Disability rights activists are going viral. They won't stop until the GOP health car

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Disability rights activists are going viral. They won't stop until the GOP health care bill dies.
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Dawn Russell spent two nights camped out with nine other people in a small room in Sen. Cory Gardner's ******. On Thursday evening, after their 60-hour sit-in, Russell and her fellow activists were ******* from the ****** and arrested.*

Russell was there because the Colorado Republican is one of the key swing votes who could either help pass or stop the GOP's health care bill — and she is one very angry constituent.*

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The Denver-based activist lives with cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that affects body movement and muscle coordination. She's a veteran member of ADAPT (http://adapt.org/), a grassroots community that organizes disability rights protests. They frequently stage protests against laws that would reduce funding for Medicaid, the federal health program that aids low-income people and those with disabilities. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/disability-rights-activists-medicaid-health-care-bill/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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