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751 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

> >I agree. But that leaves us with the question of analytical >usefulness of such an expanded concept. If we start including >subjective deviations from the "ideal" - where do we stop? I would suggest that this just shows how off the mark the concept of "normal" is. > Should we include the obese, the no to so bright, the unattractive, >the elderly? You may be confusing "disabled" with the social security definition and the ADA definition. They ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 27 09:13:54 PDT 2002

752 disability population -- rank: 1000

>On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Marta Russell wrote: >> had to go into drug rehabilitation. It took over 6 months to get his >> body off this chemical. He noted that most of the people in drug >> rehab were casualities of the psychiatric and drug industries. > >Is it correlation or causation, and if causation, which is the causative >influence? A vastly disproportionate number of the mentally ill, and >especially those in mental hospitals, smoke, but it would be incorr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 26 17:04:19 PDT 2002

753 disability population -- rank: 1000

>At 01:35 PM 7/26/2002 -0700, marta wrote: > >Marta, I do not understand your logic. On the one hand, you seem to >demand more services and a broad-based institutional approach to >assist the disabled - which makes a lot of sense from where I stand. >On the other hand, however, you seem to embrace various crackpot >views denouncing the helping professions and institutions - which in >my mind directly contradicts the first position. How can one help >the disabled by d ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 26 16:55:03 PDT 2002

754 Sifry on the Greens: offered red meat, the opt for tofu -- rank: 1000

>Luke Weiger wrote: > >>College Greens generally seem to be pretty radical. > >Sure. I'm talking about candidates and operatives. They have an >inordinate fondness for The Small. The party platform ><http://www.greenpartyus.org/documents/platform_2000.pdf> is full of >that stuff, as well as being an undisciplined document with no sense >of vision, priority, or strategy. Not all Greens are like that. >Rahul Mahajan, who's running for gov of Texas of all thin ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 26 13:51:32 PDT 2002

755 disability population -- rank: 1000

>frank scott wrote: > >capitalism >> creates new disabilities every day, whether they >> exist or not, in order >> to market products and drugs - especially drugs - to >> deal with them. > >>From the Adbusters site: > ><http://prozacspotlight.org/> > >Alec > I have a friend who is bipolar. He was misdiagnosed with ADD when he was 22 and put on dexadrine -- basically that is speed. He became addicted. The shrink kept increasing ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 26 13:35:28 PDT 2002

756 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

> >I guess from your social perspective you'd say yes because a disabled >person is fundamentally defined as someone whose crucial needs to navigate >society are being ill met and that it's society's fault and that by not >grouping all these different disablements together I'm individualizing >what is really a social problem. And that grouping them all together is >the first step towards being able to perceive that. > >Michael Yes because grouping together gives rise ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 26 09:05:28 PDT 2002

757 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

Jim wrote: >I guess it would depend on what you think of disability, wouldn't >it? Generally though, I think it is a good thing you don't think of >people you see regularly as some category (even "disability"). >People first. I will be "disabled" until society unmakes that condition. >Afterall, "disability" is a social result from a physiological lack >of function. Not having legs or the ability to reason linearly is >not itself a disability ( ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 17:04:15 PDT 2002

758 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Jim Westrich wrote: > >> I would not get into the obvious representation fallacy (who do you >> "see" and who don't you "see"?) of your casual observation Michael wrote: >Oh but do. That's the whole question. Now that I think of it, there's a >half-way house on my block for people with mental and emotional >disabilities, so almost every time I go out I walk by a dozen people who >are disabled. But I never think of them ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 16:52:42 PDT 2002

759 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

>At 02:11 PM 7/25/2002 -0700, marta wrote: > >>Yes compared to Bulgaria the US does a better job - because the >>disability rights movement has fought to improve our lot. But some >>areas here remain as backwards as Bulgaria when it comes to access. >>It depends on how active the disability community is in any given >>area and how the courts are intepreting the ADA and how much the >>DOJ is enforcing the civil rights laws aside from other reasons. >& ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 16:40:00 PDT 2002

760 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

>At 11:39 AM 7/25/2002 -0700, michael wrote: >>Wouldn't that be because some disabled have difficulty in getting around, >>making them invisible? > > >Visibility and mobility can be tricky things. A disabled friend >from Bulgaria who visited me a couple of years ago was absolutely >amazed by the many things available in this country to improve >mobility of the disabled (ramps, lifts, public restrooms, >transportation, etc.) - none of which could be found in ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 14:11:35 PDT 2002

761 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

Difficulty getting around can be viewed in the Mike Wallace sense (pity on those suffering disabled who are "bound" to their wheelchairs and worthy of assisted suicide) or the social model sense (lack of accessible transport, communities built in an inaccessible way, etc. ) Obviously, I come from the second POV. marta >Wouldn't that be because some disabled have difficulty in getting around, >making them invisible? > >On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Michael Polla ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 14:06:51 PDT 2002

762 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

I would add that some disability scholars (like David Pfeiffer at the University of Hawaii) think the Census numbers are much too low, and some (like Harlan Hahn of USC) think there are no reliable figures to date. marta >Census 2000 estimates the number of people with disabilities over >age 5 at 49.7 million (right in line with Marta's number). This is >19.3% of that population. West Virginia is the state with the >highest rate. (I have a spreadsheet with all the states, MSA's, an ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 14:01:20 PDT 2002

763 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Marta Russell wrote: > >> There are 52 million disabled persons in this nation alone. > >Really? One in every 5 1/2 people is disabled? How come the visible >fraction looks so much smaller at first sight? > >Michael A few reasons: Some disabilities are invisible and though one may be impaired, it cannot be seen. Some disabled persons are still locked away in horrible institutions against their will due to a long history of segregation of disabl ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 13:56:17 PDT 2002

764 Znet "Disability Rights Watch" -- rank: 1000

Znet now has a disability rights web page: http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm If this takes you to the main page, use the search function and type in "disability rights" or "Disability Rights Watch." CUDOS to Znet for not ignoring disability! MANY other lefty pubs can not claim the status of serving as a voice for "the people" (including lots of populists who ignore disability altogether) cause there are 52 million disabled persons in this nation alone. The only worse th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 25 10:12:38 PDT 2002

765 obesity in America: who cares? -- rank: 1000

>Kelley wrote: > >High GIs (above 70): White bread, wheat bread (they are a couple >points diff on the glycemic index!), unsweetened breakfast cereals >(shredded wheat, puffed wheat, Special K, Rice Crispies, Corn >Flakes), sports drinks containing glucose, potatoes, couscous, rice >cakes, dried fruit (raisins, prunes, etc), pineapple, carrots, >watermelon, nutri grain bars, frozen tofu desserts, long grain white >rice. > >Med GIs (55-70): tropical fruit, sugar, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 24 19:25:49 PDT 2002