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> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:28:04 +0100
> Subject: [danmail] Fw: Activists win Suppor for the Closure of the Philadelphia Nursing Home Institutions
>
> Who says direct action doesn't work!!
>
> Well done to all involved. What a fantastic achievement.
>
> Mike Higgins
> (in a personal capacity)
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Support the Closure of the Philadelphia Nursing Home
> Institutions are not solutions]]
>
>
> After 5 nights and 6 days of disabled activist from ADAPT of
> Philadelphia camping out outside the Philadelphia Nursing Home Mayor Michael
> Nutter finally came out in public and said he would begin the phased closure
> .beginning with the 50 residents that have chosen to get out. In Nutter's
> last act before he travels to Denver for the Democratic National Convention
> he agreed to meet with ADAPT before the end of September on the agenda of
> closing down this hell hole.
>
> ADAPT of Philadelphia would like to thank all of you around the world
> for your support which inspired everyone at the camp each night and kept us
> going. Hopefully we inspired you in a small way to end the segregation of
> disabled people world wide.
Free our People
Philadelphia ADAPT
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