The Drifter
Smash Journeyman
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So, I went on a trip to DC to do some disability rights protesting. We were trying to push for this bill that allows in-home care to be more accessible to senior citizens and people with disabilities. It was weird, cause the police would escort us to where we were going, and then arrest the lot of us later in the day.
One of the days I was there, a majority of the protesters got arrested for blocking the road in between The Senate and The House. They were arrested, and literally taken to a parking garage across the street because the DC PD didn't have enough room in the station for all the wheelers (a term for people in wheelchairs that we used)
So, while the majority of us got arrested, me and some other people who didn't participate in the blockade went to the Capitol Building and recreated The Capitol Crawl, a significant moment during the original push for the ADA (American Disabilities Act) in which people in wheelchairs crawled up the steps of the Capitol building to demonstrate their inaccessibility to the government.
Anyway, we crawled up the Capitol Building Steps, and the leader of our group said his speech, which was pretty much what I said earlier. A cop came and said it was illegal to sit on the Capitol steps, when a group of schoolgirls, and what appeared to be some sort of all African-American choir were doing it too. The cop got backup, and pretty much we told us we had till the count of three to haul *** off the steps. We all scattered like a bunch of mice, none of us wanted to get arrested.
So, the rest of the day was spent at the hotel, awaiting the return of our "martyrs" as they were dubbed, to be released from county.
The end.
One of the days I was there, a majority of the protesters got arrested for blocking the road in between The Senate and The House. They were arrested, and literally taken to a parking garage across the street because the DC PD didn't have enough room in the station for all the wheelers (a term for people in wheelchairs that we used)
So, while the majority of us got arrested, me and some other people who didn't participate in the blockade went to the Capitol Building and recreated The Capitol Crawl, a significant moment during the original push for the ADA (American Disabilities Act) in which people in wheelchairs crawled up the steps of the Capitol building to demonstrate their inaccessibility to the government.
Anyway, we crawled up the Capitol Building Steps, and the leader of our group said his speech, which was pretty much what I said earlier. A cop came and said it was illegal to sit on the Capitol steps, when a group of schoolgirls, and what appeared to be some sort of all African-American choir were doing it too. The cop got backup, and pretty much we told us we had till the count of three to haul *** off the steps. We all scattered like a bunch of mice, none of us wanted to get arrested.
So, the rest of the day was spent at the hotel, awaiting the return of our "martyrs" as they were dubbed, to be released from county.
The end.
