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961 Maher/Disabled are Dogs -- rank: 1000

Every chance Bill Maher gets on PI he slams disabled persons. One time David McReynolds was his guest and stood up to Maher for his bigotry. Here is yet another instance. Sounds like Maher has been reading Peter Singer. What is irritating is that Maher is given political creditials -- he was a speaker at Arianna Huffington's Shadow Convention, for instance. Marta From: FEATNEWS at LIST.FEAT.ORG (FEAT Daily Newsletter) FEAT DAILY NEWSLETTER Sacramento, California http://www.feat.org ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 17 10:01:52 PST 2001

962 Drug war books? -- rank: 1000

Thanks to everyone who gave me some suggestions on and offlist. This certainly will get her going in the direction needed. marta John Thomas wrote: > > "Smoke and Mirrors," by Dan Baum > "Drug Crazy," by Mike Gray > > At 1:48 PM -0800 1/10/01, Marta Russell wrote: > >I'm sure the war on drugs topic has come up on LBO -- > >My daughter needs some reading material on the topic for a > >sociology class > >and I was hoping some of you more ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 10 20:20:30 PST 2001

963 Drug war books? -- rank: 1000

I'm sure the war on drugs topic has come up on LBO -- My daughter needs some reading material on the topic for a sociology class and I was hoping some of you more knowledgable in that area could recommend a few books. Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 10 13:48:58 PST 2001

964 Clinton Apologia (Re: Rightward ho! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > > Charles's argument that there is no social spending left to cut is just > plain wrong and dangerously wrong if people fail to see that political > mobilization is needed to preserve the aid that is still important for > countless people around the country. > Hey Nathan -- I agree with you on this one. There is plenty of havoc that could be heaped on disability spending. The GOP tried many times to cut programs and Clinton did stop some of them. M ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jan 3 17:45:23 PST 2001

965 more tax cut questions- bush speech -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: > > bush tonight says a waitress with two kids making $25,000 - Where are these waitresses making $25,000 per year? marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Feb 27 20:30:22 PST 2001

966 ADA suits against states struck down- what's next? -- rank: 1000

State disability laws can be used in state court. So many disabled activists are now clamoring to pass more stringent state law, but of course, the reason we needed the ADA was to make the states do something in the first place. Now we are almost back to square one -- with the exception of a few states like California whose state law is stronger than the ADA. marta Justin Schwartz wrote: > > No. The 11th amendment stuff just blocks lawsuits IN FEDERAL COURT. It's a > jurisdictional is ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 26 14:53:35 PST 2001

967 ADA suits against states struck down- what's next? -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: > Btw, the case leaves untouched the kinds of lawsuits > for ramps, etc. at public buildings that are the heart of Title II of the > ADA, at laest if we leave aside that nasty sentence that you quoted. > It may still come up if the Supremes decide to take up the Title II issue pending before the court. I personally think it's pretty clear from the language of the Rehnquist opinion that they'll kick out damages under Title II when they get that case (unless it ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:21:25 PST 2001

968 Millions Eligible for Food Stamps Aren't Applying -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > Reviving a "Poor People's Movement" is one of the campaigns that I > think American leftists -- especially leftists in Ohio -- should be > working on. The following article says "Ohio had one of the steepest > declines in food stamp participation....Last year, [only] 59 percent > [of the eligible poor] got them." Millions wrongfully denied food stamps Here is some more fuel for the fire. marta To: youngcomrade at onelist.com CC: ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Feb 26 10:14:14 PST 2001

969 ADA suits against states struck down- what's next? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > > Shit-- I had been concentrating so much on the proceduralism of the > decision, I had missed that loaded sentence. If what's implied is followed > through on, even the injunctive relief left to go after states with is not > going to be worth much for most people with disabilities. I don't see many lawyers being willing to take on an ADA employment discrimination case for injunctive relief without being able to get damages in the form of back pay, etc ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 24 12:30:03 PST 2001

970 ADA suits against states struck down- what's next? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > O'Connor for the Court argued that imposing liability for paying the health > care benefits of former mining employees on mine companies "interferes with > the claimant's reasonable investment-backed expectations" and "attaches new > legal consequences to [an employment relationship] completed before its > enactment." Like the Ex Post Facto Clause in penal legislation, O'Connor > argued that "the Takings Clause provides a similar ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Feb 24 11:35:24 PST 2001

971 The Next Agenda (left Democrat confab) -- rank: 1000

Most of these people have completely ignored disabled persons as an oppressed class. None that I know of have spoken up for the Americans with Disabilities ACt, or even know disability social model theory. None of them have made the capitalist connection to our oppression. Now that would be OK if they included one or two people who do know disability oppression. So much for the Left intelligentsia's ability to learn new stuff. marta Michael Pugliese wrote: > > Oh Oh, Arianna Huffingt ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 16 08:11:57 PST 2001

972 Gene bubble burst? -- rank: 1000

Analysis shows it's proteins not genes that count By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Our future may not lie in our genes, after all. Two separate teams of researchers will report on Monday that they have taken the first in-depth look at the human genetic code and found about half what they expected to find. Instead of 60,000 to 80,000 genes, we have only 30,000 to 40,000. Both teams agree this means that, in humans anyway, it is proteins that matter -- ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Feb 11 13:36:31 PST 2001

973 Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Arianna seems like a pretty consistent libertarian to me. > > I completely agree. But people who are both economically and socially > libertarian end up roughly in the center on today's spectrum, no? Not > avatars, but not beyond the pale, if they were hosting a popular event and > gave you a forum. Which is to say, not to be lumped together under a > common rubric with John Birchers and Pa ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Feb 9 16:07:15 PST 2001

974 Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) -- rank: 1000

Chip -- As someone who has criticized Huffington often for her desire to "scrap SSI" the disability benefit for low income persons, I could not agree with your assessment more. Marc Cooper's head is between his legs. Marta Chip Berlet wrote: > > Hi, > > Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) is a classic right-wing > populist. If you read her book and then cruise her website, > she supports tax cuts for the rich, privatizing welfare and > turning it over to "fait ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Feb 8 11:06:14 PST 2001

975 Danny Glover incident -- rank: 1000

Yet another attack from the "patriots" marta >FROM: Frances F. Korten, Executive Director The >Positive Futures Network, publisher of YES! Magazine, >P.O. Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, (206) >842-0216, fkorten at futurenet.org, www.yesmagazine.org > >DATE: Tuesday, 12/18/01 > >SUBJECT: Danny Glover Under Attack > > >Here's a message to act on and to send on to your >networks. > >Danny Glover, actor, activist, and board ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Dec 20 15:17:17 PST 2001