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ADAPT sits-in for disability housing rights.


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The Peachtree State has dragged its feet for more than a decade in complying with a 1999 Supreme Court ruling that demanded that Georgia stop violating the anti-discrimination clauses of the Americans with Disabilities Act in regard to forcing indigent people with disabilities to live in nursing homes.

So some 400 members of ADAPT, the 25-year-old disability rights organization known for its 1960s-style activism, marched in Atlanta last month, demanding to meet with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.

About 100 ADAPT marchers, many in wheelchairs or with braces, walkers and crutches, braved pouring rain Oct. 12 to force their way into the state capitol building where they occupied hallways on two floors in a 1960s'-style sit-in to gain access to Perdue.

To read more ADAPT and the Atlanta sit-in, read our Web top story here.


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