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Commentary Russell: Coining Keller

Commentary, January, 01 2003 Marta Russell
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Alabama has a new state quarter bearing the image of Helen Keller. To be so coined, Keller out-rated a moon rocket and a Cherokee chief. This quarter will be the first US coin in circulation to include Braille! How come that took so long?

Commentary Russell: No Nursing Homes On Wheels

Commentary, November, 19 2002 Marta Russell
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The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared "unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination" under the Americans with Disabilities Act and that directed states to provide services in the "least restric...

Znet Article Russell: No Nursing Homes On Wheels

Znet Article, November, 05 2002 Marta Russell
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The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared  "unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination" under the Americans with Disabilities Act and  that directed states to provide services in the "lea...

Commentary Russell: Bourne: Not in Our Name of a Different Sort

Commentary, October, 29 2002 Marta Russell
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At the turn of the last century, Randolph Bourne could have been writing for our times. Disabled people have claimed him as one of our own. Radicals can claim him as both an accurate historian and timeless prophet in that his writings consist of ...

Commentary Russell: The Social Movement Left Out

Commentary, September, 02 2002 Marta Russell
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It is disheartening, to say the least, when I can still pick up a book or read a call for unity to fight for social justice which omits or does not give equal weight to the disability social movement against oppression.

Commentary Russell: Supremes Disable, Part 2

Commentary, August, 24 2002 Marta Russell
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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.

Commentary Russell: Supremes Continue to Disable Disabled: Part One of Two

Commentary, August, 04 2002 Marta Russell
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Listening to Elouise Cobell of the Blackfeet Nation on Democracy Now (April 29) describe how native Americans have been cheated out of their government-run trust fund income by the federal government it occurred to me that Native American people a...

Znet Article Russell: Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation

Znet Article, July, 15 2002 Marta Russell
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The story of disablement and the prison industrial complex must begin with a trail of telling numbers: a disproportionate number of persons incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails are disabled. Though Census Bureau data suggest that disabled person...

Znet Article Russell: Jury Duty

Znet Article, July, 08 2002 Marta Russell
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No one really wanted to do jury duty except me. Per my summons I reported at 8 am to the jury administration room of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Only I was almost late because of an access problem. The parking attendants had directe...

Commentary Russell: A Big Mess in California: Without Health Care People Are Going to Die

Commentary, June, 25 2002 Marta Russell
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The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents.

Znet Article Russell: A Big Mess In California

Znet Article, June, 23 2002 Marta Russell
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The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents. The state was riding the crest of a financial wave until the collapse of the dot-com economy which caused stocks to dive and...

Commentary Russell: Affordable Accessible Housing Needs To Be On Housing Radar Screen

Commentary, May, 20 2002 Marta Russell
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I know without having to read the New York Times that docs are refusing to take Medicare patients because as an under 65 year old on Medicare due to disability I've been on the losing end of that stick for years.

Znet Article Russell: Affordable Accessible Housing Needs To Be On Housing Radar Screen

Znet Article, May, 18 2002 Marta Russell
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Affordable housing was already at a crisis point pre-S11 during the economic "boom." Now in the recession, people are being pink-slipped and losing their jobs by the tens of thousands. The Bush economic stimulus bail out plan does nothing for laid...

Commentary Russell: Affordable Accessible Housing Needs to Be on Housing Advocates' Radar Screen

Commentary, April, 29 2002 Marta Russell
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Affordable housing was already at a crisis point pre-S11 during the economic "boom." Now in the recession, people are being pink-slipped and losing their jobs by the tens of thousands. The Bush economic stimulus bail out plan does nothing for laid...

Commentary Russell: Docs Refuse Medicare

Commentary, March, 29 2002 Marta Russell
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Affordable housing, never firmly dealt with in the US, was already at a crisis point pre-S11 during the economic boom. Now in the deepening recession, people are being pink-slipped and losing their jobs by the tens of thousands.

Znet Article Russell: Docs Refuse Medicare

Znet Article, March, 27 2002 Marta Russell
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I know without having to read the New York Times that docs are refusing to take Medicare patients because as an under 65 year old on Medicare due to disability I've been on the losing end of that stick for years. "For the first time" the New Y...

Commentary Russell: Using Them Up and Throwing Them Away

Commentary, March, 12 2002 Marta Russell
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Former Toyota engine fabrication assembly line worker Ella Williams just got the shaft from the Supreme Court and as a consequence so have tens of thousands of workers who will need but will no longer have the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...

Znet Article Russell: Using Them Up And Throwing Them Away

Znet Article, March, 02 2002 Marta Russell
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Former Toyota engine fabrication assembly line worker Ella Williams just got the shaft from the Supreme Court and as a consequence so have tens of thousands of workers who will need but will no longer have the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...

Commentary Russell: Jury Duty

Commentary, February, 12 2002 Marta Russell
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No one really wanted to do jury duty except me.

Znet Article Russell: Damn Lies

Znet Article, December, 12 2001 Marta Russell
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Economist/pundits, distanced from the harsh realities of the now official recession, talk of the rising numbers of unemployed as if there is no human cost to the "natural" business cycle. Worse, they act as public relations agents for capitalism; ...

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