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Article by Lenore Skenazy of Free Range-Kids about Mary Duval a Champion Advocate who recently passed away. Folks, please take a few moments to read the comments following the Free Range-Kids article, Mary was loved by many. Click on the picture below to go to the article.
8-14-2010 National:
JoAnn Wypijewski Interviews RSOL Moms for CounterPunch
Early this summer an organization representing arguably the most despised people in America, and calling itself obliquely RSOL, for Reform Sex Offender Laws, met in Washington D.C. to allow people from across the country to talk strategy, lobby Congress and simply step from the heavy shadow of fear and shame.
From the looks on their face, it seems never to have occurred to Congressional aides that the 700,000-plus people on America’s sex offender registries might have loved ones, or might themselves finally have grown sick of keeping quiet. The aides surely were as clueless as I had been that in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico some of these people have been stopping ever more punitive legislation or revising existing law in the direction of sanity, and that the wives and, mostly, mothers of people on the registry had discovered the radical essence of simply speaking up.
I talked to three women. Only one, Mary Duval, who started a group called SOSEN in Oklahoma and co-hosts a weekly radio talk show, wanted to be identified by her full name. For the remainder of this article:
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