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Massachusetts H1892/S1267: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to the Massachusetts Senate
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 @BastardsUnite July 29, 2020 RE: H1892/S1267: Equal access for all adoptees to …
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: Massachusetts H1892/S1267. Contact MA Senate Today! Vote Do Pass
The bill needs to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
We urge you to:
1) Write, e-mail or call members of the Senate and urge them to bring the bill to the floor and to vote DO PASS!
2) Ask friends and family in Massachusetts to contact the Senate. The more legislators hear from constituents, the greater the chance of success!
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Continue readingMassachusetts: House passes OBC Access for All. On to Senate!
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, when all legislation this year seemed lost–the Massachusetts House this morning passed H1892 to restore OBC access to all Massachusetts adoptees. (No vote stats known yet). It now moves to the Senate.
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: Don’t let ancestry.com purge DNA matches
Ancestry.com has announced that it plans in August to purge its smaller matches –6-8cM- segments. In other words, ancestry.com DNA customers are about to lose a substantial number of family members/DNA connections from its customer’s DNA matches.
In general, this is a terrible idea, but specifically, these smaller matches are the exact place where African American and mixed Native Americans find their ancestral connections. This change will also affect adoptee connections.
Continue readingLetter to ancestry.com: Please rescind plan to purge small DNA segments. Don’t disconnect families
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards. org 614-795-6819 @BastardsUnite RE: Please rescind plan to purge small DNA segments. Don’t disconnect …
Continue readingFramed in Bigotry and Discrimination: A look at Trump’s Executive Order: Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.
The emphasis in the Executive Order is not some abstract improvement, but the creation of a robust evangelical-coded “faith-based” equalization in child welfare. The EO promises to increase much-needed child welfare improvement not through government initiative, but through taxpayer-funded tax-exempt so-called “faith-based” partnerships with private religious child welfare organizations and corporations including churches, para-churches, and ministries. Moreover, the EO promises “faith-based “foster and adoption recruitment.” This suggests nonsensically that the lack of “faith-based partnerships” keeps children stuck in state foster care when they could be transferred to the Christian adoption market if that market were more open and availab
Continue readingAdoption Organization Statements on Black Lives Matter and Protests 2020
Bastard Nation: Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter, June 8, 2020 Adoptees for Justice: Adoptees for Justice Unites with the Black Community and Those Advocating for Criminal Justice Reform and Police Accountability, June …
Continue readingBastard Nation Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The Bastard Nation Executive Committee expresses our solidarity with Black Lives Matter and with those in the US and around the world protesting police violence and systemic racism. We support all peaceful protest. We support free expression and the right to address and demand redress from the government. We support self-determination, self- ownership, and autonomy. We support human dignity and civil and human rights. Bastard Nation condemns racism, the abrogation of free speech, civil rights, police repression, police brutality, state secrets, and state-based violence.
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Proud NYARC Partner
Bastard Nation is a proud partner organization in the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records
Proud TXARC Partner
Bastard Nation is a proud partner in the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with Equality for Adoption, Gladney Adoptees for Rights and Equality, and the Adoptee Rights Law Center. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records