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1156 Gleitsman Awards -- rank: 1000

Jack Kevorkian and death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson will both receive the Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award today. The dual award this year is indeed ironic; one awardee is to be heralded for taking the lives over 100 disabled persons, the other for saving the lives of inmates on death row. By dignifying Kevorkian with this Citizen Activist Award, the Gleitsman Foundation aligns humanism with the bourgeois eugenicists, social Darwinists, and Malthusian population control zealots who t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 10 16:00:50 PDT 2000

1157 "Democracy" in So California -- rank: 1000

The below event is sponsored by California Americans for Democratic Action. On Cooper's radio show today he announced that there was a private reception at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club on Saturday (the day before the event) that cost $125 -- he urged people to go. Well I called to see what was up (as if the private reception at a private club wasn't bad enough) and found out that prices varied from $500 to $125. The person taking reservations could not explain what $500 bought you as opposed t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Apr 7 19:35:23 PDT 2000

1158 ADA and the 11th Amendment -- rank: 1000

We've been fortunate that the two cases that the Supremes agreed to hear (Dickson and Alsbrook) were settled and withdrawn from the Court's docket. But there are others coming down the pike. I just wrote something on Worker's Fight for ADA Rights for Spinewire at http://www.spinewire.com/cgi-bin/templates/index.html You may want to read. There is a section for comments below the article. Marta JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > Some time ago I warned that after S.Ct. used the 11th amendnent to zap ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Apr 7 12:20:22 PDT 2000

1159 Netherlands may be first to legalise euthanasia -- rank: 1000

Dutch doctors have killed over 25,000 people who did not ask to die. They have been practicing involuntary cost saving murder(euthanasia) ever since the courts sanctioned "assisted suicide" and gave physicians immunity from prosecution. Marta Russell Ulhas Joglekar wrote: > Wednesday 5 April 2000 > > Netherlands may be first to legalise euthanasia > AMSTERDAM: Campaigners are predicting that euthanasia and assisted suicide > will soon become legal in the Netherlands -- ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 6 18:48:51 PDT 2000

1160 Double post -- rank: 1000

apologies for the double posting. I'm not getting great service from my internet provider - It seemed that the first post did not go through so I sent a second time. -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:05:02 PDT 1999

1161 Stossel reply -- rank: 1000

This is the response I got from ABC after sending a scathing denouncement of Stossel's show. They obviously aren't even keeping tabs on what the public has to say but they are pushing these capitalist think tanks on anyone who responds. It appears they produced the show so that it could be used for corporate purposes to push these ideas via the classroom, in textbooks and curriculum. Marta Thank you for your e-mail about "IS AMERICA #1?." I'm sorry I can't give you a personal response. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:57:07 PDT 1999

1162 Stossel/ABC reply -- rank: 1000

This is the response I got from ABC after denouncing Stossel's show. The mucky mucks aren't even keeping tabs on what the public has to say (this response did not acknowledge my criticism) but they are pushing these capitalist think tanks on anyone who responds. Dangerously the whole show appears to have been done so it can be "used" for ABC corporate purposes, to get the show into school textbooks and curriculums. Marta Thank you for your e-mail about "IS AMERICA #1?." I'm ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:44:22 PDT 1999

1163 : Marxists on art? -- rank: 1000

For a detailed examination of one era I would recommend Serge Guilbaut "How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War" University of Chicago Press. Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Sep 11 11:24:24 PDT 1999

1164 Murder and fetus revisted -- rank: 1000

In a rush - no time to comment, but came across this today: Three youths charged with capital murder for beating death of fetus Court TV A prosecutor in Arkansas is bringing charges under the state's new Fetal Protection Law against a man who allegedly hired three youths to kick his pregnant girlfriend in the abdomen, killing her nine-month fetus. The fetus died in the Aug. 26 attack at the man's west Little Rock home. A young man and his two teen-age brothers were charged with capital murder an ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Sep 3 19:08:40 PDT 1999

1165 Laurance S. Rockefeller '32? -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > > > > Singer does say human life is not more valuable that animal life. But he > >seems to justify infanticide primarily upon utilitarianism and his definition > >of personhood. He says that infants under 30 days old are not > >sentient beings, > >are not persons (fully human) so therefore it is OK to kill them if it would > >make the parents happy. > > But Singer also says that it is not OK to kill animals cruelly, or > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Oct 28 13:33:27 PDT 1999

1166 Laurance S. Rockefeller '32? -- rank: 1000

THE WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(via THE SOCIALIST PARTY of Great Britain) wrote: > Surely the end result of the conservation "ethic" is the deep green > position? I.e. thathumans by some bizarre twist of logic have equal rights > with viruses, and suchlike. Rather than be appalled by the fact that > someone meant to be "nice" (a conservationist) turned out to be "nasty" > (infanticidal) we should look at why the one contains the other. The > contradic ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Oct 28 08:20:45 PDT 1999

1167 Laurance S. Rockefeller '32? -- rank: 1000

Laurance seems to primarily be a conservationist, though as we know conservationists can be, a la the Sierra Club, linked to population control. There seems to be nothing readily available about Laurance and his take on bioethics. But I suspect ruling elites just as they mobilize the money-power of the Wall Street bankers, do use their money to influence intellectual activities at universities and build support for their views. So far nothing indicates exactly what Laurance's interests are at ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Oct 26 11:39:15 PDT 1999

1168 Laurance S. Rockefeller '32? -- rank: 1000

A question. Princeton University's Center for Human Values says it "is dedicated to teaching, research, and deliberation about ethics and human values." It was founded in 1990 through a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller '32. The Rockefellers where behind the eugenic movement in the U.S., but I never heard of Laurance. Does anyone happen to know anything about him? Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Oct 25 15:07:53 PDT 1999

1169 disability & work -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: > I have made the same case for the Civil Rights Movement and for the Women's > Movement. All too often the popular image is presented as if Gloria Steinham > and M.L. King were the first important advocates of their causes, and thus > things happened when they did. > I'd very much like to read what you wrote. In which book(s) or what paper(s) did you write on these subjects? best, Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Oct 23 10:19:12 PDT 1999

1170 disability & work -- rank: 1000

I should have added whether it (Clinton's strategy) will work or not is highly questionable. Private industry has done its utmost to defeat workers with disabilities employment discrimination cases in court. As one law professor put it no group except prisoners fair as poorly. And there is other resistance from business (not to wanting to pay for reasonable accommodations, to give one example). Alot of what we see around the Work Incentive Legislation passing is pure hype. Marta Michael, Clin ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Oct 22 12:54:07 PDT 1999