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Revision as of 19:08, 22 June 2017
ADAPT is a self-described "national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom."[1]
History
ADAPT, originally an acronym for "American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit" was founded by Wade Blank in 1978. It later changed to "American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today."
- "On July 5-6, 1978, Wade and nineteen disabled activists held a public transit bus 'hostage' on the corner of Broadway and Colfax in Denver, Colorado. ADAPT eventually mushroomed into the nation's first grassroots, disability rights, activist organization.
- "In the spring of 1990, the Secretary of Transportation, Sam Skinner, finally issued regulations mandating lifts on buses. These regulations implemented a law passed in 1970-the Urban Mass Transit Act-which required lifts on new buses. The transit industry had successfully blocked implementation of this part of the law for twenty years, until ADAPT changed their minds and the minds of the nation.
- "In 1990, after passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), ADAPT shifted its vision toward a national system of community-based personal assistance services and the end of the apartheid-type system of segregating people with disabilities by imprisoning them in institutions against their will. The acronym ADAPT became 'American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today.' The fight for a national policy of attendant services and the end of institutionalization continues to this day."[2]
Organizers
- lead organizer Heiwa Solowitz
Protesting Mitch McConnell
ADAPT members were carried out of Senator Mitch McConnell's office on June 22 2017 as they protested the Republican alternative to Obamacare.
Protesting Trump for support of Disability Integration Act
ADAPT members "spent several hours...outside the president’s home calling on the Trump administration to support the Disability Integration Act" on May 16 2017. ADAPT members also protested Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's house to promote the Disability Integration Act.[3]
According to the press release,[4] "Hundreds of activists from the disability rights organization ADAPT met in front of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s house to deliver a letter inviting Ms. Trump to be the administration’s “Ambassador to the Disability Community."
=Protesters to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's House
- Daniese McMullin-Powell
- Ericka Jones
- Dawn Russell
- Marilee Adamski-Smith
- Colleen Flanagan
- Alisa Marie
- Anita Cameron
- Cathleen Holdsworth
Press Release
5/15/17 PRESS ALERT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For More Information: Priya Penner (585) 944-3086 Bruce Darling (585) 370-6690 Marilee Adamski-Smith (715) 204-4152
WHO: ADAPT WHAT: National ADAPT Celebrates Women and Mothers WHERE: 2449 Tracy Place NW, Washington, DC, 20008 WHEN: Monday, May 15, 2017
- "ADAPT Calls on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to Advocate for Disabled Women
- "Hundreds of activists from the disability rights organization ADAPT met in front of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s house to deliver a letter inviting Ms. Trump to be the administration’s 'Ambassador to the Disability Community.' Specifically, the activists are asking she begin her ambassadorship by visiting ten model programs for transitioning people with disabilities into the community, convening round-tables in ten states to support the states in developing effective systems for truly integrating people with disabilities, and working with ADAPT to advance the Disability Integration Act.
- "ADAPT also noted that this ambassadorship will harmonize well with Ms. Trump’s work on women’s issues as the failure to provide adequate community-based long term services and supports for disabled Americans is an important women’s issue. Additionally, low wages for personal attendants, most of whom are women, have meant that women who work full-time as attendants are paid a poverty wage for this invaluable work.
- "'Ivanka Trump says that she is an advocate for working women,' said Stephanie Woodward. 'This is her chance to show that she means what she says. We hope she will engage in a thoughtful and positive dialogue, and accept our invitation.'
- "ADAPT’s history, the issues we are fighting for and our activities can be followed on our web site at www.adapt.org, our ADAPT Facebook page and on Twitter – look for #ADAPTandRESIST.