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New photo challenge: Honest Parent Portraits

Get yourself on over to Get Born, where I blog every month, so you too can be in on the latest photo challenge. Can’t wait to see your portraits.

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#repost @clamandamarie ・・・ #repost @half_bird ・・・ In solidarity with our community: 1) Don’t open the door, 2) Don’t give your name, 3) Report ICE to 415-200-1548. If you are a citizen and are able, risk arrest to slow the deportations. Recognize that ICE represents ethnic cleansing, infanticide, and fascism. Take them down.

#repost @jessicayellin ・・・ Migrant Kids in America: ***Please share this post*** ***What can you do? Scroll to end for tips*** The US has been holding migrant children in conditions that can only be described as horrific and inhumane. That’s according to attorneys who met with children at multiple detention facilities. See my interview with one of those attorneys, Prof Warren Binford @binfordwh, in “stories”. (Tip: advance to 3 mins to hear her talk conditions, the law and why this is not a partisan issue.) Imagine hundreds of children sleeping on concrete, no soap, few showers, limited outdoors, flu outbreaks, lice outbreaks, open toilets, overcrowding, no parents, for weeks at a stretch. She says no wonder kids have died in CPB detention. She says this isn’t about politics, it's about being humane. Context: There is a legal agreement from the 80s -- shorthanded “the Flores settlement” – which should make this illegal. It requires that the government keep migrant kids in safe and sanitary conditions and that they’re moved out of Customs and Border Patrol detention rapidly. The government’s lawyer argued to a panel of judges that the current horrible conditions meet the requirements of the Flores settlement. WHAT YOU CAN DO: Prof Binford advises that you call your members of Congress – that means both your Representative and your Senator. And ask them to: 1. Remove all children from Customs and Border Patrol detention, immediately 2. Pass legislation mandating national uniform standards for the care of detained children The first step can happen fast – it doesn’t require legislation from Congress. It’s simply up to the decision makers in the administration to move the kids. In fact, there are reports that CPB removed kids from one of the facilities to a site they say is more suitable. That’s because this news spread and the resulting outcry made a difference. NOTE That does not mean the problem has been solved. There are kids in other facilities. This is one of those times when raising your voice can make a difference. Post a comment if you have other tips. #Newsnotnoise #news #immigrationlaw #familymigration

Share this rad #repost from @koreangry with step by step instructions for our friends who might be targeted in ICE raids ・・・ Know your rights. You can print these cards at home. #knowyourrights #immigrantrights #rights #ice #redcard #dailystruggle #protectyourself #heretostay #staystrong #comics

Last month, the dad of a 2nd grader at my sons' Berkeley public school was shot and killed in front of his mother's house in Pittsburg. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/07/shooting-kills-east-bay-man-sitting-outside-home-in-car/ The 2nd grader's mom is a friend of mine. She has been working for years, through a parent group I'm part of at school, to make our school safer and more inclusive for black families like hers, who have historically not felt welcomed there. She is outrageously kind, funny and smart as hell, and over the past two years, she has helped me to learn what it means to be a white ally. I feel a deep responsibility to step up for her and her family, and channel some serious resources in their direction. On top of her grief, and supporting her kids through theirs, my friend is struggling financially with the unexpected burden of $8,000 for burial costs and the need for therapy for her young son who witnessed the attack. My goal is to raise $10,000, and so far, with the help of our racial justice parent group at school and family and friends, we've been able to raise $7830!!! This has all been through word of mouth and emails, since we can't set up a Go Fund Me page—the investigator for the case advised us keep a very low profile, since the attack was targeted and they don't want to put my friend and her kids at risk. So we just need to raise $2170 to reach $10,000. WE CAN DO THIS. If you'd like to contribute, you can PayPal me at ssmackley@yahoo.com, and I'll transfer it directly to my friend or you can DM me and I'll share her PayPal info with you privately. And if you know folks who you think would want to support this rad mama and her kids, please share this. I am beyond grateful for anything you can give. #juneteenth #independenceday #notreparationsbutitsastart #blacklivesmatter #payblackwomen

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