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/.
Using direct action to augment negotiations ADAPT won commitments from Illinois Governor Blagojevich's office to close down the Lincoln Developmental Center, have ADAPT at the table for the Illinois Money Follows the Person Project and to meet with ADAPT before October seventeenth. Following a long, difficult struggle to shut down business at the James R Thompson Center, ADAPT activists were treated to a demonstration of the group's authority as officials came in person to make the commitments to ADAPT.
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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