broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca (@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca)
Disabled & chronically ill writer. Former theatre critic. Passionate about disability rights, clean air, masks and covid caution. Clean air is a human right & masks work.
I write about the experience of being highly vulnerable during a pandemic, isolation, loss of healthcare and euthanasia. My focus is on how we can find support, fight back & create better systems and safety nets everyone.
#CovidisAirborne #Disability #Pandemic #MasksWork #CleanAir #Ableism #ChronicIllness #CovidIsNotOver
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This is horrifying and blatant misogyny and discrimination.
Senza categoriaThis is horrifying and blatant misogyny and discrimination.
A woman in Tennessee was denied prenatal care because she wasn’t married.
The doctor said it went against their “Christian values”
This in a so called “pro life” state which has enacted an abortion ban as well.
It was never about life, it’s always been about control.
They want people procreating, but they want it to be those they deem the “right” people.
The Christian, white, married people.
Tennessee has the worst maternal mortality in the country.
What a shocker.
#uspol #healthcare #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #pregnancy #misogyny #patriarchy #abortionbans
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Children are getting letters from ICE stating they need to leave the US or the federal government will ‘find them’.
Senza categoriaChildren are getting letters from ICE stating they need to leave the US or the federal government will ‘find them’.
Xally Morales is a 13 year old who came to the US from Mexico & received the letter from DHS in June. She’s been scared every day since.
They’re traumatizing children who were just trying to escape abusive & dangerous situations
Most spend a month or more in refugee “resettlement camps” after crossing the border
Now they’re being told to leave or be snatched by ICE?
It’s cruel and unusual punishment. These are KIDS.
And if you think the ICE thugs will be more careful with children, think again
A 15 year old Mexican boy named Alexis was put in handcuffs and sent to Alligator Alcatraz in June.
He committed no crimes, and they sent him to a concentration camp.
They must be stopped.
If doing this to children isn’t a red line for people… what is?
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A 15 year old child was thrown in Alligator Alcatraz.
Senza categoriaA 15 year old child was thrown in Alligator Alcatraz.
A concentration camp designed to apparently house the worst and most dangerous criminals was where they put a defenceless kid.
Homeland Security is also sending threatening letters to unaccompanied minors telling them if they don’t leave, they will be found and locked up.
They’re targeting children. The elderly. The disabled.
They have no bottom. No morals. No red line.
They must be stopped.
A 15-year-old boy with no criminal history ended up at Alligator Alcatraz
‘This is one of many problems with illegal immigration: individuals are in our country without any way to verify their identity,’ a spokesperson for the agency that oversees the facility said
The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
#immigration #ice #abolishice #fascism #uspol #alligatoralcatraz
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An 82 year old with a valid green card has been disappeared to Guatamala.
Senza categoriaAn 82 year old with a valid green card has been disappeared to Guatamala.
Luis Leon came to the US in 1987.
He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile.
He’s been in the US almost 40 years.
He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE
What followed for his family is the stuff of nightmares.
They couldn’t find him. Couldn’t talk to him. Couldn’t get him a lawyer.
This was a senior citizen who did absolutely nothing wrong.
Who hasn’t lost their wallet at some point?
On July 9th the family were informed he had died.
They were consumed with grief and still had no information about what happened to him.
Mercifully it turns out that information was a mistake, and Leon was instead being held in Guatemala.
Why Guatemala? No one knows.
Was it a mistake? Was it punishment?
This is what happens when you move fast and break things.
Someone who was granted political asylum should never have to fear being deported to a foreign country. This shouldn’t even need to be said.
He has multiple health issues and his current condition is unknown.
Family is flying to Guatemala to see him
This should never happen. People need to keep speaking out.
Leon did everything the “right” way and still got disappeared.
The cruelty seems to be the point
ICE secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost his Green Card
‘I can see all my family is in pain right now,’ Luis Leon granddaughter said
The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)