Elephants giving rides at this year’s Minnesota Renaissance Festival were abused, says Ani (tags)
Elephants supplied for rides at this year’s Minnesota Renaissance Festival have been filmed by Animal Defenders International (ADI) being beaten by their handler, Mike Swain, during training. ADI is asking the public not to pay for the elephant rides.
Elephants giving rides at this year’s Colorado Renaissance Festival were abused, says Anim (tags)
ADI is asking the public not to pay for the elephant rides
Unjustifiable De Facto Martial Law in Ferguson, MO (tags)
police state
Judge Stays Terry Williams' Execution (tags)
police state
Terry Williams: A Life in the Balance (tags)
police state
Despite Shooting Incident Pope Celebrates Mass (tags)
The Vatican was undeterred by an incident earlier in the day in the eastern city of Erfurt on the edge of the security zone in which a man fired an air gun at a security guard about an hour before a papal Mass.
Roots of Arizona's Violence (tags)
America's culture of violence
Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children (tags)
More Israeli crimes
No Safe Escape for Orange County’s Domestic Violence Victims (tags)
In Santa Ana, Mission Viejo and other Orange County Cities, abuse is excusable. Being a Woman is Not.
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman On Intergenerational Issues (tags)
There are clear links between neglect and abuse and later psychological, emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal disorders. The basis for this linkage is the impact that abuse and neglect have on brain development. Daniel Siegel, medical director of the Infant and Preschool Service at the University of California, L.A., has found important links between interpersonal experiences and neurobiological development.
Aaron Vargas was arrested for fighting back against a man who sexually abused him and many other young boys in the Fort Bragg, CA community. Read about him, and fight back against abusers with him.
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Children raped at Abu Ghraib (tags)
Minors routinely tortured for CIA
Guantanamo torture account (tags)
from amnesty international
MacLaren Hall & L.A. County's Child Abuse (tags)
MacLaren Hall was a child abuse institution, run by L.A. County, that was closed in 2003. At this point, thousands of us live with adult trauma from severe child abuse in MacLaren Hall, at the hands of L.A. County as children and we want an apology, a public hearing and restitution.
'Child abuse police left me a broken man' (tags)
"It was the destruction of my past, my present and my future: an enormous disturbance to every aspect of our lives," Mackay said. "My son had to take a year out from his degree course at Oxford to support me."
I am a guardian ad-Litem, author, speaker, and writer on children’s issues working to draw attention to the millions of American children reported to Child Protection Systems every year. Our schools and prisons are filled with them. They need our voices and our help. Teachers know the difficulties caused by traumatized children in their classrooms. Extraordinary drop out rates and failing students are being blamed on poor teaching and the influx of immigrants today. This is an outrage. Not enough attention is brought to the severely damaged children being managed by public education or the poor political stewardship that has brought these conditions to be. Let’s build a grassroots movement to bring attention to the issues of abused and neglected children.
Israel: from abused to abuser (by Latuff) (tags)
"How does the abused turn into an abuser? How can the abused achieve justice without himself turning into abusers?"
At long last, victory for the farmworkers! (tags)
It took a public appeal to the conscience to get the governor to drop his checkbook!
'America's Most Wanted' Actors Guilty of Unlawful Sex (tags)
No jail time for TV perverts: The men were sentenced to five years of probation and a year of counseling, fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service.