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

Sunny is a young woman who probably can live off what she gets from SSI now. However, I don't think she will have this same POV in another 20 years of living in abject poverty. SSI income is below poverty, it varies from state to state, some states more punitive than others. It certainly is not a dignified life. The only people I know who do OK on SSI are people whose families will house them. Marta > >I have a confession to make: I do not work. I am on SSI.1 I have >very little work ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Dec 2 16:28:42 PST 2004

437 [lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion... -- rank: 1000

It is me who should not have started something I cannot finish right now! I'm still dealing with the toxic fumes in the condo here. Everyone wants to duck responsibility. The insurance company is refusing to relocate me and refusing to fix the problem....I have paid into the HOA insurance for over 13 years and look at how they are treating me! A friend told me that back in the 60s the insurance execs got together and decided the bottom line was more important than the consumer. I'm experiencing ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 25 15:13:55 PDT 2003

438 [lbo-talk] Parecon Discussion... -- rank: 1000

> >> wouldn't making art that is deemed socially desirable labor >> so one is compensated making art for oneself as much as >> anything else? > >Painting can be socially valuable -- perhaps it is if you do it -- or >ridiculous garbage, as it would be if I did it. I could not get a job in >a good economy -- even in a bad one or a remotely sane one, painting, >unless it was painting the outside of houses...which I in fact used to >do. Hi Michael, "Soc ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Sep 24 13:50:31 PDT 2003

439 [lbo-talk] ADAPT Free Our People march -- rank: 1000

Contact: Marsha Katz, 406-544-9504 (cell); Bob Kafka, 512-431-4085 (cell) or Crosby King, 410-321-4950 <http://www.freeourpeople.org>http://www.freeourpeople.org Sept. 12, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HUNDREDS "MARCHING" IN WHEELCHAIRS FROM PHILADELPHIA WILL HOLD BALTIMORE PRESS CONFERENCE; WANT "FREEDOM FROM NURSING HOMES" Hundreds of activists who have been forced into nursing homes -- or just recently got out -- will mass in Baltimore on the 9th day of their 14-day, 14 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Sep 12 10:15:24 PDT 2003

440 [lbo-talk] McChesney Alert: Crucial Senate Vote Today -- rank: 1000

>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:05:44 -0400 >Subject: Action Alert: Crucial Senate Vote Today >From: Robert McChesney <rmcchesney at mediareform.net> >To: info at mediareform.net >Reply-To: rmcchesney at mediareform.net > >In a surprise order yesterday, new FCC rule changes that would >dramatically alter the American media landscape were temporarily >blocked by a federal court. It's a big victory, and the timing >couldn't be better. With the rule changes on hold, we ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Sep 4 10:48:58 PDT 2003

441 [lbo-talk] Speaking of employment -- rank: 1000

Some disability employment struggles. I ramble a bit but it is a rambling situation. marta --> If you pass this comment along to others -- periodically but not repeatedly -- please explain that Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet and that to learn more folks can consult ZNet at <http://www.zmag.org>http://www.zmag.org --> Sustainer Forums Login: <https://www.zmag.org/sustainers/forums>https://www.zmag.org/sustainers/forums Today's commentary: <http: ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Oct 2 13:45:31 PDT 2003

442 [lbo-talk] lazy? (rant!) -- rank: 1000

> Understood. I'm being an Âsshole. > I've been really pissed off lately at leftists. >MichÂel > Yea, me too. I am sick and tired of being patronized. I am sick and tired of leftists holding their meetings in inaccessible locations then telling me it would really be too much trouble FOR ME to attend. I am tired of their disablist sh*t that they refuse to look at. Marta --

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Date:	Fri May 30 09:39:04 PDT 2003

443 [lbo-talk] RE: HL Mencken (was: Green Party 2004) -- rank: 1000

> > >True, I pretty much like HL's views, except perhaps for his animosity >toward FDR. In my book, FDR was the best thing that ever happened to >this wretched institution known as US presidency. I think HL let his >Germanophilia clout his judgement about FDR. > >Wojtek > FDR was a wheelchair user the entire time he was President. Everytime his name comes up I like to remind people of that. They tend to forget. Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri May 30 09:35:07 PDT 2003

444 [lbo-talk] CBS: First there wasn't a bunker. Second we didn't hit it. -- rank: 1000

So what is this technique, report what they tell you no matter what and check the facts later? Marta >No Bunker where U.S. Bombs Targeted Saddam-CBS > >WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Baghdad bunker which the United States said it >bombed on the opening night of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in a bid to >kill Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) never existed, CBS Evening News >reported Wednesday. > --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu May 29 09:32:33 PDT 2003

445 [lbo-talk] MM and MM (Mickey Mouse) -- rank: 1000

this came my way -- I haven't the time now to check it out but thought some might be interested. marta > Michael Moore is under attack. His financing was pulled when Mel Gibson > chickened out. The right is mounting a smear campaign to get Miramax/Disney > to also pull out. Moore is attempting to tell the actual September 11th story > along with the BUSH / BIN LADEN family connections. > > Send your words of support: > > (from the new and improved Headblast ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat May 24 14:26:23 PDT 2003

446 [lbo-talk] Bilderbergers Meet -- rank: 1000

THE BILDERBERGERS MEET IN VERSAILLES, TALK OF IRAQ << http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE22Ak03.html May 22, 2003 THE ROVING EYE The masters of the universe By Pepe Escobar It may be instructive to learn what US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle were doing last weekend. From May 15 to 18 they were guests at the Trianon Palace Hotel, close to the spectacular Versailles palace near Paris, for the annual meeting of the Bilderberg c ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu May 22 13:45:07 PDT 2003

447 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Rallying cry for Republicans -- rank: 1000

>Reply-To: <patcitdav at digiverse.net> >From: <patcitdav at digiverse.net> >To: ConcernedCitizens >Subject: Rallying cry for Republicans >Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 00:35:19 -0700 >X-Priority: 3 > >Dear Fellow Republican, > >Because claims continue to grow that Vice President Cheney knew about and >allowed the September 11, 2001 attacks for political and strategic gain, the >Republican Party needs your moral and financial support more than ever. > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu May 22 13:20:04 PDT 2003

448 [lbo-talk] impaired = colorless and noncharismatic -- rank: 1000

> > > That isn't the point really. The point is that such physical >> characteristics get mentioned as the defining ones - they garner such >> remarks. How does this reporter know what people think of the man's >> physical state? > >from experience? i had a teacher that had a lazy eye and she could see >with it fine. that's not any excuse to be rude of course.......but being >insensitive isn't neccesarily a case of disablism. is being insensitive an &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon May 19 17:55:16 PDT 2003

449 [lbo-talk] impaired = colorless and noncharismatic -- rank: 1000

>--- Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote: >> I know nothing about this new Argentine president's politics. But >> this is a typical treatment of impairment by our "educated" class of >> journalists. >> The very first paragraph goes off describing the Argentinian >> president's impairments. And some wonder why I write about disablism >> - according to some it doesn't exist! Here it is. >> marta >> > >maybe alot ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 10:54:25 PDT 2003

450 [lbo-talk] quality of life calculous -- rank: 1000

John D. Graham was Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Much of the Harvard faculty took a stand against his appointment. Lieberman voted against him to his credit. marta http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_1n17value.html White House may put less value on seniors, disabled By Dana Wilkie COPLEY NEWS SERVICE May 17, 2003 WASHINGTON - After senior citizens raised a ruckus, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Chris ...

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Date:	Mon May 19 10:27:38 PDT 2003