[Ohio-talk] FW: Chicago ADAPT Takes Action to Protect the ADA and Fight HR620 - YESS! I met with 2 Dems offices - AL advocates - please see

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From: Dara Baldwin <daraldb18 at gmail.com <mailto:daraldb18 at gmail.com> >
Date: January 22, 2018 at 12:04:36 PM EST
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Subject: Re: Chicago ADAPT Takes Action to Protect the ADA and Fight HR620 - YESS! I met with 2 Dems offices - AL advocates - please see
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Hi All,

THANK YOU ADAPT IL - for this - and for the update. 

I have had two meetings with the Dems that I sent update emails to - about how they could support the work on the workforce sexual harassment "cooling off period" for congressional staff. Meetings set or setting up for 4 others who replied to my email will update when they are done. 

I met with Rep. Kathy Rice (D-NY) - she knows this is our ask -but she will not withdraw from the bill. 

  She has never done this before - I let her know there is a first time for everything. This is rarely done - I let her know only up until the 2008 -prior to this congressional members came off of bills all the time. 

She also did not know that Rep. Rangel a seasoned congress man did withdraw his name.  

Rep. Rice staff also confirms that she will not get on another notification bill. I said thank you for that but she will go down in history as supporting 620 - there is no asterisk next to her name that says but she would have voted no. It shows that she supported weakening the ADA for all time. 

I met with Rep. Sewell (D-AL) let her know we still ask her to withdraw her name. 

She is still not there. She is planning town hall meetings in the district in February - I am getting the dates.  She needs to hear from AL advocates. 

We have an ask to a few CR organizations to ask her to withdraw as well. 

I also emphasized to both offices that they will be on our list of people who have supported a bill weakening the ADA for history. I hope they see how that will look to many in the disability rights movement.  Not sure they see that as important or a cause for concern. (But they should) 

Thanks

Dara

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Bruce Darling <bdarling at cdrnys.org <mailto:bdarling at cdrnys.org> > wrote:

The chapter will be sending something out, but our understanding is that ADAPT has secured a meeting with Representative Foster.  THANK YOU Chicago ADAPTers!

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1/19/18 - Illinois members of the disability rights group ADAPT have gathered at Representative Bill Foster’s district office to call on him to remove his name from the list of co-sponsors of H.R. 620, the ADA Education and Reform Act. More than 27 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, disabled people continue to face illegal barriers to their integration into society, and H.R. 620 would both make challenging those barriers more difficult and eliminate the incentives for voluntary compliance.

“Every individual should be able to access their community without discrimination,” said ADAPT organizer Shelly Berry. “Disabled Americans have been fighting for this right for decades, and we will continue to fight until we are treated as fully equal members of society. Members of Congress have a responsibility to the nation to govern responsibly, and making a group of people second-class citizens is not responsible leadership.”

“Bill Foster is the heir of a proud tradition of civil rights leadership,” said organizer Michael Grice, who was one of the first to join Chicago’s ADAPT chapter, long before the ADA was passed. “His father helped write the enforcement language of the Civil Rights Act. He is a cosponsor of the Disability Integration Act, which will deliver on the ADA’s promise that people with disabilities can live in freedom in our own communities instead of being forced into institutions. We expect Foster to live up to that tradition and not to help gut the enforcement of the civil rights law so many of us fought so hard for.”

“It’s not just about those of us trying to live our lives in the community today,” said ADAPT organizer Larry Biondi. “When the tens of thousands of disabled Illinoisans on the waiting lists for home and community-based services finally get a chance to live in their own homes and direct their own lives, we need their communities to be accessible to them. When we bring them home, we need them to be able to get groceries and gas, take their dates to dinner and the movies, bring their children to the playgrounds and take them to buy shoes, and access every other part of the community that their neighbors rely on. To give them the lives they deserve, we need to enforce the ADA, and we are here today to call on Representative Foster not to undercut the basic justice those Illinoisans are entitled to and that they’ve waited so many years to finally get.”

ADAPT’s history, the issues it is fighting for, and its activities can be found at www.adapt.org <http://www.adapt.org> <http://www.adapt.org>, the National ADAPT page on Facebook, and on Twitter under the hashtag #ADAPTandRESIST

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