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By: Jerry Costley ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are languishing in nursing homes and whom are in fact homeless have decided to likewise render ourselves homeless through the creation of DUH city—a homeless tent city. Established in the shadows of the Housing and [...]
September 15, 2008
For Information Contact; Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982 Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 www.adapt.org Who: ADAPT Community (500 disability rights activists from all over the country.) ADAPT is the nation’s largest cross-disability grassroots disability rights organization. Â What: News conference to announce opening of DUH City. Â When: 10 a.m. on Monday, September 15, 2008 Â Where: The plaza outside the [...]
September 15, 2008
For information contact; Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982 Chris Hilderbrant (585) 267-0343 Washington, D.C.—Over 500 ADAPT disability rights activists committed to getting the Community Choice Act passed during this Congress are coming to town September 13-18 to exert some pre-election pressure on policymakers. The Community Choice Act (S. 799, H.R. 1621) would allow people with [...]
September 15, 2008
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