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Topic: AMuRiKAPosted By: Satori
Subject: AMuRiKA
Date Posted: June 06 2018 at 3:18am
South Dakota lawmaker: Let businesses 'turn away people of color,' later apologizes
"He should have the opportunity to run his business the way he wants,"
Clark wrote. "If he wants to turn away people of color, then that('s)
his choice."
but he did "apologize"
everyone knows that so called apology is worthless
he meant what he said
America no longer exists
AMuRIkA is the new norm
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Replies: Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 06 2018 at 3:25am
From what I can see he is having the exact opposite effect to the one promised:
He is taking a great country and deminishing it.
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 14 2018 at 6:01pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/14/1772010/-Sparks-flew-in-the-press-briefing-room-as-heartless-White-House-defended-imprisoning-border-kids" rel="nofollow - Sparks flew in the press briefing room as heartless White House defended imprisoning border kids
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 10:34am
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/fox-and-friends-migrant-kids-turn-ms-13" rel="nofollow - Fox And Friends: Migrant Kids 'Turn Into MS-13'
FAUX "News" has reached a new low if that is possible
BLATANT PROPAGANDA
what country am I living in ???
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 2:15pm
‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border
these so called pro family groups being exposed for the hypocrites that they are
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 19 2018 at 3:24pm
You can't remove a foetus, which is not fully human yet and has very little awareness at all, but you can torture, terrify and 'legally kidnap cchildren, whom are fully aware. Sounds about right!
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 7:27am
the face of HATE
Trump Fans Whine About Media Manipulation With Baby Jail Reports: ‘Quit Trying to Make Us Feel Teary-Eyed for The Children’
We need to make a change. Donald Trump represents the worst of the American spirit."
truer words NEVER spoken
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 5:28pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/20/1773769/-Republicans-new-baby-prisons-are-costing-taxpayers-a-fortune-775-per-night-per-child" rel="nofollow - Republicans' new baby prisons are costing taxpayers a fortune: $775 per night per child
$775 a day for a tent space out in the freaking desert???
WHAT THE &^%(*$% ????
talk about fleecing tax payers
they could stay in a Trump hotel cheaper than that
what say ye Trump supporters ???
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 20 2018 at 9:12pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/20/1773819/-New-lawsuit-claims-Texas-contractor-has-been-injecting-immigrant-kids-with-antipsychotic-drugs" rel="nofollow - New lawsuit claims Texas contractor has been injecting immigrant kids with antipsychotic drugs
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 8:25am
Trump Aide Stephen Miller, Meet Your Great-Grandfather, Who Flunked His Naturalization Test
can't ya just smell the stench of the hypocrisy from here ???
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 10:48am
You know Miller was behind the turnaround. I can well imagine that the executive order is what they wanted all along, and Trump couldn't possibly have planned this one so far out.
------------- "Buy it cheap. Stack it deep" "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 12:15pm
The originally separated children are still separated from their families. There does not appear to be a plan to re-unite them. The face-saving (or so it appears to me) exercise of the executive order did not address that.
Finish the job, Trump! Maybe then I can forgive you. I doubt the families affected ever will.
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:33pm
i am a migrant here in Australia,my dads family escaped pograms in Latvia,
so you would think that im not a supporter of defending borders against migrants,
However...........
the world is facing a disaster,
BILLIONS of people will be put out of their homes due to climate change .
WHAT are we going to do with them ??
are we all going to cram onto the little bit of habital land ,that will be left ?
or shall we take over these countries and run them like we run our DEMOCRACIES(tounge in cheek) or would that be recolonozation,
the reason that people want to leave their countries are the country is NO GOOD and they looking for a better life ,
Australia is a vast country very little of it is arable land ,
Here in Perth it would be unlivable if we didnt have Desalanation plants that supply 40% of our drinking water,
we are 26 million people ,you could move 20 million people here from China or India and it would make no differance to that countries problems,
it would devistate this country,
my point is there is to many people on the planet and its only going to get ALOT worse,
i mentioned Soylet Green in another post we are living the prequill to that nightmare, and it is happening before our eyes,
here's another
https://www.scribd.com/doc/100964572/Larry-Niven-Bordered-in-Black" rel="nofollow - Larry Niven - Bordered in Black | Physical Sciences | Science - Scribd
Larry Niven - Bordered in Black - Free download as Text File (.txt), PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free.
enjoy or be afraid.....................
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:35pm
Poisonous and running out: Pakistan's water crisis
ISLAMABAD: Barely 15 days old, Kinza whimpers at an Islamabad hospital where she is suffering from diarrhoea and a blood infection, a tiny victim among thousands afflicted by Pakistan´s severely polluted and decreasing water supplies.
Cloaked in a colourful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a small doll. Her mother, Sartaj, does not understand how her daughter became so ill.
"Each time I give her the bottle, I boil the water," she tells AFP.
But Sartaj and her family drink daily from a stream in their Islamabad neighbourhood — one of several waterways running through the capital that are choked with filth. Boiling the water can only do so much.
They are not alone. More than two-thirds of households drink bacterially contaminated water and, every year, 53,000 Pakistani children die of diarrhoea after drinking it, says UNICEF.
Cases of typhoid, cholera, dysentery and hepatitis are rampant. According to the UN and Pakistani authorities, between 30 and 40 percent of diseases and deaths nationwide are linked to poor water quality.
And it is costing the developing country billions. In 2012 the World Bank, which has warned that "substantial investments are needed to improve sanitation", estimated that water pollution costs Pakistan $5.7 billion, or nearly four percent of GDP.
"Water is the number one problem for the country," says professor Javed Akram, vice chancellor at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad.
In Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city, the situation is even worse than in Islamabad.
The Ravi River which supplies the city's 11 million or so inhabitants with drinking water also serves as a spillway to hundreds of factories upstream.
River fish are eaten by locals, but "some papers show that in the fishbones, some heavy metal contamination (is) found," says Sohail Ali Naqvi, a project officer with the conservation group WWF.
The Ravi is also used to irrigate neighbouring crops, which are themselves rich in pesticides, warns Lahore environmentalist Ahmad Rafay Alam.
'Absolute scarcity'
The lack of water infrastructure is glaring. In a country where the "environment is not part of the political agenda", there are "nearly no treatment plants", warns Imran Khalid, a researcher at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
"Those who can afford it buy bottles of water, but what about those who cannot?" he says.
In Karachi, a megacity whose population could be as many as 20 million people, mafias fill the vacuum left by the creaking local network, selling the precious water they bring in by tanker trucks at high prices.
In the face of widespread indignation, Sindh along with Punjab province, together home to more than half of the country´s population, have already announced measures to improve water quality, though their efficacy is yet to be seen.
But Pakistan's water is not only contaminated — it is becoming scarce.
Official projections show the country, whose population has increased fivefold since 1960 to some 207 million, will run dry by 2025, when they will be facing an "absolute scarcity" of water with less than 500 cubic metres available per person in Pakistan.
That's just one third the water available in already parched Somalia now, according to the UN.
'Lack of education'
Pakistan, a country of massive Himalayan glaciers, monsoon rains and floods, has just three major water storage basins, compared with more than a thousand in South Africa or Canada, says Bashir Ahmad of the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council.
As such any surplus is quickly lost, said Ahmad, who denounced "a lack of political vision" to counter the nationwide water crisis.
While official statistics show that 90 per cent of the country's water is used for agriculture, the massive irrigation network, built decades ago by British colonists, has deteriorated.
Much of its use appears to defy common sense. "We are neglecting the northern areas, where there (is) a lot of rainfall, to focus on irrigated areas like Sindh or Punjab," says Ahmad.
There, in arid areas where temperatures can soar up to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), Pakistan grows water-intensive crops such as rice and sugar cane.
"The crisis is looming. In all urban areas, the water table is going down day by day," warns Muhammad Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources.
Pumps draw deeper and deeper into the water table, where the arsenic content is naturally higher, he warns. An international study in August said some 50 to 60 million Pakistanis are slowly poisoning themselves with arsenic-tainted water.
Yet waste remains the norm. In Islamabad, roads are sprinkled to drive away dust, cars are washed daily, and verdant lawns watered generously.
"We own our houses, but not our streams," Ashraf sighs. "That's why we dump our waste in the rivers."
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:42pm
https://gulfnews.com/news/asia/pakistan/water-crisis-pakistan-running-dry-by-2025-says-study-1.2230115" rel="nofollow - Water crisis: Pakistan running dry by 2025, says study | GulfNews.com
Jun 1, 2018 - A massive water crisis awaits Pakistan and the country is said to run dry by ... #ڈیم_بناؤ_پاکستان_بچاؤ PAKISTAN is running out of water.
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:44pm
https://globalnews.ca/news/4067957/cape-town-not-run-out-of-water-other-cities-might/" rel="nofollow - Cape Town may not run out of water after all – but these other cities ...
Mar 7, 2018 - Though Cape Town may be spared a water shutoff this year, other major cities around the world face a similar situation. Here's a look.
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:45pm
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/920788/Cape-Town-South-Africa-drought-Day-Zero-Australia-Perth-climate-change-global-warming" rel="nofollow - Australia running out of WATER: Cities could face devastating drought ...
Feb 19, 2018 - AUSTRALIA’S cities at risk of running out of water in a Cape Town-style drought situation, an expert has warned. ... Now experts have warned water-stressed Australian cities could be at risk if they face a similar drought to the South African region. ... He said: “Australia’s largest ...
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:46pm
http://time.com/4054262/drought-brazil-video/" rel="nofollow - S£o Paulo: A Megacity Without Water | Time
Oct 13, 2015 - Drought and bad management mean S£o Paulo is running out of water. ... Millions of residents in S£o Paulo, Brazil face daily water shutoffs ..
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:47pm
so what is the answer ????
someone/ ANYONE.......................
after a Slate wiper you and yours have stockpiled food and goods ,
some other who didnt PREP come to take it ,
WHAT DO YOU DO........give it of defend it ............
cards on the table............
this is reality not a game show...............
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 2:53pm
Water wars. They're coming. My money is on India and Pakistan being among the first as reduced snow melt from the Himalayas begins to impact their shared water supply. And they both have nuclear capability.
------------- "Buy it cheap. Stack it deep" "Any community that fails to prepare, with the expectation that the federal government will come to the rescue, will be tragically wrong." Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 4:21pm
I know this is coming. I understand the need to close borders. I
don't have to like it. I especially don't have to like the methods
used!
I will kill and eat my backyard
chickens, but I don't torture them. I don't terrify them. I don't take
their babies away whilst they are still babies. Egg layers and other
'farm workers' live out their days in peace. If I can manage that for a
bird, then we should be able to treat human beings with at least that
much respect.
It is theoretically possible
to stretch rescources to help everyone, but I know full well that will
not happen. Firstly, everyone would have to share and then we all would
have to limit our breeding. The vast majority are too stupid, ill
educated and just plain selfish for that. So the otherwise avoidable
catastrophe becomes the inevitable one. 'And, although they will have a
few more years and ultimately a few more survivors, most of the
selfish rich will die alongside those dirt-poor they hoarded rescources
from.
I don't have to like it at all. I
refuse to give up on the microscopically minute chance to change
things. We may exist between ape and angel, but we can strive to rise
further; it beats giving in to our baser instincts. If one less person
dies because of the efforts of someone here, then that is a triumph
beyond precious.
Failing that, if you must shut
out the 'huddled masses' America was once so proud to take, send them
back together. Don't make a necessary evil into an excuse to torture,
terrify and tear appart.
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 4:29pm
I hate it but for me that's reality,im a realist,
And I don't worry to much about a pandemic ,just think of how many animals it will save from extinction by Man.....
Ying/yANG
------------- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.🖖
Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: KiwiMum
Date Posted: June 21 2018 at 8:18pm
Carbon20, I'm with you on this one. We are a tiny nation here in NZ and an influx of people seeking to escape disaster in their own country would cripple us, we simply don't have a infastructure to cope.
Personally I'd like to see a killer disease sweep through the world and take out 80% and then the survivors could recalibrate and the pressure would be off.
As for water wars, I think they are definitely coming. We get rationed with our water supply in the summer, and rightly so. I have a sister who lives in NSW in Australia and she waters her small lawn and garden but uses water from a natural spring on her property, but she has taken to hanging out a big sign in front of her fence that says "Garden watered with spring water only" to avoid hostility from her neighbours.
We are increasingly getting more droughts here in Summer and on our property we collect all the rainwater from our roofs into 4 huge tanks and use this to water the orchard and vege garden in high summer.
Friends of ours who live at the top of a big hill don't get much water through their pipes during the summer as the water pressure drops so much it doesn't make it to the top of the hill. They rely on the fire brigade delivering a tanker of water every few weeks - and they have to pay for that.
As for Trump and his current antics, how is he getting away with this? He sees immigrants as not human and therefore with no human rights. Why aren't people rising up to stop him?
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 25 2018 at 7:07pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/25/1775251/-When-they-say-you-need-to-be-civil-hold-up-this-mirror" rel="nofollow - When they say *you* need to be civil, hold up this mirror
when can we expect the "brown shirts" to make their appearance ?
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 26 2018 at 1:04pm
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/26/1775599/-Ambulance-company-joins-hate-group-to-sue-city-for-the-right-to-discriminate-against-LGBT-people" rel="nofollow - Ambulance company joins hate group to sue city for the right to discriminate against LGBT people
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 26 2018 at 1:50pm
I saw a lovely T-shirt on the telly (sorry Americans - TV) today. It had a picture of Herr Trumpenfuhrer behind bars and the caption:
"Make America Great Again - Lock Him Up!"
Possibly a little extreme, but it gave me a giggle.
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 26 2018 at 5:04pm
Administration will not reunite any children with parents in custody, Cabinet secretary says
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: June 27 2018 at 1:55am
poor kids bet they scared to death
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Marcus Aurelius
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: June 27 2018 at 8:35am
And Trump is a father. Money or not, I'm glad he is not mine!
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: July 11 2018 at 12:21pm
HHS secretary: Separating immigrant families is ‘one of the great acts of American generosity’
------------- “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” Gary Kasparov
Posted By: Technophobe
Date Posted: July 11 2018 at 12:40pm
WHAT???
I know some Trumpetts will believe that.
Heinlein once said: "Never underestimate he power of human stupidity."
I think him wrong: "Never underestimate the power of inhuman stupidity!"
------------- How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips or pen are moving.
Posted By: carbon20
Date Posted: July 11 2018 at 3:06pm
The Stolen Generations
The forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families.
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies.
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. The policies of child removal left a legacy of trauma and loss that continues to affect Indigenous communities, families and individuals.
What happened and why?
The forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families was part of the policy of https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/a-white-australia/" rel="nofollow - Assimilation . Assimilation was based on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority, which proposed that Indigenous people should be allowed to “die out” through a process of natural elimination, or, where possible, should be assimilated into the white community. https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations#stolengenref1" rel="nofollow - [1]
Children taken from their parents as part of the Stolen Generation were taught to reject their Indigenous heritage, and forced to adopt white culture. Their names were often changed, and they were forbidden to speak their traditional languages. Some children were adopted by white families, and many were placed in institutions where abuse and neglect were common. https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations#stolengenref2" rel="nofollow - Assimilation policies focused on children, who were considered more adaptable to white society than Indigenous adults. “Half-caste” children (a term now considered derogatory for people of Aboriginal and white parentage), were particularly vulnerable to removal, because authorities thought these children could be assimilated more easily into the white community due to their lighter skin colour. https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations#stolengenref3" rel="nofollow - Assimilation, including child removal policies, failed its aim of improving the lives of Indigenous Australians by absorbing them into white society. This was primarily because white society refused to accept Indigenous people as equals, regardless of their efforts to live like white people.
Ruth's story
When Ruth was 4 years old, she was separated from her mother on Cherbourng mission in Queensland. Ruth was 6 months old when she first arrived at Cherbourg. Times were tough; it was during the Depression, and Ruth’s mother had gone to Cherbourg seeking help for her ageing parents.
But once she arrived at the mission, Ruth's mum was prevented from leaving. What was intended as a temporary visit became years of separation and control. “People would say it was for your own good, but my own good was to stay with my mum,” says Ruth.
At first Ruth was allowed to stay with her mum in the women’s dormitory. But eventually every child was removed to a separate dormitory. Ruth was 4 when she was taken from her Mum. “Once you were taken from your parents, you had no more connection with them,” she explains.
For a short time, Ruth still saw her Mum from a distance. But when Ruth was 5, her mother was sent away from Cherbourg and forced to leave her daughter behind.
Why does the Stolen Generations still matter today?
The forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families had a profound impact that is still felt today.
For the children who were taken:
Many were psychologically, physically, and sexually abused while living in state care or with their adoptive families.
Efforts to make stolen children reject their culture often caused them to feel ashamed of their Indigenous heritage.
Many children were wrongly told that their parents had died or abandoned them, and many never knew where they had been taken from or who their biological families were.
Living conditions in the institutions were highly controlled, and children were frequently punished harshly, were cold and hungry and received minimal if any affection.
The children generally received a very low level of education, as they were expected to work as manual labourers and domestic servants (see https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/legal_and_constitutional_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/stolen_wages/report/index" rel="nofollow - Unfinished Business ).
Medical experts have noted a high incidence of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress and suicide among the Stolen Generations https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations#stolengenref4" rel="nofollow - For their families:
Many parents never recovered from the grief of having their children removed.
Some parents could not go on living without their children, while others turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism.
The removal of several generations of children severely disrupted Indigenous oral culture, and consequently much cultural knowledge was lost.
Many of the Stolen Generations never experienced living in a healthy family situation, and never learned parenting skills. In some instances, this has resulted in generations of children raised in state care. https://www.australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations#stolengenref5" rel="nofollow - What has been done about this?
In 1995, the Australian government launched an inquiry into the policy of forced child removal. The report was delivered to Parliament on the 26th May 1997. It estimated that between 10 per cent and 33 per cent of all Indigenous children were separated from their families between 1910-1970.
The report, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-report-1997" rel="nofollow - Bringing Them Home , acknowledged the social values and standards of the time, but concluded that the policies of child removal breached fundamental human rights. The Keating government commissioned the inquiry into the Stolen Generations, but the Howard government received the report. Howard’s government was skeptical of the report’s findings, and largely ignored its recommendations.
What would you do if one day the police turned up to your home and took your children away simply because of the colour of your skin? How would you feel knowing you had no way of getting your children back and no higher authority to appeal to?
Imagine if one day you were at home with your parents and government officials came and took you away to live with strangers, and told you that you had to learn to live, eat, speak and dress differently than you were used to. How might that experience continue to affect you throughout your life?
Almost every Indigenous family has been affected by the forcible removal of one or more children across generations. Many people, families and communities are still coming to terms with the trauma that this has caused.