Adoptee Rights Demonstration / Day for Adoptee Rights some history and Gershom’s “storm”
(This does not purport to be THE history by any means, but it does serve as a backgrounder on some of its roots. I’ll warn readers in advance, this is long, very long, even by my standards, but I’ve been at it awhile. The material and the history demands it.) Consider this babystep towards writing […]
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Tags: , 2000 at 5:01pm, Abrazo Adoption Associates, Abrazo fundraising, action path, activist's toolbox, Adoptee, Adoptee Rights 2008 Committee, Adoptee Rights Demonstration, adoptee rights movement, Adoptee Rights Protest, Adoptees Unite, Adoption, adoption politics, Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative, adoption reform, adoptive parents, adultadoptees retirement, Amy, Amyadoptee, Anita Field, Anne Babb, ARD, Arrest, Ballot initiatives, Bastard activism, Bastard Nation, Bastard Nation ExecCom, Bastard Nation Legislative Committee, Bastard Nationals, Bastard Quarterly, Bastardette, Bastards by the Bay: The Convergence, benefit of the doubt, BeyondChron, Birth of a Bastard Nation, blogiversarry, CA open, California, Calopen, Chicago, Chief Petitioner in Oregon, Christina Crawford, cluefulness, Columbus, Comfest, Commemorating the Anniversary of Oregon’s Historic Adop, context, DAR, Day for Adoptee Rights, deformers, dignity, discrimination, doing it right, donations, E. Wayne Carp, effective, Elizabeth Jurnovich, empathy, entrenched industry interests, Facebook, fiscal agent, force the issue, fundamental change in the very nature of the event, fundraising, Gershom, go big or go home, government-sanctioned shame in adoption, halcyon days of our youth, Helen Hill, History, Illinois, independent, institutional memory, issues, Katrina, language, Late Discovery, legacy, March/Protest Volunteer Trainer and Head Monitor, Marley, mass action, May 30th, Measure 58, mesurable results, narcissistic insensitivity, NARD, NARD e-mail group, National Adoptee Rights Day, National Conference of State Legislators annual meeting, non-profit status, non-violent, nuARD, nuDAR, O-ARD, O-DAR, Ohio, Open Adoption Rocks, Open records, open records movement, Oregon, PAR, parents, permit, pressure, projected minimal attendance, Protest for Adoptee Rights, Queer Nation, rally, Randy Shaw, records restoration, Resignation, reunion, Ricki Solinger, Ron, Ron Morgan, san Antonio, San Francisco, Sealed Records Protest, search, sensitivity, Shea Grimm, shoot ourselves in the foot, Sleeps with Bastard, solidarity, Soul of Adoption, spermburst logo, statement, statewide referrendum, Storm, suspension, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Texas, The Activist's Handbook, The Adoption Show, the buck stops here, The First Adoptee Rights Day, the last straw, tone-deaf insensitivity, tools, tree logos, unforgiveable, Vital Statistics, withdrawal
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