Update: Working Schedule “Beyond ADA 25”

Update: Working Schedule “Beyond ADA 25”

Only 2 weeks one day and 5 minutes* to Independence Day for People with Disabilities on July 26, 2015. It has been a rousing year with the ADA Legacy Tour. And Tom Olin and the Road to Freedom Bus will keep rolling beyond ADA 25. (* see www.ADALegacy.com for the countdown to July 26.)

But what is Beyond ADA 25? What are the key issues on which our community should focus?  We have been talking about economic justice and the Community Integration Act.  Let us know your thoughts.

Another key purpose of the tour is to support local, state, and regional efforts for systems change advocacy and other endeavors.  We found this example in our mail box recently.

Hi Janine,

Congratulations on 25 years and working on such a worthy cause. I am Emily Pambianchi of the Prospector Theater. Please check us out as we exist due to ADA!

Quick clip about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlzyTF54PM

Thank you,  Emily

As you think about inviting the Road To Freedom Bus to your community, consider enough planning to secure media coverage.  We can help with that, too.

July 30 - 31 -- Portlight / FEMA conference, Arlington, VA         

                        http://www.portlight.org/page.html

Aug 24 – Sep 14 -- Everybody Counts, around Gary, Indiana   

                        http://www.everybodycounts.org/

                

Sep 17 – Disability Network Southwest Michigan, Lansing, MI

                        http://www.dnmichigan.org/

Sep 21  -  Towson University, Baltimore, MD                    

                        http://www.towson.edu/

Sep 24 – Maryland Disability Law Center, Baltimore, MD

                        http://www.mdlclaw.org/

Oct 3  -  Starkloff Disability Institute, St. Louis, MO                               

                        http://starkloff.org/s/

Oct 8-9 – DARS, Richmond, VA

                        http://www.vadars.org/

Oct 15-18 – APRIL, Virginia Beach, VA

                        http://www.april-rural.org/index.php/2014-april-conference

Nov – working on stops in Georgia/Florida

Dec – working its way west

Rough outline for 2016

Jan/Feb –  California

Mar -  New Mexico / Arizona

Apr/May/June – Oregon/Washington

July – TBD

Aug – TBD

Sept – TBD

Oct – NJ Pride Parade, Trenton, NJ

            Million Gimp March, Washington, DC

As of July 11, 2015

Janine Bertram Kemp and David Fulton join the ADA 25 Bus Tour caravan. Like all of Disability Nation we are excited to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of ADA with our NCIL and Washington, DC communities.

If you are interested in having Tom Olin and the Road To Freedom Bus Tour come to your neck of the woods, please contact Janine Bertram (janinebk@mac.com).  We are very interested in having a west coast swing in 2016 and have some “irons in the fire”, but will need more Tour stops to make it feasible.