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NEW YORK: URGENT: Do Not Take Up and Consider NY S5964
* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * (Please Distribute Immediately and Widely) Issued June 18, 2015 BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT: DO NOT TAKE UP AND CONSIDER NEW YORK S5964! In Conjunction with the …
Continue readingNEW YORK Bastard Nation Letter to NY Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried: Return A2901A to Health Committee for Hearing
Today New York Adoption Equality requested the public to fax New York Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried to return A2901A to his committee for a hearing. The amended bill which is basically a brand new …
Continue readingNEW YORK: Bastard Nation Action Alert to NY Senate. Vote NO on S5964-2015
Distribute Freely! BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT!! NEW YORK’S CLEAN BILL AMENDED! Now mandates: redacted birth certificates court order releases first parent searches adoptive parent permission Call Assemblymember David Weprin and State Senator Andrew Lanza TODAY, …
Continue readingNEW YORK: Bastard Nation’s Letter to the New York Assembly, Do Not Pass A2901A-2015
Note: A similar letter has been sent to the New York Senate. Dear______ As the Chair of Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization, the largest adoptee civil rights organization in North America, I am writing …
Continue readingNEW YORK: Bastard Nation Action Alert. Vote No on A2901A-2015!
Distribute Freely! BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT!! NEW YORK’S CLEAN BILL AMENDED! Now mandates: redacted birth certificates court order releases first parent searches adoptive parent consents Call Assemblymember David Weprin and State Senator Andrew Lanza …
Continue readingAn Ohio Story: Black Boxes by Megan A Collins, guest blogger
This is what happens when adoptee rights advocates settle for less than what they want.It’s the story they don’t want you to know. It’s what we want you to know. Ohio’s compromised OBC access law …
Continue readingBastard Nation Statement on the Defeat of Texas HB 984
On May 26, Texas House Bill 984, submitted by Support Texas Adoptee Rights (S.T.A.R.), failed to be brought to a vote on the Senate floor after passage in the House, thereby killing the bill. …
Continue readingWhy I Still Lobby by Carolyn Evaine Counterman
Texas HB 984 is probably going to pass within the next 24 hours. Some people will be celebrating “open records” while some of us will heave a big sigh and then put our heads back …
Continue readingBastard Nation Cease and Desist Letter – Hard Copy
MICHAEL S. ZOLA ATTORNEY AT LAW PO BOX 2165 KAMUELA, HAWAII 96743 TELEPHONE: (808) 329-1333 EMAIL: MICHAELZOLALAW@GMAIL.COM May 17, 2015 CEASE AND DESIST DEMAND To Whom It May Concern: I represent the adoptee rights organization …
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