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May 17, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: March
Location: United States

Register for the Philadelphia Adoptee Rights Demonstration at AdopteeRights.net

Adoptee Rights Demonstration

11 am July 21, 2009

Philadelphia, PA

 

 

All Americans, adopted or not, have a right to access government records about their own lives. That’s why we are organizing an Adoptee Rights Demonstration, a rally and protest in Philadelphia, PA, at 11 AM on July 21, 2009. This rally will coincide with the opening day of the Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislators.

 

Adult adoptees in most of the advanced, industrialized nations of the world have unrestricted access to their original birth records as a matter of right. In contrast, adult adoptees in all but six states in the U.S. are forbidden unrestricted access to their own original birth certificates, due to archaic laws that are a legacy of a culture of shame that stigmatized infertility, out-of-wedlock birth and adoption.

 

Adult adoptees and their supporters have worked diligently in different states for decades to overturn these laws, but have been opposed by well-funded lobbies representing certain adoption agencies and lawyers who have a vested interest in keeping adoptee records closed. Their unsupported claims that access violates dubious privacy rights or will increase abortions and decrease adoptions have been categorically refuted by data from states with laws recognizing the rights of adoptees, by studies such as the recently published paper from the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and by court decisions affirming the constitutionality of access laws.

 

Please join us in Philadelphia as we fight to restore our dignity and equality! If you can’t attend the demonstration, you can still help. Participate in our writing campaign to inform all state legislatures of the urgency of unsealing our records to restore the equality of adoptees in the United States. Help spread the word about the protest on your blog, or to any groups or mailing lists you belong to.

 

Make a difference, be a part of history and get involved today!

 

Adoptee Rights Demonstration 2009 Your Rights -- Your Protest

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Posted: May 17, 2009 8:46pm
May 11, 2009

When I get a "Help Message" in my NetMessaging... I open them expecting my friends to send me messages about a cause they have... not forwards full of gossip and drama of peoples love life, or personal issues I have no part of.

Believe it or not many of us come here because we believe in our causes and strive to make the world a better place.

If you are being harrassed, then please report it to Care2 through the proper channels... Forwarding gossip and slander only stirs up the shyt, you really are not helping anyone that way!

~Barb~

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Posted: May 11, 2009 7:02pm
Apr 25, 2009
Focus: Women
Action Request: Various
Location: United States

PLEASE PASS ON....




1) Download, post, distribute, link, post on blogs — this video http://...com/IndiVid

2) Link to this article from your website or post links from this article on online websites, blogs etc. http://...com/StopTheMA

3) Write or fax your member of Congress.

Bullet points here http://...com/StopMAReasons

Senate fax/phone list here http://...com/HELPSenate

PDF here http://...com/PDFdownNo2MA

4)  Forward to your friends http://...com/StopTheMA

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Click on MOTHERS ACT PAGE to read the Reasons The MOTHERS Act Must Not Pass http://...com/StopMAReasons

 

You can read the TEXTS OF MOTHERS ACT - PAST AND PRESENT (111th Senate bill 1375 compared to 110th Senate bill 324 language) here: http://...com/MAlanguage

Other related links for The MOTHERS Act:

ACTION CENTER: Information on Taking Action Now, All in One Little Link (Phone, Fax, Online Invitation Campaign)

Contact Congress and President To Oppose The MOTHERS Act

 

Facebook: Promote Our Cause to Save Lives and Preserve Liberty! (Share the link http://www.causes.com/stopthemothersact)

Attend the Launch of the Stop The MOTHERS Act Action Campaign (http://...com/StopMALaunch)

Sign Our Online Petition

Follow the Coalition on Twitter

Videos

FDA MedWatch Reports on Prenatal and Neonatal Exposure to Psychopharmaceuticals

Groups Opposed To The MOTHERS Act

Melanie Stokes

Conflicts of Interest & Shocking Names of Groups Supporting The MOTHERS Act

Mothers Subjected to Police & Social Worker-Forced Escort (in the back of police cars) to Hospitals Under New Jersey’s Mandatory PPD Screening Law; Law Deprives Informed Consent, Degrades Medical Privacy Rights

Study: Depression “Awareness” Campaigns = Increase in Antidepressant Prescriptions

“Stop The MOTHERS Act” Blog

Legislative History: Changing Wording To Hide Motives From Year To Year

MOTHERS Act Archives From Old UNITE Website

 

Updates on Business Cards and Flyers, Twitter, Etc.


Quick Stats:

Literally thousands of letters sent to Congress OPPOSING The MOTHERS Act via Byron Richards’ website (http://www.wellnessresources.com/) during the 110th Session


Nearly 10,000 Individual Public Signatures on our Public Petition on Care2

Tens of Thousands of Views on Our YouTube Videos

Coverage Across The World Regarding Opposition On Radio, TV News, in Major Newspapers and Online

Number of Mothers & Babies Saved By Increased Awareness of Dangers of Drugs: Unknown

Number of Babies Killed by Antidepressants: Easily Thousands or Tens of Thousands in the Past Few Years (Reports Increasing Lately, FDA Estimates Actual Reports In the 1-10% Range)

 

Rate of Suicide on Antidepressants: At Least TWICE That On Placebo or No Drug

Number of Women Who Need The Government To Tell Them They Might Be Depressed: Zero

Funding from Pharmaceutical Companies of Organizations OPPOSED to The MOTHERS Act: $0.00

Funding Dollars from pHARMa Funneled To Organizations PUSHING THE MOTHERS ACT: Millions or more

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Posted: Apr 25, 2009 10:02pm
Apr 21, 2009

One of my JRT's, (Jackjack) got bitten by a neighbors dog today and he had to have surgery... He will be spending the night at the animal hospital... He has severe separation anxiety disorder and does not like to be away from me or my husband. (I don't like it either)

The vet has said this next week would be critical for him... So if you would please send him extra prayers & good thoughts...

I'd be lost without any of my JRT furbabies, but Jackjack is extra special...

 

Thanks

Hope & Healing

~Barb~

 

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Posted: Apr 21, 2009 6:59pm
Apr 20, 2009
Focus: Human Rights
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States

Please note... Sign Petition and pass along to your friends and family!!!

Thanks You!!!

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION URGING CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE THE GROWING NUMBER OF SOLDIERS BEING MURDERED!!

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Barb
- 2 minutes ago - rallycongress.com
WE MUST ACT NOW!! THE DEATH TOLL IS BEING IGNORED!!
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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 10:05pm
Apr 20, 2009

Please take a moment to note and comment on this story! Thank you....

http://www.care2.com/news/member/978912919/1122707

They're Releasing Pharmaceuticals Into Our Waterways!!!


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Barb
- 3 minutes ago - wxyz.com

U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water -- contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked... cont...

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Posted: Apr 20, 2009 8:32pm
Apr 16, 2009

Please note... Thanks!!!!!

Foundation Gives Chesapeake Bay a 'D'
Environment  (tags: Chesapeake Bay, water, destruction, ecosystems, environment, conservation, habitatdestruction, nature, humans, pollution, protection, research, science, wildlife )

Barb
- 3 minutes ago - wvec.com

 

-- The president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the condition of the nation's largest estuary remains "a national disgrace." In its 10th annual report released Wednesday, the foundation gave the bay's health index a grade of "D," giving it 28 point
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Posted: Apr 16, 2009 12:52pm
Apr 15, 2009
Focus: Children
Action Request: Write E-Mail
Location: United States

While our government is focussed on bailing out Wallstreet and the Car Industry, we as a nation must remind them they are obligated to protect our children and enforce the law's that are in place to do that!

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090220-tows-adam-walsh-act

Please take a moment and visit Oprah.com and send your Senator(s) a letter telling them to support the continuation of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Saftey Act. Our children's lives, our nation's future depends on laws such as this one...

Please read, and sign...

"The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act was passed on July 25, 2006—20 years after Adam Walsh's abduction. The act established a National Sex Offender Registry law, but recent news reports reveal most states will not be in compliance with the law by the upcoming July 2009 deadline. If senators and state representatives don't comply with and fully fund the act, it will expire. "... cont...

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090220-tows-adam-walsh-act

Thank you!!!

Much Hope & Love

~Barb~

 

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090220-tows-adam-walsh-act

 

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Posted: Apr 15, 2009 3:12pm
Apr 13, 2009
Focus: Health
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
Take Action Now: National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: pain management, healthcare, Govtfearmongering, congress, americans, government, treatment, protection, medicine, interesting, humans )

Barb
- 2 minutes ago - secure2.convio.net
With increased support for the National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009, S. 660, the bill has a greater hope of passing and improving the lives of 76.5 million people in pain, their families and their communities.
Please note and sign... Thanks!!!
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Apr 13, 2009

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US Patriot Act Might Be Used To Prosecute Pot-Growers As Terrorists
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Patriot Act, police, politics, propaganda, war-on-drugs, dishonesty, freedoms, Govtfearmongering, terrorism, americans )

Barb
- 32 seconds ago - indybay.org

The USA Patriot Act's mention of incidental criminal networks-opened the door for police under the Act's anti-terrorism provisions to broadly use wiretaps and spy on U.S. Citizens....
/> Thanks for noting...
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