Enemies of Nixon RE: re Jon Stewart

[Marta Russell]

Part of disabled people's oppression is that society keeps up the 
myth that it is the able-bodied "saint" who saves them - in this case 
Sullivan to Keller.  Keller was a dynamo in and of her own from 
beginning to end.  And Hollywood wasn't about to have the movie 
portray the radical speeches she gave at many many political events.

Marta


>Helen Keller was an articulate and serious socialist.
>http://archive.8m.net/keller.htm
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/index.htm
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>It is very telling to see how important to her activism was to her 
>whenever she told her own story (see the "Thoughts that Will Not Let 
>Me Sleep" chapter of her 2nd autobiography and the focus of her 
>autobiographical film *Deliverance*) but how Hollywood wanted to 
>tell Anne Sullivan's story as "the Miracle Worker".
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>Jim
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>At 12:23 PM 5/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, liked to remind people
>>that the FBI kept a file on Helen Keller.  (she was an IWW symp)
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>>mbs
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