Rolling with the Road to Freedom Bus Tour

It’s October 2015 and The Road to Freedom Bus Tour just left an amazing APRIL 2015 Conference: The Revolution at the Beach. It's IL Baby! The ADA Bus team (Tom Olin, Janine Bertram, and Dave Fulton) remains in Virginia Beach for a day and a half planning meeting.

Next, Tom Olin takes off for Athens for the Georgia Disability History Symposium. He will connect with disability rights icons Eleanor Smith, Mark Johnson and numerous resourceful history buffs. One of the Road to Freedom Bus Tour’s goals is to promote the preservation of history.   Many of the leaders who were involved in making the ADA into law did not preserve their papers and historic objects. It is critical that we conserve the history we make. Johnson and Smith have done substantial work saving and highlighting disability rights and justice history nationwide.

Voter registration is also a key priority. Everywhere we travel, we partner with hosts on their efforts to urge all eligible people with disabilities to vote.” Get involved in politics as if your life depended on it because it does.” Justin Dart

Tom Olin and the Road to Freedom Bus Tour are media magnets. If hosts do advance media work, mainstream media is drawn to the bus and covers your issues. Make the ADA Bus a photo opportunity for you.

After Athens, The Road to Freedom Bus rolls into Columbia, South Carolina for some serious business: joining the flood disaster relief efforts for people with disabilities. Portlight Strategies, ABLE, (Center for Independent Living) and Marcie Roth at FEMA are tireless in making sure people in the disability community displaced by the floods have the services and supports to meet their needs.   The ADA Bus is honored to join this effort.

Over winter and spring, the bus will be in Florida and then travel across the southern part of the nation with a long stop in Phoenix and a meander through California.  We hope to be in Portland, Oregon in June. For the entire month of July the ADA Bus will travel through Washington State working closely with local activists. We may get to do an event or two in Idaho as well. Emilio Vela of WASILC is partnering with us in Washington.

Now that you know our route, contact the ADA Bus team and book a stop in your city or state.  The bus brings photo and history exhibits as well as supporting advocates on local hot button issues.

Tom Olin and the Road to Freedom Bus Tour are media magnets. If hosts do advance media work, mainstream media is drawn to the bus and covers your issues. Make the ADA Bus a photo opportunity for you.

Get with the ADA Bus and roll on!