Human Rights 4
Switched at birth: New parents on the search for their biological son, taken from them in hospital
One of the worst things a parent-to-be could imagine is their child being switched in the hospital. There have been movies based on this (both fictional and non) a TV show based on this exact scenario is currently on air. For Richard Cushworth and his wife Mercedes Casanellas it’s not a movie, it’s their life. They are real life parents searching for their biological son. Even worse, they are making a pretty good case for this being planned by their … Keep Reading!!!
Japanese American Incarceration (Japanese Internment Camps)
By Nina Wallace
February 19th marks seventy-two years since President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066. A response to Pearl Harbor, it authorized the army to designate military zones from which they could exclude any person deemed a threat. Beginning in March 1942, they did just that: about 120,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and “evacuated,” first to temporary “assembly centers” (where families often found themselves living in hastily-converted parking lots or horse stables) and then to ten concentration … Keep Reading!!!
How to Be an Activist Without Being Abrasive
During a call with my sister today, somehow the topic of Gloria Steinem came up.
Sister: You know mom called up KGO when Gloria Steinem was on, right?
Me: Really? What was the topic?
Sister: Well, I don’t totally know. Mom said she was listening and Gloria Steinem made a comment referring to how Stay-at-Home mothers are useless or not productive members of society, so she called in.
Me: What did mom say to her?
Sister: She got scared and … Keep Reading!!!
Cyber-Racism: Mexican-American Boy Sings National Anthem
Sometimes I think thousands of years from now, when people are trying to sift through our current society’s remains, they will uncover our social media as record and gauge of our social climate…and they are going to think we were assholes.
Here is 10-year-old
And here are some of the responses from that sweet performance:
