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Αρχική / Λευκώματα / Baltimore, Spring 1991 30
In the Spring of 1991, ADAPT went to Baltimore, home of Social Security and the Health Care Finance Administration. The first day we blocked all the entrances to the main Social Security Building at lunch. Then after several hours, we moved down and took over the main intersection in front of the complex. They had to build a road to let people out, and we dubbed it Wade's Way. The next day we targeted a different Social Security building in the complex where they handle disability determination. The last day we rode down to Washington DC and took over the Health and Human Services building on Independence. Our message for the week: Free Our People from nursing homes and other institutions.
- ADAPT (670)
I want to say to people who say they don't like ADAPT tactics: Do you really want our people out? Or are you sitting home saying, "Oh, those nursing homes shouldn't do that!" How many people are going to get free because you hold that opinion? What are you doing about it? People are turned off by the arrests, by our confrontational style. "I'm not going to do ADAPT-style confrontations" — we hear that a lot. If you don't want to be on the front lines but you do want to help, there's plenty to do: raising dollars so we can get to our actions, working with people in your community to make these issues known, forming your own group, bringing some attention to the issues in your own home town. We sure would welcome your help. ADAPT puts the edge on it, sets the margin. This is as far as we go, this is all we will take. We will not be moved. This article is taken from a conversation with Bob Kafka of ADAPT in Austin. The photographer is Toni Olin of ADAPT in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee. You can reach ADAPT people at either of these tele-phone numbers: Colorado • 303-733-9324 Texas • 512-442-0252 [image] [no image caption] - ADAPT (669)
TUESDAY April 30, 1991, THE SUN, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND VOL 308, NO. 141 Photo by The Sun, Bo Rader: A line of people in wheelchairs (and two people standing with them) sit facing forward and sideways across a road. At least four lanes of traffic are blocked behind them as far back as you can see. Group includes Dennis Schreiber from DARE in Chicago, Albert from Long Island, possibly Barb Wesolac in the pink jacket, and Pat Puckett in a green jacket. Caption reads: Disabled protesters stop traffic. More than 125 handicapped activists blocked traffic at the intersection of Security Boulevard and Woodlawn Drive in Baltimore County for more than three hours yesterday afternoon to demand more funding for at-home care for the disabled. The group plans to resume its protest today at the Health Care Financing Administration in Woodlawn. (Article on Page 4D] - ADAPT (668)
This page continues the article from Image 653. The full text is available on 653 for easier reading. - ADAPT (667)
[Headline] Disabled activists block off building 5/2/91 Washington (AP)- Disabled activists, including more than 100 in wheelchairs, blocked entrances to the headquarters of the Health and Human Services Department on Wednesday to protest policies that they said favor nursing homes over home care. Some of the protesters discarded their wheelchairs and crutches and tried to get past a police line securing the building. Some crawled under parked police cars and tried to squeeze past the legs of officers. There were no arrests. The group American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, wants the Medicaid program to redirect $5.5 billion to be spent on community-based attendant service programs. - ADAPT (666)
Looking into a crowd of ADAPT folks. Bob Kafka in center is talking through a microphone. Left of him is Chris Colsey with a headband, to Bob's right is Mike Auberger looking down, Bobby Thompson facing sideways, and Jane Embry. Directly behind Bob is Robert Reuter facing backwards, and another man from Chicago or Atlanta ? In the row behind them (L-R) Jimmy Small, Wayne Becker, Marilyn of Atlanta, Bernard Baker, and behind them other ADAPT members. In front on left Shel Trapp is facing the group at edge of picture, and Mike Ervin is facing forward. - ADAPT (665)
Photo: A man [Mike Auberger] in a motorized wheelchair in blue ADAPT t-shirt and jeans, sits in the middle of a group of other people in wheelchairs. From left to right, they are unknown man with back to camera, woman in pink jacket and red skirt [Diane Coleman], man [Joe Carle] in dark sunglasses and sleeveless jacket, and man [Jim Parker] in white Bart Simpson t-shirt. Mike is holding a clipboard on his lap and reading something from it. - ADAPT (664)
[Headline] Protesters advocate home care for disabled WASHINGTON (AP) Disabled activists, including more than 100 in wheelchairs, blocked entrances to the headquarters of the Health and Human Services Department on Wednesday to protest policies they said favor nursing homes over home care. Some of the protesters discarded their wheelchairs and crutches and tried tog et past a police line securing the building. Some crawled under parked police cars and tried to squeeze past the legs of po- [Subheading] THE STARS AND STRIPES lice officers who stood in front of the en-trances. There were no arrests. "To people like myself, this is a life and death matter," said Lee Sanders of Houston, who crawled out of his wheel-chair and laid on the ground. "It's the difference between living in a nursing home and living at home." For most of the afternoon, access to the Hubert Humphrey Building was limited to underground tunnels that connect it with other buildings. Cars also were unable to leave the parking lot under the health department's headquarters building, just a couple of blocks from the Capitol. The approximately 175 protesters, organized by a group called American Dis-abled for Attendant Programs Today, or ADAPT, want the Medicaid program to redirect 25 percent of the $23 billion it currently spends on nursing homes. They want this amount; about $5.5 billion, to be spent on establishment of community-based attendant service programs that would give disabled people the chance to stay at home rather than enter a nursing home. "Not only is it cost effective, it's the right to dignity and freedom of choice," said Mike Auberger of Denver, a co-founder of ADAPT. He said 7.7 million Americans are in jeopardy of having to go to a nursing home a cost Medicaid would pay ---- because they can't afford a home-care attendant. Medicaid has a more restrictive policy in reimbursing for home care than for nursing home stays, he said. However, he noted, nursing home care costs.in the range of $30,000 to $60,000 a year, while attendant care costs $15,000 to $30,000. Gail Wilensky, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, which administers Medicaid, said many of the problems the group is angry about are not handled by the Medicaid program. Also, she said, some state Medicaid pro-grams do cover attendant and personal care-type services. States design and operate their own Medicaid programs under broad federal guidelines. - ADAPT (663)
THE WOODLAWN VILLAGER ©1984 6401 Dogwood Road Woodlawn, MD 21207 (301) 944-7465 Fax: 301-944-1989 Advertising Department: Al Triplett, Mgr. (301) 944-2978 7/1/91 [Headline] last month's protest One month ago, members of the American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) aligned themselves wheelchair to wheelchair, crutches to canes, across Security Blvd. in front of the Social eSecurity complex. They were protesting. They did not want to raise your taxes. Their stand was not religious; not even political. They merely wanted our federal government to see just how strong their feelings were about the government allocating what they consider an excessive amount to nursing home care for their lot, not enough for home health care. They want their independence. They want to fend fore themselves. But they need financial help to make this happen. Suddenly a nation of people, mostly unaware of the situation, became totally aware. Hopefully, they thought, so would our government representatives, the people in charge of the fund distribution. For the part of one day, less than eight hours in and many of us were inconvenienced. Is there ever a protest, of any kind, when noose is inconvenienced? The police department was not caught unaware. They knew in advance of the pending protest, and the ensuing action. Do you know what they did? They practiced! They had people put in wheelchairs; they arrested them; they processed and jailed them. "We concluded," said Major Lawrence Schist, Area 1 Commander, "it would take 18 hours for us to arrest and process all the protestors." Logic won out. They chose a path of action that would actually take less time, free patrol cars to pursue their normal duties, aIlow the station help to handle emergency, as normal, calls. The police department simply re-routed traffic for several hours. How smart! I have been re-routed for road repairs in the past, for water main breaks, downed phone lines, unfortunate accidents. This was not something I had ever experienced before. My office is at the corner of Dogwood Rd. and Gwynn Oak Ave:, where all the traffic was being re-routed through. I sat in my car, on my parking lot, until an understanding, courteous driver let me in line. It took me about 30 minutes longer:than normal to get home. But I so admired the spunk of ADAPT, I didn't mind at all. I found myself sympathizing with these protestors in a cause I wasn't even am of until that day. There were no arrests. Noone was hurt. No stores were looted, no fires set. We were just inconvenienced for a part of one day. For their part, the police never complained about having to stand in the street and direct traffic all [text cuts off] - ADAPT (662)
News Briefs Baltimore, Md.--Two former adversaries, Baltimore's Mass Transit Administration (MTA) and ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, formerly Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transportation), recently found themselves working together. This represents a positive change from the days when ADAPT was protesting against the transit industry in an attempt to achieve accessible public transportation for people with disabilities. Since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, ADAPT has shifted its focus from accessible transportation to attendant programs which foster community-based home care services. Recently, ADAPT members were in Baltimore to protest at the offices of the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration's Health Care Finance Administration. They needed transportation during their visit as well as for a follow-up protest at the office of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan in Washington, D.C. MTA provided the ADAPT protesters with two accessible buses that have been converted to accommodate multiple securement positions for wheelchair users. Project ACTION Update Summer 1991 9 - ADAPT (661)
This page continues the article from Image 653. Full text is available on 653 for easier reading. - ADAPT (660)
This page continues the article from Image 653. Full text is available on 653 for easier reading. - ADAPT (659)
The Washington Post Thursday, May 2, 1991 C3 [image] [image caption] Phyllis Burkhead, of Louisville, who is unable to speak, spells out a message to another member of the protest. [Headline] Disabled Protesters Decry Lack of Aid By Eric Charles May and Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writers A group of disabled people threw themselves from their wheelchairs to the ground in front of the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday to protest a lack of federal funding for home-care attendants. The demonstrators called for HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan to redirect Medicaid funding from nursing homes for the disabled to care provided by personal attendants, a change they said would enable more disabled people to live independent lives. "We're not talking about raising taxes, but [about redirecting money," said Mike Auberger, 36, of Denver. Auberger is a leader of the group that organized the protest, American disabled for Attendant Programs Today. He spoke to reporters after using bicycle locks to chain himself by the neck to the building, at Third Street and Independence Avenue SW. About 20 of the 110 demonstrators threw themselves from their wheelchairs and wriggled toward a barricade of police cars parked in front of the building. Six people threaded a chain through their wheelchairs and positioned themselves in front of the building's parking garage exit. "We'll make it obvious to [Sullivan] that we are serious," said Stephanie Thomas, 33, of Austin, Tex., as she looked out from under a white police sedan. HHS The released a statement saying it "shared the concerns" of the group, but did not have authority to change Medicaid funding, which is allocated by the states. Police dismantled the human blockade of the garage at 4:40 p.m. by cutting the chain with a bolt cutter and wheeling protesters away. The protesters held a news conference and then wheeled themselves toward the Federal Center Metro station in Southwest. Several motorists honked their car horns in support as the group rolled by. - ADAPT (658)
[Headline] National Activism By Mike Boyd In following up on the letter from the President of the Survivors Advisory Council, published in the last edition of the Journal, members of the JMA Survivors Advisory Council went to Baltimore, April 27-May 2, 1991 to report on ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Pro-grams Today) and their action to secure what they define as one of the leading problems facing the seriously disabled, the services of "Attendant Care." In speaking with Diane Coleman, ADAPT organizer, attorney and friend, I developed a much greater appreciation for the dedication of ADAPT members and their fight to redirect existing federal funding to better assist the estimated 7.7 million people in the United States who require help on a daily basis. It is estimated that approximately half of these people are not getting the necessary support (World Institute on Disability). According to ADAPT, nursing home costs aver-age over $30,000 per citizen per year, while enabling individuals to live in their own homes with these services would cost approximately 25% of that figure, or $7,500 per year. This cost savings in dollars is incredible, but the difference in quality of living goes beyond any description in terms of what we are promised in the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Claude Holcomb, another ADAPT activist stated, 4'1 was in a nursing home for thirteen years. I had to fight to get out. It was the beginning of my life at 22." Many others traveled to the demonstrations from all over the United States to try and convince Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, that disability funding was being misspent at the expense of the very people it was intended to help. Three days of attempted negotiations at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Social Security Administration (SSA), and in Washington, D.C. produced national attention. ADAPT demonstrators blocked the entrances and exits of government buildings, shutting down the agencies in protest of what some said are anti-disabled policies. No arrests took place. Some contend that the overfund-ing of institutionalization benefit-ting private corporations and the underfunding of ATTENDANT SERVICES to assist PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES is a dramatic statement of the "Plantation System Mentality" that still exists in our nation's capitol and exploits the disabled and mars promises of equal rights. Nate Butler makes a profound point in an interview in Head-Stand, the publication of the Mary-land Head Injury Foundation: "The disability movement doesn't incorporate brain injuries and brain injured people don't like to be a part of the disability movement." The comment is an overgeneralization, but one that we need to address in our own search for equality and the promises of the American Dream. An injury to One is an injury to All, we need to band together." We certainly owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the ADAPT leadership acid their role 6n the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, which has been described as the greatest piece of Disability Civil Rights legislation ever enacted. - ADAPT (657)
A group of police stand between two police cars. They stare straight ahead, not looking down, with lips pursed, hands on hips. In the background more police are standing around by the HHS building. At the feet of the group in the front ADAPT protesters are crawling around the police officers' legs. One woman is on her side partially beneath a police car, a single above the knee amputee [Julie Nolan] is squeezing between two of the officers, the legs of another person are laid before them, and in the back a fourth person is between two other officers. - ADAPT (656)
Left to right, Mike Auberger, Diane Coleman, Rick James and 2 other people block the side entrance to the Health and Human Services offices on Independence Ave. Mike's neck is kryptonite locked to the doors. Diane has a poster that reads "Stop the money to the nursing home lobby!" Behind Rick's head is a very large access symbol sign.