SUPPORT? is a film that covers the everyday issues of stress, family, struggle, and suffering that families experience when put through the detrimental, winding maneuvers of the Family Court systems, which are flooded with more cases than the labor force can handle or chooses NOT to handle.

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Film focuses on child welfare system
DOCUMENTARY: Former foster youths speak out; county CPS officials say the work lacks balance.
By DAVID SEATON / The Press-EnteRprise

Robin Morgan clasped his hands and nodded slowly as he watched himself talk about his painful memories of foster care.

Morgan was viewing the debut of "The Protectors," a documentary film about the child welfare system produced by a Lake Mathews area resident.

In the film, Morgan, now 20, recalls that his foster mother was nice at first. But she turned mean, he said, forcing him to call her "mom," and not changing the soiled clothes of his younger brother.

Morgan said he hopes the film will expose a broken child welfare system and the pain that it inflicts.

"I hope what we're doing ... actually opens the eyes of not only (social) workers, but the state, and the world to actually find out what's going on," said Morgan, now a student at the College of the Desert.

The hour-long documentary, a critical look into the foster care system, relies heavily on Riverside County sources.

The film was screened Wednesday at a juvenile court conference in Hollywood for former foster youths now living on their own.

Penny Styles McLean, owner of Small Potatoes Productions, said she was pleased at the positive reaction of former foster youths interviewed for the piece.

"The coolest thing was the kids told me, 'Yea, you told our story right'."

But Riverside County Child Protective Services officials who viewed the documentary Thursday night were not so enthusiastic.

"We wish it were more balanced," said CPS director Sharrell Blakeley. "We have outstanding social workers who almost commit their lives to this work, tough work with very few rewards, except that they make a difference for kids in the system."

McLean said requests for interviews were made to CPS managers through a now-retired social worker, Paul Legan. Blakeley said Friday that Dennis Boyle, director of social services, turned down Legan's request to participate.

McLean defended the fairness of the film and said she offered on Thursday to add CPS comments, but Blakeley declined.

"It's not pointing the finger, because I don't think that accomplishes a thing," McLean said. "It's, let's put the camera on them, and let people tell their stories. These people feel like they are drowning, and they are voiceless."

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http://www.smallpotatoesproductions.com/productions/protectors/index.php

The Drugging of our Children

Prescription For Disaster
(Gary Null) www.garynull.com
1 hr 32 min 56 sec - Oct 23, 2006

Vaccine Nation

At the end of the eighteenth century, British physician Edward Jenner, with highly questionable medical credentials, initiated the theory and practice of live virus immunization that continues to serve as the scientific basis for the ever increasing vaccination of the world’s citizens. With the number of vaccinations given to infants and children rising, kids are receiving doses of toxic mercury and other heavy metals well above environmental safety levels.

Yet the medical evidence is clear. Mercury, known as thimerosal, and other heavy metal additives are highly toxic and threaten children with neurological damage. The long-term efficacy of global vaccination remains controversial, inconclusive and is suspect in light of the powerful corporate interests, lobbying efforts, and profits associated with a multi-billion dollar vaccine industry..

In his documentary film Vaccine Nation, award-winning investigative film director Dr. Gary Null challenges the basic health claims by government health agencies and pharmaceutical firms that vaccines are perfectly safe. This is one of the most critical questions facing today’s children and future generations to come. If inoculation with a large regimen of vaccines is safe, what can account for the rapid increase in autism and other mental disabilities that are now at epidemic proportions? And why isn’t the sudden onset of neurological illnesses in children being treated as an urgent crisis by our government and medical industries?

Weaving together interviews with many of the nations most expert medical researchers, private physicians specializing in autism, parents of children victimized by immunization, congressmen, vaccination activists, legal authorities and more, Vaccine Nation will awaken viewers to one of the continual perils to the health and future of children.