Should We Trust Sky Metalwala’s Daddy?

Sky Metalwala

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

Michele Weldon: I Closed My Eyes & Writing to Save Your Life (Book Reviews + More)

I have won because I have won myself back. I claim me. – Michele Weldon Michele Weldon has survived domestic violence and breast cancer.  She is passionately vocal about fathers who abandon their sons.  She is an assistant professor at her alma mater (BSJ and MSJ), Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism.  She speaks about … Read more

Bravo: Barbara Thompson Gets Justice for Ronda Reynolds

Barbara Thompson after coroner's jury verdict

Barbara Thompson after coroner’s jury verdict I think if you just keep hanging in there and keep working at it, you’ll finally get the end result that is true justice. – Barbara Thompson What does it take to get an arrest of Ron Reynolds?  Washington State Trooper Ronda Reynolds was murdered in 1998.  Her death … Read more

Charlotte Fedders: Shattered Dreams (Book Review + More)

 John M. Fedders didn’t just shatter his wife’s dreams.  He shattered the dreams of the middle class.  He made it possible for the 1% on Wall Street to steal the money that the other 99% ~ the folks who live on Main Street ~ worked hard all their lives to earn. The protests against Wall Street greed … Read more

We Interrupt This Survivor Celebration to Protest Callous Indifference: Why 8 People are Dead in Seal Beach, CA

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    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

Dewey Bozella: “Never Give Up on Your Dreams”

Dewey Bozella

Life is a challenge. There’s struggle and conflict. It’s what you do with that struggle and conflict that matters. – Dewey Bozella   Dewey Bozella spent over half his life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.  When he was nine years old, he witnessed his father beat his pregnant mother to death.   In 1983, … Read more

Bravo, Chuck Cox: Susan Cox Powell’s Father Finally Gets a Measure of Justice in Pierce County, WA

Chuck Cox

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

Book Review: Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

Richard North Patterson I mean to root out this system of legalized bribery where all of us sell pieces of the government like shares of stock. – Richard North Patterson   Richard North Patterson has written three legal thrillers about child abuse survivor President Kerry Kilcannon:  No Safe Place, Protect and Defend, and Balance of Power.   A … Read more

Empowered Woman’s Playbook: Casting Yourself as Heroine

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  Storytelling is a critical part of effective advocacy. – Ruth Anne Robbins J.K. Rowling is the queen of writing a new script for her life.  While researching her story, I discovered Ruth Anne Robbins’ excellent article, “Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers and Merlin:  Telling the Client’s Story Using the Characters and Paradigms of the Archetypal … Read more

Be There: Mother’s Day Vigil in Washington, D.C.

© 2010 Nancy Carroll for CNN

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

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