Well, I see ARD has finally gotten around to updating their page and acknowledging BN’s withdrawal publicly- (sort of, but not, see below.) Other than that, to read the ARD page, you’d never know a thing happened. We continue to await Ron’s/BB Church’s statement, which he said he’d try to get out later this week. […]

After Gershom attacked me on Bastardette’s comment thread, I replied with the following: Baby Love Child said… GershomLet’s be clear, Ron asked me to “be our volunteer trainer and head monitor at the protest” on March 9th ’08. After several e-mails back and forth I accepted on March 14th ’08. So I’ve been working on […]

Abrazo Adoption Associates have finally ceased their facebook fundraising (Titled “Open Adoption Rocks“) off of the (open records) Adoptee Rights Demonstration (ARD), which up until our discovery of the fundraising, had happened without the knowledge or consent of ARD. (While Abrazo also claims to support open records, their fundraising on facebook- unbeknownst to us- conflated […]

(Just a micro post.) For those following the ARD/DAR mess, this comment thread on Bastardette may help provide some further insight. It’s one of the few public places where former organizers with with ARD/DAR are interacting with both Abrazo and those currently involved. This is all on a days old comment thread on Bastard Nation’s […]

I’ve spent the last few days doing shall we say, important real life stuff, (I’m still firmly in the midst of such) while trying to work in time to do things such as a BASIC timeline of how all this went down even from my own limited perspective. Putting that together may ultimately help others […]

Since some people are alleging I didn’t care about the agency involvement, only the low number of potential attendees, I wanted to set the record straight. (All times in the below are Eastern Standard time) I told other Adoptee Rights Demonstration organizers at 7:38pm Thursday May 29th: Point blank had I known about the Abrazo […]

Bastard Nation’s statement about their withdrawal from the Adoptee Rights Demonstration is up on the BN Day for Adoptee Rights blog page. Please read the entire statement. For those following the details of the involvement of the Abrazo Adoption Agency in San Antonio, Texas, the BN statement includes the following: Unknown to DAR and BN […]

(This is really only relevant to those on Adult Adoptees, it being a private forum, they have access to my original post reply # 69 at 5:52pm) After posting to the “adult” adoptees forum in the thread about my resignation from the Adoptee Rights Demonstration, a post in which I included the text from My […]

I have resigned as the Adoptee Rights Demonstration/Day for Adoptee Rights March/Protest Volunteer Trainer and Head Monitor. My partner and I will not be in New Orleans this July.

This is one of several posts that I made private between May 31rst 2008 and July 22, 2008. (This represents the time period between my resigning from working on the Adoptee Rights Demonstration / Day for Adoptee Rights, (ARD / DAR) and it actually taking place in New Orleans.) The piece below was originally posted […]