| For Immediate Release September 19, 2022 Contact: Rhoda Gibson, rhodagibson2@gmail.com, (617)504-1792Colleen Flannigan, colleen1979@gmail.com, (617) 435-0486Gina Barabra, ginambarbara@gmail.com, (516)318-9460, ADAPT Descends on D.C. to Fight for Our Lives September 17-22, 2022, National ADAPT will be peacefully assembling in D.C. to continue fighting for the civil and human rights of disabled people. For 30 years we have been demanding Congress recognizes our right to live in integrated housing, increase funding to expand and make permanent, the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration project, which provides funding for home and community-based services (HCBS), and livable wages for our personal care attendants. 32 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act the freedom of people with disabilities continues to be denied. People with disabilities continue to be forced to beg for the freedom that others take for granted. People with disabilities still don’t have the right to get care in their own homes. Public access is not a right that people with disabilities are allowed to fully enjoy. ADAPT is gathering in D.C. to peacefully yet assertively DEMAND that the Congress stop ignoring us and TAKE ACTION NOW to FINALLY Free Our People. To follow National ADAPT throughout the week and to see how you can be part of the action, visit: nationaladapt.org or follow us on social media by going to our LinkTree, and be on the lookout for announcements throughout the week. ### |
| About ADAPTADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. |
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