Silent Voices No More

WKTV, a television station out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is deserving of recognition for their willingness to air a daring program which gives voice to victims and survivors of Domestic Violence and Judicial Terrorism.  The program runs 30 minutes and airs Wednesday afternoons at 3:30 pm EST.  In the Grand Rapids area, this is Comcast channel 25; and throughout the rest of Michigan, the program can be found on AT&T U-verse channel 99.

Those who have hosted this interview series are no strangers to the issue of Judicial Terrorism, and thus are apt in aiding victims and survivors in sharing their stories.   The producer and founding host of the show is Dennis Lawrence.  He and his wife had physical and legal custody of their grandchildren for a year when they were taken as wards of the State without cause and without any report or suspicion of wrong-doing on the Lawrence’s part.

The other current host is Domestic Violence Victims Advocate Maria Bauer Melinn, whose traumatic case is the stuff movies are made of.  Her back was broken by her then-husband in 1998, and to add insult to injury, a corrupt judge decided that her abuser, who also abuses the children, should have physical custody of his young victims.

Those outside of Michigan, or those wishing to view past broadcasts, can find them archived on the Michigan for Parental Rights webpage and/or on that organization’s youtube channel.

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History of the NWP

The National Woman’s Party (NWP) was founded by Dr. Alice Paul, Ph.D., a Quaker, in 1917, in order to promote women’s suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton had passed away in 1902, and Susan B Anthony followed in 1906, leaving a leadership vacuum for the cause. Enter the NWP. After just three short years of NWP effort, the Susan B Anthony Amendment (19th Amendment) was ratified, granting the right to vote to US women – a harrowing victory for womankind!

After that victory, another battle was launched – one for functional equality between men and women in all aspects of American life. This led to the drafting of the Equal Rights Amendment, aka the Lucretia Mott Amendment, in 1923. This passed Congress in 1972, but fell 3 states short of ratification. We have reintroduced it to every Congress since… and are still working for its ratification 50 years later. We have accomplished this in the League of Nations and the United Nations… in the 1940s and 1950s… but to date, the US refuses to follow suit.

This battle wages on, but the Mott Amendment is not our only battlefield. We also work to clean house in the state Legislatures, Congress, the White House, and especially in the nation’s courts. We will not be silent and we will not be silenced until we have victories on all fronts!