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News 10, May 7th 2012
Governor Cuomo proposed today a new statewide justice center to go after people who abuse and neglect those with disabilities. It would establish the strongest standards in the nation aimed at protecting the disabled.
Josh Lewis of Webster has been in a wheelchair since he was 4, when a drunk driver crashed into the car he was in. Now 27, Josh has learned to live with his disability, but he doesn't think society has.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2012
Contact: Janine Bertram (503) 622-6387 Rachel Siler (312) 479-0220 Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 Amber Smock ambity@aol.com
DISABILITY ACTIVISTS CONFRONT HOTEL LOBBY ATTACK ON THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
Washington, D.C.--- Hundreds of disability rights activists with the national group ADAPT have poured into a Rayburn House Office Building hearing room to confront hotel industry lobbyists attacking the fundamental legal infrastructure of the Americans with Disabilities Act through a seemingly unlikely sector: swimming pools. A threat to the ADA poses a threat to the legal underpinnings of ADAPT's fight to end the institutional bias in Medicaid and ensure community living supports for people with disabilities and seniors.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2012
Contact: Janine Bertram (503) 622-6387 Rachel Siler (312) 479-0220 Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 Amber Smock ambity@aol.com
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ADDRESSES ADAPT CONCERNS ABOUT ATTENDANT SERVICE RULES
Washington, D.C.--- At 11 am EST, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Deputy Secretary Seth Harris will address hundreds of disability rights activists with the national group ADAPT at DOL headquarters at 200 Constitution Ave NW. Earlier this year, DOL requested comments on a new set of proposed federal rules governing the employment of personal attendants, also known as home care workers. Both disability advocates and unions serving this sector expressed concern about the perspective and goals of the proposed regulations. Left without comment, the proposed regulations would have pitted people with disabilities against their attendants, putting both groups on opposite sides of what is both a civil rights and a labor issue.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2012
Contact: Janine Bertram (503) 622-6387 Rachel Siler (312) 479-0220 Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 Amber Smock ambity@aol.com
ADAPT APPLAUDS ISSUANCE OF KEY AFFORDABLE CARE ACT REGULATIONS
Washington, D.C.--- On Tuesday, after months of pressure on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Medicaid division to release federal regulations for the Community First Choice (CFC) Option, the national grassroots disability rights group ADAPT stormed the HHS headquarters once again by surrounding its doors. This time, the protests yielded the long-awaited result: Cindy Mann, Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations announced at 6 pm that she had just that very afternoon submitted the CFC Option regulations in final form to the Federal Register for publishing. The issuance of the regulations brings the possibility of much-needed Federal assistance to states struggling with massive Medicaid cuts.
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Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — Former "ER" star Noah Wyle and about 100 members of the group ADAPT were arrested Monday during a Capitol Hill protest to urge Congress not to cut Medicaid.
In an interview with The Associated Press while waiting to be processed in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building where the protest took place in the rotunda, Wyle said being arrested for the first time was "slightly surreal."
"As soon as everybody saw me being led away, they let up a big whooping cheer, which made me feel really good," Wyle said.
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