ADAPT's Free Our People March

September 4- 17, 2003

Do you want to be forced into a nursing home?
Freeourpeople.org is your Internet link to ADAPT’s historic march from the Liberty Bell to Capitol Hill. A fourteen day march from Philadelphia, 144 miles to Washington DC in support of MiCASSA and to demand an end to Medicaid’s institutional bias that locks away Americans with disabilities. Free Our People!

ADAPT is the leading direct action organization for the civil rights of Americans with disabilities. Americans with disabilities are demanding an end to the bias system that forces people into institutions and nursing homes. Nursing homes are the most expensive and least desirable form of long-term care, yet they are required by federal Medicaid policy in every state.

Home and community based programs are a reasonable proven alternative to institutional internment. Locked away and out of sight no longer, many Americans have fought their way out of the revolting institutional system to insist that all Americans are given REAL choices, that Congress pass MiCASSA and that current lawmakers make amends for the STOLEN LIVES of Americans locked away by a bigoted and bankrupt Medicaid policy. Free Our People!

At the Freeourpeople.org website you may find information about the march, how to participate and how to help in this historic march. There will be updated information on MiCASSA and ADAPT's STOLEN LIVES Campaign. Finally, you will be able to follow the marchers all the way from Philadelphia to Washington DC with photos, news and commentary directly from the marchers.