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496 no crips or retards -- rank: 1000

I've been writing to the IAC folks all over the country to suggest ways they could accommodate disabled people when it comes to transportation matters. Below is one response I got. The person, is of course, a coward not to send a name with the comment. Does anyone on the list know how to track the sender of an email? Is there some registry or other means? Marta Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:45:04 -0500 (EST) From: zhrho at earthlink.net To: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Subject: Re: Acc ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 5 10:59:19 PST 2003

497 Humiliating defeat -- sob sob -- rank: 1000

>Capital Hill Blue is the on-line congressional news letter that >summarizes news for Capital Hill staff and office workers....(CG) > >------- > >This is wrong. Somehow the last time I was wondering around the US >House of Representatives web site, I got linked to it and assumed it >was. But it isn't. It's a commercial news service---basically a >reactionary selection from the wire services. Of course I couldn't >tell the difference between it an official reactionar ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 4 13:45:31 PST 2003

498 Humiliating defeat --sob sob -- rank: 1000

By CHB Staff Mar 3, 2003, 22:22 Senior aides to President George W. Bush say he faces a humiliating defeat before the United Nations Security Council next week. Secretary of State Colin Powell, fresh from his latest round of meetings with representatives of countries on the Security Council, delivered the bad news to Bush on Monday. "You will lose, Mr. President," Powell told Bush. "You will lose badly and the United States will be humiliated on the world stage." Some White H ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 4 10:00:20 PST 2003

499 [lbo-talk] Kill all the lawyers -- rank: 1000

> >In general, of course, the law favors those with more money , owners of >private property, owners of more property over owners of less property, etc. In our case I felt the Judge KNEW the owners of this management corporation. It was a hunch I got given the fact that she looked at the pictures of the pools of water standing on our roof with the rocks covered by the water and commented "this must be before the roof repair" and I stated no your honor (I hate to call them tha ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 31 17:20:04 PDT 2003

500 [lbo-talk] Kill all the lawyers -- rank: 1000

>Amen! I spent the morning in court today, where I lost my trial over >unpaid rent. The lawyer for my landlords is actually pretty nice and >helpful, but it sucked to watch all the other lawyers in action. I >really loved the case before mine, which I call the "Case of the >Overcharged Copying," which involved a law firm suing a company that >had the balls to charge them $1 a page for copying some papers. > >One thing I've learned from the last three months of f ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 31 09:39:06 PDT 2003

501 [lbo-talk] wheelchair rag -- rank: 1000

>> >I wouldn't even provisionally accept _that_ much for IQ. Remember, >Binet developed the IQ test not as a measure of any innate quality, >but to determine which students of his needed a bit of extra >tutelage, and for which topics. It was the American eugenics >movement that seized upon the use of these tests as a measure of a >hypothetical "trait" of intelligence; they wanted to breed humans >for a better society, but they needed a trait to breed _for_. A ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 30 12:33:09 PDT 2003

502 [lbo-talk] New Iraq Scapegoat: Condi Rice -- rank: 1000

Oh come on now, she can go back to Chevron and be a wealthy queen who has her name on a tanker. good grief. She is exactly the kind of person who should never have been in government in the first place. marta >It's like Stalin, where they take them out and shoot >them one by one. > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51224-2003Jul26.html > -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.martarussell.com/

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 26 22:17:56 PDT 2003

503 [lbo-talk] US and disability human rights -- rank: 1000

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8326 Too Many Human Rights Marta Russell is a writer whose focus is on the socio-economic aspects of disablement. She is the author of Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract (Common Courage Press). The Bush administration continues to set itself apart from world opinion, this time by not actively supporting a U.N. effort to create a disability-sensitive human rights treaty. Fortunately, more than 100 other nations do not share the U.S.' ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 17 10:15:38 PDT 2003

504 [lbo-talk] Cheney under pressure to quit -- rank: 1000

It's downright heartwarming. marta Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:04 AM Subject: Cheney under pressure to quit over false war evidence Cheney under pressure to quit over false war evidence Anger grows on both sides of Atlantic at misleading claims on eve of Iraq conflict By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Marie Woolf The Independent (UK): 16 July 2003 Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President and the administration's most outspoken hawk over Iraq, faced demands for his resignation last night as he ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 16 17:47:43 PDT 2003

505 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>Kelley wrote so much that it would take a book to respond to so I am >only briefly going to say a couple of things: >2. Similarly, you made a decision about what you would focus on in >your review. I wondered why, just as you wondered why they >extinguished polio/scoliosis (sp?) from the film. > >I know why you did: your concern is the representation of disability >and the disabled in film and reviews need to be focused. The same >concerns emerge in films about real l ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jan 31 16:03:13 PST 2003

506 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell wrote: > >>I don't think people view that sort of thing as serious and I don't >>think Salma Hayek is a serious actor, mostly a body who should be a >>model for bikini magazines. > >Which is a completely separate question from her mode of dress. >People can be talented and dress sexy or untalented and dress sexy >or... > >Doug Mode of dress is not separate. These actors are people who will spend an entire day planning what to wear. Again ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 10:36:20 PST 2003

507 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>>Kelley wrote: >>i think it unfortunate that hayek was mischaracterized as not as >>interested as lewis in getting into the physical aspects of her >>role and of supposedly ignoring the polio and scholiosis because >>she was uninterested in dealing with that aspect of her life. Too add one more on this accusation from Kelley. I was in LA when Daniel Day Lewis was putting himself through training for the Christi Brown role. He asked for advice from disabled people. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 17:32:36 PST 2003

508 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

Absolutely. I veered into the anti-moralist turf, however so unintended. And these are my last words on this thread as I have work to do. Marta > >Anyway, it is "revealing" that this thread has become >centered around a statement that you made about >Hayek's wardrobe rather than about accurate portrayal >of >Hayek's physical disabilities in the movie, which is >what your review was about. > >-Thomas > > > --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 14:50:58 PST 2003

509 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

I know I am over my post but really this must receive a due answer. >Kelley >'course, apparently, by hayek's own admission, she downplayed many >parts of frida's life, particularly the political part of her life. >gee. too bad that wasn't mentioned on a 'zine site that is supposed >to be about left politics! not that disability isn't political, but >Frida was a communist, here we go the Kelly buzzsaw -- But????? But????????? >I talked to many people that knew her and some pe ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 16:48:53 PST 2003

510 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>At 02:05 PM 01/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>That opens another question. Men actors don't chose to do that do >>they? Why not? >>Marta > >Sure they do. Kirk Douglas had it written into his contract that he >had to have at least one scene with his shirt off in every movie he >did. This was not a problem in "Spartacus," but in "Paths of Glory," >Kubrick actually had to manufacture such a scene...right at the >beginning of the movie. Bein ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 14:20:58 PST 2003