Since the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, there have been numerous public outcries casting the terrorists 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.
While the AFL-CIO has alarmed environmental and other activists by throwing its support behind big oil and Bush’s backwards energy policy, Henry…
Russell If you have a disability, chances are you have a hard time getting inexpensive insurance (or any private insurance) and a…
Russell Opportunities to make revolutionary change sometimes go unrecognized and are missed. When too few people fully grasp the potential of what…
Russell Bush & Wall Street are about to turn a phony Social Security crisis into a real one. Part one, the tax…
Russell Long time disability scholar Professor David Pfeiffer stated (in a New Political Science review of Beyond Ramps) that he "ha[s] never…
Russell Craig Shirley is the guy whose PR firm created the newly formed Disabled Americans for Death Tax Repeal. Disabled Americans for…
Russell President Bush is assembling his “armies of compassion” under the banner of Charitable choice — a decisive move to contract out…
Marta Russell Unveiling his New Freedom Initiative (NFI), President George W. Bush pronounced “my Administration is committed to tearing down the barriers…
Marta Russell “DETROIT–A policeman was charged with manslaughter Wednesday for shooting to death a deaf-mute who approached officers with a rake in…
