Consumer Safety, Sex Offenders & Children of Illegal Immigrants
Sue Weaver was raped and murdered by a man who had come to her home for contracted service work -- a twice-convicted sex offender, on parole, and his employer should have known about his history. After this horrendous event, Sue's sister Lucia Bone started C.A.U.S.E....
~Giving A Voice To Dominick Richard Calhoun~
~This Is Extremely Disturbing…I have been questioning myself if I should write this article…When I read about Dominick I was sickened..After writing this I put it in drafts contemplating the details,pictures and even hitting the trash button..As I went to close my laptop I immediately thought to my self “This is exactly what the neighbors did by not getting help when they heard Dominicks Screams,Family members who saw his bruises and turned their head..Closing my computer in fear that this might disturb someone the way it did to me..I have had non-stop thoughts and anger,Especially looking at this Monsters Picture that tortured and murdered Dominick..As angered and confused I feel about the people who could of saved Dominicks life by answering his pleads and calling authorities to put an end to his pain,I was doing the same..Setting Awareness Is a Hope and a Prayer..Hoping People will take the time to read the unfortunate and haunting details and Praying it may change the life of a Victim..Maybe Even Save A Life..We cant sugar coat the reality that millions of children are abused everyday..
Thankful
Through the years my faith in God has been tested, as I am sure it has for all of us. As we come upon the Thanksgiving holiday, I am thankful for the maternal grandmother I had who took me to church every Sunday when I was younger. She taught me how to plant...
“Something” – Abuse Survivor’s Short, Gripping Poem about Self-Value
A ghost of what she could be flutters around in the daylight, at night though she is all he said she was. Safety, love these are words she knows nothing about. Bitch, whore these are the words she knows. In her warped brain she even longs to hear that icy voice again....
Female Role Models in Politics?
Politics has been a male dominated field where women seem to be left in the shadows. How many of us can use a female politician as a guide to become successful? It seems just yesterday we were presented with women like Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin,...
INJUSTICE!!! MJ’s Dr. Murray Unjustly found Guilty
Are we a people who have become a lynch mob?. I am disturbed by the verdict of Dr. Murray. I feel that Dr. Murray made nothing more than a bad judgment call, which we have all done. I am 100% percent certain that Dr. Murray was doing what he thought was best in his...
After 3 Decades, My Secret Told: Surviving a Different Kind of Abuse and Rescue
After 3 Decades, My Secret Told: Surviving a Different Kind of Abuse and Rescue I’m a woman in my late 40s with a secret. I've never before told this secret. Lately, and because of a rescue I heard about on HereWomenTalk.com last year, I've felt the need to purge...
This Week on BROADSIDED – Current Events and Why ‘Homophobic Church’ is an Oxymoron
In today's contentious political climate, we hear so little about jobs and so much about the 'problems' homosexuals are wreaking on American society. Of course, most of that rhetoric is coming from the Evangelical Christian Right who use the scriptures, designed to...
A Place in History for the Gay Community
(Should Gay History be included in the California School Curriculum and Textbooks?) Preface: G- Genovese, Catherine Susan (Kitty) (July 7, 1935-March 13, 1964), was a New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New...
