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331 [lbo-talk] Re: Million Dollar Baby gets disability dead wrong -- rank: 1000

> >I've missed the euthanasia moment. I've seen a long and painful >process that ended with an assisted suicide. Maybe we've seen two >different movies. > >ciao, >alessandro > You must not understand the law. Eastwood gives the lethal injection. That is administering death, i.e. euthanasia. It would have been assisted suicide if Maggie did the deed herself. Here is the transcript for proof of what occured in the film: [Hospital lobby] Nurse says she is going to get a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 28 13:39:19 PST 2005

332 [lbo-talk] Re: Million Dollar Baby gets disability dead wrong -- rank: 1000

>Brian wrote: >It is also interesting that a film about a singer with >diabilities (in this case blindness and drug-addiction) >who changed the music business and is regarded as >one of the greatest entertainers of all time has been >ingnored in this flap over disability rights. > >But I forgot. "Ray" is about a diabled BLACK man. >Can't go praising that film can we now. > >Brian Dauth >Queer Buddhist Resister > I was rooting for Ray because I sa ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 28 10:37:29 PST 2005

333 [lbo-talk] Why We Protest M$B -- rank: 1000

Why We Protest By W.C.Cleigh Many do not understand why disabled activists are protesting Million Dollar Baby. Even some disability studies students agree with mainstream critiques of the movie, finding it "poignant and heart wrenching." In this, they express an utter lack of understanding of disability activists' objections to M$B. The very fact that such movie viewers and reviewers found M$B "heart wrenching " and sympathize with the "decision" to kill the disable ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:44:27 PST 2005

334 [lbo-talk] John Hockenberry on Eastwood's portrayal of disabled -- rank: 1000

Yoshie wrote: "For representation of disability to become representation of diverse singular disabled persons rather than types, there would have to be hundreds of portrayals of disabled persons -- especially as major characters -- on film. If there were hundreds of major disabled characters on the film, we could take the character played by Hillary Swank in _Million Dollar Baby_ as a singular individual, just one disabled person who makes a uniquely tragic choice unlike all other disabled ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 27 17:33:13 PST 2005

335 [lbo-talk] more Not Dead Yet -- rank: 1000

DISABLED ACTIVISTS PROTEST AT THE OSCARS * * **HOLLYWOOD**, California Disabled activists and members of the national Not Dead Yet grassroots disability rights organization are poised to hold a press conference at 2 PM, February 27th , 2005, in front of the Kodak Theater at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. prior to the start of the annual Academy Awards. They are protesting the Academy's nomination of what they call ¤the most bigoted and loaded "better dead than disabled¤" movie "Million ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 26 10:03:58 PST 2005

336 [lbo-talk] Million Dollar Baby gets disability dead wrong -- rank: 1000

This is so important with wounded/impaired soldiers coming back from Iraq. Marta CONTACTS: John B. Kelly Alyson Perry 617-536-5140 857-523-0255 John.B.Kelly at Verizon.Net saintsaddle at Yahoo.com For Immediate Release February 25 , 2005 NOTE: THIS RELEASE CONTAINS "SPOILERS" Not Dead Yet to Leaflet Oscar Gala: "Million Dollar Baby" Gets Disability Dead Wrong The Resistance Clint Eastwood's latest film, "Million Dollar Baby,&quo ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 10:00:29 PST 2005

337 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

>People on the (broadly defined) left can't blame these political >problems on conservative Christians and the GOP alone. The majority >of people on the (broadly defined) left have made their choice of >supporting the party that agrees with the GOP and conservative >Christians on the Welfare Reform, "Charitable Choice," and a host of >major domestic and foreign policy issues. It's time for leftists >who support the Democratic Party to take responsibility for that ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:49:42 PST 2005

338 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

>Yoshie wrote: >Wojtek was, however, speaking of which kind of congregation is most >likely to apply for government funding for religious charities: > This study Wojtek uses was from 1999. Much could have changed by then especially since these new churches are cropping up all over, right? From the LA Times: "This budget signals a substantial increase in the redistribution of federal dollars to faith-based organizations dealing with topics like marriage and abstinence and away f ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 17:07:41 PST 2005

339 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

>>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >> >>However, Mark Chaves' study of religious congregations shows that it is >>liberal and progressive congregations, not the conservative ones that are >>more likely to pursue government funding of their programs. >>http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByAuthor&NavMenuID=63&template=/Ta >>ggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=6446 > >Esther Kaplan also writes in her book, With God On Their Side, ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 16:58:34 PST 2005

340 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

> > The Bush solution is to give the churches government money to run >> their "moral" church-based welfare services as he cuts back >> traditional gov't services. >> Marta > >What's the latest view on that from some of the leaders of the >religious right? Has it changed? During Bush's last term, Falwell >and Robertson were leery of the faith-based initiatives out of >concern that the government could be in a position to tell them how >to ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 16:52:04 PST 2005

341 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

> > The Bush solution is to give the churches government money to run >> their "moral" church-based welfare services as he cuts back >> traditional gov't services. >> Marta > >However, Mark Chaves' study of religious congregations shows that it is >liberal and progressive congregations, not the conservative ones that are >more likely to pursue government funding of their programs. >http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByAuthor&NavMenu ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 16:28:03 PST 2005

342 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

>Doug wrote: >The European countries polled have small militaries, many of them >staffed by draftees, that don't do all that much abroad. We have a >large professional military that regularly bombs and invades other >countries. The populations polled are respecting very different >things. And, according to Gallup, 40% of Americans think that our >"national defense" isn't "strong enough." Our favorite service >branch is the most bellicose, the most disc ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 13:57:37 PST 2005

343 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

>DSR wrote: > >>America is choking off the need by Leftists to understand where >>common ground can be found, e.g., Yoshie's citations regarding >>similar economic concerns among evangelicals and leftists. > >A lot of which may be reflecting the opinions of black evangelicals >- but that aside, while there may be common ground on "economic >concerns," the solutions are likely to be different: church/private >charity vs. state action. As Esther Kap ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 13:30:11 PST 2005

344 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

>>Chuck wrote: > >Methodists are traditionally liberal, right? The Methodist church in Westwood (an expensive expensive place to live, did I say expensive?) here holds many liberal/left events as does the one in Venice. I saw James Galbraith and Tom Hayden speak in Westwood. They are traditional Methodist churches. If I remember correctly, it was the Methodist church that put pressure on Bush not to attack Iraq. Marta --

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 17:16:53 PST 2005

345 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

>Deborah wrote: >Wow, are you still in Mississippi? No I live in LA - have for some time now. I do go back and visit the Mississippi delta which is kind of like the socialite portion of Mississippi. It is not growing there. If anything the population is shrinking. Maybe the delta is a throwback in time or a place out of time but I see none of the kind of religious conversion you, Kelley, or Pugliese are writing about. The churches are pretty much the same, the congregations pretty much ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 16:36:41 PST 2005