Disability rights advocates arrested during Capitol protest

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:  …The protesters from across the nation but including many from Pennsylvania urged the Corbett administration to tap federal dollars available to fund those services and to give them a voice in decisions that affect the services they use.

They also were critical of the Corbett administration’s policies which they said has dismantled in 18 months the community- and home-based services that took two decades to build.

Amber Smock, a spokeswoman from the national ADAPT organization, said the Pennsylvania chapter asked for the national office’s assistance in staging the protest to help get the Corbett administration’s attention because “the situation in Pennsylvania is so bad.”…   (more)

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