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Russell: A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination
Znet Article, February, 15 2004
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A Brief History of Wal-Mart and Disability Discrimination
Russell: Bush Billions to Turkey
Znet Article, March, 14 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...
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...
Russell: Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation
Znet Article, July, 15 2002
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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; ...
Russell: Dollars And Death
Znet Article, May, 11 1999
Marta Russell
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Living in a neoliberal era, where the interests of business dominate government and public policy and in a climate that more and more measures one's worth by economic efficacy, demands that we scrutinize the "right" to die beyond a liberal expansi...
