[nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?

[Kaye Zimpher]

Hi, I am certain that did happen. Several years ago, I participated in an ADAPT rally. Police did come and pull people from there chairs, and actually threw them in the back of trucks without their chairs. They were eventually released, but it was not a good scene. I remember it well because it was my 25th birthday, and an officer threatened to arrest me as well. I told him there was no way I was being arrested on my birthday, and that it was undignified to arrest these guys without their chairs. Trust me, it happens.

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Judy – are you claiming that adapt was not there? That people were not pulled out of their wheelchairs and arrested and taken to jail without them? This actually did happen! Where are blind people on this?

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> On Jun 24, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Judy Jones via nfb-talk <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Rachel Madow show is the turnoff right there, read no further, not a 
> good barometer of actuality
> 
> Judy
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> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Karen 
> Rose via nfb-talk
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 7:15 PM
> To: Jack Heim
> Cc: Karen Rose; NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Fwd: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office! So where our blind organizations?
> 
> Will do. I am concerned that we as blind people are not represented as 
> a part of adapt. Where are we? If I lived closer I would personally be 
> there! But I am in the paradise of Northern California – LOL – Karen
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>> On Jun 23, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Jack Heim <john at johnheim.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you want to hear the whole thing, you should listen to the podcast of the Rachel Madow show for last night, June 22.  I don't know how to point you to just that one show but you can subscribe here:
>> http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-rachel-maddow-show-podcast
>> 
>> Those protests outside Senator McConnells office were organized by the same group, ADAPT,  that organized a huge protest in 1974 in Denver over inaccessible buses. That whole story is on that same Rachel Madow podcast. They snarled traffic in Denver for a day and a half to protest the fact that they couldn't use city buses. It made me think of all the debates I have had on this list with people who feard a "backlash" from pushing for our rights.
>> 
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>>> On 06/23/2017 06:48 PM, Karen Rose via nfb-talk wrote:
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>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> From: Claire-Elizabeth DeSophia <desophia.politics at earthlink.net>
>>>> Date: June 23, 2017 at 4:38:09 PM PDT
>>>> To: therapists for Single Payer
>>>> <single-payer-therapists at googlegroups.com>
>>>> Subject: {Single Payer} Disabled protesters dragged from McConnell's office!
>>>> Reply-To: single-payer-therapists at googlegroups.com
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Outrageous!!!  And I can’t find a story on it in the NYTimes and don’t watch TV; I hope it was on everywhere!
>>>> What has our country come to?!?!!
>>>> ==Claire-Elizabeth
>>>> Disabled Protesters Just Showed Senate Democrats How It's Done 
>>>> Friday, June 23, 2017 By Kelly Hayes, Truthout | Op-Ed
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