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Russell: Madmen?
Commentary, November, 11 2001
Marta Russell
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Since the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, there have been numerous public outcries casting the terrorists and suspects as disabled.
Russell: Waxman, Nursing Home "Reform" and Progressive Jobs
Commentary, September, 26 2001
Marta Russell
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While the AFL-CIO has alarmed environmental and other activists by throwing its support behind big oil and Bush's backwards energy policy, Henry Waxman has alarmed disability activists by throwing his support behind the nursing home industry and p...
Russell: "Rational" Discrimination in the Health Insurance Market
Commentary, September, 03 2001
Marta Russell
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If you have a disability, chances are you have a hard time getting inexpensive insurance (or any private insurance) and a job. As someone actively involved in disability rights, I regularly hear from disabled people who have been discriminated ag...
Russell: Eroding the Employment-At-Will Doctrine
Commentary, July, 31 2001
Marta Russell
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Opportunities to make revolutionary change sometimes go unrecognized and are missed. When too few people fully grasp the potential of what is before them there is a failure to present a powerful societal force to secure reform. As Vijay Prashad no...
Russell: Market Steamroller
Commentary, July, 01 2001
Marta Russell
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Bush & Wall Street are about to turn a phony Social Security crisis into a real one. Part one, the tax cut, has already been accomplished. The combo of the $1.3 trillion tax cut and a lagging economy are shrinking federal surpluses available for...
Russell: Abuse: Sanctioning Societal Violence
Commentary, June, 10 2001
Marta Russell
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Long time disability scholar Professor David Pfeiffer stated (in a New Political Science review of Beyond Ramps) that he "ha[s] never met a former inmate of a state school or a state hospital who was not repeatedly raped, men and women."
Russell: Craig Shirley Does the Disabled
Commentary, May, 02 2001
Marta Russell
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Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal ran a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal and Washington Times to lobby Congress to abolish the fe...
Russell: What's Wrong with "Charitable Choice"?
Commentary, March, 28 2001
Marta Russell
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President Bush is assembling his Òarmies of compassionÓ under the banner of Charitable choice -- a decisive move to contract out federal social service functions such as counseling for alcohol and drug substance abuse, shelter and food services fo...
Russell: New Freedom Initiative: Survival of the Fittest ÒEqualityÓ
Commentary, February, 23 2001
Marta Russell
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by Marta Russell Unveiling his New Freedom Initiative (NFI), President George W. Bush pronounced Òmy Administration is committed to tearing down the barriers to equality that face many of the 54 million Americans with disabilities.Ó
Russell: Came with a Rake? Came with a Screwdriver?
Commentary, January, 14 2001
Marta Russell
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ÒDETROIT--A policeman was charged with manslaughter Wednesday for shooting to death a deaf-mute who approached officers with a rake in his hands. David Krupinski, 23, fired on 39-year-old Errol Shaw after police were called about a family dispute ...
Russell: The Bush Nine
Commentary, January, 09 2001
Marta Russell
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As the word spreads about the many protests planned the week of the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, Y2000, ADAPTERs burned by W. in Texas will be amongst the uninvited guests travelling to DC.
Russell: Cato Deploys New Weapon: ÒDisability FraudÓ
Commentary, October, 31 2000
Marta Russell
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I wondered how long it would take a right-wing think tank to cry foul when it got hold of the fact that disabled person may collect Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and pursue an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) employment discrimi...
Russell: Social Security, Work and Poverty
Commentary, October, 08 2000
Marta Russell
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It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which to secure significant wage increases. Wall Street and investors get nervous about tight labor markets. They reckon that the ...
Russell: Just Getting to the Protests - Still a Struggle
Commentary, September, 05 2000
Marta Russell
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On Monday, the first day of the Democratic Convention, I was sitting in my wheelchair in the shade at Pershing Square, waiting for my compadres to join me for the ÒPeople Before ProfitsÓ march when a fellow activist recognized me and came over to ...
Russell: ADA Celebration, Protest and Dirty Harry
Commentary, July, 28 2000
Marta Russell
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July 26, 2000 marks the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark disability civil rights bill intended to improve the lives of disabled Americans. Reactions and planned ADA 2000 events are mixed as to what the law ...
Russell: Noxious Earnings Restrictions
Commentary, June, 27 2000
Marta Russell
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My friend David just went through what could be termed an noxious and unproductive bout with the Social Security Administration(SSA). David was an understudy for Dustin HoffmanÕs Rainman character (autistic) and works for a large chain electronics...
Russell: Why not Capitalism?
Commentary, May, 20 2000
Marta Russell
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Society still perceives disability as a medical matter. That is, society associates disability with physiological, anatomical, or mental ÒdefectsÓ and hold these conditions responsible for the disabled personÕs lack of full participation in the ec...
Russell: Handicapitalism Makes its Debut
Commentary, April, 20 2000
Marta Russell
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While a backlash is in full gear against the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) across the nation, the Wall Street Journal (Dec. 15, 1999) recently tagged disabled people as the ÒNext Consumer Niche.Ó Another icon of AmericaÕs ruling class, For...
Russell: Humanists: Momentarily Dazed and Confused, or What?
Commentary, February, 23 2000
Marta Russell
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Being a veteran of the war for truth during the Kevorkian era of the assisted suicide debates, it astounds me when I see that some companions battling for social justice are still entangled in the Kevorkian-as-humanist illusion web.
Russell: WTO Has Power to Override Civil Rights
Commentary, January, 04 2000
Marta Russell
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The short five year history of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shows that the WTO is most interested in building a new global economic order of free trade unfettered by environmental, and labor regulations which protect people over corporate in...
Russell: Government Example Setting Not Enough
Commentary, December, 05 1999
Marta Russell
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Despite a growing economy and a 29-year low official unemployment rate, potential workers with disabilities remain chronically unemployed. Nine years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), national employment surveys show ...
Russell: The Private Health Care Juggernaut Needs Jilting
Commentary, November, 02 1999
Marta Russell
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Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley has placed health care reform on the national agenda as well it should be. However, the Bradley plan does not go far enough to resolve real need and it protects the insurance industry - the very culprit which is u...
Russell: George W. Bush Y2000?
Commentary, October, 01 1999
Marta Russell
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In his "new" fight against poverty, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush says he will issue a call to America's "armies of compassion" to end poverty, hunger, welfare and crime by donating to charity. The political goal of compassionat...
