Reading Time: 4 minutes When this day is over, about 700 children will have gone to bed inside a Mexican prison. Not because they are criminals, but because their mothers broke the law. These are minors who were with them at the time of their arrest, or who were procreated behind bars, and who today suffer from the deplorable conditions of Mexican prisons. They are the invisible children of the National Penitentiary System.
October 2019
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/17/2019: Pence, Elijah Cummings, Gordon Sondland
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The holidays signal a time for family gatherings, traditions and the spirit of giving. Make this holiday season even more meaningful by giving gifts like these that help children in need around the globe.
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5 ways we are encouraged to blame women and girls for being raped and abused
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 11 minutes Victim blaming is the act of transferring the blame from the perpetrator (who is 100% to blame for sexual offences they commit) and moving that blame back to the victim of the sexual offences.
Reading Time: < 1 minute CNN’s Brooke Baldwin addresses a disturbing video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting, assaulting and stabbing his critics and the media, which was played at a conference held by a pro-Trump group at his Miami resort, according to footage obtained by The New York Times.
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/15/2019: Impeachment, Syria, William Barr
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the…
Reading Time: < 1 minute THE RANDY RAINBOW SHOW:
“Just Be Best!”Reading Time: 4 minutes However, the constant drumbeat of the moral superiority of love and niceness has provided too much cover for too many people, for too long. Some people’s different beliefs cause harm. Sometimes that harm is uncalculable and wildly unpredictable.
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3 Stories You Should Read 10/14/2019: Atatiana Jefferson, Whistleblower, ISIS
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. In the…
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The Week: Joe Biden- The only conservative running for president
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 4 minutes Joe Biden is a conservative. Throughout his career he has taken his strongest public stands in favor of norms, rules, traditions, and institutions designed to restrain and balance competing forces in our politics. He tends not to be motivated by moral or ideological imperatives. This is abundantly clear from his long-standing record of hesitation to support impeachment as a remedy for presidential malfeasance, recently and usefully summarized in The New York Times.