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“I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
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From God to Linda McKeown–There’s a Trip
How do I know that God’s got my back? The first and biggest confirmation of this came about three years after I was diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, which is a rare form of kidney damage that is caused by bad doctors … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, God, Government Services, Onondaga County, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Transportation, Values
Tagged Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, complaints, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, Jenifer Rich, Linda McKeown, lithium, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, paratransit, Peter Cahan, power, power wheelchair, powerlessness, transportation
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On Being a Bond-Servant
So Rev. Craig Schaub and I prayed and then we, along with my psychologist, Dr. Paul Cohen, went up to see the hospital’s medical director, whose name is not worthy of repeating. His job was to catch the flak, as … Continue reading
The Bullies at Centro
Linda McKeown, the manager of Call-a-Bus, used bullying as her management style and she passed it down to her staff. Herewith my letter to her on October 18, 2004: Dear Linda, I have spoken with Sharon Keener, manager of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, bully, Call-a-Bus, Centro, disability, disability rights, Jim Bacon, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, values
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On Being Loaded
As a society we maintain a fiction that electric wheelchairs enable people with disabilities to be independent. The fact is that people with disabilities no longer have anyone upon whom they can depend to push their wheelchairs; that’s why we … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Medicaid, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ARISE, Beata Karpinska, Call-a-Bus, Catholic Church, Centro, Christopher Community, disability, East Syracuse, family, HUD-subsidized housing, Kathy Hart, Linda McKeown, Medicaid transportation, power, power wheelchair, PTAC Syracuse, Public Transportation Advisory Committee Syracuse, segregation, service, St. David's Court
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The Contractor and the Contractee
No, as it turned out, the ACLU could not help me. The local branch apparently consisted solely of an executive director with no staff. I was sitting out there battering my head against Mike Addario, general manager of Rural Metro; … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Onondaga County, political corruption, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ACLU, conspiracy, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, John Mulroy, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Mike Addario, Nick Pirro, Onondaga County, political corruption, Post-Standard, poverty, power, Republican Party, Rural Metro, Stephen A. Rogers, Stephen Rogers, The Syracuse Newspapers, values, Wayne Freeman
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So I Wrote to Rural Metro . . .
August 2, 2003 Mr. Michael Addario, General Manager, Rural Metro Re: Medicaid Transport Dispatch Dear Mr. Addario: Please be advised that your employees are restricting my choice of transportation carriers. Last week, while on the phone with one of your … Continue reading
The Perception of Powerlessness
So the days and nights went on, indistinguishable from one another, and I went to a neuropsychologist who told me that depression is triggered by the perception of powerlessness. Then he told me to take more pills. Antidepressants pills were what had … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Depression, disability, drugs, God, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Onondaga County, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged antidepressants, depression, Dept. of Social Services, God, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County, PNIE, power, powerlessness, psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology
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Discovering Power
Kathy yelled “You’ve got to do something about this! If she’s treating you this way then she’s treating everybody this way! You are smart enough and strong enough to do something about it and you have to!” All I knew … Continue reading
Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
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