Thank you very much for posting!

These women deserve support and attention far beyond mere adoptionland.

Please pass along that there are at least a few of us here inside America who support these brave mothers in their efforts to regain their stolen children.

This post is getting a great deal of attention, in that much at least, I can say people are searching for information and know at least the bare bones of enough to have heard of what’s happening.

Any updates you could pass along would be greatly appreciated.

Meanwhile, for a glance at how the industrialists are capitalizing upon it and foaming at the mouth see this AP piece, which fortunately includes a moment of sanity at the end of the article injected by Marley/Bastardette,

Not every adoption-related group shared the angst.

“The moral panic ‘Orphan’ has induced is more entertaining than the film itself, which will pass into oblivion and DVD a month after release,” wrote Marley Greiner, a leader of the adoptees-rights group Bastard Nation, in her blog.

“The ‘outrage’ is an opportunistic moment for drum banging and fund raising,” Greiner wrote. “What better way is there to make publicity and $$$$$ for yourself than to create a victim where none exists?”

Orphan is by and large a distraction being hyped by those with a great deal to gain by doing so.

Meanwhile, genuine adoption related news, such as this story, gain hardly so much as a yawn.

Right now, there are a group of very brave, very strong and determined women, sleeping in tents in front of the court house in Guatemala City, starving their bodies in an effort to find justice. It sickens me that women whose children have been STOLEN from them have to resort to such methods to even be listened to, all the while the outrage from APs is focused on fictional Hollywood movie. My Lord, what has this world come to? Really? Where is humanity if these women have to continue to resort to strikes, just to be heard?

To read such horrible things on Internet boards, now and in the past, filled with hate, entitlement and ignorance by many APs who are so obviously filled with fear, makes the sting of this injustice even more outrageous, and renders me speechless— and ashamed.

I just got an email from one of the strikers. She is getting weak, and she is getting tired. As I read words of hate about this strike and those in the past, I think of my friends starving themselves in the rain so far away. This isn’t about AP’s needs to deny the truth or debate fictional scenarios that might involve them, and there is no room for debate. This is about mothers needing their children back in their arms, who were STOLEN from them.

This is about justice, human rights, and the ongoing issues of impunity and violence against women in Guatemala. I know damn well if a (white) child was stolen from a US mother and adopted to APs in say, Dubai, the outcry would be immense, there would be no room for debate.

While the Christian Adoption Coalition (my term) get up in arms about some stupid movie trailer and posters, the real injustice once again goes ignored. Why? To help salvage their own self-serving agendas and ideologies? Racism? Entitlement? These women deserve the adoption community’s support today and tomorrow, and as much as many APs would rather sweep it under the rug and suppress their message to serve their own agendas, it is hard for me to deny these women are my sisters, and deserve the adoptive community’s support.

http://discuss.flickrfan.org/2009/07/18/0902513.html
http://discuss.flickrfan.org/2009/07/18/0902522.html
http://discuss.flickrfan.org/2009/07/18/0902512.html

Bothers the fuck outta me too. I had a difficult time finding resources in English when I wrote the piece.

And as for the “Orphan” hysteria clogging every inch of space, choking out anything resembling real news? Yeah, give me a little time, I’ll be doing some analysis on that as well.