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11/04/99, 3:54 pmc
ADAPT Action
Columbus 1999
Chronology of events
Oct. 30, 1999
ADAPT members from all over the country begin arriving to support their brother and sisters in Ohio.
Oct. 31, 1999
9 a.m.
ADAPT holds workshops to pass along information from around the nation.
The only required workshop is the "newcomers meeting." This is where we pass along to new ADAPT members the ADAPT attitude and non-violent civil disobedient tactics.
4:30 p.m. The Big Meeting - Sunday
Mike Auberger tells us that had ADAPT not decided to make Olmstead an important issue, no one would have done anything. There has never been, in the history of the United States Supreme Court, 19 Sovereign states to pull off a brief as they did in Olmstead.
Everyone heard first-hand about the action in St. Louis against the National Governors Association Action.
Shona and Mike Eakin updated everyone on what was going on in Ohio and Bob Kafka explains that what we do here in Columbus will send a message rippling throughout the country.
6:50 p.m. ADAPT rally at the Ohio State Capitol Building
Duane Kaiser who recently escaped a nursing home in Kansas, tells Ohio: "I am somebody!"
Shona Eakin welcomes us all to Ohio, and explains some of the issues to ADAPT.
ADAPT members were then visited by the ghost of President William Howard Taft, the great grandfather of the current Ohio Governor. The spirit said he was going to visit his great grandson and "teach him a lesson."
ADAPT holds a candlelight vigil to remember all of those people still locked away in nursing homes and ICF/MRs with no choice to live as other Americans.
Johnny Crescendo sings Bring Down the Walls.
7:30 p.m.
Volunteers make signs for the coming days protests.
Nov. 1
10:00 a.m.
ADAPT assembles and marches off to the Vern Riffe Center where advocates quickly rush the 14th and 30th floors, the rest take over the lobby.
12:15 p.m.
After lunch, negotiations guide the leadership to "bump it up." More people start to fill the 14th and 30th floors.
1:50 p.m.
State Troopers retake all the elevators and restrict access.
3:19 p.m.
Mike Auberger reports that the Governor's staff will not commit to a meeting.
3:49 p.m.
The Riffe Center is closed. The State Police say they will start arresting protestors at 5.
5:15 p.m.
The State Police update the time of arrests to 6.
7:27 p.m.
Mike Auberger tells the 30th floor of some of the history of ADAPT "all night" takeovers. "Our inconvenience is just one night, unlike the 1.7 million people locked in nursing homes."
7:42 p.m.
Bob Kafka, Tobey Tyler, and Johnny Crescendo are arrested attempting to retake the 14th floor bathrooms.
9:38 p.m.
State Troopers show up with goggles, masks, and rubber gloves.
10:15 p.m.
Mike asks for everyone to make a group decision to stay and be arrested, or leave as a group now.
10:30 p.m.
The activists on the 14th and 30th floors all decide to stay. "If Bob [Taft] wants to talk with us in the morning we will be here." - Mike Auberger.
11:25
A delegate from the 14th floor [Gill] is allowed through the police line to deliver a message to the 30th floor. He tells us that the Speaker of the House Joanne Davidson sent the ADAPT demonstrators on the 14th floor some cookies during the negotiations to which Bob Kafka responded: "We don't want your fucking cookies!"
12:50 a.m.
The Columbus Dispatch goes to print reporting that 41 protesters had been charged with criminal trespassing.
1:30 a.m.
The final ADAPT advocates holding the Vern Riffe Center are processed by the police and released in the basement. There were 132 arrested in all.
Nov. 2, 1999
11:00 a.m. Big Meeting - Tuesday,
ADAPT tells war stories from the night before.
12:30 p.m.
ADAPT gathers up and has lunch outside preparing for the extreme cold today.
1:18 p.m.
ADAPT hits the doors of the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, where the office of the Medicaid Director, Jacqui Romer-Sensky, is located.
3:17 p.m.
Twelve Ohio State Troopers rush three ADAPT advocates building a street theater prop, a wheelchair hanging on a wooden cross. They most likely mistook it to be some form of battering ram.
3:29 p.m.
Arrests begin.
5:53 p.m.
ADAPT is transported to the Columbus Fairgrounds for processing.
7:45 p.m.
Patty wagons finish delivering ADAPT back to the Hyatt.
Nov. 3, 1999
10:30 a.m. Big Meeting - Wednesday.
More war stories.
12:30 p.m.
Gathering up for the next strike, lunch outside again.
1:00 p.m.
Marching back to the Vern Riffe Center.
1:30 p.m.
A coffin is carried to the front door past a silent ADAPT.
1:36 p.m.
The Indictment of Governor Taft is read.
1:40 p.m.
Delegates from Ohio go to deliver the Indictment while Bob reads the names of people who have died in nursing homes.
2:30 p.m.
The coffin with names of people who have died in nursing homes leads the procession back to the Hyatt.
7:35 p.m. The Big Meeting.
More war stories and a recap of the successful action. Fucking Cookie Awards.
8:30 p.m.
The Wedding of Ms. Cassie James and Johnny Crescendo.
9:00 p.m.
ADAPT celebrates as a family.
Nov. 4, 1999
ADAPT advocates begin to take the message all across the United States.
- Tim Wheat
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