In Tennessee, the capitol building in Nashville was forced to close its doors to visitors after several hundred protesters, many of them in wheelchairs, blockaded nearby streets. Nearly 100 of the protesters were arrested during what was the second day of demonstrations organized by the group Americans Disabled for Attendant Programs, or ADAPT. ADAPT is opposing recent cuts to healthcare funding in the state that disenrolled 330,000 residents from the state’s health insurance program. This is Babs Johnson, a longtime member of ADAPT, speaking by cell phone from the midst of a protest on Tuesday: “”Right now ADAPT has shut down Charlotte Avenue in front of the capital here in Tennessee because of the unjust and immoral incarceration of people with disabilities in Nursing homes. The state spends 160 dollars on institutional placement for every dollar that goes into community services, and we want to change that.”