Disability Advocates Arrested At White House

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Source: by Michelle Diament | Disability Scoop

April 11, 2016

Dozens of disability rights activists were arrested Monday amid a series of protests in the nation’s capital calling for greater access to community-based services.

Forty-nine demonstrators were issued citations outside the White House for blocking the sidewalk, according to Sgt. Anna Rose with the U.S. Park Police.

The protesters were at the White House as part of an action organized by the disability rights group ADAPT to ask the Obama administration to take steps to move away from institutions and nursing home placements for people with disabilities.

In addition, ADAPT wants the president to support legislation strengthening the integration mandate in the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“Everyday under the watch of this president, disabled Americans are denied their most fundamental and inalienable rights when they are locked away in nursing facilities and other institutions,” said Bruce Darling, an ADAPT organizer from Rochester, N.Y. “We are urging the president to defend our civil rights instead of looking the other way.”

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[iandhr]

1. I am guessing this was an act of cvil disobedience

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2. I am on the whole suportive of what they are asking for

But the thing I have always disliked about the ADA are the unfunded mandates. It's not the costs upon private for-profit businesses that concern me, but rather, the unfunded mandates upon state and local governments and public universities. That has strained the budgets of school districts, governments and universities. So the ADA mandates--upon government run institutions--need to be funded.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. The specter of "unfunded mandates" has been used since Reagan's time to try to squash federal

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programs like civil rights, education reform, and environmental regulations. The ADA is just one of many national laws that states, particularly some states, resist bitterly claiming many costs passed on to them. Of course since a huge portion of their state budgets now come from federal funds for those very programs, their whining rings a little hollow...

[bluestateguy]

8. And,

the teachers unions that rather disliked the many unfunded mandates in No Child Left Behind.

Yeah, them too.

[proverbialwisdom]

3. ABC: "No arrests were made and the citations were issued for blocking the sidewalk."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/disability-rights-activists-protest-white-house-38309857

Disability Rights Activists Protest at White House
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Apr 11, 2016, 2:14 PM ET

The U.S. Park Police issued 49 citations Monday to disability rights activists who were protesting at the White House and urging President Barack Obama to support legislation to help disabled people stay in their homes when they require long-term support.

About a hundred activists in wheelchairs lined up along bike racks that form a secondary perimeter around the White House fence. They chanted "our homes, not nursing homes" and "disability rights are human rights."

No arrests were made and the citations were issued for blocking the sidewalk, said Sgt. Anna Rose, a spokeswoman for the Park Police. Police issued warnings in advance of issuing the citations, giving the protesters an opportunity to leave.

The activists are supporting the Disability Integration Act. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced the bill last year, but it has yet to gain traction. The legislation promotes the ability for people with disabilities to live in their communities.

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http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-04-11/disability-rights-activists-protest-at-white-house

Activists want legislation to help disabled people who require long-term support stay in their homes


Demonstrators gather outside the White Housein Washington, Monday, April 11, 2016, to urge President Barack Obama to support legislation to help disabled people who require long-term support stay in their homes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Thanks for the clarification.

[virgogal]

4. I'm a tad confused.

I know of 2 disabled people.one mentally,one physically,who went to live in nursing homes after their families passed on.

They weren't "locked away" and went out daily around town----and were still in their old neighborhood.

I couldn't quite figure out what the protestors wanted.

[Pastiche423]

5. You may very likely know the only two

PWDs that were fine with going into a nursing home.

I am disabled and I would rather die than be stuck in a nursing home. I am, by far not alone.