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(MEMPHIS, May 17) Kudzu's will host a musical benefit for American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) on Saturday, May 17, 1997 from 8:30 to 12:30 p.m. ADAPT is a grassroots civil rights organization that is dedicated to ending the strangle-hold that nursing homes on the lives of people with disabilities.
ADAPT of Memphis will participate June 14 - 26 in a national civil rights demonstration in Washington D.C. 500 to 600 other ADAPT members from across the U.S. will show support for Community Attendant Services Act (CASA) legislation. Last November hundreds of ADAPT protestors were arrested disrupting a meeting of the nursing home political lobby in Atlanta.
Performers scheduled to date are: Dorothy Guinn, Steve Lockwood, Mark Allen, and singer-songwriter Jeremiah Tucker. $5 cover and proceeds from the Kudzu benefit will help to pay for travel costs to the DC action. Kudzu is located at 603 Monroe.
The Memphis Center for Independent Living
The Memphis Center for Independent Living
1633 Madison Avenue,
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 726-6404 v/tty (901) 726-6521 fax
mcil@mcil.org
MCIL is a United Way of the Mid-South member Agency
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