As an old gentleman myself, I take objection to the slur in this comment.
Are there really no young people who refuse to work electronically?
And what about old ladies? Why are they exempt?
And impolite old persons of both sexes?
Best wishes
Allan Sutherland
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From: "Judith Stephenson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: disability and radical movements
> The excuse is that there are people across the world that read the
> journal, that do not have access to computer technology including a few in
> Africa etc. There are also some old gentlemen that refuse to use
> computers/emails.
> But love the posting.
> Thanks for responses and suggestions in previous e mails. And Colin,
> having been a older DAnner I am containing myself to more sedentary
> activities now.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message Received: Mar 27 2009, 10:45 AM
> From: "Larry Arnold"
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: disability and radical movements
>
>
> The problem with Karlo was that contra good sense and the dialectics of
> nature, and never mind the spectre of Malthus which is haunting Europe
> today, he believed that the only thing that was separating us from
> abundance
> was production relations, which created scarcity.
>
> The question never arose as to whether there actually was enough gold for
> all of the bathtaps, when the great unwashed come into there inheritance
> of
> ablutions, as surely as the fact that it never rains in news from Nowhere.
>
> The problem for me is that I am just too undisciplined for the hierarchies
> of Anarkism being a Groucho Marxist more than any other kind :)
>
> The Earth is only a common treasury for all if you put back what you take
> out, even Anarchism has devasted a forest or too in all of it's writings.
> What is the excuse for a non electronic journal these days?
>
> Larry
>
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>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mitzi Waltz
>> Sent: 27 March 2009 08:58
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>> Subject: Re: disability and radical movements
>>
>> Drat, I had a much better written and more extensive response to the
> question asked, and
>> then lost it when my email timed out!
>> Yes, there are responses to disability within radical movements, though
> personally I have
>> often found them lacking. Either people with disabilities are just
>> another
> item on the roll
>> call of the oppressed, with access issues and health care seen as "their"
> main needs, or you
>> have the approach where disability is seen as solely a product of
> capitalism, which ignores
>> the fact that impairment, ill health and aging are a natural part of
>> being
> human.
>> Personally, I've been involved in the anarchist community for most of my
> adult life and so
>> was asked to write a piece on disability issues for Fifth Estate ("An
> Anarchist Response to
>> Disability," Fifth Estate, 41 (374), Winter 2007) as an introduction to
> the social model and
>> practices consistent with anarchism that work with it. It's nothing
> earthshattering but if
>> anyone is interested, email me and I will send you a copy. I don't think
> Fifth Estate is
>> available electronically. There are usually disability-related workshops
> and activist
>> meetings as part of the annual London Anarchist Bookfair
>> (http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/), the largest anarchist event in
> Britain. I've also written
>> a chapter for an upcoming book for radical/alternative parents of kids
> with special needs,
>> which you can find out more about here:
> http://www.shortbusbook.blogspot.com/
>> And that's just me, hopefully others can hop in with what they get up to
> when they're off
>> being political activists and leaving their academic gowns in the office!
>>
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