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.
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Booth Report – Day Two
July 27th, 2010 3 Comments
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
Greetings from the Louisville Adoptee Rights Demonstration!
July 25th, 2010 No Comments
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
There just aren’t enough thank you’s possible for everyone who came today, and for everyone who supported us back home.
As always, thank you’s go to our beautiful Host City of Louisville, especially the Louisville Department of Codes and Regulations for assistance with our march and protest permit, and Lt. Curtis [...]
Tags: Adoptee · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · adoption records · Kentucky · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL · open records
Final Letter Writing Campaign and Press Releases Released!
July 18th, 2010 No Comments
We’re just one week away from the Demonstration, and want everyone to take a moment today to write their State Legislators in preparation for the NCSL Summit.
We have a sample letter you can use on the Letter Writing Campaign page, as well as postcards you can print and send.
Looking for even more sample letters? Here’s [...]
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Itinerary for the Louisville Adoptee Rights Protest
July 15th, 2010 2 Comments
Saturday, July 24th
6:00 PM Sign making party and workshop. Please join us for sign making, drinks, snacks and camaraderie! We will be presenting a brief workshop on restoring access at 8:00 PM, with suggestions for talking points with legislators.
We will be meeting in the Lewis Suite at the Hampton Inn [...]
Tags: a day for adoptee rights · Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · adoption records · Kentucky · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL
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
LAST CALL FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS!
June 25th, 2010 Comments Off
The Hampton Inn Louisville is sold out for the week of the NCSL Convention!
There are still rooms available in our group block, but the end date to make your reservation is Tuesday, June 29th. After this date, you will not be able to get a room at the hotel.
For details on our discounted rate [...]
Tags: Adoptee Rights Demonstration · Adoptee Rights Protest · Louisville · National Conference of State Legislatures · NCSL
Can’t come to Louisville?
June 24th, 2010 2 Comments
Rally in your own home town!
One of the highlights of the very first Adoptee Rights Demonstration in New Orleans happened over 1,400 miles away. A group in Rochester, NY from Unsealed Initiative lived up to their name and organized their own coinciding rally the same day.
Although no one attending the New Orleans protest knew anyone [...]
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Adoptees up against backward laws protest at National Conference of State Legislatures
May 30th, 2010 No Comments
By Joyce Bahr
Members of New York’s “Unsealed Initiative,” having ended a legislative lobby session in Albany for the Bill of Adoptee Rights, will be joining protesters at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky on July 25, 2010. Exasperated with outdated laws dating back to the 1930’s which sealed original [...]
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National Conference of State Legislatures
May 25th, 2010 No Comments
While the protest happens outside the convention center each year, there’s work going on inside the building as well. With all the attention the demonstration itself gets, we wanted to take a moment to highlight the hard work going on inside the exhibit hall at the NCSL Annual Legislative Summit.
What is the NCSL?
From their website: [...]
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