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ACS
NYC Administration for Children's Services

Steals Children for Profit!


ACS' foster care system is a modern day slave trade that steals and sells our children. From multi-national pharmaceutical companies and major medical centers for drug experiments to juvenile detention centers for free labor. ACS and its Family Court staff are paid in full for every child they steal from our families.



FIGHT BACK!
Protest Rally at ACS Headquarters



Monday, Sept. 22, 2008 at 12 Noon
NYC Administration for Children's Services
150 William Street, Downtown NYC

Trains 2, 3 to Fulton Street; 4, 5 to Fulton Street; R, W to City Hall; A, C to Broadway-Nassau)


Rally Against the Biggest Child Abuser in NYC

Foster Care = Slavery

Let Our Children Go!



Organized by Parents in Action and the Committee to Save Amber James

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Update on Million Survivor March

First and foremost: Million Survivor March is a heartfelt project. I have spent many, many hours dedicated to this project. I have been encouraged by so many of you.

THANK YOU ALL!!

The person that was to mentor me and support us. Has parted ways with this project Million Survivor March will not let this detour us.

To Avoid any confusion, I would like to let you all know the web-site millionsurvivomarch.org [millionsurvivomarch.org] is no longer active, Please go to the official trademarked site: millionsurvivormarch.com [millionsurvivormarch.com]

I do not have a non profit status as of yet, nor am I a musician. However I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse trying to raise awareness. My motives are not for fame and fortune.

So Please continue to support this cause, add the MSM banner to your page, sign the petition, and Tell your friends.

I do appriciate each and everyone of you!!

Sharon,

Sharon@MillionSurvivorMarch.com

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What is the difference between domestic violence and civil harassment?

Domestic violence cases are a special category of civil harassment. Civil harassment occurs when one person annoys, harasses, injures, or threatens another person. However, a civil harassment case does not have to meet the relationship test established for domestic violence. Domestic violence cases can often be more volatile than civil harassment cases. Because of the special relationship between the parties, a domestic violence case often results in greater harm caused by one person against the other.

Many states have different procedures for domestic violence and civil harassment. In addition, the available remedies for a domestic violence case may differ from the remedies available in a civil harassment case.

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by Carlin Flora

"...While many profess not to care what others think, we are, in the end, creatures who want and need to fit into a social universe. Humans are psychologically suited to interdependence. Social anxiety is really just an innate response to the threat of exclusion; feeling that we're not accepted by a group leaves us agitated and depressed.

The ability to intuit how people see us is what enables us to authentically connect to others and to reap the deep satisfaction that comes with those ties. We can never be a fly on the wall to our own personality dissections, watching as people pick us apart after meeting us. Hence we are left to rely on the accuracy of what psychologists call our "metaperceptions"--the ideas we have about others' ideas about us...

...Narcissism also blocks metaperception. Instead of wincing, as "normal" subjects do, when forced to see themselves onscreen, narcissists become even more self-biased, finds Oliver John, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. When he and his team videotaped people diagnosed as pathological narcissists, a group absorbed with themselves, their subjects loved watching the footage and uniformly thought they came off beautifully! The finding underscores how fiercely we defend our self-concepts, even if they reflect psychological instability..."


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Dare To Be Yourself


..."The philosophical question is, do we invent this authentic self?" says Portmann. "Or do we discover it?" Socrates believed we discover it; the existentialists say we invent it.


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By F.N. D'ALESSIO, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show," died Saturday at age 50.

"Actor/comedian Bernie Mac passed away this morning from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital," his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles.

She said no other details were available and asked that his family's privacy be respected.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him flack when he was heckled during a surprise appearance at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama.

Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine, Mac joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language. The performance earned him a rebuke from Obama's campaign.

But despite controversy or difficulties, in his words, Mac was always a performer.

"Wherever I am, I have to play," he said in 2002. "I have to put on a good show."

Mac worked his way to Hollywood success from an impoverished upbringing on Chicago's South Side. He began doing standup as a child, and his film career started with a small role as a club doorman in the Damon Wayans comedy "Mo' Money" in 1992. In 1996, he appeared in the Spike Lee drama "Get on the Bus."

He was one of "The Original Kings of Comedy" in the 2000 documentary of that title that brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience.

"The majority of his core fan base will remember that when they paid their money to see Bernie Mac ... he gave them their money's worth," Steve Harvey, one of his co-stars in "Original Kings," told CNN on Saturday.

Mac went on to star in the hugely popular "Ocean's Eleven" franchise with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

His turn with Ashton Kutcher in 2005's "Guess Who" topped the box office. It was a comedy remake of the classic Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn drama "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" -- with Mac as the black dad who's shocked that his daughter is marrying a white man.

Mac also had starring roles in "Bad Santa," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Transformers."

In the late 1990s, he had a recurring role in "Moesha," the UPN network comedy starring pop star Brandy.

The comedian drew critical and popular acclaim with his Fox television series "The Bernie Mac Show," which aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006.

The series about a man's adventures raising his sister's three children, won a Peabody Award in 2002. At the time, judges wrote they chose the sitcom for transcending "race and class while lifting viewers with laughter, compassion -- and cool."

The show garnered Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for Mac.

"But television handcuffs you, man," he said in a 2001 Associated Press interview. "Now everyone telling me what I CAN'T do, what I CAN say, what I SHOULD do, and asking, `Are blacks gonna be mad at you? Are whites gonna accept you?'"

He also was nominated for a Grammy award for best comedy album in 2001 along with his "The Original Kings of Comedy" co-stars, Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric The Entertainer.

Chicago music producer Carolyn Albritton said she was Bernie Mac's first manager, having met him in 1991 at Chicago's Cotton Club where she hosted an open-mike night. He was an immediate hit, Albritton said Saturday, and he asked her to help guide his career.

"From very early on I thought he was destined for success," Albritton said. "He never lost track of where he came from, and he'd often use real life experiences, his family, his friends, in his routine. After he made it, he stayed a very humble man. His family was the most important thing in the world to him."

In 2007, Mac told David Letterman on CBS' "Late Show" that he planned to retire soon.

"I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."

Mac was born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough on Oct. 5, 1957, in Chicago. He grew up on the city's South Side, living with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was the deacon of a Baptist church.

In his 2004 memoir, "Maybe You Never Cry Again," Mac wrote about having a poor childhood -- eating bologna for dinner -- and a strict, no-nonsense upbringing.

"I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy," Mac told the AP in 2001. "I decided to try to make other people laug]]> http://BellasMom06.stumbleupon.com/review/24215361/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:07:57 -0700 http://BellasMom06.stumbleupon.com/review/24175445/ http://BellasMom06.stumbleupon.com/review/24175445/
Words of forgiveness from victim of rape, robbery
18-year-old enters guilty plea to multiple charges

By Jamie Satterfield (Contact)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Defense attorney Steve Sams, left, talks with his client, Dameion S. Nolan, at a hearing Monday in Knox County Criminal Court. Nolan pleaded guilty to charges including especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and aggravated robbery.

J. Miles Cary

Defense attorney Steve Sams, left, talks with his client, Dameion S. Nolan, at a hearing Monday in Knox County Criminal Court. Nolan pleaded guilty to charges including especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and aggravated robbery.

An East Knox County woman gang-raped in front of her husband faced one of her teenage attackers Monday, not as an angry victim but as a compassionate mother.

"This is the saddest thing I've ever seen," the woman told 18-year-old Dameion S. Nolan at a hearing in Knox County Criminal Court. "You are the same age as my daughter. I can't imagine losing my daughter for 25 years. ... You have a baby that will not have a father. You have a mother and a grandmother whose hearts are breaking."

Nolan pleaded guilty Monday to charges including especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and aggravated robbery in connection with a June 2007 home invasion on River Shores Drive. As part of a plea deal brokered between Assistant District Attorney General Phil Morton and defense attorney Steve Sams, Nolan racked up a 25-year prison term. Because of the level of violence involved in the case, the law requires that Nolan serve most, if not all, of that sentence before he is eligible for release. Those who are convicted of most other crimes must only serve one-third of their respective sentences under Tennessee law before they are eligible for parole.

Morton said Nolan must testify truthfully against co-defendants Shavon D. Page and Michael L. McMahan, both also 18, when the pair stand trial later this year. Morton has DNA evidence tying Page and McMahan to the rapes.

Morton described at Monday's hearing a two-hour attack on the woman and her husband that began just after 1 a.m. when the couple were asleep in their bed. The couple did not know their attackers.

According to Morton, the trio broke into the house via a basement door.

"All three defendants were armed when they entered the bedroom," Morton said.

The woman's husband was struck in the head with a gun. Both were bound with "belts and other items the defendants found in that bedroom," he said. The woman also was forced to disrobe, he said.

In an effort to stave off further attack, the husband voluntarily led the robbers to another area of the house where he kept his bank card and gave them the code necessary to use it, the prosecutor said. The robbers weren't satisfied, though. They also took from the husband a collection of state quarters valued at $2,000 and then ordered him back to the bedroom, where he was forced at gunpoint to lie on the floor and watch as his wife was forced to perform oral sex on each of the three robbers, Morton said.

The man also was forced at gunpoint to take from his wife jewelry, including her wedding ring, and hand it over to the home invaders, according to Morton.

The Knox County Sheriff's Office later was able to identify Nolan via a bank security camera where he used the victims' bank card. Nolan, in turn, led authorities to Page and McMahan, Morton said. All three were 17 at the time, but Knox County Juvenile Court Judge Tim Irwin transferred the trio to the adult court system.

Nolan apologized to the couple at Monday's hearing.

"I hope you accept my apology," he said.

"I'm just really, really sad to see your life's going to be snatched from you because of one night and one really, really bad decision," the woman responded.

Neither she nor her husband are being identified because of the News Sentinel's policy prohibiting the identification of rape victims without their consent.

Jamie Satterfield may be reached at 865-342-6308.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The AIDS epidemic among African-Americans in some parts of the United States is as severe as in parts of Africa, according to a report out Tuesday.

"AIDS in America today is a black disease," says Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS institute.

"Left Behind - Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS" is intended to raise awareness and remind the public that the "AIDS epidemic is not over in America, especially not in Black America," says the report, published by the Black AIDS Institute, an HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on African-Americans.

"AIDS in America today is a black disease," says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive for 20 years. "2006 CDC data tell us that about half of the just over 1 million Americans living with HIV or AIDS are black."

Although black people represent only about one in eight Americans, one in every two people living with HIV in the United States is black, the report notes.

The report uses just-released data from UNAIDS and existing CDC and Census data to highlight grim statistics:

* AIDS remains the leading cause of death among black women between ages 25 and 34. It's the second-leading cause of death in black men 35-44.

* In Washington, more than 80 percent of HIV cases are among black people, that's one in 20 residents. iReport: AIDS in Washington's older population

"Five percent of the entire population (in DC) is infected... that's comparable to countries like Uganda or South Africa," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN for the recent "Black in America" documentary.

According to this report, if black Americans made up their own country, it would rank above Ethiopia (420,000 to 1,300,000) and below Ivory Coast (750,000) in HIV population. Both Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast are among the 15 nations receiving funds from the President's Emergency Plan For Aids Relief. The United States has given about $15 billion to PEPFAR nations in the past five years. Tell us: What's your experience being black in America?

The Black AIDS Institute says it's not criticizing the federal government for helping poorer countries cope with the AIDS epidemic. Rather, it's saying the "AIDS epidemic [in the U.S.] is not getting the kind attention that it merits." Video Watch more on the new report on AIDS and African-Americans »

"We understand the needs of black folk in Johannesburg (South Africa)," Wilson says. "Why can't we understand the needs of them in Jackson, Mississippi? We understand the needs in Nigeria or Botswana, why not understand the needs of Los Angeles or Oakland?" Video Watch: AIDS in the black community »

Wilson says more needs to be done to prevent the spread of HIV in this country. The report states that the U.S. government "increased spending on HIV prevention, treatment and support programs for low-income countries dramatically, at the same time that domestic remained all but flat." Video Dr. Sanjay Gupta on genes, African-Americans and HIV risk »

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, domestic prevention efforts make up the smallest part of the HIV/AIDs budget, the 2009 budget request includes $892 million for domestic HIV prevention efforts, the same as in 2008. iReport.com: Spelman women discuss HIV and AIDS

In this report, Wilson and others urge the federal government and private foundations to significantly increase funding for HIV prevention and treatment programs. The report also calls on international agencies to hold the U.S. government accountable for failure to address HIV/AIDS epidemic in its own country (despite lauding it for its PEPFAR efforts). It also urges black communities in the United States to fight the stigma and overcome prejudice associated with being infected with HIV.
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* MayoClinic.com: HIV-AIDS

"Peggy" found out 10 years ago that she was HIV positive. The fact that she's asked us to not use her real name is an example of the stigma that's still attached to having the virus that causes AIDS, especially in the African-American community.

"I don't really talk to many other people about it, 'cause I guess maybe, they don't want to talk," says the 27-year-old Lake Charles, Louisiana, woman. Others like her, she says, are still too ashamed to admit they have HIV. AC 360 Blog: The cavalry is not coming to save us

Marvelyn Brown, 24, of Washington, is more open about her status. She learned she had HIV when she was only 19, after one time of unprotected sex while in a monogamous relationship.



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