Beyond ADA 25: The Road to Freedom Tour

The Disability Rights Center (DRC) joined the ADA Legacy Project (TALP) in defining and promoting the goals of preserve, celebrate, and educate. DRC endorses the continuation of this focus.

In 2015 and 2016 The Road to Freedom Tour will work with regions, states, and local disability rights and justice groups.  We are now developing the route for Tom Olin and the Road to Freedom bus. We are booking tour stops from August 2015 and beyond. This blog post is for potential hosts.

The next segment of the tour begins in August of 2015 with a 3 week stop in Indiana. We are encouraging stops similar to Indiana in these aspects but all aspects are not required.  

• Involve several community organizations and civic groups or involves a region or several towns in a state…all organizing together and the Road to Freedom "Beyond ADA 25" tour can support your issues;
•   Provide fiscal and in kind support for the bus and tour (fiscal $2000-10,000);
• Hosts have a focus on support for youth organizing;
•  Inclusion of cross disability and diversity;
•  Longer stops: from 1-3 weeks (though we will still have ‘pit stops” along the route ).

Tom Olin and the Road to Freedom Bus Tour include but is not limited to:

• Displays of disability rights history
• Quilts made by cultural worker Corbett O'Toole
• Photos from the Olin Collection

Read about The ADA 25 Tour at The ADA Legacy Project website -  http://www.adalegacy.com/ada25/ada-legacy-tour  

Photo of Johnny Crescendo at ADAPT Rally in Washington DC. Also Janine Bertram (Kemp) and Bob Kafka. Photo byTom Olin

Photo of Road to Freedom bus in New Mexico, October 2015. Tom Olin, Dave Fulton, Janine Bertram (Kemp).