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Systemic racism and abuse of Black student at St. Charles Borromeo School...

by Kenya Ratcliff Imagine you are young and full of vigor, full of curiosity about life, love, nature and all that surrounds you. Imagine also you are equipped with incredible gifts. You are an...

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Cages Kill-Freedom Rally in Santa Cruz

  by Courtney Hanson and Willow Katz of Sin Barras, Santa Cruz Sin Barras organized the Cages Kill-Freedom Rally to save lives after six people locked up in the Santa Cruz County Jail have died since...

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Part One: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her...

by Carol Harvey In 1999, San Francisco cops pounded on Liz Washington’s door and burst in with their hands on their guns. “It was like they were going to be in a shoot-out,” said Liz. Flourishing an...

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Part Two: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her...

by Carol Harvey Loud pounding exploded on Liz Washington’s townhouse door on Treasure Island one day in 2005. Her children’s father, a tall imposing man, was sorting laundry on the living room floor....

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Part 3A: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her...

by Carol Harvey Liz Washington on Treasure Island – Photo: Carol Harvey Liz Washington’s hand covered her phone. Through her next muffled choke, she blurted, “I have bad coughing fits.” Even laughing...

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Part 3B: Toxic stachybotrys mold, the silent killer, sickens Treasure Island...

by Carol Harvey Liz Washington on Treasure Island – Photo: Carol Harvey Health problems caused by mold Treasure Island resident Liz Washington and her children exhibit many of the most serious toxic...

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Part 4: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her kids

by Carol Harvey Chemically and radiologically polluted Treasure Island water causes gastrointestinal illness Liz Washington caught her breath in shock. The social worker phoned. “We’re taking custody...

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Imprisoned on Treasure Island

by Carol Harvey Liz Washington dedicates her story to Treasure Island mothers suffering Child Protective Services’ human rights abuses. Liz Washington Liz Washington’s Tenderloin apartment door...

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Extreme confidentiality conceals CPS wrongdoing, hurts the children

by Michelle Chan Most people who have never been through it have no idea how easily it can happen to them. Everyone has heard of Child Protective Services, or CPS. Many envision them as saviors of...

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Who cares when children are taken from home to foster home – and abused?

by Michelle Chan Our children are our future. We must nurture them, protect them, give them the tools necessary to survive in this harsh and unforgiving world. What if I told you that the very system...

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How does CPS decide when to sever kinship ties, adopt children out to strangers?

by Michelle Chan How does Child Protective Services balance a child’s best interests with the perceived risk that the child may have contact with an alleged “offending parent?” Who makes and un-makes...

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The vicious cycle of CPS intervention

by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption The abuse and traumatization of children strikes a chord in our society, resonating with our innate parental sensibilities and perpetuating a vicious...

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Misconduct and collusion by CPS attorneys in San Francisco Superior Court

by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption Parents are people. We are imperfect. We make mistakes. We struggle. And, sometimes, in the heat of the moment we say and do things we do not mean. For...

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Father fights San Francisco CPS and kangeroo court system

by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption (PACC) Joseph Bartholomew has turned his life around since being released from prison on July 13, 2017. Now all he wants is to be involved in his son’s...

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Amber Jackson’s story

by Amber Jackson In 1984, in San Diego, I was born to two parents with mental health problems. My parents put myself and my siblings through severe neglect, sexual abuse, physical and verbal abuse. I...

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San Francisco Unified School District, CPS and SFPD fail to protect special...

by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption (PACC) Once upon a time, Valentine’s Day was for lovers, for preschoolers to exchange crayoned hearts and stickered up cards, for mommies and boys and...

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Four new judges: A breath of fresh air

by Peter Santina Deputy public defenders (top, from left) Kwixuan Maloof, Phoenix Streets, Niki Solis and Maria Evangelista are running to replace sitting San Francisco Superior Court judges Cynthia...

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Parents whose children were taken by CPS file to recall three Contra Costa...

by Kristie Karkanen The mother who filed judicial recall notices against Contra Costa Judges Fannin, Hardie and Haight has been threatened in an attempt to silence her. The week she filed the notices,...

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PACC member and Justice-4-Pedie-Perez organizer murdered

by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption Kishana Harley and Patricia Perez at an Oscar Grant Foundation gala I still remember that day, that housing project, that door, and that frantic phone...

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Decriminalizing our lives – one family at a time

by Eddie, Jacqueline M, Teresa V, Maria X, Sarbella and Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia Voices in Poverty Resist series, South LA “I have no job and need to care for my 10-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son....

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