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1126 working the SAT system -- rank: 1000

Here is my rant on this one.. Disability activists are sometimes reluctant to cast dispersion on those claiming disablement but some of us have observed that when there is a social advantage to be had by claiming disability, people *will* do it. Usually there is more stigma/downside than gain, but regarding SAT test procedure exemptions like this and parking places - what a bonanza for those individuals who see opportunity to get an edge. Remember the UCLA football jocks who lied to get handi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 10 09:27:42 PST 2000

1127 What's Missing? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: > The Nation sucks, period. Now we hear that the awful liberal writer, > John Nichols, has infected the magazine. The Progressive magazine went > downhill as soon as they hired him as a regular columnist. Nichols > cheerleading for the Democrats is pretty awful, if not downright boring. > I used to subscribe to both magazines, but didn't renew in disgust of > how they were embracing Clintonism and the neoliberal agenda. I've noticed he has become a frequent voice ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 29 11:18:57 PST 2000

1128 What's Missing? -- rank: 1000

A friend of mine who teaches disability studies posted this to another listserve. He asked, what's missing? progressives get up in > the morning and go about the work of fighting racism, sexism and > homophobia, defending the environment, organizing trade unions and > tackling corporate hegemony. The answer is -- there is no mention of disability or ableism. Progressives, in the Nation's view, obviously aren't in the work of fighting disability discrimination or ableism. What's worse, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 29 08:04:09 PST 2000

1129 Allen Ginsberg, "America" (was Re: Patriotism) -- rank: 1000

Tom, Would you please email me this paper. I am just working on some Federalism stuff. thanks in advance, marta Tom Lehman wrote: > I got an interesting paper yesterday from an envionmental attorney that > originated out of a big ten law school authored by a law professor. The big > ten law prof claims that the Federalists' have morphed into a corporate paid > lobby. > > Next stop. Alan Ginsberg doing Nike commericals. > > Tom Lehman >

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Feb 24 11:19:06 PST 2000

1130 Rich overthrow government for themselves -- rank: 1000

I know, I know, enough with the Huffington stuff already but I just can't resist. A major pulling the wool over the KPFK listeners eyes is going on here in LA during the fund drive. Arianna Huffington was on KPFK with Marc Cooper yesterday pushing her book and ideas (the book is a gift when one subscribes to KPFK during the funddrive). She said that Bush could have made a real gesture towards doing something about poverty if he just donated some money (I'm not sure where from, it wasn't clear. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 12 10:54:15 PST 2000

1131 On the Use of Clinical Terms in Social Theory -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > If I say that David Irving, the holocaust denying historian of Nazi Germany, is a psycho or a psychopath, anyone who gets upset on behalf of the mentally ill is missing the point. I am not insulting the mentally ill, least of all by using a term which I am now told doesn't actually apply to any mentally ill persons any more. I disagree. You are using the term in a pejorative fashion when you disagree with his views. You don't know that he is "psychotic," ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 7 08:04:36 PST 2000

1132 Definition of Eugenics? (RE: Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > > > Surely there's a difference between "eugenics" meaning "you people > cannot have children" and "eugenics" meaning "I hope that my (and > everyone else's) great grandchildren won't have to wear glasses"? > > Brad DeLong Brad, You can investigate some of the weaknesses of this approach by visiting http://www.africa2000.com/BNDX/BAO405.htm or http://www.thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/links.htm Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 6 21:14:19 PST 2000

1133 FW: If you can't beat'em, slur'em: ABC attacks organic food -- rank: 1000

I went up against Fumento in the San Diego Union-Tribune a number of years ago on the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was calling for its demise. There was one bit of truth to what Fumento said in his piece. Taking the side of small business and criticizing the lack of activism from corporations to undo the ADA, Fumento said that no corporate CEO in his right mind would oppose an Act that everyone thinks is to help Stevie Wonder (or something like that). I agree for a different reason. Co ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 6 20:46:33 PST 2000

1134 Definition of Eugenics? (RE: Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > >On Behalf Of Marta Russell > > > > Of course Margarent Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood was > > a eugenicist. Recently I learned that Helen Keller supported it > > too. As you can imagine that is a real downer for disability > > activists. Now we have to have some separation > > from her too, a lefty crip. > > Is there only one version of eugenics? What was the definition used by these > left-oriented eugencists ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 6 13:53:37 PST 2000

1135 Murray raves again: capitalist patriarchy hardwired! -- rank: 1000

Of course Margarent Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood was a eugenicist. Recently I learned that Helen Keller supported it too. As you can imagine that is a real downer for disability activists. Now we have to have some separation from her too, a lefty crip. Marta Michael Perelman wrote: > Sure, Keynes too. But that sort of guilt was spread pretty evenly across the > political spectrum for people of middle class backgrounds. Murry made it seem > as if it were unique to the lef ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 6 09:04:57 PST 2000

1136 facts, science, muck and what ought to be done -- rank: 1000

I need some clarification. My understanding is that private insurance does not pay for abortion, like it doesn't pay for contraceptives -- maybe this has changed?? Women seeking abortions then, must pay for it themselves unless they qualify through Planned Parenthood or some other funding mechanism - is that correct? They don't need to get a prescription from a doctor to have an abortion either if I've got it right. They can go straight to a clinic. What is the current battle being waged for ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 5 14:53:48 PST 2000

1137 facts, science, muck and what ought to be done -- rank: 1000

This didn't seem to go through the first time - references to the thread have been lost. Here goes again. Yoshie, I'm going to respond to some things line by line then give a summary at the bottom. sorry this is long, but I couldn't see anyway else to fully address the points you raise. Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: If only a grave threat to a person's life or health is to be a criterion to determine what counts as medicine, many "medical" decisions can't be called medical. What is the crit ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 4 15:59:19 PST 2000

1138 Z magazine on Marc Cooper and Mumia -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: > The recent issue of Z Magazine has an editorial that damns Marc Cooper > for his recent article critical of the efforts to free Mumia. It is > very good, in my opinion. > > I read the Z piece too and agree. Someone needed to make a cohesive > counter to Cooper. The KPFK beg-a-thon is going on now, and since Cooper is host of an hour program that runs Monday through Friday he is in there pitching for money for Pacifica. Needless to say, he is not on str ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 4 11:08:26 PST 2000

1139 facts, science, muck and what ought to be done [Re: A DroolingResponse to Rob] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > Of course it's not a moral issue. It's a mere medical decision > by a woman. Many women who have abortions do not have them because there is a medical reason to do so, so I would not frame abortion as a medical decision. Unless the woman's life or health are threatened it is not medically necessary to have an abortion. It is a social decision that the woman makes: to propagate or not to propagate. The procedure is a medical procedure but the woman's decision oft ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 4 10:32:38 PST 2000

1140 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3771 -- rank: 1000

Laura -- I've been meaning to thank you for that GREAT article you wrote about the ADA in November. It was truly a work of art and I did my best to get it out through disability circles. As for W. and Rice and Cheney and Evans et al -- I think we've got a bunch of gold-diggers on our hands-- who will be mostly looking for ways to manipulate government to line their pockets and further enrich the Bush clan-circle of friends. Hail to the Thief - we ain't seen nothin yet. Marta Lflanders at aol.c ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Dec 22 09:45:35 PST 2000