Families Resist CPS Rally May 11, 2022 California State Capitol
Fight Back Against CPS Injustice
Families Resist Rally at the California State Capitol
May 11, 2022. Sacramento, California.
The family policing system in the United States, aka Child Protective Services or CPS, has waged war on the American family. Black, Indigenous, and Poor families are especially vulnerable and as such are overrepresented in the system. Nationwide, black children account for only 14% of the population but represent nearly 25% of all CPS cases. Meanwhile, about half of all indigenous children will experience a child welfare investigation before they turn 18. And finally, since poverty is conflated with neglect and parental unfitness by the “child protection” system, poverty is the single most important predictor of placement in foster care and the amount of time spent there.
Moreover, the system lacks accountability, transparency, and oversight. Families are all too often unnecessarily destroyed and children are frequently placed in foster and group homes where conditions are worse than in the homes they were removed from. It is incredibly traumatizing to remove a child from everything they have ever known or loved. There is no reason why a family should be destroyed. Children should be protected and supported by the government by providing services to keep families together instead of assuming parents inability to care.
This must end. The time is now to come together and RESIST together, and to demand real and lasting change. Children deserve better and families belong together.
Please join us at the California State Capitol, West Steps, on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022.
Assembly Member Isaac Bryan will be one of the speakers at the Rally!!!!
Main Event 1pm: Rally and Protest March.
10am-12pm: Legislative Visits.
Lunch and sign-in sheet to speak will be put out at 12pm.
If you intend on participating in the legislative visits from 10-12, please register so you can stay updated on the schedule.
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Thank you so much Momii Palapaz for this amazing photograph of Lon Dale calling out CPS for it's racist practices.