Bastard Nation Action Alert Emergency Action Needed Today. A909a/S2490B are NOT adoptee right bills Don’t let New York become another Ohio or New Jersey Let them die! New York State’s A909 and S2490, until a …
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Join us for Tweet Up Day, June 3
JUNE 3 is Tweet Up Day! Show your opposition to #chiff by retweeting or sharing the truth about the bill USE hashtag do not #SupportCHIFF If you need copies of critical writing, commentaries and analyses …
Continue readingHAPPY MAY DAY! Bastards of the world unite, You have nothing to lose but your shame!
In honor of May Day, here’s some Bastard Nation chants. You can find more here. Our records, our rights! Sealed records are secrets and lies/Adoptee rights are civil right!s No more secr3ets, no more lies/Bastards …
Continue readingNew Jersey. When is OBC access not? What kind of right denies itself?
On April 28, much of AdoptionLand donned party hats, tooted their horns and celebrated the enactment of New Jersey’s long-flogged Adoptee Rights Birthright Bill. The only problem is that Governor Chris Christie, a long-time opponent …
Continue readingBastard Nation Letter to LA Senate Judiciary – Kill HB 1028!
NOTE: Problem with spacing on webpage.) Dear Sen.— I write today as the Executive Chair of Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization. We are the largest adoptee civil rights organization in North America with members …
Continue readingUPDATE. Bastard Nation Action Alert: Stop Louisiana HB 1028 from being heard in the Senate
This is a quickie action alert. Please distribute freely! Last week the Louisiana House passed 98-0 HB 1028 a very very very bad and confusing bill. So bad, that in all my years of …
Continue readingWelcome to the Battle: Green Party Adoption Reform
Our friend James Lane has some good news! You may remember that last year James ran for New York City Advocate on the Green Party ticket (and here).. He is also active in the New …
Continue readingPersonal testimony of BN Executive Chair Marley Greiner in support of PA 162
Below is my personal testimony I submitted today in support of Pennsylvania HB 162. The bill has already passed the House and is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow in the Senate Committee on Aging and …
Continue readingPennsylvania: “Creating another generation of victims is not the answer.” A letter to PA Coalition Against Rape from Kristi Lado
This weekend I wrote about “liberal” opposition to Pennsylvania HB 162, a bill that will restore OBC access, without condition, restriction, to adults adopted in Pennsylvania. OBC ‘s were sealed retroactively there only in 1985! …
Continue readingPennsylvania: PA-NOW Joins Catholic Bishops. Opposes OBC Access
Late Thursday night I learned that Pennsylvania HB 162, a clean bill to restore the right of OBC access to Pennsylvania adoptees, may be in trouble. Last October the bill passed the House 197-0 and …
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