Human Rights and a Little Poetry
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FolkSense.com was begun in 2007 to make the DARAJA Case public, because no one else would. --
We discovered that US news media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times) and groups such as Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would not report human rights abuses by the US government, unless the information was already public - such as the torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. --
The only way to bring our case to public attention was to tell the story ourselves. -- And once we started, it seemed right to talk about other human rights issues as well. That's what we do: discussion of human rights, social justice and international law. -
FolkSense.com is a contemporary "Diary of Anne Frank". It is a public record of our experiences before and after we were forced to seek Refugee Status to escape persecution by the government of the United States. --
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We remain even now "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
We discovered that US news media (NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times) and groups such as Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would not report human rights abuses by the US government, unless the information was already public - such as the torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. --
The only way to bring our case to public attention was to tell the story ourselves. -- And once we started, it seemed right to talk about other human rights issues as well. That's what we do: discussion of human rights, social justice and international law. -
FolkSense.com is a contemporary "Diary of Anne Frank". It is a public record of our experiences before and after we were forced to seek Refugee Status to escape persecution by the government of the United States. --
There is a blackout of our case in the US. No one will investigate or report our story. Ours is one of the "invisible" human rights cases in the US. It has been eight full years since we were forced to leave our home. --
We remain even now "excluded" from the protections of civil law.
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