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The ADAPT Community: 25years of activism and counting ...

Colin Revell | 05.05.2008 17:50 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Seel Link:-  http://www.adapt25.org

ADAPT Takes Over HHS Demands better compliance to civil rights.

Mike Leavitt Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services today agreed to meet with ADAPT in the next 40 days to discuss demands to end the continuing unnecessary institutionalization of Americans because of weak and antiquated Medicaid policy.


Philo Hall of HHS announced the agreement negotiated after ADAPT activists stormed the building getting about 50 people past the security. The other 500 activists at HHS blocked the doors and did not allow people in or out of the building chanting: "Just like a nursing home, you can't get out."

"What a great day to get so many people indoors," said Randy Alexander of Memphis, "If we didn't have people inside, they would not have talked with us. We had the inside elevators in the center lobby."

HHS Security attempted to block doors and keep ADAPT activists out of the building, but in pushing at several of the doors, activists got in before the building was locked up.

See links:-  http://www.adapt25.org

FREEOURPEOPLE
 http://www.adapt.org

Colin Revell
- e-mail: colrev@hotmail.co.uk

Additions

30 or more ADAPT actvists arrested...

05.05.2008 18:20

See links-
Listen to KFTA News video on ADAPT's demands to Dr May and about arrests:-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuNpAR7ZT0&feature=related

All other videos from ADAPT's action to FREEOURPEOPLE on YouTube:-  http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ADAPTvideo&p=r

Colin Revell
mail e-mail: colrev@hotmail.co.uk