I Will Never Go Back
http://www.lgtinc.org/articles/117/1/I-Will-Never-Go-Back
Tim Wheat
Tim Wheat is on Special Assignment with the Memphis Center for Independent Living. He designs and develops MCIL's web site MCIL.org and edits the MCIL Journal on disability rights issues. Mr. Wheat produced and managed the FreeOurPeople.org website and created Internet related media each day of the historic Free Our People march. Mr. Wheat develops and curates the National ADAPT Action Report that provides photographs, commentary and news from ADAPT Actions www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/. By Tim Wheat
Published on 04/22/2006
Testimony of formally institutionalized Americans documents human rights abuse, immoral policy.
Rape, abuse, neglect and lonely death filled the testimony given today by survivors of institutionalization. ADAPT, the nations largest grassroots direct-action organization of people with disabilities, coordinated witnesses for the first ever National Day of Testimony to document the human impact of the institutional bias in the United States.
Rape, abuse, neglect and lonely death filled the testimony given today by survivors of institutionalization. ADAPT, the nations largest grassroots direct-action organization of people with disabilities, coordinated witnesses for the first ever National Day of Testimony to document the human impact of the institutional bias in the United States.