It really does help. I’ll be speaking with the fabulous journalist Jane Caro from Down Under next week! Don’t forget to thank her for taking the time to talk to me, and please share her work! We need more gutsy reporters willing to take on the mighty Family Law industrial complex, and around the world.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/podcast/how-family-court-failing-traumatised-women
Here’s more you can do:
Send the link to this page to your favorite channel’s news tips, and tell ‘em the Girl Who Walked Across America for Democracy needs help! I’m sure my story will ring a bell. If you can’t be powerful, be memorable! Standing up for your rights is one of the holiest and most sacred of human rights. Use em or lose em!
If it is safe for you to do so on your social media, please share a bit about your own family law nightmare. If it isn’t safe, have a friend read your words. Especially interested in hearing from the child victims. For many, it will be the first time they share their stories, even with their friends. THAT’S how evil this industry has become, and why it must end immediately. Just leave out identifying details like names, please! For your safety and mine.
Through much quantitative study of social movements and unpaid ethnographic research, I have determined that we don’t need a violent revolution for change to happen. Just stop electing people that look and talk like game show hosts! Politics is supposed to be about people who like going to meetings stepping up and agreeing to serve their country and it’s people for a few years (no more than 4, please!). I don’t know how the hell we get to where we are today, but I promise you - the future is ours to make!
Start with just taking 23 actions this year of 2023 to stand up for yourself and/or others. You might want to do it more! See how that might multiply exponentially? I’ve seen happen! If I were organizing it, I’d call it #23for23 (w/ next year being #24fot24 etc), because democracy takes a while, but just take it one step at a time. It takes a lot of joining together with your communities and planning fun ways to get people more involved, and not just for the abolition of Family Law. I have more grievances, but this one first. You could totally save lives right now!
Stop thinking that non-profits, the police, or courts exist to help us or our loved ones. They DONT. They exist to perpetuate the problems, in my experience. Lawyers and judges are just people who really liked going to school, and they could afford to go. They are not clergy imbued with the powers of a god. They make mistakes, and plenty of them. Some of them should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for how they treat innocent people, and it is our right to report them to our state Judicial Commissions and demand transparency. And they should apologize! Those apologies should go out to all who have suffered silently through this hellish landscape of joyless court buildings. Let’s make that happen!
I’ve seen many a face of middle-class retirees the first time they stand in a food bank line. Let’s put em in a picket line instead! Ask for their help. Learn from their wisdom. You will ultimately do your own thing, just plan any action with mind to those with disabilities, and make everything accessible. The movement I want to build includes everybody! The only pledge required is this: If a government entity or person stands between you and what you’d like to do for your life, you will speak up! Speak for others! It’s like magic I *swear*.
Also if anyone knows anyone at the Guardian or Ronan Farrow, I’ve been sorta using them as my data cloud for a few years, but they don’t write me back. Ronan might HATE me, but he should at the very least know my case. Tell him it’s go-time, and to bring it!
Any other press or social media ideas you have, okay to just do them! Make your own events, and FILM IT. Post widely! Let’s make this the most popular campaign on change.org EVER.
Blessings and thank you to all. Keep sharing! It really helps.
- J & J