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

Chuck Grimes wrote: > > II. > > [Picking up on ADAPT] > > > I can't exactly disagree with this, because it is true that several > local groups here were shamelessly sucking up to Republicans in the > Executive branch and Congress during the 80s and their lobbyist was > trading back and forth with the conservative minions of power, including the > neo-conservative disability groups whom Bush later applauded (ignoring > the more radical Berkeley malcontents), an ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 26 16:23:48 PDT 2001

902 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > There's more at > <http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/bioethics/Papers/GeneBook/CH2.html>. > And I'm sure Marta is full of info on this. > Gregor has quite a bit up on his web site http://www.thalidomide.ca/gwolbring/eugenics.htm Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jun 25 16:15:05 PDT 2001

903 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > >Yes, the Chinese government will let the disabled live out their lives - > >uneducated and without children - but to terminate their genetic line with > >their deaths. > > The word "humane" is not the one I used; I simply said, "Deplorable, > yes, but not fascist & better than many underdeveloped nations." How > do you think the disabled live in nations with economic development > comparable to or wors ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 24 16:36:29 PDT 2001

904 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > Also, we'd have to examine change in the treatment of the disabled: > pre-capitalist China; China under capitalism & imperialism; China > after the Chinese Revolution; & post-Mao China under the market > reform. > I believe that eugenics has survived in China under all these political changes? With a little more advance towards the later years due to one powerful person, the disabled son of leader Deng Xiaoping, perhaps, but not a substantive ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 24 16:13:42 PDT 2001

905 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

The Chinese have always treated people with impairments terribly. Babies with Down syndrome don't make it out of the delivery room, for instance. They institutionalize their disabled citizens (or parents kill them) and shame them. A rough kind of eugenics has, in fact, been practiced in China for a long time. An article titled Popularizing the Knowledge of Eugenics and Advocating Optimal Births Vigorously" by Sun Dong-sheng of the Jinan Army Institute, People's Republic of China. "An ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 24 11:08:14 PDT 2001

906 Wal-Mart and deaf employees -- rank: 1000

I wonder why I dislike Marc Cooper's show so much? The other day he did a show on Wal-Mart and never mentioned the problems that deaf employees have. He covered women, but not deaf persons. He continuously ignores our civil rights abuses and is about as ignorant as they come when it comes to disability as a social or political concept. FYI Marta Federal Judge Fines Wal-Mart</A> Top Business News Federal Judge Fines Wal-Mart The Associated Press Jun 14 2001 4:41PM TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 21 21:25:02 PDT 2001

907 Disability and OASDI "out there" -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > As Marta alluded, the links between the > components, which I'm not well-versed on, are probably > worth more attention. Historically the private insurance industry has not delivered a reliable disability insurance component. Edward Berkowitz (Disabled Policy) does a job of explaining the tensions between the business community and the establishment of DI in the years leading up to passage of the disability insurance component in 1956. Business fought public disab ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:26:37 PDT 2001

908 Moynihan on Social Security "Woes" -- rank: 1000

"John K. Taber" wrote: > > Your comments are timely, Marta, thanks. I tend to focus on > my own interests and miss others who would be even more hurt than > me. > > Also, I think that women as a group would be more at risk by > privatization, partial or otherwise, than me. > > I don't know how to do it, I'm just a retired computer programmer, > but let's build bridges among each other. > The bridge here is that anyone can acquire a disability and fired ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:09:25 PDT 2001

909 Moynihan on Social Security "Woes" -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > > The brunt of the privatization campaign > will be on retirement. I suspect they will > leave disability and survivors alone for > the time being. The carve-out proposed > by Bush and others typically is small > enough to leave the full 'SDI' of OASDI > alone. Naturally, once they break the > back of the program with retirement, > they will go after 'SDI'. As more people opt into private accounts, the whole of the SS funds will decrease in th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jun 21 16:05:05 PDT 2001

910 Corporate hype & medicine -- rank: 1000

Yesterday my chiropractor informed me she had learned of a new study that showed about 90% of children who are diagnosed with ADD have hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar -- the pancreas secretes too much insulin when one eats sugar or carbohydrates like pasta, bread, etc. It can cause irritability, lack of focus, fatigue, wanting to sleep (or passing out) after a meal. It can be controlled by eating more protein and vegetables every three or four hours in small portions and by elim ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 20 21:24:12 PDT 2001

911 Moynihan on Social Security "Woes" -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > > mbs: we don't have to try to read Moynihan's mind to know that individual > accounts are a threat that should be resisted. > The disability community is mobilizing against partial privatization. We see it as having the potential to destroy disability benefits. Most everyone tends to see Social Security predominantly in terms of retirement, but roughly one-third of all beneficiaries are non-retirees -- they receive benefits as Survivors (SI) or through Disabilit ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 20 18:02:13 PDT 2001

912 More SHOCKS info -- rank: 1000

_New York Post_ June 17, 2001 COMMENTARY: > > DAD'S RIGHTS ZAPPED BY THE SHOCK DOCS > > By DOUGLAS MONTERO > > June 17, 2001 -- At age 5, Wilfredo Hernandez's daughter > stopped learning. Since then, he has spent 38 years > feeding, bathing, dressing his mentally retarded daughter - > a task that became even harder in 1991 when his wife died. > > On Tuesday, a lawyer and some well-educated psychiatric > doctors will attempt to snatch the girl from the > 65 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 17 21:18:00 PDT 2001

913 Right to Refuse Drugs -- rank: 1000

Ring one up for the disability activists. marta > Jun. 15, 2001. 01:42 AM The Toronto Star > > Prodigy wins right to refuse drugs > Medication could slow mentally ill man's thinking, court says > > Tracey Tyler > LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER > > A physics prodigy who suffers from manic depression has triumphed over two > psychiatrists in a long-running court battle over their right to treat him > with mood-altering drugs. > > Professor Scott Starson has the right ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jun 17 10:00:00 PDT 2001

914 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

One more point to make on this. People are often sent to hospitals from nursing homes and other institutions with decubitis ulcers that you describe here. So 24 hour staffed facilities with nurses, aids, etc. are neglecting patients as well. And the hospital turns around and sends them back to the same rathole institution. Marta > > Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: > > He came to the hospital because his entire hips, buttocks and thighs were > > ulcerated and bleeding - not from ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jun 16 15:55:12 PDT 2001

915 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: > > My point is that the emphasis on "informed consumers" and "consumer choice" > comes, oddly enough, at a time when medical care is being increasingly sped > up and fragmented, care for those without resources is being cut, and costs > generally are rising for everyone. Snip > He came to the hospital because his entire hips, buttocks and thighs were > ulcerated and bleeding - not from poor nutrition, but from poor circulatio ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jun 16 11:00:11 PDT 2001