The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared “unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination” under the Americans with…
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.
The subject of this panel is the 1999 Olmstead Supreme Court decision that declared “unnecessary institutionalization is discrimination” under the Americans with…
At the turn of the last century, Randolph Bourne could have been writing for our times. Disabled people have claimed him as…
It is disheartening, to say the least, when I can still pick up a book or read a call for unity to…
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…
Listening to Elouise Cobell of the Blackfeet Nation on Democracy Now (April 29) describe how native Americans have been cheated out of…
The story of disablement and the prison industrial complex must begin with a trail of telling numbers: a disproportionate number of persons…
No one really wanted to do jury duty except me. Per my summons I reported at 8 am to the jury administration…
The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents. The state was riding the…
The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents. The state was riding the…
