Vigil for Stolen Children
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Families across the world are proclaiming June 2025 the first annual Stolen Children’s Month, a time to honor the voices of stolen children and their families. This campaign was founded by Ashley Albert, and supported by advocates at organizations including Movement for Family Power, Operation Stop CPS, UpEND Movement, Reproductive Justice in Adoption, Reimagine Child Safety, and Parents Supporting Parents NY.
Learn more at stolenchildrensmonth.com and @stolenchildrensmonth on Instagram.
Systems of forced family separation–including family policing, youth incarceration, and immigrant detention and deportation–have long operated under the guise of child safety. But the reality is: the government is not protecting our children–the government is stealing our children. We, stolen children and our families, are reclaiming our narrative.
For generations, the stories of children stolen from their families have been erased from dominant narratives. The United States systematically and willfully ignores the life-long trauma of children torn from their homes and the deep, unhealed grief of parents forced to live without their children.
Meanwhile, the very systems that tear our families apart are celebrated. Each year, the United States celebrates holidays like National Adoption Month which romanticize, whitewash, and normalize the destruction of families. These celebrations hide the truth and spread the false idea that family separation is a force for good. This is why we proclaim June 2025 the first annual Stolen Children’s Month.
Please join us for an evening being with grief in honor of all children stolen from their kin.
🕯️Please bring an offering for the altar 🌱
We will open with somatic grounding & then move into Spoken Word open mic.
Ending with a moment of silence for justice.
💧Replenish yourself with water & Indigo Culinary Co.’s famous Hibiscus tea throughout the evening together 🌺
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