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Commentary Russell: None Call It Cleansing

Commentary, December, 15 2005 Marta Russell
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Defending the success of the Iraq War a defiant Bush bragged "[there are] more cell phones in the hands of Iraqis than before." And guess what some sod has been laid in a Najaf soccer field.

Commentary Russell: Being Privatized

Commentary, October, 07 2005 Marta Russell
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My pharmacist in California was alarmed when I told her that ALL people now on both Medicare and Medicaid would be forced onto the new Medicare prescription drug program (Part D). "Medicaid will pay for most all drugs people need," she said. "Medi...

Commentary Russell: Being Disabled and Poor in New Orleans

Commentary, September, 25 2005 Marta Russell
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If you are disabled and rich or somewhat well-off and lived in New Orleans you probably got out of the city before the levees broke and flooded some 60% of the parishes.

Commentary Russell: The Medicaid Kill Off

Commentary, September, 04 2005 Marta Russell
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Bush and the Congress slashed $10 billion from the Medicaid budget for this coming year. Medicaid is the primary public health care program for impoverished persons that serves over 53 million people.

Commentary Russell: Bush's Smokescreen

Commentary, March, 24 2005 Marta Russell
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Bush and his cohorts rushed to Washington this past week end to conduct special sessions of Congress so that Bush could sign a bill that would mandate the Terri Schiavo case be heard in the federal district court.

Commentary Russell: Headlines Tell Of The War On Poor People

Commentary, July, 15 2004 Marta Russell
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Most any day more attacks are leveled at poor people who rely on government programs such as health care and housing subsidies. Section 8 and Medicaid have particularly been targeted for cuts that will result in reductions in services.

Commentary Russell: No Money for Services but New Funds to Harass Us

Commentary, June, 26 2004 Marta Russell
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While on the national front ADAPT has been waging its campaign against the institutional bias in Medicaid that keeps nursing homes flush and disabled people unnecessarily captive in them, Governor Schwarzenegger would like to eliminate California'...

Commentary Russell: Medicare Games

Commentary, March, 23 2004 Marta Russell
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I use a power wheelchair that Medicare rightly paid for some six years ago. Were I to need another one today I would be in for the fight of my life to get it.

Commentary Russell: Capital Destroying Jobs

Commentary, March, 04 2004 Marta Russell
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It was predicted by Business Week in the 90s and assumed by disability groups that in the Information Age disabled workers would get a shot at improving their employment lot. Technology makes it possible for significantly disabled persons to use c...

Commentary Russell: Terror Master Governor Schwartzenegger

Commentary, December, 29 2003 Marta Russell
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Terminating items in a budget can be a fun affair. Just ask Gov. Schwartzenegger who is selling massive cuts to health and welfare services to the public in private California malls. All three of his major speeches last week were in malls with sto...

Commentary Russell: "Wither on the Vine" Medicare Strategy

Commentary, December, 09 2003 Marta Russell
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Newt Gingrich vowed in the mid 90s to see to it that Medicare would "wither on the vine". What he attempted to do then was to divert Medicare's public purpose, to euthanize it by funding starvation.

Commentary Russell: Boarding Buses and Getting a Job: Civil Rights Missing in Action

Commentary, October, 02 2003 Marta Russell
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Around the 13th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26, 1990) Anthony Trocchia, President of Disabled in Action in New York, found it necessary to hold a public bus hostage for an hour in 95 degree heat by sitti...

Commentary Russell: Nothing About Us Without Us: Human Rights and Disability

Commentary, August, 10 2003 Marta Russell
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Citizenship can be seen as the realization of certain rights. When states can be held responsible for the treatment of their citizens, much can be gained. The United Nations has a role in setting global standards but so do disabled persons ourselv...

Commentary Russell: Clusters of Bombs

Commentary, May, 01 2003 Marta Russell
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In a truly "developed" world where diplomacy reigned over brute force and the wealth of a nation was used to better the lives of its citizenry, the US military would be stripped of the billions of the people's tax dollars it wastes. Militarism wou...

Commentary Russell: Bush Billions To Turkey: Screw The Govs, And The Poor Too.

Commentary, March, 06 2003 Marta Russell
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Governors, who've been told by President Bush to go home and stare at their own budget spreadsheets, ought to take a look at the president's spending plans and start screaming bloody murder! Because it seems that many states - foreign states - are...

Commentary Russell: "The People" Speak Out

Commentary, March, 01 2003 Marta Russell
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I was home on January 18 watching the DC anti-war coverage on CSPAN. I was not home because I wanted to be.

Commentary Russell: Extinguishing Frida

Commentary, January, 26 2003 Marta Russell
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Usually I leave Hollywood alone. Dramatic film has not been a medium of historical accuracy. Getting around to seeing the movie "Frida," however, put me in a comment-making mood. No, it drove me to speak up as a fan of Kahlo's.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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)...

Commentary Russell: Jury Duty

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

Commentary Russell: Damn Lies

Commentary, 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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