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Test Your Knowledge of Brainwashing

Test Your Knowledge of Brainwashing

I made these as a fun little way to help educate people about brainwashing, which is really just abusive psychological manipulation.

Brainwashing is just a nickname for a series of known psychological processes used to manipulate someone against their will.  It’s unethical, traumatizing, and it literally changes what is happening in the brain – without the person realizing what is happening.

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Posing With My Brother Husbands

Posing With My Brother Husbands

On January 17, 2013 at 3:00 in the afternoon, you might have caught a glimpse of a few celebrities on the courthouse steps in Salt Lake City, Utah. You might have even see me there too. I was the woman in red flanked by multiple husbands in matching frumpy white shirts, thanking God that I live in America, the land of the free.

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New Group Seeks To Keep Polygamy A Criminal Offense

New Group Seeks To Keep Polygamy A Criminal Offense

I recently went to Utah to take a stance against the decriminalization of polygamy. Did a couple press interviews, talked to reporters, and was mentioned in this City Weekly article.too.  The exact blurb mentioning me is below:

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Subjugating Women Through Polygamy. Utah, Hello???

Subjugating Women Through Polygamy. Utah, Hello???

Last night I watched a wonderful documentary on ABC’s 20/20 called “Breaking Polygamy.” I am a feminist and an activist for women’s rights, so I had previously written a piece to go along with a petition to sign, but I never launched it. I always worried that it wasn’t quite right, but today seems like a good day to put it online and see if I can get some quick feedback so we can get this party started. Here’s a clip, in case you missed it.

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Brainwashing is Psychological Abuse

Brainwashing is Psychological Abuse

In her book, Brainwashed, Kathleen Taylor describes her research on brainwashing and  “discusses how the extreme social psychological pressures that people undergo in brainwashing programs change the neurology and physiology of the brain.”

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Torture, Sacred Trust & Human Rights

Torture, Sacred Trust & Human Rights

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs continues to use his ecclesiastical power to impose tests of faith that inflict severe mental anguish on his followers. Granted, it’s no revelation that the convicted felon disregards the laws of the land – that’s why he’s in prison. But somehow, from prison, he was practically able to install his own totalitarian government and reign like a tyrannical dictator over a group of vulnerable, unprotected people. And he did it with the silent approval of officials.
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Exploitation of Believers

Exploitation of Believers

You may wonder how adult women could ever agree to join a cult, marry a polygamist or succumb to the exploitations of a priest. Cult expert Janja Lalich busts a cliche old myth and provides an answer that may surprise you.

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The Right to be Protected

The Right to be Protected

It’s clear that the obligation of the government is to protect the rights of those deprived of their liberty, yet governmental failures to protect individuals who are not in custodial settings also raise human rights concerns.

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Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration of Human Rights

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. These are basic human rights. How many human rights are being violated by polygamist cults and the states who fail to protect the people? Read the list and figure it out.

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Preamble to Human Rights

Preamble to Human Rights

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

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Get Inspired by Mother Teresa

Get Inspired by Mother Teresa

Have you ever seen a photo of a young Mother Teresa?  Odd, to think that she was a normal child once.  As a young girl she decided to live a life of serving others and she never waivered from that path.

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Radkids

Radkids

Since it’s inception in 1998, radKIDS®, Inc. has been committed to providing education that enhances the ability of children and parents to utilize knowledge, skills, and power to protect themselves from violence and harm. radKIDS® strengthens family, encourages physical fitness, and teaches core safety values to live by through its program. Fun, activity-based programs include lecture, safety drills, muscle memory exercises and dynamic simulation. radKIDS® community based programs have been offered as after school programs, day camps, recreation programs, as well as through scouting and religious youth groups.

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