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10/22/01
The City of San Francisco and Mayor Willie Brown realized today that rebuilding the Laguna Honda Hospital would not be business as usual. Five hundred people with disabilities shutdown the four streets around the San Francisco City Hall and the main east and west entrances to the building demanding "COMMUNITY FIRST, THERE IS A BETTER WAY."
The ADAPT march around Laguna Honda on Sunday was a rehearsal for the ADAPT action at the San Francisco City Hall Building today. The long line of ADAPT marchers surrounded the city building like they had surrounded Laguna Honda Hospital yesterday. This time, however, ADAPT blocked the main east and west entrances and all four street intersections around the City Hall.
Traffic came to a standstill in the downtown area and about forty cars were trapped on Van Ness for about 45 minutes between the McAllister and Grove. At noon the line of ADAPT activists that marching around the City Hall simultaneously broke the traffic at all four intersections. San Francisco police directed traffic away from the City Hall area including the major state highway California 101 - Van Ness Avenue.
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10/23/01
At noon over 500 ADAPT activists circled the state office building and blocked the north and south entrances as well as blocking traffic on all four intersections surrounding the state building. Robert Oaks, the Director of the Regional Governor's Office, eventually met with five ADAPT representatives.
"He [Oaks] said that he cannot get in touch with the governor," said Barbara Toomer who was one of the five ADAPT representatives, "so we said 'thank you' and we left."
ADAPT continued to apply pressure. At 2:30 in the afternoon, about 25 people blocking the south entrance, climbed out of their wheelchairs toward the line of California State Police at the top of the stairs. The state police arrested five ADAPT activists that were dragged or carried into the building without their wheelchairs.
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Specifically, ADAPT insisted that the Regional Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights take action on the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II complaint against Laguna Honda Hospital, stop federal reimbursement funds for the thirty-bed wards at Laguna Honda and not allow federal funds to be used in the rebuilding.
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-Tim Wheat
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