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From the ADAPT Action, May 10 - 15th, 2003 Washington DC

PHOTO: Police Line Do Not Cross surrounds ADAPT activists at the White House

PHOTO: Police officer holds handcuffs May 11, 2003 The White House
About one-hundred
ADAPT Activists rushed around the Park Police and handcuffed themselves to the White House fence.
Park Police are overwhelmed as activists storm the White House fence. PHOTO: Park Police are overwhelmed as activists storm the White House fence
PHOTO: ADAPT is at the White House until after dark ADAPT members are at the White House until late in the evening.
May 12, 2003 The US Department of Justice
"Suddenly hundreds of advocates had simultaneously moved into place, right in front of the cops, and blocked two major downtown intersections."
PHOTO: ADAPT members block 9th street
PHOTO: ADAPT blocks Constitution Avenue The ADAPT Mall
Blocking Constitution Avenue, The 9th Street entrance to I-395 and 10th Streets, ADAPT created a no-traffic zone in front of the USDOJ that became known as the "ADAPT Mall."
Metro Police line up nine police cars bumper-to-bumper to keep ADAPT from retaking 9th Street. Metro Police line up 9 police cars to keep ADAPT from retaking the street
PHOTO: ADAPT storms doors to the Gallery Mall May 13, 2003 The American Nursing Association
When the ANA failed to respond reasonably to ADAPT's demands, the entire Gallery Mall that stretches the whole block between 6th and 7th Streets, was shut down.

ADAPT Activists take an inaccessible entrance by leaving their wheelchairs and crawling up the steps to block the entrance.

PHOTO: Activists leave their wheelchairs to block doors at the Gallery Mall
PHOTO: Harry Calder roughly handled  by Metro Police Metro Police forcefully remove Harry Calder to placate people that have been blocked in the garage all day.


ADAPT in Seattle, July 2004 and the skyline of the city.

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