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421 [lbo-talk] LA says In your eye Bush -- rank: 1000

Largest City to Date Passes Pro-Civil Liberties Resolution; > Los Angeles Rejects The Patriot Act Extension > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ; > Wednesday, January 21, > 2004 > > Contact: Shin Inouye > (202) 675-2312 > > WASHINGTON - Following last night's call by President Bush to extend the > USA PATRIOT Act, the American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed the > passage of a pro-civil liberties resolution urging ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 22 13:03:53 PST 2004

422 [lbo-talk] Presidential candidates understate poverty -- rank: 1000

>Presidential candidates understate poverty >By Hazel Trice Edney >NNPA Washington Correspondent > >WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Charles, What does NNPA stand for? Marta --

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Date:	Fri Feb 27 13:57:24 PST 2004

423 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart commentary -- rank: 1000

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=47&ItemID=4987 A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination by Marta Russell February 15, 2004 DISABILITY_ RIGHTS Wal-Mart was recently busted for disability discrimination in hiring - again. In January the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed lawsuit against the retail giant for discriminating against Steven J. Bradley, when he applied for a job at Wal-Mart in Richmond, Missouri. Bradley has cerebral palsy an ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 16 13:42:59 PST 2004

424 [lbo-talk] Bush interview revisited -- rank: 1000

>At least the Cubans got free health care. > > A friend of mine moved here from GB and remarked that his 3 year old daughter had heart surgery in GB for free but is distressed that now that he lives in the US how's he going to pay for her next medical need. Marta --

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 12:22:21 PST 2004

425 [lbo-talk] Bush interview revisited -- rank: 1000

>one of Russert's questions , there are mad men all around the >world why attack Hussein, included a short list of examples >amongst whom was Castro ! This for me exemplified this media >malaise for inaccurate generalisations that enforce >misconceptions. Even if you don't like the man to call him mad is >a bit extreme ? This came up on a disability list serve I am on. Agreement was that "mad", "crazy", etc. are used as pejoratives and the utterer should ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 10 09:34:13 PST 2004

426 [lbo-talk] Re: Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: > >In many respects I don't feel like I >have much a right to criticize or speak out about various disabled >political matters because I am not disabled and the policies do not >directly effect me. But that doesn't mean you and many others won't in the future . As people age they find that they would prefer to having an attendant at home rather than being put in a nursing home, for instance. Disability is the only minority which anyone can join. >But leaving that ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 16:09:22 PST 2004

427 [lbo-talk] Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

To add more -- I had a conversation with a disabled person employed by the World Bank to attend the UN meetings on a human rights treaty for disabled persons in New York and pointed out to her that she just might be being used by the Bank. She was quick to reply that she had been able to get some things accomplished in her position there. She did not know who Joseph Stiglitz is!! This is, unfortunately, what we are dealing with. The real problem is that there is very little disability "gr ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 11:09:15 PST 2004

428 [lbo-talk] Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

No doubt about it Patrick -- but one thing the World Bank is doing now is to see that any construction or reconstruction that gets done is wheelchair accessible. They hired a disabled activist, Judy Heumann to guide them. Now I am as suspicious as you might be that this is window dressing for the most part. However, consciousness raising is important and so I posted the article. best, Marta >But Marta, surely you'll want to point out that the most virulent >economic attacks on disabled ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 30 10:37:09 PST 2004

429 [lbo-talk] searching for .... -- rank: 1000

Goldman-Sachs "US Economics Analyst" Global Economic Research Bulletin for December 17, 2004. Google search did not find it. Does anyone know if this Bulletin in available on the web? Marta --

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Date:	Wed Dec 29 11:09:37 PST 2004

430 [lbo-talk] Amartya Sen and Wolfensohn on disability -- rank: 1000

http://www.thejakartapost.com/yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20041203.E02 "Nobel Laureate Commentary on Disability Worldwide" From The Korea Times: [Nobel Laureates] Helping Disabled People Out of the Shadows By Amartya Sen and James D. Wolfensohn, The Korea Times Disabled people are not only the most deprived human beings in the developing world, they are also the most neglected. It is important to acknowledge that more than 600 million people in the world live with some form of disabilit ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 29 10:45:01 PST 2004

431 [lbo-talk] economist position -- rank: 1000

Subject: FYI-GS-14 Economist position posted in NCBDDD The Disability and Health Team in the Division of Human Development and Disability in NCBDDD has posted a position for a GS-14 level health economist (series 110). This position is being announced both internally and externally and the announcement will be open for 1 month. Only U.S. citizens are eligible. For details, click on: <https://jobs.quickhire.com/scripts/hhs.exe/runjobinfo?aOrg=1&aJob=5927&Username=~BROWSE~&ORGIMG=or ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 17 11:19:06 PST 2004

432 [lbo-talk] Rumsfeld, "You're (Not) Fired!" -- rank: 1000

Them's fightin words! Marta http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-rumsfeld8dec08,1,631564.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials December 8, 2004 EDITORIAL 'You're (Not) Fired!' Los Angeles Times Headlines What does it take to get fired these days? Donald Rumsfeld's continued tenure at the Pentagon, basketball fan-attacker Ron Artest's too-slight punishment and the idiocy emerging in the trial over the breakup of Disney's two Michaels all raise that question. Start with Rumsfeld. I ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Dec 8 16:45:03 PST 2004

433 [lbo-talk] They cut taxes now they want to cut Medicaid -- rank: 1000

I hesitate to post actions to the list -- relying on Senators may not be the best tactic but it is a start. If they suceed in cutting Medicaid there *will* be carnage. I know too many people who rely on it to feel that it is an option to let these programs go in order to fuel the decline of the empire. marta From Families USA Please help in the federal Medicaid fight -- Contact your Senators Dear Marta, We need your help right away to prevent a major setback on the road to providing decent hea ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 8 16:08:23 PST 2004

434 [lbo-talk] Re: eating, or everything else, too? -- rank: 1000

>Deborah wrote: > >Well, it can be done, but it's butt ugly and hardly healthy. It's >called the mac&cheese / ramen soup diet plan. > This is a prescription for obesity, diabetes and heart attacks. It follows that the least expensive foods -- for the poor -- are the worst in quality and the more expensive foods -- for the better off -- offer a diet that allows one some control over one's health. Marta --

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Date:	Fri Dec 3 15:57:55 PST 2004

435 [lbo-talk] The Right Not to Work: Power and Disability -- rank: 1000

>> > >Sunny is a splendid person - smart, talented, & charming. I'm so >happy MR published this. > >Doug >___________________________________ I'm happy for her too and glad to see something on disability. I just want people to realize that SSI sucks. If one is on SSI one can never have more than $2,000 in assets to stay qualified. One can work but one dollar out of every two is kept by the government so you really can get nowhere and even if you could the $2,000 li ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 2 18:14:34 PST 2004