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/.
Enrollees in the Tennessee Medicaid program, called TennCare, believed the healthcare program was a compact with the community, that their health was important, that their lives were valuable. A few TennCare enrollees believed that they had to do something to protest the cuts in enrollment and benefits Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen was instituting across the state. They felt betrayed by the governor who campaigned on the promise to “fix” TennCare.
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.
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/.
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