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Clare asked Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Irish state would issue an apology to the thousands of Irish people who were illegally adopted in this country as other jurisdictions such as Australia and the U.K. have issued similar apologes. Click on the link below to watch:
by Jamison Maeda
In the world’s tiniest gesture of goodwill, Gap Inc. changed the background photo on their Twitter account to a South Asian male model. Several people were very moved by this apparent display of racial sensitivity. However other more socially aware consumers remembered that much of Gap’s clothing is made by children as young as 5 years old in South Asian sweatshops.
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by Jamison Maeda
As political and religious leaders continue to flood the airwaves with decades old rhetoric about family values and the American way of life, ordinary people mourn the death of a another child murdered by the very people who adopted her.
Hana Alemu was born in Ethiopia, and adopted by an America couple from Washington State. Carri and Larry Williams, the adoptive parents, beat, starved and tortured Hana. They kept her locked in a closet or outside where she used an outdoor toilet and was hosed down with cold water.
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken for developing plant science here.
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