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706 Unions Agree to Meet with ADAPT -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release: May 15, 2002 For information contact: Bob Kafka 512-431-4085 Marsha Katz 406-544-9504 Unions Agree to Meet then Call ADAPT the best Organizers They've Seen Washington, D.C.---After years of tension between the disability rights community and the nation's unions, ADAPT scored a historic meeting with top union officials to begin working together to support people in the community while also assuring their attendants a living ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed May 15 08:49:40 PDT 2002

707 ADAPT shuts down DC Traffic -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release: May 13, 2002 For information contact: Bob Kafka 512-431-4085 Marsha Katz 406-544-9504 ADAPT Shuts Down D.C. Traffic for Hours To "Follow the Money" to OMB Washington, D.C.---It isn't often that traffic for blocks around the White House is shut down for hours, but ADAPT made it happen today in order to gain a meeting with Mitchell Daniels, Jr., the Director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Tired of hearing the constant Washington refrain &q ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue May 14 09:48:10 PDT 2002

708 ADAPT shuts down SEIU building -- rank: 1000

ADAPT Breaking News Alert For Immediate Release May 14, 2002 Contact: Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 Bob Kafka (512) 431-4085 Disability Rights Activists Shut Down Union Buildings Washington-- Tuesday morning, the national disability rights group ADAPT has blocked all entrances of the buildings that serve as the headquarters for 3 of the country's largest unions, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, and SEIU. ADAPT seeks meetings with the heads of all three unions, to get union support of legislation currently before ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue May 14 09:39:18 PDT 2002

709 Ohio town bought by utility corp -- rank: 1000

Yoshie - this one is for you. marta New York Times May 13, 2002 Utility Buys Town It Choked, Lock, Stock and Blue Plume By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE HESHIRE, Ohio, May 8 - This would have been an ordinary little town except for the bizarre blue plume that periodically emerged from the gigantic power plant and stalked through the streets, leaving townspeople complaining of raspy throats, burning eyes, sore lips, mouth blisters and grime everywhere. The village clerk read a list of cloud incidents at a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon May 13 10:57:47 PDT 2002

710 Enemies of Nixon RE: re Jon Stewart -- rank: 1000

Part of disabled people's oppression is that society keeps up the myth that it is the able-bodied "saint" who saves them - in this case Sullivan to Keller. Keller was a dynamo in and of her own from beginning to end. And Hollywood wasn't about to have the movie portray the radical speeches she gave at many many political events. Marta >Helen Keller was an articulate and serious socialist. >http://archive.8m.net/keller.htm >http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-hel ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat May 11 12:07:47 PDT 2002

711 Common Courage Press -- rank: 1000

Common Courage Press is in trouble financially cause of a loan problem with the distributor. This is one of the few left presses in the US. If anyone can help, try http://www.zmag.org/ccpfunds.htm -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu May 9 14:46:50 PDT 2002

712 Food Is Not a Human Right -- rank: 1000

I wonder if the people could vote on this rather than our "representatives" make these decisions for us, whether the US would be representing the people's will? marta >***** Food is not a human right > >...[I]n 1982 and 1983, the US was alone in voting against a >declaration that education, work, health care, proper nourishment >and national development are human rights. It would appear that >even 13 years later, official American attitudes had not "softened&q ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 27 20:36:40 PST 2002

713 Medicaid (was RE: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

>My misgivings w/a constitutional amendment is that it >distracts from real, important, and ongoing battles that >I think can be won. I mean the push to expand Medicaid, >provide prescription drug benefits, and fully fund >the State Childrens Health Insurance Program. As >I mentioned, for all the inadequacies of the present >system, it has markedly advanced in the past, in >contrast to many other areas of social need. It seems that expansion can go well or sour. W., for ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 27 14:20:50 PST 2002

714 Medicaid (was RE: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

>At 01:34 PM 3/26/02 -0800, Marta Russell wrote: > >You point out many of the problems with cutting corners in >prescription reimbursement but when private payers do the same thing >where is the outrage? Well, the outrage is very diffuse because >private payers have generally avoided people with regular and >expensive pharmacy needs (most of whom are people classified as >disabled--I have data on this for Massachusetts). New Hampshire >changed their insurance regulat ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 27 14:09:26 PST 2002

715 Medicaid (was RE: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

There is no constitutional right to healthcare - Acting as an apologist for the current system, Everett Koop reminded an audience recently of that fact. He said the Bill of Rights does not provide for such a thing and nor was it meant to in his opinion.. More people, however, are thinking that health care should be a right. What about fighting for a constitutional amendment to that effect. That may be the ONLY way to see to it that we get decent health care. marta >I suspect Marta is right t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 27 08:08:59 PST 2002

716 Medicaid (was RE: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Maybe it is on solid foundation politically but look at what is happening. Most are aware of the cutbacks in Medicare payments to docs - and the physicians now saying they will no longer take Medicare. Well many have not for years. Medicaid is facing even worse doctor non participation. Nearly half of docs surveyed for a study conducted by the Medi-Cal Policy Institute in California reported that they did not acdept Medi-Cal patients in 1998. The ratio of docs available to Medi-Cal patients (3 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 26 13:34:11 PST 2002

717 Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility -- rank: 1000

I wonder if he addresses disabled access to public transportation, the last civil rights struggle for access to ride? Does he include the demonstrations that it took to get ramps put on public buses? Does he mention how activists chained their wheelchairs to buses in order to pressure congress for laws making public and private buses to be accessible for us? marta >JUST TRANSPORTATION >Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility > >Edited by Robert D. Bullard >& Glenn S. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Mar 23 14:45:37 PST 2002

718 KPFK -- rank: 1000

Since I've started listening to the station again -- I did not for quite some time it had deteriorated so badly, I've been heartily enthused. It has gotten back on track and will likely continue to improve as time goes on. so here is one happier listener in LA. marta >When Marc first justified his position on the strike, one big example he gave >was that he was such a good fundraiser for the station, so his opponents who >could not raise similar funds were therefore less popular or de ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 22 15:23:18 PST 2002

719 perversely wrong -- rank: 1000

>>perversely wrong >> "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> >>> >>For example, Judge Posner is perversely wrong about a great deal, ... >> >> >>CB: What's he perversely wrong about ? >> > >Selling babies. Generally, treating sex and reason and everything >else as part of mainstream economics. Defending inequality and >capitalism. Attacking age discrimination legislation. Supporting >Bush v. Gore (very intellig ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 22 14:07:01 PST 2002

720 An article from WorkingForChange.com -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell thought you would be interested in this article from WorkingForChange.com. Marta Russell wrote: thought some of you might be interested in this one Supremely insensitive By Marta Russell http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=12964 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit WorkingForChange.com, a multifaceted, always-fresh resource center for people with progressive values. Speak out on urgent issues, read and listen to thought-provoking ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 14 10:09:00 PST 2002