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DESCRIPTION:\n            PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY, 6/24 @12 NOON\n\nARNIEVILLE TENT 
 CITY- ADELINE & RUSSELL STREETS, BERKELEY \n\n\nMedia Advisory              
                       Contact: ArnieVille Site Coordinator, 
 510-684-5866\n\nFor June 24, 2010                                           
                                     \n\n \nPeople with Disabilities Camp 
 Out at ArnieVille Tent City to Protest Service Cuts\n\nArnieVille Sleep Out 
 – Speakers – Banners – Street Theater \n\n \n\nWHAT: \n\nLocal 
 disability activists protesting state budget cuts to senior and disability 
 services begin an open-air protest on June 22, 2010.  People with 
 disabilities have pitched tents on the median strip on Adeline at Russell 
 Street in South Berkeley in an effort to stop Governor Schwarzenegger’s 
 proposed cuts.  Organizers demand protection for California’s In-Home 
 Supportive Services (IHSS), Medi-Cal, and other programs.  They also 
 deplore the Governor's plan to fingerprint, photograph and force 
 unannounced home visits on elderly and disabled recipients of IHSS.  “We 
 have a right to privacy in our homes,” said Jean Stewart, 62.  “This 
 brands us as criminals without arrest or trial.”\n\n \nWHERE:	\n\nTraffic 
 island on Adeline Street at Russell Street, Berkeley\n \n\nWHEN: 
 	\n\nThursday, June 24, Noon\n\n \nWHO:	\n\nCity Councilman Max Anderson; 
 SEIU ­– United Long Term Care Workers Board Member Brenda Jackson; IHSS 
 consumer Jean Stewart; with activist campers and their supporters, a street 
 kitchen, and spontaneous performance art\n\n \nWHY:\n	\n\nIHSS is a model 
 program, saving the state hundreds of millions of dollars per year by 
 maintaining disabled individuals in their homes.  At $55,000 per person per 
 year, nursing homes are five times more expensive than IHSS.  At present, 
 385,074 IHSS caregivers provide services to 490,000 disabled and elderly 
 Californians.  The Governor’s budget proposes to eliminate up to 40% of 
 IHSS funding.  Cuts of this magnitude, and simultaneous cuts to Medi-Cal, 
 would erase decades of progress and incur a huge economic, social, and 
 moral cost.  Thousands of Californian seniors and people with disabilities 
 could end up in nursing homes.  This is a violation of Olmstead, the 
 Supreme Court decision holding that unnecessary segregation of individuals 
 with disabilities in institutions constitutes discrimination on the basis 
 of disability — the protest begins on the 11th anniversary of 
 Olmstead.\n\n \nWhy “ArnieVille”? This protest honors the Hoovervilles 
 of the Great Depression, shantytowns that sprang up as the nation's most 
 vulnerable people found themselves driven into homelessness and hunger.  
 The protective policies and programs that arose from the New Deal are under 
 attack, by our current Governor and by many Congressional leaders as 
 well.\n\n“These programs are life-and-death matters and we live in a 
 state of fear and anxiety,” says Dan McMullan, an ArnieVille organizer 
 and director of the Disabled People Outside Project.  “For years now, 
 we’ve been assailed by a Governor intent on making the rich richer, while 
 we get thrown under the Hummer.  This year we’ve come together to 
 resist.”\n\nVISUALS:\n	\n\nTents; banners and signs; street kitchen; 
 people with disabilities and their personal care assistants telling their 
 stories; policy experts and union representatives to interview.\n\n 
 \nSponsored by CUIDO, Communities United In Defense of Olmstead, a 
 grassroots group of people with disabilities, seniors, caregivers, and 
 allies working to stop draconian cuts to California’s In Home Supportive 
 Services (IHSS), Medi-Cal programs, and other critical supports for 
 California's most vulnerable people. \n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/23/18651650.php
SUMMARY:People with Disabilities Camp Out in Berkelay@ ArnieVille TentCity Protesting Service Cuts
LOCATION:ARNIEVILLE TENT CITY:\n\nLOCATED ON A TRAFFIC ISLAND AT ADELINE AND RUSSELL 
 STREETS IN BERKELEY
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/23/18651650.php
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