Marta Russell As the word spreads about the many protests planned the week of the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, Y2000, ADAPTERs…
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.
Marta Russell I wondered how long it would take a right-wing think tank to cry foul when it got hold of the…
Marta Russell It is a tight labor market and tight labor markets traditionally threaten to give workers more bargaining power from which…
Marta Russell On Monday, the first day of the Democratic Convention, I was sitting in my wheelchair in the shade at Pershing…
Marta Russell July 26, 2000 marks the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark disability civil rights bill…
Marta Russell My friend David just went through what could be termed an noxious and unproductive bout with the Social Security Administration(SSA).…
Marta Russell Society still perceives disability as a medical matter. That is, society associates disability with physiological, anatomical, or mental “defects” and…
Marta Russell While a backlash is in full gear against the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) across the nation, the Wall…
Marta Russell Being a veteran of the war for truth during the Kevorkian era of the assisted suicide debates, it astounds me…
Marta Russell The short five year history of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shows that the WTO is most interested in building…
