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1396 ANN: Arcata Corporation Limitation Vote -- rank: 1000

This "first" won't make the national news, but it is a story worth following. I believe that Alex Cockburn lives near Arcata. Marta Russell > >Subject: Arcata corp. limitation vote > > > >Arcata Voters Overwhelmingly Support Ballot Measure F on > >Democracy and Corporations: > >The First Ballot Initiative of its > >Kind in U.S. History > > > >Press Conference scheduled at 11:00am, > >Wednesday at Arcata City Hall, 736 F St. > &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 4 21:19:16 PST 1998

1397 Disabled Protest -- rank: 1000

Chuck, Bravo! Whenever some form of people-centered policy gets on the table - like community based in home services - the corporate sharks look for ways to dominate that too. Now many nursing homes are setting up home care units in anticipation of getting these contracts from the government as well. This would be a "nursing homes on wheels" scenario and I am adamantly opposed. We need to assure that the money for home care goes to the disabled person so they can choose their attendan ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 4 08:21:09 PST 1998

1398 DISABLED SHUT DOWN NATIONAL PARTY HQS AT LUNCHTIME -- rank: 1000

This is a much better write up on the protest and plans to get arrested. Marta > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: > November 2, 1998 Jennifer Burnett, 610-781-4091 (cell phone) > 703-418-6800, Rm 724 (hotel) > > DISABLED SHUT DOWN NATIONAL PARTY HQS AT LUNCHTIME > > WASHINGTON, D.C.-More than 700 members of ADAPT, the national disability > rights organization, are shutting down the headquarters of t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 3 08:31:20 PST 1998

1399 Disabled protest disrupts GOP news conference - CNN (fwd) -- rank: 1000

The GOP subcommittees voted unanimously not to pass Social Security work incentive legislation that would stop the practice of punishing pwds who want to work by taking away their Medicare/Medicaid and the GOP has blocked the vote on community based personal assistance services which keeps pwds from being institutionalized in those death traps called nursing homes. Marta > http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics/stories/1998/11/02/disabled/ > > Disabled protest disrupts GOP news conference > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 3 08:16:05 PST 1998

1400 against entrenched identity -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > So, in this historical moment the form of working class oppression is > racism, sexism, homophobia, and various other form of discrimination > because the core of that discrimination takes the form of suppressed > wages. The means to stop or at least make the giants stumble is exactly > the same as always: strikes, boycotts, political organization, advocacy Here is a bit of advocacy on a similar note re disabled workers: According to a 1992 Census Bureau repo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 24 02:45:41 PDT 1998

1401 Disability and class -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: > > On Fri, June 19, 1998 at 07:28:00 (-0800) Doyle Saylor writes: > >... > >(Marta) Thursday June 18 > >"Practically speaking, when "problems" of access arise, I have found > >them > >to be uncomfortably linked to the question of where is the money? ... > > >(Doyle) Well said. It is an example to me about how the US global > >policy of austerity creaps into all the nooks and crannys of > >society. .. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jun 19 05:09:45 PDT 1998

1402 Disability and class -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: I retired at 67, and > wish I had retired at 65 because nearly half of every semester was > becoming pure agony, but would "really" have liked to retire at 70 or 72. > I was still a good teacher. I still enjoyed teaching. But it got to the > point where no amount of paxil would see me through the last 7 weeks of > the semester as the need to make out grades loomed larger and larger. > Both I and the world would be better off if there were WPA-type wo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 18 17:21:53 PDT 1998

1403 Pecunia non olet? (was: Gender, Race, and Publishing on the Left) -- rank: 1000

zippycat at erols.com wrote: But I still think that in the absence of any > alternative political presence in this country, many, if not most, Americans > are left with a neurotic fear/disgust/etc. of/at those at the bottom of > the heap. There is yet another arena where those at the bottom of the economic ladder are held in disgust - that is spiritual disgust. I was listening to KPFK radio which is a Pacifica station in LA (supposedly representative of the left) last night and the gue ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 18 13:50:39 PDT 1998

1404 Disability and class -- rank: 1000

Having problems with my computer, hope this goes through ok. Doyle Saylor wrote: > (Doyle) Of course the point of view being expressed corporately is > someone occupying a bed, a specific type of disability, when most lived > disabilities aren't about being in bed all the time in a warehouse. (Marta) I use "bed" (which is in quotations) like the nursing homes do. Nursing home accounting is done by counting how many "beds" they fill, rather than the people tha ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 18 13:23:43 PDT 1998

1405 No comment on disability discrimination? -- rank: 1000

I find it interesting that NO one has commented on the fact that the individual was fired by the school board for having no fingertips got directed into a discussion about child molesters. I recieved this today, and think it may be applicable to this list. Correct me if I am wrong. > > as a church woman (I'm an Episcopal priest), I have made it my business over > the last couple of years to write and write and write to people who publish > lists of "the evils of the world to be ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 18 07:10:58 PDT 1998

1406 Who is disabled -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: > > ... Yes, the law was to protect > against child molesters, but this person had been a teacher for quite some > time, who was fired because of the fingerprints. > > There was no indication that he was anything but an excellent teacher. > The school board tried to retain him. Still I think the teacher could take this to court under the ADA and most likely win it. S/he was discriminated against for not having what a nondisabled person ha ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 17 13:09:14 PDT 1998

1407 Divisions among the "Disabled"; Footnote to Marta Russell -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > I select just a few points from Marta's very fine summary of the case. > > > Disability, for purposes of explaining oppression, is a social > > construct. > > I agree-- with only a query about how the term "social construct" may be > used. I think Marta and I would understand it in the same way, but it is > *also* used by those who mean "existing only in discourse." There are real > social relations energizing this pro ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 17 12:34:00 PDT 1998

1408 Who is disabled -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: > > To what extent is the definition of disabled a social construction? > > We are expanding who is disabled. A California school district recently fired a > teacher with a skin disorder. His fingerprints were insufficiently clear. In a > sense, he is disabled, yet perfectly able to carry out his job. > -- Under exactly what grounds does the school have the right to fire this individual? Is there a regulation that requires one to have readable fing ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 17 07:45:30 PDT 1998

1409 Divisions among the "Disabled"; Footnote to Marta Russell -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >> Now, I assume Marta *does* implicitly include brain disorders within her > definition of the disabled but by allowing the almost universal > assumptions to go unchallenged by so much as a parenthesis she implicitly > commits herself to what she calls "physicalist" assumptions. Yes, I do include mental disabilities, and sensory disabilities. The models you use - "soft and "hard symptoms" - are medical model constructs which disability r ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 17 07:13:14 PDT 1998

1410 Weightlifting -- rank: 1000

Allow me a moment to do a spiel on nursing homes. Under what I call the Money Model of disability, the disabled human being is a commodity around which social policies are created or rejected based on their market value. "The corporate "solution" to disablement-institutionalization in a nursing home-evolved from the cold realization that disabled people could be commodified; we could be made to serve profit because federal financing (Medicaid funds 60 percent, Medicare 15 percent, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 16 16:24:12 PDT 1998