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“Now that I have seen, I am responsible…”
A message that we should apply to every truth we discover and every injustice we witness.
I watched this with the sound off, and it was still a powerful message. One minute ad.
As the holidays rapidly approach, our focus shifts to shopping, cooking and decking the halls for the invasion of relatives. But, as we hit the shops, we often forget to take a moment to think about the origins of our chic outfits and abounding feasts (those of us lucky enough to still have these).
Those trendy peacoats and ripe, delicious pears didn’t fall off of a sleigh after all…<more>
“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home and took her to a nearby woods where he repeatedly raped her.
Early this week, Smith took to Capitol Hill to share her story with a Senate panel in an attempt to urge them to eliminate the startling backlog of untested rape kits in the U.S.
Exactly how many rape kits are we talking about? <more>
Right now, children are falling prey to sex trafficking in American-owned hotels all over the world, and even right here at home. Just last month, 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was sold for sex at a Comfort Inn in North Carolina. The tragedy of Shaniya Davis and the abhorrence of child prostitution are universally acknowledged. Companies like Choice Hotels, the parent company of the Comfort Inn where Shaniya was sold, have the power to help prevent it.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forces Woman to Give Birth While Shackled
According to HumanTrafficking.org, the United States is primarily a transit and destination country. The organization estimates 14,500 to 17,500 people, primarily women and children, are trafficked to the U.S. annually. However, trafficking happens within our national boundaries too…<more>
OMG, WTF? Even if it was intended as a joke (which it wasn’t), it still reflects the attitude many men have toward women and the condition of our society.
The creation of this Facebook page - and the fact that Facebook allowed it to exist for as long as it did - are proof enough that rape culture is alive and well. I am sickened by the thought that these young men could be among Australia’s future leaders…<more>
Original article here
The Dallas Police Chief, David Kunkle, has admitted that his officers wrote 39 citations to people over the past 3 years for not speaking English.
It would make a great Onion piece, except it is true.
Who would actually pay this ludicrous citation? The most vulnerable people who are either new to this country and do not know the law or those that feel bullied into paying citations for offenses they never committed simply to avoid additional prosecution under the law…<more>
