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Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way.

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform

This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the ADA, and we're re-releasing it today to mark the 34th anniversary. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform

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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s decision to step down, break down last week’s Republican National Convention, and how fitting it is that the last straw in Biden’s reelection campaign was a covid infection.

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22 July 2024

Bea, Artie and Jules discuss pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.”

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 26th, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Transcript forthcoming.

Find this week's patron episode that continues this conversation in the context of the debate and the Trump assassination attempt (mentioned in Artie's message at the top of the show) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108202947

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the Trump assassination attempt before diving into the weeks-long discourse on whether Biden should step down and the many assumptions and conjectures being made about Biden’s health and capacity.

Find the earlier episode referenced at the top of the show here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99264802

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Runtime 1:21:24, 15 July 2024

We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the US. In Part One, we look at the politics leading up to the 504 sit-in and how the implementation of Section 504 very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that it would be "too expensive." In Part Two, our story continues with a look at the sit-in action itself—the longest occupation of a federal government building in US history—and the key role played by the Oakland Black Panthers and other groups in assuring the occupation's success.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/504

Timecodes:
Part One: 0:01:43
Part Two: 1:15:00

Note: This episode was originally released as a two-part series, with Part Two as a bonus episode for Death Panel patrons (as mentioned near the end of Part One and beginning of Part Two). This release brings these two episodes together for the first time, along with a new full transcript combining both parts.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.

Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies

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Runtime 1:32:58, 8 July 2024