Terminating items in a budget can be a fun affair. Just ask Gov. Schwartzenegger who is selling massive cuts to health and…
Marta Russell
MARTA RUSSELL (December 20, 1951 – December 15, 2013) was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by Common Courage Press analyzes the relationship between disability, social Darwinism, and economic austerity under capitalism. Her political views, which she described as “left, not liberal,” informed her writing on topics such as healthcare, the prison-industrial complex, physician-assisted suicide, poverty, ableism, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Newt Gingrich vowed in the mid 90s to see to it that Medicare would “wither on the vine”. What he attempted to…
Around the 13th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26, 1990) Anthony Trocchia, President of Disabled in…
Citizenship can be seen as the realization of certain rights. When states can be held responsible for the treatment of their citizens,…
In a truly “developed” world where diplomacy reigned over brute force and the wealth of a nation was used to better the…
Governors, who’ve been told by President Bush to go home and stare at their own budget spreadsheets, ought to take a look…
Governors, who’ve been told by President Bush to go home and stare at their own budget spreadsheets, ought to take a look…
I was home on January 18 watching the DC anti-war coverage on CSPAN. I was not home because I wanted to be.…
Usually I leave Hollywood alone. Dramatic film has not been a medium of historical accuracy. Getting around to seeing the movie ‘Frida,’…
Alabama has a new state quarter bearing the image of Helen Keller. To be so coined, Keller out-rated a moon rocket and…
