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796 BG on BO'R -- rank: 1000

> In both cases, it is not TV viewing itself but the social >pattern of TV viewing and social structure of the community that makes >the difference. > >Wojtek I like your theory of destabilized communities. Moore needed to go there and skp the cult of personalities. marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Dec 2 16:18:56 PST 2002

797 BG on BO'R -- rank: 1000

> Here, otoh, people are sugary proper >in most every day interaction, but when things do not go their way, eg. >someone cuts them off in traffic or expresses opinion they disagree >with, they are more likely to go ballistic and blow off their tops. An >the the acceptance of violent, arrogant and vindictive behavior in >conflict situations (even among those who usually do not engage in such >behavior) tends to be higher here than in Europe. > >This is precisely the ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Dec 2 15:23:12 PST 2002

798 sorry -- rank: 1000

>I just realized I used the word "lameness" in my dismissal of certain left >magazines. Unfortunate in any context, but given the disability thread, >quite stupid and insensitive. I apologize. > >Liza Shows how ingrained it is in the culture doesn't it. Like racism, it takes a while to root out slurs. When my daughter was in elementary school the teacher did a presentation on different kinds of impairments to a class without any social consciousness raising. It was a p ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 31 19:33:51 PDT 2002

799 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

> >Uh, Marta, just because one thinks Z magazine sucks - a position I >concur with, since it's ugly, mind-numbing, and dull, the printed >equivalent of donning a hair shirt - doesn't mean that people who >write for ZNet (which isn't the same as the magazine) are bad. >Naomi's not, and you're not. Quite the contrary - Naomi's a very >good writer, and I think enough of your work to have asked you to >write a piece for LBO. > >Doug OK, I over-reacted -- and you *were* ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 31 14:48:51 PDT 2002

800 The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

>>Was Kahlo a Stalinist? I first learned of her when I was in Austin, >>Texas where >>she was the level of a Che Guevara. (Btw, the Washington Monthy >>probably takes the cake for mind-numbing dullness.) >> >>Peter > >She was boinking Trotsky... I kinda doubt it... I think this is well documented in biographies that she had an affair with Trotsky. She was married to Diego Rivera, an infamous womanizer, so she was having affairs too. The photographer St ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 31 14:19:55 PDT 2002

801 Fw: The Nation: "dreary" (fwd) -- rank: 1000

> >On Bill Moyers's TV show last night, he did a roundtable from the Summit >in Johannesburg; Nadine Gordimer and Naomi Klein were among >those present. I'd rather read, listen to or hang out with either of those two >than any of the supposed good time frat boy right wingers mentioned in >the LA Weekly piece. > >Peter Naomi Klein writes for Znet. Does that put her in the trash can too as some on this list have suggested? marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.d ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 31 14:11:30 PDT 2002

802 The Social Movement Left OUT -- rank: 1000

Today's commentary: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-08/31russell.cfm ================================== ZNet Commentary The Social Movement Left Out August 31, 2002 By Marta Russell It is disheartening, to say the least, when I can still pick up a book or read a call for unity to fight for social justice which omits or does not give equal weight to the disability social movement against oppression. Here is one recent call for forming alliances with various groups in the struggle. Th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 31 08:35:50 PDT 2002

803 The Nation: "dreary" -- rank: 1000

> >anyone for a delightful ocean cruise with the over 55 years old, >stale "liberal" set? if this isn't your cup of tea, william f >buckley holds cruise/fund raisers, too. so much charm in one place >.... > >R > And don't forget you can charge it on your Nation credit card! A bunch of weak tea liberals run the rag. marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 29 22:12:57 PDT 2002

804 An urgent message from Z magazine -- rank: 1000

>Has anyone received any of these e-mails? > > >From Z magazine: > Yes, and I thought it was from Michael Albert. Is that not the case? Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 29 17:35:01 PDT 2002

805 gray -- rank: 1000

>"Do you know how to get Gray Davis to change his position on an issue?" > >"No, how?" > >"Tell him the check bounced." > > >--- Peter Camejo, Green party candidate (governor-CA) > as told to Steve Lopez, LA Times, 8/28/02 p. B8. On the same topic, here is a letter recently sent to our head of DR. marta Catherine Campisi Director, California Department of Rehabilitation and Member of California's Long Term Care Council Sacramen ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 29 10:08:35 PDT 2002

806 gray -- rank: 1000

For those still defending the Dems, its a case in CA where the Dems *are* in control and we've been sold out. Davis - in true form - is now accepting money from disgruntled Simon supporters. marta >"Do you know how to get Gray Davis to change his position on an issue?" > >"No, how?" > >"Tell him the check bounced." > > >--- Peter Camejo, Green party candidate (governor-CA) > as told to Steve Lopez, LA Times, 8/28/02 p. B8. --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 29 09:45:55 PDT 2002

807 Mass Movements and "The Left" -- rank: 1000

>In a message dated 08/27/2002 4:04:16 PM Central Daylight Time, >cbcox at ilstu.edu writes: > >> But there have been relatively few mass movements in u.s. history -- in >> the last 80 years 3: the CIO, the Black Liberation Movement, the >> Anti-War movement, maybe, almost, the women's movement of the '60s & > > '70s would make a fourth. > You don't mention the disability movement. Is that even less than a "maybe" in your view? marta -- M ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 28 14:04:48 PDT 2002

808 abortion and eugenics -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell wrote: > >>>Nathan wrote: >>> >>>And frankly on the abortion issue, I spent too much >>>time fundraising from Planned Parenthood members on the >>>phone not to recognize that the euthanasia strain of >>>pro-choice politics and funding is very real. I don't >>>agree with the "seamless garment" leftwing Catholicism >>>of David Bonior and Dennis Kusinich, but it serves more >>>respect on ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 22 19:07:59 PDT 2002

809 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

>Nathan wrote: > >And frankly on the abortion issue, I spent too much >time fundraising from Planned Parenthood members on the >phone not to recognize that the euthanasia strain of >pro-choice politics and funding is very real. I don't >agree with the "seamless garment" leftwing Catholicism >of David Bonior and Dennis Kusinich, but it serves more >respect on its own terms than many folks on the left >give it. > >-- Nathan Newman > "In the er ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 22 14:02:42 PDT 2002

810 Ace on "outside Jewish money" and other things -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell wrote: > >>Maybe AC does do this quite a bit but as another writer who just >>had her book reviewed in the Nation explained the use of "cripple" >>instead of "disabled" to me -- the reviewer used cripple for shock >>value. This is for Nation readers, a kind of way to make the story >>more controversial, to draw in a reader. So what does that say >>about what the media demands from people who write for them? > >I c ...

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