Josh Powell: Why the Courts and Press Need to Wake Up About PAS Fathers
What do parents at Carson Elementary School tell their children about the double-murder-suicide of Charlie (age 7) and Braden (age 5) Powell by their father Josh Powell? Charlie and Braden’s mother Susan Cox Powell has been missing since December 7, 2009. According to Cox family attorney Steve Downing, Charlie recently shared what he remembered about … Read more
Should We Trust Sky Metalwala’s Daddy?
Although the disappearance of Sky Metalwala is playing out in my backyard, I have intentionally remained silent because I was waiting to see whether there was a link between Sky’s father Solomon Metalwala and Glenn Sacks, the leader of the PAS movement. KIRO, the Seattle CBS affiliate, reported tonight that Glenn Sacks and his loyal … Read more
We Interrupt This Survivor Celebration to Protest Callous Indifference: Why 8 People are Dead in Seal Beach, CA
Eight people are dead. Another is clinging to life. It is National Domestic Awareness Month, but you wouldn’t know it because the media prefers the color pink. . .even though there are at least twice as many of us wearing the color purple. We flat out don’t matter until somebody ends up dead. … Read more
Bravo, Chuck Cox: Susan Cox Powell’s Father Finally Gets a Measure of Justice in Pierce County, WA
Chuck Cox Very sad update: Although Chuck Cox did everything possible to try to protect his grandsons, the system ultimately betrayed him. Josh Powell brutally murdered his sons and himself in a house explosion in Graham, WA on February 5, 2012. Chuck Cox has achieved the impossible: he got the criminal “justice” folks in Pierce County, … Read more
Be There: Mother’s Day Vigil in Washington, D.C.
Nancy Carroll is a PAS mother who has the leadership instincts of Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She has experienced more than her fair share of brutal abuse and hard knocks, but she keeps rolling. Literally. After her leg was shattered, she got in her wheelchair and kept on rolling to … Read more
Yippee Skippy! The Little Blog that Could Reaches 100,000 Visitors!
At 1:00 this morning, Navigating Uncharted Waters had its 100,000th visitor! I am thrilled and profoundly humbled. Before I start celebrating, I want to take a moment thank all my subscribers and loyal visitors for your support, interest, comments, and inspiration. When I started this blog two years ago, I never dreamed I would meet so … Read more
Bravo: “Silenced” by Rikki King, Everett (WA) Daily Herald
Silenced. Too often, domestic violence victims reach out for help, but can’t get the aid they need before it’s too late. – Rikki King The Daily Herald This is the headline and photo that stopped me cold in Freddie’s (Fred Meyer, a division of Kroger) yesterday. It was on the front page of … Read more
Georgia Gunzer: Betrayed by Pierce County, WA Courts
Georgia Gunzer’s murder on Saturday in Tacoma barely made the news. Mark Fulghum, official spokesperson for the Tacoma police department, chalked it up to just another domestic violence murder. Too bad. So sad. Oh, well. He might have gotten away with the callous indifference but for Ms. Gunzer’s loyal friends. The Tacoma News-Tribune, the infamous lap-dog … Read more
Stop 14 Years of Injustice ~ Be There: August 20 @ 9:00 AM, Shawnee County District Court, Topeka, Kansas
Claudine Dombrowski Listen up, Judge David Debenham in Shawnee District Court in Topeka, Kansas! I am going to do everything in my power to continue to pack your court room with people wearing purple and white until you stop Halleck Richardson’s manipulation of your court as an instrument of abuse. And, I’m going to ask other bloggers to … Read more
American Mothers Political Party Launched Today!
We will never shut up, give up, or go away! Today is the 162nd anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony launched the women’s movement to prevent domestic violence. It never caught on with the suffragettes or the feminists or NOW. But, the Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Mama … Read more
