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946 The History of Disability -- rank: 1000

Leo writes: Your last comment seems to confirm that, in a reductio ad absurdum: if we screen for any genetic disease, even the most debilitating, then we will end up screening for a propensity to get prostate cancer. [BTW, it is my understanding that all men get prostate cancer; some of us just die from other causes before we get it, and some of us have a form of prostate cancer which is so slow that we just die of another disease first.] This is a suggestion that a line can not be really drawn. ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 26 10:49:36 PDT 2001

947 The History of Disability -- rank: 1000

Leo -- I don't believe that women are informed - the way that policy is discussed and implemented around prenatal testing shows considerable ignorance about impairment and disability. There is not an equal playing field because society is biased and prone to dispose of impaired persons. This is a major part of the oppression, so though a woman has the potential to make informed choice she often is not making it as fully informed individual. Her (or anyone's decisions) are conditioned by medi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 25 14:41:45 PDT 2001

948 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4640 -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: > abridging abortion rights because people don't think like you do about > raising disabled children is just not the answer to the problem. This is jumping to conclusions here. Women's right to abortion is not imperiled by anything that I said. Norma McCorvey(???) the woman who was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade is now a pro-lifer. She jumped ship several years ago - but she said on Nightline that she believes it is still OK to abort disabled fetuses. So you have women on bot ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 25 14:02:57 PDT 2001

949 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4640 -- rank: 1000

Leo wrote: I am not defending the position of the French court. My concern is where the logic of your argument leads you. As long as the social model of disability, as you call it, is presented as the only, or the overriding, claim, without respect for women's reproductive freedom, I see it as leading to a position for restricting that freedom. Even if what you say about France were true, and I do not know if it is, it is not the only country in the world. Pro-life forces in countries wher ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 25 12:40:35 PDT 2001

950 The History of Disability -- rank: 1000

I don't think women in France are in any danger of having their reproductive rights thwarted. This ruling clearly shows that the medical model is applied to disability without any regard for the social model as put forth by disabled activists. The article said "The judgment confirmed a decision last November that was widely described as establishing in law a disabled child's "right not to be born." The appeals court ruled on a plea by the families of three children born with phy ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 24 13:57:45 PDT 2001

951 Notes on Disability History -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > Stiker: > ``A society reveals itself by the way in which it treats certain > significant phenomena. The problem of disability is one such > phenomenon. To speak at all pertinently of disabled people is to > disclose a society's depths. It amounts to say that a book like this > one, which is not divorced from praxis, is on a theoretical level from > the very outset, on the level of the sociability (or sociableness: > Fr. _sociabilite_) of a society, b ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 23 15:36:54 PDT 2001

952 Notes on Disability History -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > I think the general problem in this literature is the complete lack of > contact with and understanding of the long tradition of radical and > progressive history, theory, and literature. This problem is typified > by the complete absence of any mention of Marx or even the use of more > common european sources of historical and cultural theory. This is why > Russell, Stiker and Charlton stand out as exceptions. For theory one has to go to the Brits. They ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 23 09:51:37 PDT 2001

953 music anyone? -- rank: 1000

For music lovers-- my partner, Tom Powell has a CD out now which you can sample by going to: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tompowell -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 18 13:01:26 PDT 2001

954 Disablement & Prison article -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Michael Yates, I have an article (co-written with Jean Stewart) in the recent Monthly Review issue. The whole issue is on prisons, our piece is on the web at: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701russell.htm -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 11 11:36:28 PDT 2001

955 Drug Corps & University of Toronto -- rank: 1000

Dark clouds over Toronto psychiatry research Karen Birmingham New York The University of Toronto (UT) and its affiliated hospitals have become embroiled in another controversy regarding their attitude to corporate donors versus their behavior towards employees. British psychiatrist David Healy accepted a senior position at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the Department of Psychiatry at UT only to have the offer withdrawn months later on the basis of a speech he made at the ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 10 10:28:29 PDT 2001

956 Dubya's New Freedom -- rank: 1000

For those interested..... At LONG last, my piece from the May Ragged Edge, "Dubya's New Freedom Initiative" is online at http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0501/0501ft3.htm -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 2 15:19:36 PDT 2001

957 Davos-Vandana Shiva beaten -- rank: 1000

From: Ruth Caplan <rcaplan at igc.org> Stop Corporate Globalization Co-chair >Subject: Davos-Vandana Shiva beaten by police > >NEWS ALERT--I haven't seen any mention of this in the press so=20 >thought it was very important that all Alliance activists be aware of=20 >the police repression against the demonstrators at Davos and=20 >specifically the report that I have just received about Vandana Shiva=20 >being beaten by police. We must do more to highlight the link=20 ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jan 30 20:26:45 PST 2001

958 Case for Impeachment -- rank: 1000

The Case for Impeachment > By Dave Chandler, Publisher of www.earthside.com > January 27, 2001 > > http://www.earthside.com/chandler-commentary.html#anchor178911 >

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 29 09:18:32 PST 2001

959 "equal opportunity" -- rank: 1000

Another request for recommendations --- Anyone know of good reading on the dangers of limiting rights to participation and to "equal opportunity" in an unequal society? I've found one apt resource: Le Grand (1982) The Strategy of Equality. -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 22 10:31:24 PST 2001

960 Letter to WBAI -- rank: 1000

WBAI supporters, Even though I live in Los Angeles, I have a I have a particular fondness for WBAI. Doug Henwood, for instance, has had me on WBAI to discuss disability matters on his show. KPFK in Los Angeles has ghettoized discussion about disability into one half hour show "Access Unlimited." KPFK hosts like Cooper, etc. do NOT include disability activism as part of their agenda as to what is important to discuss. Hence those who do not listen to the half hour disability segme ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 17 14:15:02 PST 2001