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886 Estate tax exclusion? -- rank: 1000

Can someone inform me what the current $ exclusion amount is under the estate tax? I'm writing a piece to refute that newly organized "disability" group that Craig Shirley (right wing PR firm) is using to repeal the death tax. See below Marta Russell >Monday March 26, 5:00 am Eastern Time >Press Release >Disabled Americans For Death Tax Relief Take Their Message To The Hill >INTERNET WIRE -- Disabled Americans for Death Tax Relief President, >30-year-old Erin >O'Le ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 27 19:39:49 PST 2001

887 Bessie Wash Statement - Interruption on 3/26/2000 -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: > And what is Marc Cooper's take on all this? Hasn't he > sided with the current Pacifica "status quo?" Yes, he has. He is a big part of the problem. From day one he squashed any discussion on the air calling the problems personel related. I just called KPFK to tell the news dept that they should investigate the Bessie WAsh story. A very young person answered the phone who probably is clueless as to how to do that. Most of the news these days is NPR off the pres ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 27 15:35:57 PST 2001

888 Underemployment? -- rank: 1000

Doug thanks, the U of Michigan Press wants to reprint my BJELL paper (the one I sent to you) but they want updates. Seems all this work for no money works really well for the universities, eh? Since I am not a professor, it is all on my own time. Marta Doug Henwood wrote: > > "Underemployment" is pretty hard to define, much less measure. A > musician who works as a cabbie may be said to be underemployed, but > maybe s/he's a bad musician who should stick to driving. The m ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Mar 22 09:55:45 PST 2001

889 Underemployment? -- rank: 1000

Can someone clue me in to where to look to see recent Underemployment rates. In 1995 (according to EPI) they hovered at 10.1 percent but what has happened since then? -- Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 21 17:06:31 PST 2001

890 Pacifica - the Cooper censor -- rank: 1000

A panel discussion on Pacifica and Free Speech issues, sponsored by the KPFK Local Advisory Board, the National Lawyers Guild, LA, FAIR, National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and the Humanitarian Law Project is taking place in Los Angeles on March 23. Panelists include Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman and Bernard White, as well as representatives from other media organizations. (time, place of panel are at the end of this message) Pacifica and KPFK manager Mark Schubb and his employ ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 21 09:29:25 PST 2001

891 Fw: Media Transpancy.org>Milwaukee Genesis of Dubya's Faith Basedinitiative/How The Conservative Philanthropies, C. Boyden Gray.... -- rank: 1000

Boyden Gray is one of the chief architects of the Orwellian "Citizens for Better Medicare," which is really about ending government entitlements. Marta Michael Pugliese wrote: > > Back in the reign of George the First, C. Boyden Gray used some homophobic > slurs as an aside in a talk. My mail to the W.H. Legal Counsel office was > answered along the lines of , "What's offensive about what Mr. Gray said?" > Michael Pugliese > > Milwaukee Genesis > Wh ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 14 13:35:33 PST 2001

892 Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics -- rank: 1000

And here is some involuntary killing in the good ole USA: Culture of Death Angels Nothing isolated about it. By Wesley J. Smith, an attorney for the Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. His latest book, Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, was published recently by Encounter Books. March 6, 2001 9:30 a.m. They call them "death angels" — doctors or other medical professionals who stalk hospital and nursing-home corridors searching quietly for the sickest ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 14 09:12:48 PST 2001

893 Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > but the denial of release to any hopeless sufferer, who > herself sees that suffering as a decisively negative value, is, to my mind, > an unconscionable way of trying to avoid these dangers. > The hopeless sufferers (as you call them) have been killing themselves for centuries without getting the medical profession involved. Doctors KNOW that it would be abused and that is why the AMA opposes euthanasia. As for the Dutch practice-- for some reason people just do ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 14 08:59:00 PST 2001

894 Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: > > >>>>> "marta" == Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes: > > marta> We had a lengthy discussion of Singer on this list. It's in > marta> the archives. You'll see a lengthy discussion of Singer's > marta> position on disability. He does attribute a negative value > marta> to disabled lives. > > No he doesn't. That's simply false. > Yes he does. He acknowledged that in a debate with Adri ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 13 15:21:24 PST 2001

895 Peter Singer and Redeeming Characteristics -- rank: 1000

We had a lengthy discussion of Singer on this list. It's in the archives. You'll see a lengthy discussion of Singer's position on disability. He does attribute a negative value to disabled lives. Marta Kendall Clark wrote: > > LBOers, > > I puzzled over Doug's comment re: Peter Singer yesterday, and finally > just asked him what he meant. Apparently some on this list are of the > opinion that Peter Singer advocates a view that may be summed by > saying, as Doug did, " ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 13 13:34:38 PST 2001

896 Medical Incompetence -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: > > > > But too many patients slog from doctor to doctor in search of one who > > can even fit a basic physical examination into their crowded schedules, > > much less one who understands and uses the best treatments, says the > > report by the Institute of Medicine. > > The USA needs an efficient system like the UK National Health System, which > was based on the communistic self help system the miners of south Wales set > up with ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 7 08:57:20 PST 2001

897 Medical Incompetence -- rank: 1000

It is about time that the whistle gets blown on the medical industry. I would not agree that it is common practice for doctors to treat diabetes appropriately either. marta March 1,2001 Updated 11:13 AM ET Report: Nation's health care woefully lacking. More on health care WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's health care system is a tangled maze that too often leaves Americans with inadequate, outdated, even unsafe therapy, according to a scathing report Thursday that recommends an urgent overhaul to ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Mar 3 09:06:11 PST 2001

898 The Politics of Disability Movements II -- rank: 1000

> Anyway give me a reading list or refer me to one, if you can. Thanks. > > Chuck Grimes Here are the main ones for the U.S.: Charlton, James I., Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, University of California Press, 1998 Pfeiffer, David, ‘Overview of the Disability Movement: History, Legislative Record, and Political Implications’, Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 21(4), 1993. Longmore, Paul K & Umansky, Lauri (eds), The New Disability History: American Per ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 27 21:03:58 PDT 2001

899 The Politics of the Disability Rights Movements II -- rank: 1000

Chuck, These tidbits on Ed are wonderful! What I have seen happen is that the chroniclers of the movement have wanted to glorify it, keep it mainstream and "safe" and formulate it in such a way that it elevates certain people and sustains the power elite. Well that has made a few people famous. Now Zames, I believe, was centered in New York with Disabled in Action. I haven't gotten the book yet and don't know what she has to say about Berkeley. Hey, you may be pissed off by reading ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 27 10:42:35 PDT 2001

900 The Politics of the Disability Rights Movements I -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > > > However, and I have to emphasize `consumerism' was never, ever an > ideal, a goal, a policy position, and such a bogus construction never > constituted the central theme of these early movements. They were > instead entirely devoted to programmatic, institutional, and > architectural access---inclusion in the public arena of life---not as > a consumer---but as a fundamental human right. Right to education, > right to housing, right of access t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 26 15:39:11 PDT 2001