Keeping an open dialog with the American public concerning the step by step actions the governemt is taking to control the bailout spending habits will be crucial in driving public opinion, keeping the fires of outrage burnning hot, and inspiring the media to continue to report abuses.
all of these things will put pressure on the President, the Congress and the Senate to make wise and prudent decisions concerning oversight.
My post is intended to promote some sound ideas and to reiterate the expectations the Americans have on how our money is spent and how these businesses plan to pay us back. In addition, the psot will assist in inspiring Americans to insist the executives suffer on the same level as those that they have caused to suffer.
Today while researching stats for my latest painting I came across an article written by Kate Randall on December 30, 2008. This Article called [US: Economic stress drives rise in child abuse and domestic violence] was an eye opener. We often think of how our families are effected because of money or loss of homes but to look deeper at the real, raw effects, well I fear they get over looked to often because they aren't so glamorous.
[29 shelters by the Allstate foundation reported an 83% increase, that's 240% over just a year ago. A 71% increase for those needing a place to go]
[Florida reports a 12,000 cases increase over a 12 month period. State estimates 2400 children in danger that is 1 out of 5 children]
[California reported an increase in the severity of the cases. October 08 there were 460 reports for (immediate risk level) California reports a 65% increase in the neglect, abandonment and physical abuse]
[Fairfax Virginia: July-Ocotober 152% increase compared to the same four months the year prior in 07'.]
[Washington: 18% increase during the same period for abuse and neglect. Allison Jackson Medical Director of the Children's National Medical Center has reported an increase in such cases involving burns, broken bones, fractured skulls and injured stomachs. In a 24 hour period a Cencus conducted in 2007 by the National network to End Domestic Violence found more a 53,000 person increase in men, woman and children accross US in need of services by violence programs.]
I know there are many more numbers and percentages out there, more articles to read and ponder. I'm just at a loss for words really. We're going to have a new generation of victims because of the strain that millions of families are feeling right now. I wish in those moments of rage and hopelessness that more people could walk away take a breath and remember the blessings we do have instead of all the loss. I hope President Obama can come to the aide of those who's voices are small in this country. I would love to see our first lady take this project head on. Our economy is broken but we're still much better off than many other countries who endure daily bombings, who live in ruble trying to find the smallest amount of food. Relief will come we're just not certain when or in what form it will be but until then our families, our children need relief before we create an entire new generation or victims. Millions of children are crying for help, crying for their parents to get work again, crying to get their homes back, crying for help with such little voices yet with such strength and courage.
Namaste' to All !
MarcieR.
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Internanational Human Rights Court Affirms A Failure TO Protect
Mother’s File International Complaint Against United States, violation human rights of abused www.StopFamilyViolence.org MOTHERS FILE INTERNATIONAL COMPLAINT AGAINST UNITED STATES Mother's day complaint claims United States courts violate human rights of abused women and children. NEW YORK, On May 11, just before Mother's Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult, leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. The case claims that U.S. courts, by frequently awarding child custody to abusers and child molesters, has failed to protect the life, liberties, security and other human rights of abused mothers and their children. "For more than 30 years U.S. judges have given custody or unsupervised visitation of children to abusers and molesters putting the children directly at risk," says Dianne Post, an international attorney who authored the petition. "These horrendous human rights violations have been brought to the attention of family court systems, and state and federal governments, to no avail. We turn now to international courts to protect the rights and safety of US children." The complaint details several cases with ..ed medical evidence of child sexual abuse, yet in each instance the abusing father was given full custody of the children he abused. Several of the mothers were jailed by the courts because of their persistent efforts to protect their children from abuse, several were ordered not to speak of the abuse and not to report abuse to authorities. Every mother was denied contact with her child for some period of time though none was ever proven to have harmed them. "My life was completely shattered apart on that day and my childhood was destroyed," said Jeff Hoverson, the adult child petitioner, about the day a family court judge ordered sheriff deputies to deliver him into the custody of his abuser. "It was as if I was just kidnapped. I was torn from everything I knew....I was made into a possession rather than a child." Hoverson endured years of trauma and fear living in his father's home before escaping and returning to his mother at age 17. He is haunted by years of feeling helpless to prevent his father's night-time visits to his sisters' bedrooms. "The cases in this petition represent the proverbial tip of the iceberg," says Irene Weiser, executive director of the online organization Stop Family Violence. "We are contacted by an average of three protective mothers each week who have lost custody to child abusing fathers. This is a nationwide crisis of enormous proportion." "The lives of thousands of children and mothers have been irreparably harmed by family courts across our nation," says Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., executive vice-president of The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence, another national organizations supporting the petition. "The years of trauma and psychological abuse because of the courts' failings result in lasting emotional damage to the children they are supposed to protect." Studies of gender bias in the courts, conducted in the 1980's and 90's, found disturbing trends of courts minimizing or excusing men's violence against women, and favoring the abusers. In 1990 the United States Congress passed a resolution recommending the prohibition of giving joint or sole custody to abusers. Seventeen years later, the practice continues unabated. Ten years ago today, leading national organizations were joined by members of Congress in a protest in Washington D.C. to again raise awareness about the problems in family courts. Today, petitioners say, the problem is systemic and widespread in family law courts across the nation. The petition seeks a finding from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S. has violated the Declaration of the Rights and Responsibilities of Man and the Charter of the Organization of American States and a statement of the steps that the U.S. must take to comply with its human rights obligations in regards to battered women and children in child custody cases. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was created in 1959 and is expressly authorized to examine allegations of human rights violations by members of the Organization of American States, which include the United States. It also carries out on-site visits to observe the general human rights situations in all 35 member states of the Organization of American States and to investigate specific allegations of violations of Inter-American human rights treaties. Its charge is to promote the observance and the defense of human rights in the Americas. Dianne Post, a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin law school, has worked on issues of gender based violence since 1976. In addition to private practice and legal aid, she has taught legal classes and been a consultant working or living in Russia, Cambodia, Hungary and some dozen other countries. She is currently in Vladivostok, Russia. In addition to The Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence, other national organizations supporting the international lawsuit include: National Organization for Women and the NOW Foundation, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Justice For Children, National Family Court Watch Project, Legal Momentum, Family Violence Prevention Fund, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Domestic Violence Report, Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute, and the National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence. The petition is supported by many state organizations as well. In December 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition against the United States with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights for their failure to protect Jessica Gonzales' three children from their abusive father, who murdered them. Their petition, the first of its kind, asserted that domestic violence victims have the right to be protected by the state from the violent acts of their abusers. For additional information, contact: Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence iw@stopfamilyviolence.org 607-539-6856 The petition and supporting ..action is available on the Stop Family Violence website on: www.StopFamilyViolence.org View the petition at: http://www.StopFamilyViolence.org/468
Tags: abuse, child, civil, constitutional, discrimination, domestic, human, rights, violence
Tags: abuse, abuses, child, civil, constitutional, discrimination, domestic, human, rights, violence
We are all likely guilty by association if anyone in our high school, or college, or any organization we've ever belonged to commited a crime. Ted Bundy went to high school once. Does that make his entire high school also serial killers or "known affiliation with a serial killer"? This reaching to throw mud sickens me.
Carry that down to community level. I think we all need to think carefully before claiming guilty by association.
It is my perspective that certain people are going to vote Republican no matter what. All we can do is make sure to be out there in force, enforce our right to vote, outnumber in more ways than one, peacefully and democratically (pun intended), and get Obama into office.
Our government is so entrenched in secrecy and bad intentions and has been at least since the Cold War. I fear if someone not tied to those old allegiances does not shake out that insidious element to the nation, it will be too late.
Senator Obama, I dearly hope you will come to know what happened in the 1970s relevant to government abuse of its own citizens. Senator Ted Kennedy is well aware since he was part of the original investigation. I am counting on you to have people working to red line all those programs hidden deep in the belly of the beast. Too many innocent citizens have had their lives impacted by these underground government abuses.
Many survivors are counting on you. I'm one of them.
The International Herald Tribune, Americas Section
By Serge F. KovaleskiSaturday, October 11, 2008
Sarah Palin, the Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate, abused her powers as governor of Alaska by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, according to an investigation by the Alaska Legislature released Friday.
The report concludes that the action was a violation of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. It was not immediately clear what actions the State Legislature would take in light of the findings. Palin could be censured or the State Legislature could choose not to act at all.
The 236-page report found that Palin had exerted pressure to get State Trooper Michael Wooten dismissed and also allowed her husband and subordinates to press for Wooten's firing as a result of a messy divorce proceeding between Wooten and Palin's sister in 2005.
"Such impermissible and repeated contacts," the report states, "create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior's displeasure and the possible consequences of that displeasure."
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Id like to see all forms of violence against women stop! if legislators can pull this off then I will agree to vote for them until then all they preach is cheap "saying what you want to hear" agenda
If violence against women still standa then violence will always stand. regardless of who it is against.
War on terror will always be a war unless legislators can end the violence...just not talk about ending the violence.
