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1066 corporate control of science -- rank: 1000

This is from a biotech web site. Thought listers might be interested. Marta ****************** The following letter, which gives a good insight into how corporate science works in the global arena behind closed doors, has been rejected from Science magazine despite three requests for reconsideration from Dr. Samuel Epstein. The issue at stake is democracy and the social control of science and technology, which is all the more urgent, as technologies become more powerful and uncontrollable. This ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat May 13 16:57:09 PDT 2000

1067 protesting the conventions -- rank: 1000

Andrew Groups are posting on the LA-AMN (Los Angeles County Alternative Media Network) Here is the address: Posting la-amn at lists.tao.ca Commands majordomo at tao.ca List Administrator worker-la-amn at lists.tao.ca Art McGee Co-Coordinator/List Administrator *********** Marta Andrew Yale wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know of websites or listservs focused on > the protests that I've heard will take place at the > Democratic National Convention this August? > > Andrew > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 12 10:48:07 PDT 2000

1068 Clint Eastwood vs. the ADA -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 00-05-09 21:52:15 EDT, you write: > > << The reality is that when disabled people notify businesses they usually > ignore us. Most every disabled person I know sends a letter asking the > business to comply but then more often than not, nothing happens. >> > > In which case, the Dirty Harry amendment, if it passes, ought to make little > or no difference, right? At least as described. > I just learned that t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 12 09:57:02 PDT 2000

1069 Clint Eastwood vs. the ADA -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 00-05-09 21:52:15 EDT, you write: > > << The reality is that when disabled people notify businesses they usually > ignore us. Most every disabled person I know sends a letter asking the > business to comply but then more often than not, nothing happens. >> > > In which case, the Dirty Harry amendment, if it passes, ought to make little > or no difference, right? At least as described. > Justin, It does make ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed May 10 08:28:38 PDT 2000

1070 Clint Eastwood vs. the ADA -- rank: 1000

Harry is being dirty. Isn't ten years long enough notice? The ADA was passed in 1990. Hello????? Do black people or women have to notify an employer or business that they are discriminating and they business better shape up in 90 days? The reality is that when disabled people notify businesses they usually ignore us. Most every disabled person I know sends a letter asking the business to comply but then more often than not, nothing happens. The business community approach has been wait to c ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue May 9 19:54:08 PDT 2000

1071 "I have an activist heart, but I am a capitalist tool." -- rank: 1000

Once again, all the "isms" are given merit here except disablism. Even writers like these editors of Dollars and Sense, who have specifically examined oppression have internalized the dominant, individualized world view of disability as a matter of personal tragedy and have failed to conceptualize it as social oppression. Marta Michael Pugliese wrote: > TNR Online | A Day at the National Mall by Sarah Wildman This book caught > my eye the other day. "Homo Economics : Capi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 5 15:21:22 PDT 2000

1072 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Wesley Smith unpacked one for a television audience (CNN) so I did not get a close look. but yeah, Humphry and Co. sell them, guaranteed to not let any air in so you suffocate completely. Hemlock Society may call itself a not for profit but they are making a killing off the new Final Exit video. I don't think Humphry has any other job so I'm sure his fashionable quarters in Oregon must come from his Final Exit book rights and/or a salary to run the Hemlock Society. Marta Doug Henwood wrote: &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue May 2 15:06:21 PDT 2000

1073 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Um humm. And the liberals are mostly pushing for the "right to die" physician assisted suicide instead of insisting on quality health care for everyone. Under the euphemism "death with dignity," right to diers would kill off those who dare to get sick -- handicapped have been named as "beneficiaries" of assisted suicide and costs have been deemed an acceptable reason to request it. Many people obviously can't afford medical care under the version of capitalist med ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue May 2 13:59:31 PDT 2000

1074 Worker displacement? -- rank: 1000

Can anyone recommend a book that includes an analysis of worker displacement in the global economy. I know about the Anne Colamosca and William Wolman book, but are there others? -- Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Mar 23 13:42:52 PST 2000

1075 Health Care -- Can we borrow your sense of humour -- rank: 1000

How about Make Health Care a Right NOT a Luxury marta Gar Lipow wrote: > Health Care For All - Oregon is putting forth a single payer initiative > for the November ballot. Sigature gathering should begin as soon as we > finish some legal fights over ballot titles in April. > > In the meantime we need a good slogan -- something that will fit on a > bumper stick. We have lot of fine wits on this list. Can you suggest > something funny, 15 words or fewer to convey the superior ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Mar 19 15:13:53 PST 2000

1076 Gender & Free Speech (was Re: LM, Louis, and Free Speech) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > I very much agree with Tahir on the urgent need for "radical critique > without limits," including issues that ideology makes us think are "private > problems." Esepcially with regard to gender, simply making laws > gender-neutral in the so-called "public" spheres of paid employment (which > is important & left incomplete) leaves the main locus of gender oppression, > the generative mechanism of "genders&quo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Mar 18 16:17:04 PST 2000

1077 scary site -- rank: 1000

The more I learn about humanism the scarier it gets. Eugenicists and humanists seem to be ideological peas in a pod. They both are extraordinarily focused on biological "wholeness." Marta Doug Henwood wrote: > <http://www.eugenics.net/index.html> > > Future Generations is about humanitarian eugenics. Humanitarian > eugenics strives to leave a genuine legacy of love to future > generations: good health, high intelligence, and noble character. We > advocate meas ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 17 10:25:08 PST 2000

1078 upcoming talk -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > > Is the > Universal Declaration of Human Rights an agreement with the same > binding power as a treaty? > > Don't know. Doesn't sound like it, though. A Declarations sounds like a nice statement of good intention. > > In any case I would not hold up high hopes for enforcing a right to employment through the courtts even if the US had by some oversight in fact signed a treaty that purported to offer such rights. > As I understand these dec ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 13 11:08:36 PST 2000

1079 Davis and parole board -- rank: 1000

So far Davis (D) has proven the best Republican governor we've had. He has done nothing to raise the standard of living for in home service workers - no significant raise in pay, no health care. Now he's turned his back on disabled prisoners right to equal access to parole hearings. Marta Senate Chief Blocks Davis Selection Capitol: Fellow Democrat Burton refuses to set reappointment hearing for chief of Board of Prison Terms. Burton says the board violates human rights. By JENIFER WARREN, Tim ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 10 13:52:59 PST 2000

1080 Margins of Being "Human" (was Re: Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs) -- rank: 1000

These kind of questions remind me of how wide the information gap is between the disability movement and the majority culture. Many many of us have gone on record saying that we don't want any cure. Our disabilities are part of who we are. The Deaf absolutely reject that they are even "disabled." They prefer to think of themselves as a culture with their own language. It is heresy to put cochlear implants in deaf children, etc. Many of us prefer to have disabled children. None I ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 8 11:14:42 PST 2000