[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

Wed Jan 24 20:28:20 UTC 2018

Hello, Where do our Ohio congressional leaders stand


on HR 620?


On 1/23/18, Suzanne Turner via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> From: Suzanne Turner [mailto:dcm.aware at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 12:15 AM
> To: smturner.234 at gmail.com
> Subject: Fwd: 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
> To: NDLA <ndla-general-list- at googlegroups.com
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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,
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> THANK YOU ADAPT IL - for this - and for the update.
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> 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.
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> I met with Rep. Kathy Rice (D-NY) - she knows this is our ask -but she will
> not withdraw from the bill.
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>   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.
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> She also did not know that Rep. Rangel a seasoned congress man did withdraw
> his name.
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> 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.
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> I met with Rep. Sewell (D-AL) let her know we still ask her to withdraw her
> name.
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> 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.
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> We have an ask to a few CR organizations to ask her to withdraw as well.
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> 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)
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> Thanks
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> Dara
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> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Bruce Darling <bdarling at cdrnys.org
> <mailto:bdarling at cdrnys.org> > wrote:
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> 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.
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> “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.”
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> “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.”
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> “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.”
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> 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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