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1231 More on Eagleton/Spivak -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: > In message <377A4115.9BF5943C at lafn.org>, Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> > writes > > Darwin was a > >racist which was fashionable amongst his class and he was an ableist, meaning > >he concluded that people not of "sound" body and mind should not marry and > >propogate their kind. > > Any proof to all this, or is it just self-evident. In Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin introduced his theory that man ev ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 30 18:50:08 PDT 1999

1232 More on Eagleton/Spivak -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Should we > say that *Origin of Species* is a piece of bourgeois propaganda because > Darwin was from a wealthy land owning family (or rather should we note that > he was well positioned to study the theory and practice of husbandry on > which he based the analogy to natural selection)? > Rakesh, Sometimes it does work out that class position influences theory. Darwin was a racist which was fashionable amongst his class and he was an ableist, meaning ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 30 09:08:54 PDT 1999

1233 Fed Up -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood quoting JK Galbraith article: > > > Yet the blather over inflation obscures something important. We are > enjoying, these days, full employment. Americans have jobs like > rarely before in peacetime. They are making good money, and, with a > higher minimum wage and rapidly growing earnedincome tax credits, > even low-income working families are doing well. So are minorities. > Black male joblessness has fallen to about 7.8 percentstill about > double white ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 29 14:32:41 PDT 1999

1234 Disabled workers and inflation -- rank: 1000

Thursday, June 24, the National Council on Independent Living, the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, and the National Council on Disability coordinated a joint meeting of their independent conferences. Labor Department Secretary Alexis Herman and Social Security Administration Commissioner Apfel were featured as keynote speakers. This is an excerpt from remarks of Alexis Herman at the White House: As Labor Secretary, I have the privilege of announcing the latest employmen ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jun 25 10:07:37 PDT 1999

1235 vulgar materialism -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: > AMA's Delegates Decide to Create Union of Doctors > > "Dr. Barry Liebowitz, president of the National Doctors Alliance, > a 15,000-member affiliate of the Service Employees International > Union, and the Doctors Council, a union of 2,500 doctors based in > New York that is the nation's oldest union of attending physicians > [says] 'The endorsement of a doctors union by the A.M.A. gives an > enormous psychological boos ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 24 14:05:32 PDT 1999

1236 Making the rich richer -- rank: 1000

The LA Times (Sunday) Business section ran a column by James Flanigan stating that the Congress intends to eliminate the estate tax. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) and Bob Kerrey(D-Neb) have proposed a bill to repeal the tax (now at 37% of inheritances over $650,000). Someone interviewed for the article points out that abolishing the tax would further encourage maldistribution of income and wealth, but Flanigan argues that the current U.S. tax is too little to do the job of equalizing opportunity(that's a new ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jun 21 10:06:50 PDT 1999

1237 More on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

http://www.radio4all.org/fp/mainstream.htm May 26, 1998 KPFK Programmers Ordered to Mainstream Content; Advocacy Journalism is "Out" By Lyn Gerry Some of the criticisms leveled at the programming changes which have taken place at Pacifica radio in the past three years are that the air has become less diverse and intellectually stimulating, more predictable and politically mainstream. Listeners have complained that presentations by radical speakers such as Noam Chomsky are only aired du ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 17 15:52:38 PDT 1999

1238 Zinn on Twentieth Century -- rank: 1000

Steve Grube wrote: > Why do you say "what a sham" ?? And why do you say "What > is with people like Zinn." ???? Okay, so he's overlooked > some important issues - especially ones you prioritize highly. > Lighten up! Zinn does excellent work and is a great example > of integrity. Do your communicating with him directly > and find out why. Zinn isn't the enemy, but with your "challenge" > of him I don't think you'll get as much of an ans ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 15 00:52:48 PDT 1999

1239 Zinn on Twentieth Century -- rank: 1000

I recently picked up a copy of Howard Zinn's latest revised "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" but it appears as though disabled people don't rate as "the people." In this "history" book about the 20th Century with a new section on the Reagan and Bush eras, there is absolutely no mention of the Americans with Disabilities Act anywhere that I can find, or the fact that there was a new civil rights movement in this country after the one in the 60s. What a sh ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jun 14 18:20:52 PDT 1999

1240 homogeneity - was Re: Comparing... -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: I realize Kelley is going somewhere else with this, but I just wanted > to emphasize that discrimination is not always based on prejudice. > For instance, if a company promotes on the basis of seniority, when > there has been systematic racial bias in hiring in the past, > then promotion on the basis of seniority is a form of racial > discrimination. The intent of the employer is irrelevant; what > matters is the unequal treatment based on race. Also, empl ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 9 19:41:36 PDT 1999

1241 Bilderberg's Meet -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: > Not all conspiracy theory stuff is that nuts. Notice the number of > government employees or former government employees on this list. Just > a little social get together no doubt. > > Your email pal, > > Tom L. Business people act in their own interests which in the case of the Bilderberg Group, the Business Roundtable, etc. it is pretty clear what their interests are - profits, profits, profits. Whoever can help them get those profits is brought into ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 6 18:52:12 PDT 1999

1242 LA Cops Kill Again -- rank: 1000

In passing this along, I would add that both shooting victims were women and they had mental disabilities. Tyisha's friend called the police to help her because she was depressed and suicidal, and Margaret had a schizophrenic condition that was being (or had been previously) treated with drugs. Being homeless, I don't know if she was still taking them. marta -------------------------------- Reprinted from the June 10, 1999 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------------- LOS ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jun 4 18:58:14 PDT 1999

1243 Supremes Decision for Business -- rank: 1000

For those who may be interested . . . Green Left Weekly published an op-ed of mine on the Supremes decision for business on the definition of "disabled." See http://www3.silas.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1999/368/368p11.htm (the exact site and page for the op-ed) or if that doesn't work try http://www.greenleft.org.au and go to back issue # 368 July 21, 1999 at p. 11. -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 29 11:38:24 PDT 1999

1244 Marc Cooper on Pacifica -- rank: 1000

Cooper and the station manager(Schubb) of KPFK (LA) have consistently defended the national board. While it IS hard to discern the details, there is NO question that KPFK (and Cooper) has become more like a liberal talk show station than a radical one. Schubb was doing another reach out to the community the other day and defended having other opinions (particularly Arianna Huffington) on to have "debates." But what Schubb doesn't say is that when Huffington is on Cooper's show, there ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 23 12:27:34 PDT 1999

1245 Working Class History Test -- rank: 1000

This an aside about Washington, but may be of interest to some. According to my family historian (my aunt) during the Revolutionary War when Washington was in North Carolina, the Brits happened to decide to take residence at the farm of a relative of mine. The daughter, who was only about 16 at the time, overheard that the Brits knew where Washington was camped out and planned to attack him. This young woman rode bareback in the night to warn Washington of the danger. For this he awarded her ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 23 09:42:52 PDT 1999