The Nation is hardly a progressive magazine anymore. It's a coffetable magazine for New York liberals who like to go on Carribean cruises with Christopher Hitchens. The addition of Nichols is logical, given the current nature of the magazine.
Good luck, Marta. Your concerns are valid ones. I've started work on making my website more accessible to the disabled, but this project will take time, given my scarce resources.
Chuck0
Marta Russell wrote:
>
> A friend of mine who teaches disability studies posted
> this to another listserve.
> He asked, what's missing?
>
> progressives get up in
> > the morning and go about the work of fighting racism,
> sexism and
> > homophobia, defending the environment, organizing
> trade unions and
> > tackling corporate hegemony.
>
> The answer is -- there is no mention of disability or
> ableism. Progressives, in the Nation's view, obviously
> aren't in the work of fighting disability
> discrimination or ableism. What's worse, given its
> omission of our issues for decades, I suspect that the
> Nation thinks they should not be in the work of
> fighting ableism. I am beginning to wonder if there
> aren't some ableists in key positions there making sure
> disability isn't included.
>
> If anyone has Victor Navatsky's email or other
> pertinent email addresses, we could use them.
>
> thanks,
> marta
>
> So, what's missing in this message and why? David
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:35:20 -1000
> > From: The Nation Magazine <emailnation at thenation.com>
>
> > Reply-To: owner-emailnation at thenation.com
> > To: The Nation Magazine
> <emailnation at mail.thenation.com>
> > Subject: The Beat, The Debt and MafiaBoy
> >
> >
> > Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
> >
> > Every day in every city and town across America,
> progressives get up in
> > the morning and go about the work of fighting racism,
> sexism and
> > homophobia, defending the environment, organizing
> trade unions and
> > tackling corporate hegemony. And sometimes they win
> -- on the picket line,
> > at the ballot box and outside the WTO meetings in
> Seattle.
> >
> > Recently, The Nation debuted The Beat, a regular
> column written by John
> > Nichols devoted to registering the pulse of America's
> progressive
> > community, which Nichols, freelance writer and
> editorial page editor of
> > the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, has long
> covered. The current
> > installment is available at http://www.thenation.com.
>
> >
> > The purpose of The Beat is to report regularly on the
> political, social,
> > economic and cultural activism that too often goes
> uncovered in so much of
> > the media. This week, we're introducing the Online
> Beat, whose purpose is
> > to make that reporting more immediate and frequent.
> The ultimate goal? To
> > reveal the hidden reality that there is a left in
> America, and that it's
> > active, growing and winning more often than the
> pundits or the politicians
> > want you to know. We'll be updating the Online Beat
> regularly, sometimes
> > as frequently as every day, and it'll feature
> material unavailable in The
> > Nation.
> >
> > So please check out http://www.thenation.com/thebeat
> today. And if you
> > find it of interest, please consider sending it
> around to a friend, family
> > member or political adversary using our
> Email-To-A-Friend feature.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Peter Rothberg
> > Associate Publisher
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
> Resident Scholar
> Center on Disability Studies
> University of Hawai`i at Manoa
> pfeiffer at hawaii.edu
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Center on Disability Studies....maximizing individual
> potential by encouraging independence,
> self-determination,
> and full participation in the community.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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