Disabled Activists Block Streets in Civic Center
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Nearly 300 disability rights activists barred access to a city block in the Civic Center with their wheelchairs Tuesday to protest the renovation of a city nursing home.
Demonstrators from as far as Massachusetts, Florida and Texas urged the city not to spend $400 million to renovate Laguna Honda Hospital, the city’s lone facility for long-term care and care for the disabled.
The city should instead use that money to provide care for people in their homes, rather than force them into institutions, they said.
Voters approved a 1999 bond measure to rebuild the 130-year-old hospital over the next decade.
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