UPDATE, 22 SEPTEMBER: Good news, but your help is still urgently needed! U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus released a list of proposed amendments that he was immediately accepting for addition to the health care legislation. This document - called the "Chairman's Mark" - includes the original health reform legislation plus the automatically adopted amendments. This will likely the base text that the Committee members will debate. The good news: the Elder Justice Act (EJA) was included in the Chairman's Mark. What does this mean for the EJA? It means that if the Finance Committee approves its version of health reform legislation later this week or next, the Senate will have once again approved the EJA. But we still need the U.S. House of Representatives for the EJA to become law. It also means that your voice is crucial for securing House support for the EJA - please act now.
My grandmother’s life intersected squarely with the unprecedented rise in life expectancy for all elders. This rise has also led to one of our greatest silent crises: elder abuse.
Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning documentary film that tells the story of three immigrant women working in garment sweatshops of Los Angeles. Although it portrays the dark side of consumerism, it also explores the power of workers and advocates coming together to fight for immigrant workers' rights. In the film, the three women take a stand and fight for basic labor protections from the popular clothing retailer Forever 21. The film highlights the ways in which the American immigration syst
IT'S TIME TO SPEAK OUT
On May 22nd in theatres across the United States, actor William Mapother - best known for his role as Ethan in the television series Lost - will ask all Americans to join him in the fight to end elder abuse and restore rights for older Americans.
A human rights and environmental lawyer once remarked, "In this life, once you have opened your eyes you can never close them again."
Minutes past midnight on March 24th, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck the Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of oil into the water. The spill set off a chain of events that changed the way of life and cultural practices for thousands of Alaskans who were dependent on subsistence and commercial fishing.
Leslie Ironroad was only 20 years old when she was brutally raped by a group of men near her South Dakota reservation in 2003. Leslie gave an officer from the Bureau of Indian Police a statement about her attack from her hospital bed, including the names of her attackers. Leslie died one week later and even though the Bureau of Indian Police had the names of each of her attackers, no investigation was made. Fo
