ADAPT

ADAPT is a national organization that has fought for decades for the rights of disabled people. This includes protesting Greyhound to put lifts on busses, congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and now they continue to fight. Right now ADAPT is fighting for the money that is spent to keep people in nursing homes to follow the person into society. Real voices, Real Choices.
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[wheelslarbac]

What is wrong with this female,

she looks normal and ablebodyed

look 4:22

[soulinme]

@wheelslarbac i don't know what female you're talking about, but you don't need to have to be disabled to be a member of adapt or participate in their actions.

[conshyqueen59]

Way to go ADAPT...Fight for your rights!!!

[DrewT2010]

That comment shows how ignorant you really are. You know nothing about me or my politics. And I will not dignify any further comments from you with a response.

[The391956]

@willdav713

Yes ADAPT is a wonderful organization that makes change happen.

Are you a ADAPT member

[turnofffox]

@05261896ec yes. community living is a humanright that they cant take away. A lot of these nursing homes are abusive many are run by private companies that care more about profiting from warehousing the elderly.

[The391956]

@thatsmyma

have a great idea don't pay the nursing home bill and sell everything

and don't pay, they will let her out once you stop paying the bills.

[05261896ec]

@turnofffox

That is scary that a doctors signature can end your rights.

Is this when they put a disabled person in a nursing home?

is that when it happens?

[mainestategop]

God bless them!

[turnofffox]

@charliwiza They're fighting for equal rights. You seem to have a problem iwth that.

[turnofffox]

@JarrodJS These people have every right to be pissed off. They have been abused and had everyone of their rights violated. They are second class citizens. I am sorry that you are ignorant and biased. You must be from Virginia or some nearby redneck neighborhood.

[turnofffox]

@soulinme That's right. Remember the freedom riders? They were mostly white yet stood up for blacks who were persecuted in the segregated south. The truth is disability can happen to any of us. All it takes is a doctors signature and your rights are gone. The disabled are one of the few second class victim groups left in the country.We;ve made head way with the ADA but we have a long ways to go.

[willdav713]

@kakouks And you are the most ignorant person I ever met today.  ADAPT is a wonderful organization that makes change happen. It is sad that this country doesn't take pride in activism as they did in the 1960s.

[willdav713]

@wheelslarbac I don't know, have you met her in person? Who are you to judge a book by it's cover? Disabled doesn't mean the person can't do anything, but have limitations, or impairments that prohibit some or many major life activities. I have seizures in the past but I look like a 100 percent able bodied person. I can't drive due to lack of the neccessary motor skills. It sickens me when they build businesses and they don't make them 100% accessible by walking or wheeling.