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Entries Tagged as 'Adoption'
Adoptees – Citizens, Not Commodities
August 18th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · activism · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records
PAR Call to Action: **URGENT ACTION NEEDED–Help us Defeat HB 1968**
August 7th, 2010 Comments Off
Reposting via PA Adoptee Rights News Blog. Please repost freely.
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**URGENT ACTION NEEDED–Help us Defeat HB 1968**
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Dear Advocates,
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As you may have known, there were two bills in the Health and Human Services Committee that seek to change the portion of adoption law that governs an Adult Adoptee’s access to identifying [...]
Tags: activism · adoptee rights · Adoption · Pennsylvania
Slideshow of images from the Louisville Adoptee Rights weekend
August 5th, 2010 Comments Off
Here’s our slideshow!
Please visit YouTube to view the video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z8ZzvayL4U
The same old request applies!
1.) Give it a thumbs up
2.) Save it to your favorites
3.) Leave a comment
Thank you!
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Louisville · open records
Booth Report – Day Two
July 27th, 2010 3 Comments
The end of the NCSL Annual Summit is fast approaching, and yet it feels like we just got here. Our collection of business cards, names, email addresses and positions is ever growing, and it’s both exhausting and exhilarating thinking about the amount of work to do once we all are back home.
The San Antonio Host [...]
Tags: Adoptee · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Kentucky · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL
Booth Report – Day One
July 26th, 2010 1 Comment
The opening day of the Exhibit Hall was an exhausting, inspiring and amazing success.
The Adoptee Rights Coalition booth staff was swamped and hardly had time to tweet or provide any updates at all, as legislators and representatives from other organizations kept them jumping from the time the doors opened. Day 1 saw hundreds of names [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL
Host State Hero
July 6th, 2010 No Comments
The Adoptee Rights Coalition would like to acknowledge the long-time Adoptee Rights advocates in states where we will be visiting to protest sealed birth certificates. In 2009 for the Philly protest, we recognized long-time Adoptee Rights advocate, Priscilla Sharp for her tireless work on Pennsylvania’s sealed birth certificate laws.
In 2009 Priscilla’s in-person visit to her [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Kentucky
Adult Adoptees of Kentucky – Listen Up!
July 1st, 2010 2 Comments
You are not children, yet the state you were born in considers you incompetent of managing your own affairs.
Why should you require your mother’s permission to obtain your own birth certificate? What other adults in Kentucky are required to seek the consent of their parents in the eyes of the State? [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Kentucky · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL
Adoptee Rights Coalition welcomes two new volunteer organizers!
June 13th, 2010 3 Comments
We are thrilled to announce the addition of two new volunteer organizers to our planning team.
Jeff Hancock joins us to bring his artistic expertise to our sign making party. Jeff’s art skills are matched by his natural outreach and community-building abilities. Philadelphia protest attendees will remember Jeff’s “green necklace”, a [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · Louisville
2nd Letter Writing Campaign!
June 7th, 2010 No Comments
Hello All!
It’s only 50 days until the Louisville Adoptee Rights Demonstration!
Our second wave of the letter writing campaign is set for this day. We urge you all to write your state legislators and ask that they introduce or co-sponsor legislation in their state allowing unrestricted access to original birth certificates [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · activism · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Adoption · adoption records · letter writing campaign · Louisville
Writing Campaign Announcement
June 6th, 2008 2 Comments
Have you ever wanted to help out with the Open Records movement, but weren’t sure how to get involved? Maybe you’re not able to make it to the protest, or better yet, maybe you’re joining us and still want to help out?
This is your opportunity to get involved!
Every Friday(7 in total) from now until the [...]
Tags: Adoptee · adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoption · open records
