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9/8/2007 4:55:01 PM ADAPT's 2007 Chicago Action ADAPT, the nations leading direct action disability rights organization, gathers in Chicago to put the brakes on people flooding into institutions and nursing homes. Illinois ranks 41st in providing options to expensive facilities and has a history of being one of ADAPT's ten worst states at providing home and community alternatives. By Tim Wheat   10/9/2006 3:20:53 PM “No More Excuses!” “No More Excuses!” is the message hundreds of activists from across the nation are bringing to the Capitol this week. ADAPT is in Washington to remind the Congress, the Administration and US states that Americans prefer the community and expect action not excuses to end the institutional bias, gain equality in housing and continue to have choice in health care. By Tim Wheat   5/7/2006 3:16:19 PM 2006 National ADAPT Spring Action. Testimony of rape, abuse, neglect and lonely death given by survivors of institutionalization filled the Volunteer Ballroom of the Hilton in downtown Nashville. ADAPT, the nations largest grassroots direct-action organization of people with disabilities, coordinated witnesses for the first ever National Day of Testimony to document the human impact of the institutional bias in the United States. By Tim Wheat   3/30/2006 9:35:13 PM ADAPT Wants Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of HUD ADAPT delivered a message to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office in Tennessee that ADAPT demands the federal housing department make housing vouchers available to get people out of Nursing Homes. Gathering two miles north, however, ADAPT’s presence in the city caused the Capitol to be closed to the public. By Tim Wheat   3/30/2006 9:32:26 PM Over Sixty Arrested Demanding Tennessee’s Immoral Policies End. ADAPT again demonstrated in front of the Tennessee State Capitol and blocked Charlotte Avenue demanding that Governor Bredesen end the immoral and inhuman policies that split families and segregate people with disabilities. The governor ringed the Tennessee Capitol with state troopers and barricaded the entrances to keep the single sheet of paper with the ADAPT demands from reaching his office. Retreating into his sanctuary from the citizens, the governor again refused to support the Community Choices Act or meet with ADAPT. By Tim Wheat   3/30/2006 9:29:59 PM “We must have choices” Over one hundred activists were arrested or cited by Nashville Metro Police as ADAPT blocked six downtown intersections, all exit roads from the capitol, and demanded that Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen support alternatives to expensive and undesirable nursing homes. For seven hours ADAPT blocked traffic to and from the capitol area on Charlotte, Deadrick, Union, 6th, 7th and 8th streets. By Tim Wheat   3/30/2006 9:26:05 PM “I’ll Never Go Back.” Rape, abuse, neglect and lonely death filled the testimony given today by survivors of institutionalization. ADAPT, the nations largest grassroots direct-action organization of people with disabilities, coordinated witnesses for the first ever National Day of Testimony to document the human impact of the institutional bias in the United States. By Tim Wheat   3/30/2006 9:21:18 PM Direct action in the struggle for Medicaid Enrollees in the Tennessee Medicaid program, called TennCare, believed the healthcare program was a compact with the community, that their health was important, that their lives were valuable. A few TennCare enrollees believed that they had to do something to protest the cuts in enrollment and benefits Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen was instituting across the state. They felt betrayed by the governor who campaigned on the promise to “fix” TennCare. By Tim Wheat   12/19/2005 11:13:31 PM Breaking TennCare to Fix It. Independent reporter Sharon Cobb told us long before the actual TennCare cuts took effect in August that the Bredesen Administration’s purpose in dumping so many citizens off TennCare was to have time before the 2006 election to “add-back” programs and appear to be a Medicaid reformer. By Tim Wheat   11/24/2005 Bredespin Administration denies withholding information. The Safety-Net Task Force that was appointed by Governor Bredesen did not get data from the state of the health-care demographics of the citizens that were to be removed from TennCare. By Tim Wheat [1/24]