arrested protesters were carted off in lift-equipped buses and vans. - ADAPT (999)
CREATIVE LOAFING November 14, 1996 DISABLED ISSUES ADAPT rolls out After five days of conferences, rallies and protests, hundreds of disabled activists headed for home following adjournment of the fall convention of ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today). The Atlanta meeting was particularly productive, say organizers, who secured written commitments from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton to press for greater access to home and community-based care for the disabled. The organization, which has been campaigning to increase funding for such programs and steer policy-makers away from nursing home-oriented strategies, even secured a commitment from Georgia Nursing Home Association (GNHA) President Fred Watkins to support a moratorium on new nursing home construction in Georgia. But the concessions did not come easily. More than 400 activists occupied the Clinton-Gore headquarters on election eve, and 86 were arrested — then released — by Atlanta police. The following day, hundreds of demonstrators in wheelchairs blockaded Memorial Drive in front of the GNHA offices, then filled the lobby of the downtown Marriott Marquis, where members of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) were staying during their convention. They sought an audience with AHCA President Paul Wilging, but were unsuccessful; 120 demonstrators were jailed, but a municipal judge released them upon condition they refrain from any more disturbances. "AHCA is becoming less relevant, now that we have legislative measures in the works,” says Atlanta ADAPT member Mark Johnson. "We've definitely got some things to follow up on. We have a committed time-frame for action in Washington, and if things don't get done, we'll escalate again." —- Greg Land - ADAPT (768)
San Francisco Examiner TITLE: Disabled protest for more funds for home attendants Subheading: Entrances to downtown Marriott are blocked By Wylie Wong of the Examiner Staff, October 19, 1992 About 300 demonstrators in wheelchairs blocked the entrances to the San Francisco Marriott, calling for more funds to allow the disabled to live outside of nursing homes. Sunday's protest was designed to drew attention to the 16 million disabled people who have no choice but to live in nursing homes, said the Rev. Wade Blank, a co-founder Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT). The protesters targeted the American Health Care Association, a nursing-home trade group whose members are staying at the Marriott on Fourth and Minion streets while attending a convention at nearby Moscone Center. ADAPT wants 25 percent of the $27 billion paid to nursing home operators under the Medicaid program to be used to help disabled people pay for personal attendants. But the Bush administration and the health care association, which represents about 10,000 nursing homes, oppose the plan. Only $600 million of that money currently is used for in-home attendant care, said ADAPT co-founder Michael Auberger. Police escorted the protesters on the eight-block trip from their Market Street hotel, and watched as they barricaded themselves at the Marriott's entrances. The protesters chanted. "Down with nursing homes, up with attendant care.” Police were able to keep some entrances open for hotel guests. No arrests were made. Kimberly Horton, who lived in a nursing home from age 6 to 21, described her experience as “living in a prison." "They take away your personal dignity," she said. "You had to eat what they put in front of you. They'd get angry at me for wetting my bed, but wouldn't help when I had to go.” Protester Blane Beckwith, a Berkeley resident, has a personal attendant who takes care of his everyday needs, from taking a bath to preparing food. But state budget cuts have slashed eight hours of care per month. As a result, he has only half an hour per week for grocery shopping with his attendant. "No one can shop for groceries in half an hour, My mother helps me, but she's 62 and can't do it forever." he said. Horton, who wants to take writing classes and become a free-lance writer, fear that more budget cutsar will force him to live in a nursing home. "A nursing home is stifling," he said, "You have no social life. You can't work." Conventioneers who walked past the protesters were unimpressed. "I have no argument with wanting more attendant care,” said John Jarrett, who runs a 79-bed nursing home in New York. "But they shouldn't take it from the elderly,” who would be hurt if ADAPT funding plan were implemented, he said. The demonstrators plan to protest the convention through Friday. A police commander said 90 police officers were on hand. “They haven’t been violent,” he said. “They’ve been very cooperative.“ Last week, officers took two hour classes at the Police Academy to learn how to arrest and search disabled people without harming them. PHOTO by Michael Macor, Examiner: The front of the ADAPT group marching down a downtown street and in the background the line of marchers goes out of sight. Paulette Patterson, Julie Nolan, Carla Laws, Brooke Boston? and Bob Kafka among those leading the march. Photo caption: Disabled people from the group ADAPT make their way down Mission Street to the Marriott Hotel. - ADAPT (873)
Nation THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, MAY 3,1994 [Headline] Disabled people hold health rally By Bob Hohler GLOBE STAFF WASHINGTON — Chanting "Free our people now," the protesters marched with canes and crutches, followed seeing-eye dogs and rolled in wheelchairs to the capital yesterday to press for comprehensive health care for nearly 50 million Americans with disabilities. More than 1,000 of those with disabilities and their advocates joined the "Bridge to Freedom" parade from Arlington National Cemetery to the Lincoln Memorial, a route many had marched four years ago to push for the Americans with Disabilities Act. At a rally, they called on Congress to pass a health-care bill that includes a national system of personal attendant services, durable medical equipment, assistive technology, psychiatric care and prescription drugs. An estimated 1.7 million people with disabilities are in nursing homes, a number that could be cut through a comprehensive health plan, many activists said. One member of the crowd described the issues as a matter of life or death. "I spent 21 years, four months and two weeks of my life in an institution," said Sybil Feldman, 53, of Brookline, who rode her wheelchair to the rally. "It means everything to me to be on my own. If I had to go back, I'd kill myself." [Subheading] 1,000 protesters make an appeal to Congress At a White House ceremony before the march, President Clinton told 125 of the activists that he supported their goals. "The health-care system is failing Americans with disabilities, but in so doing, it is failing us all," Clinton said. "It is making us less productive and less strong. It is costing more tax dollars and robbing us of taxes that would come to America's treasury from more Americans working and paying taxes in the ordinary course of their lives." Several people with disabilities from Mass-achusetts who attended the ceremony vowed to press Congress to pass Clinton's health-care bill. "He wants to make life better not only for the disabled but for their families and society in general," said Julie Nolan of Falmouth, an advocate for the Cape Organization for the Rights of the Disabled. Nolan, Pam Burkley and Leo Lucas said they feared that lobbyists might jeopardize services for those with disabilities. "If I lost my personal-care attendant, I wouldn't be able to work or care for my daughter and I would end up on" welfare, said Burkley, who works for an independent-living center in Hyannis. "I would be back in an institution," said Lucas, who said he was able to "break out" of such care because he received aid from a personal-care attendant. Other marchers, including Michael Muehe of Boston, expressed concern over the prospect of a health bill that limited care for people with "pre-existing conditions." "That would legalize discrimination," said Muehe, executive director of Cambridge's disability commission. Muehe, who uses a wheelchair, said he hoped health-care reform also would lead to broad coverage to replace wheelchairs and other durable equipment. "As it is now," he said, "we constantly have to ask, 'What's covered this week?' Sen. Torn Harkin, Democrat of Iowa and chief sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act, urged the crowd to march on Congress and demand that comprehensive health care for people with disabilities not be negotiable. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pledged his support in a statement that was read to the crowd. "Many of you have had to leave successful careers, spend your families into poverty or be told to place a loved one in an institution because that is what the insurance rules dictate," said Kennedy's statement, which described such rules as "unacceptable." - ADAPT (288)
This story is a continuation of the first article in ADAPT 296. The text of the article is included there for easier reading. PHOTO: The dark figures of 3 Detroit police officers loom into the frame from all sides. Through a small hole between their arms you can see the face and chest of a man (Ken Heard) they are surrounding. Below their arms you can see the wheels and frame Ken's wheelchair. Caption reads: Detroit police had their hands full when they placed Ken Heard under arrest. - ADAPT (242)
PHOTO: AP LASERPHOTO: A small man with curly hair and glasses (Jack Warren) stands, looking a bit unsteady and concentrating, on the steps of the front doorway of a bus. A police officer in front of him holds Jack's right hand, supporting him as he holds the railing with his left hand. Behind him, inside the bus, another police officer leans forward toward the man's back, presumably supporting him from behind. The officer in front is holding his other hand out gesturing toward a scooter that is in front of the steps. Bus protest Cincinnati police help Jack Warren, of Cleveland, to his motorized cart after he was told he could not ride a bus Monday. Warren is a member of group protesting the inaccessibility of buses to the handicapped. The bus company serves handicapped riders with special vans rather than letting them ride buses. Bus officials say cuts in federal funding for public transportation have left the agency without money to equip its regular buses with wheelchair lifts. - ADAPT (92)
Denver Post Thurs., Sept., 14, 1978? or 9? [Headline] One arrested during confrontation Photo by Denver Post photographer [Kunn B*s*0?]: Two people in uniforms carry a woman along a corridor. One has her under her arms, the other by the legs, which are crossed. A man in a suit looks from a distance down the corridor. Caption reads: Demonstrator Patsy Castor is carried from RTD building. She was one of more than 20 ejected after refusing to [unreadable.] Handicapped Protesters Forcibly Ejected From RTD Offices By BRAD MARTISILS, Denver Post Staff Writer One man was arrested and more than 20 handicapped protesters, some wailing and yelling and others kicking and resisting, were ejected forcibly from RTD headquarters Wednesday afternoon after they refused to leave voluntarily. The single arrest was made after Jeff Franek, 24, or 1123 Adams St. [unreadable] struck and knocked down an RTD employee. Franek, who isn't handicapped, was booked on suspicion of assault and released on a $50 cash bond. The demonstrators were removed from the building by about eight Denver policemen assisted by ambulance crews from Denver General Hospital. The ambulance [unreadable] there to assist demonstrators confined to wheelchairs included paramedics trained to handle disabled persons. Police also arranged for [unreadable] ambulance cabs to provide transportation for the demonstrators desiring it. THE PROTESTERS had occupied the fifth floor of RTD offices at 1225 S. Colorado Blvd earlier Wednesday. lt was one of a number of demonstrations over the past few months aimed at pressing RTD officials to provide more service for handicapped persons on regular bus routes. Protesters said they had planned to stay in the offices for three days. But when RTD's Executive Director John Simpson met with them shortly after 5 pm he explained that the building was closing and that they couldn't stay. The protesters refused to meet with him in a downstairs conference room. SIMPSON WAS interrupted by catcalls several times as he tried lo speak to the protesters. "You're not leaving me many choices," he told them when they refused to leave. Bob Conrad, 29, of 750 Knox Court, acted as spokesman for the protesters. When Simpson tried to explain RTD's policies, Conrad said he had been hearing the same explanations for years. "John, you've been telling us the same crap for three years," Conrad said. "We are being denied our rights because we can't ride the buses." Conrad said his group wants to take advantage of regular bus service. But Simpson said such service simply doesn't work for the handicapped. He pointed to a program in St. Louis, in which lifts were installed on 157 buses. In a year's time, he said, only 1,000 rides were given to persons in wheelchairs, at a cost of $200 per ride. THE IMPEDIMENTS to travel for the handicapped aren't primarily with buses," Simpson said. "Studies have shown that inability to get over curbs, to get to the bus stop, and to travel from the bus are much more important factors." Simpson said RTD's service -- which is due to be expanded -- is a better alternative than putting lifts on all buses. He said RTD's service accommodated more than 45,000 trips for handicapped persons in 1977, at a cost of about $10 per trip. He said service to the homes of handicapped persons is being provided by 12 special HandyRide buses. He said 18 more lift-equipped buses soon will begin running on fixed, circular routes, once their lift mechanisms meet the standards of the Denver Commission on the Disabled. Finally, he said 10 more specially equipped buses will soon begin running between RTD Park and Ride areas and various college campuses and shopping centers, where many handicapped persons need transportation. THE HANDYRIDE service operates by subscription, meaning the potential riders must arrange with RTD for the buses to stop at their homes. The fares are the same as for regular bus service. Simpson said the subscription service is filled to capacity, serving 55 wheelchair users and 78 persons with other disabilities. He said there is a waiting list of persons wishing to take advantage of the service. Simpson said equipping RTD buses with lifts to accommodate persons in wheelchairs would cost $4 million. Annual operating costs would be more than $6.5 million, he said. However, the protesters didn't hear his facts and figures because they refused to meet Simpson in the conference room and then were ejected. SEVERAL OF the protesters struggled violently when they were ejected from the building. At least one, Patsy Castor, 18, was slightly injured. She was hauled from the building struggling violently with ambulance crews call to assist police officers. A few onlookers said attendants purposely dropped her outside the door. Others said she struggled so violently that they dropped her accidentally. Wade Blank, director of the Atlantis Community for the handicapped in Denver, said the group was prepared for everything but forceful ejection. "We've asked to be arrested," he said, "But the way things look, I don't think we even have the right to expect that." - ADAPT (30)
Brochure cover for ADAPT 32 and 33. A History of Liberation Picture of ADAPT Flag in middle of page. This flag is like an American flag, however instead of stars in the blue rectangle it has the outline of a person in a wheelchair made from stars. Atlantis Community, Inc. in a rainbow ribbon. - ADAPT (226)
Los Angeles Times 10/10/85 Photo Caption: Wheelchair protest -- Demonstrator is arrested in Long Beach after buses were blocked. About 40 demonstrators at bus stops and at a transit office sit-in were arrested. They want wheelchair lifts on all city buses. Photo fills most of the page from top-down. A person is almost falling out of his/ her manual wheelchair as two uniformed persons hold his/ her shoulders. Three or four other uniformed persons stand by. A police-style motorcycle is parked a few feet away. Photo credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times - ADAPT (468)
PHOTO by Tom Olin: A uniformed policeman and another man in a suit hold one arm each of a giant set of bolt cutters as they try and cut the kryptonite lock on George Roberts' motorized wheelchair and Bob Kafka's manual chair. You can only see Bob's feet and leg rests, but George has his eyes shut and is making a face of disgust.