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811 No subject -- rank: 1000

Since Richard posted Part I, thought Part II was due here too. marta ZNet Commentary Supremes Disable Disabled, Part 2 August 22, 2002 By Marta Russell In March, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the Supreme Court's 2001-2002 term will likely be remembered as the ``disabilities act term'' for all the cases dealing with the civil rights law. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits discrimination against disabled persons in public and private employment, requires employers to pr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 21 22:25:04 PDT 2002

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

> >but i basically agree with doug, though, AC choses his >language very carefully and he intends to inflame. >personally, i don't think he gives a shit about persuading >anybody about anything -- he just likes to stir things up. > > 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 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 21 21:57:19 PDT 2002

813 Concord Coalition? -- rank: 1000

>Michael wrote > >I'm bet not directly (it's not a consensus builder), but he might well >have written something terrible indirectly. Most SS privatizers ignore >both the transition costs and the disability program, because when those >figures are entered back in, their proposals look barbarian. I wrote something for Znet on Bush Social Security and disability a while back, here is an excerpt: "...the Bush plan would usher in. The GAO report said that "income from th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 17 10:15:28 PDT 2002

814 Concord Coalition? -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> asks: > >> Can someone fill me in on who the Concord Coalition is? > >It's a "grassroots" organization founded by Pete Peterson, >the head of an investment banking outfit, Blackstone Group, >which I think sells a bunch of mutual funds, mostly >municipal bonds. > >He was the Secty of Commerce under Reagan. Thanks for the tip. Found his bio on the Blackstone Group, it says Nixon. > >Peterson has written seve ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Aug 16 20:34:34 PDT 2002

815 Concord Coalition? -- rank: 1000

Thanks, Richard. I just found something on LBO from Max from a long while back. (Max Sawicky's EPI report "Up From Deficit Reduction" - resource). Max says: the Concord Coalition is obsessed with national saving. They do not oppose tax increases to finance new spending, as long as deficits go down or surpluses go up. They're not particularly gung ho about SS privatization for the same reason: their precious budget surpluses might be used up to finance a transition. Concord is support ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 14 23:11:48 PDT 2002

816 Concord Coalition? -- rank: 1000

Can someone fill me in on who the Concord Coalition is? marta "Social Security Shell Game" By Bob Kerrey and Warren Rudman The Washington Post August 11, 2002 Wall Street's slump and the disappearing budget surplus are shaping this year's campaign rhetoric on Social Security reform. It's easy to see why. These events have taken two cherished free-lunch options off the table. Politicians can no longer claim that investment returns from a never-ending bull market or general revenue trans ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 14 22:15:03 PDT 2002

817 36% against ground-troops invasion -- rank: 1000

> > > If you actually hope for any change (as opposed to merely feeling >> superior to those fools) you (a) have to respect that 57% and (b) >> realize that 36% passive opposition is plenty if one can only recruit >> around 5%+ ACTIVE opposition. >> >> It will never get any better, so sneering at that 57% is tantamount to >> turning the whole future of the world over to the capitalist classes of >> the leading nations. >> >> ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 13 12:35:53 PDT 2002

818 unions -- rank: 1000

> > >"Grown fat" may be excessive, but if the U.S. population uses >30% of the world's resources and consumes 30% of its production, >while comprising 5% of its population, something's going on, >one would think. > >-- Gordon and if all countries emulate the US economic model we will take a suicide dive into the eco crises alot sooner than later by consuming the entire planet. I've been reading Joel Kovel's book The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 10 09:38:51 PDT 2002

819 unions -- rank: 1000

>At 01:30 PM 08/08/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>Can't one then say the same thing about the disabilities rights movement? >>Somehow I can't help but think that this is terribly reductionist.... > >Not quite; disabilities rights workers agitate on behalf of ALL >disabled people. Unions agitate on behalf of a select group of >workers. If there were more solidarity among unions, they would be >much more successful. I expect that Reagan's going after the >air-traffic con ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 8 16:26:14 PDT 2002

820 So, if not unions... -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell writes: >>Gordon Fitch wrote: >>> >>>The successs of a _union_ leads to bourgeoisification, because >>>the values, understandings and relations with which a union >>>is organized are liberal -- as I said, they're groups of >>>persons who are combining to advance their collective and >>>private interests, very much like people forming a corporation, >>>partnership, or cooperative. >> >>Yes [ . . . ] ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 8 15:54:22 PDT 2002

821 So, if not unions... -- rank: 1000

> > >The successs of a _union_ leads to bourgeoisification, because >the values, understandings and relations with which a union >is organized are liberal -- as I said, they're groups of >persons who are combining to advance their collective and >private interests, very much like people forming a corporation, >partnership, or cooperative. Yes and all these forms of production stay stuck in accumulation -- keeping the capitalist wheel rolling right along. The revolution w ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Aug 8 10:17:22 PDT 2002

822 Belize? -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about the current situation in Belize for Americans? My daughter who is 21 and a friend of hers are thinking about taking a short trip there to chill from UCLA. Would it be safe for two young women? Please reply off list not to burden LBO. thanks, marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Aug 5 21:48:52 PDT 2002

823 Enron suicide note disclosed -- rank: 1000

> >What drives me nuts (figuratively speaking) is the medicalization of >all sorts of adverse mental states that have a strong political or >existential component. After more than a generation of capitalist >triumphalism capped by the glorious rebirth of outright imperialism, >any decent person would *have* to be in a foul mood most of the >time. If that person is exceptionally sensitive and has a certain >biochemical predisposition, he/she could well devolve to that &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 18 14:14:49 PDT 2002

824 Announcement of publication -- rank: 1000

For those who are interested, one of my papers is in this issue of Disability & Society -- marta SARA registrant, Volume 17 Number 2/March 01, 2002 of Disability & Society is now available on the Taylor and Francis web site at http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com. This issue contains: What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do: employment and political economy p. 117 Marta Russell URL of article: http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=ED0QDBRL7BL4JC9H Feminism, Abortion and Disab ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 18 09:50:01 PDT 2002

825 Venezuelan Interim President Resigns -- rank: 1000

>On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Marta Russell wrote: > >> The fact that it was mostly poor unemployed persons in Venezuela who got >> out in the streets to stop the military's (and US's -- the word is that >> some of the generals were trained at the Georgia terrorist training camp > > SOA) Michael wrote: >Which is now the Georgia terrorist training camp WHISC, ffr. > Thanks but what is the full name? marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA www.disweb.org

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Date:	Wed Apr 17 09:31:24 PDT 2002