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so i have a work rival now that someone in my district was able to secure a presentation from rep. jackie speier.

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jackie Speier, Rep. Anna Eshoo, and the rest of the CODEL land in Yerevan, Armenia (17th September, 2022)

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Meghan Markle seeks to put her mark on any piece of legislation. She's working w/CA Rep Jackie Speier on ERA ratification. (Burn down those phone lines.)

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Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier (CA) incited violence on Friday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Abortion laws will now be decided by the states. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” Justice Alito wrote. Democrat lawmakers such as Maxine Waters and AOC…

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She’ll be joined in Yerevan by Rep. JACKIE SPEIER (D-Calif.) [one of a handful of Armenian-American lawmakers in Congress] for a meeting with Prime Minister NIKOL PASHINYAN and other government officials.

15 Sep 22

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Former Moonies Tells of Training in Deception, Suicide

February 21, 1979

WASHINGTON—A former “Moonie” says she received suicide training while a member of the Unification Church, including specific instruction on how to slash her wrist.

Virginia Mabry, a 24-year-old Californian who spent a year as a follower of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, told a congressional inquiry on cults that she and others were under orders to commit suicide “if we were taken from the group or intended to leave our allegiance to Moon.”

In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Mabry said that in December, 1976, following the defection of some high-ranking church officials, a nurse who also was a church leader showed her group how to slash their wrists. “And if that wasn’t fast enough, we were told to go for the jugular vein,” she recounted.

In the event a “Moonie” was captured by a “deprogrammer,” a different method of death was preferred. “You were to throw yourself in front of a car so that the deprogrammer would be blamed for your death,” Mabry averred.

Mabry’s accusations came as Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., undeterred by an intensive lobbying and intimidation effort by Moon’s disciples, chaired an informal inquiry into cults and their mind-control techniques.

Although the hearing wasn’t directed at any particular sect, the Moonies, crying “witch-hunt,” dispatched at least 90 national and state leaders to Congress in an attempt to quash the session. When unsuccessful, they helped pack the giant meeting room and periodically interrupted proceedings with shouts of “liar” in response to critical witnesses. Outside, a protest demonstration was held, replete with band and chants.

Some religious leaders and theologians protested the hearing as an encroachment of the First Amendment right of religious freedom.

“Government is not competent to judge which religious groups are good and which are bad anymore than it can tell which religious are true and which are false,” declared Dr. James K. Wood Jr., executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs.

But Rep. Robert N. Giaimo, D-Conn., pointed out that the mantle of religion does not protect sects that break the law or abuse individual human rights, as has been alleged by a number of groups, including the Moonies.

The star witness, who was wearing a special device to help rehabilitate her mangled arm, was a vivid reminder of recent cult horrors.

Jackie Speier, who was wounded in the Jonestown attack that killed her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan. D-Calif., noted that some cults espouse religious beliefs while pursuing a quite different course. She admonished the panel to remember “perhaps the singularly most important factor of Jonestown: It can happen again.”

Mabry claimed that the Unification Church taught that “murder is okay if it’s done in the name of the cause. . . specifically, world domination by Moon.”

In written testimony, she asserted that as a bookkeeper and fundraiser, she was ordered to commit “heavenly deception — a Unification term for fraud and deceit.” Among other things, she said she and others censored mail and telephone calls, solicited money under false pretenses, sold food donated for charity at a profit, manipulated accounting records, received state welfare for medical expenses fraudulently, stole ex-members papers and knowingly disobeyed laws. All of this was done under orders of church leaders, Mabry said.

Mabry said she almost committed suicide when she left the Unification Church a year and a half ago. “Over and over again, you were told by higher-ups, ‘You have to be willing to give your life, you have to be willing to die for the cause.’ We were told that you’ve left your allegiance with God…

“That’s why I considered suicide. I felt like Satan was a part of me because I was leaving the church,” she said. “But I had so much love for the friends I went and stayed with and my parents that I just knew that it wasn’t right, what I was taught.” Mabry sought help from a Catholic priest in Eugene, Ore.

Rabbi Maurice Davis of White Plains, N.Y., who claims to have separated 128 young people from cults, said cults generally have dictatorial leaders, unlimited funds, and a philosophy of “instilling fear, hatred and suspicion of the outside world in order to keep the victims in line.”

“Put them all together and you have a prescription for violence, death and for destruction. It is a formula that fits the Nazi youth movement as accurately as it describes the Unification Church or the Peoples Temple,” he said.

“I am not here to protest against religion or religions,” added the Rabbi. “I am here to protest against child molesters. For as surely as there are those who lure children with lollypops in order to rape their bodies, so, too, do these lure children with candy-coated lies in order to rape their minds.”

A host of witnesses called for new laws to crack down on cults. But most theologians claimed that existing criminal laws cover any illegal behavior and that any new ones might interfere with religious freedoms.

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February 19, 1979

Moonies push suicide, 3 allege

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — Three former members of the Unification Church say mass-suicide was advocated among followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and there is potential for a “replay of Jonestown.”

The former members said over the weekend they had been encouraged to commit suicide rather than give up their beliefs. Moon church officials have consistently denied they would contemplate any such actions.

Shelly Turner, of Warwick, said she was repeatedly taught that it was better to be dead than to be a “Judas.” She said she was taught it was better to kill her parents than to let Moon be killed.

Miss Turner, Virginia Mabry, of Pennsylvania, and Rita Ashdale, of Boston, commented in telephone interviews on charges made at a news conference in Providence Friday by Robert B. Boettcher, staff director for the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on international organizations.

Boettcher said members of Moon’s church are being schooled in suicide techniques.

Miss Mabry said she and 25 others were taught in San Francisco in 1976 how to cut their wrists if they were taken captive by “deprogrammers.”

“They asked if any of us had any other ideas, and there were a lot of suggestions from the group of other ways of committing suicide,” she said. “It was sort of a contest to see who could come up with the best way.”

Miss Ashdale, a Boston University student, said: “The brainwashing technique is much more complete than it was in the People’s Temple.”

The People’s Temple in Guyana was the site of the mass-murder suicide of 900 people last November.

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Jackie Speier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Speier

Speier entered politics by serving as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of his November 1978 fact-finding mission organized to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown, Guyana, with Jones in 1977 and 1978.

Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people were killed, including Ryan. While trying to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with other team members, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived. The same day, over 900 remaining members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown and Georgetown in a mass murder-suicide.

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Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy#Outgoing #Rep #Jackie #Speier #surviving #Jonestown #Congressional #legacy

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Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy – CBS News Watch CBS News Rep. Jackie Speier of California made the choice not to run for re-election this year. CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane speaks with the congresswoman on how her experience of getting caught in an ambush by Jonestown cult members as a congressional staffer 44 years ago influenced her life dedicated to…

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First Lady Jill Biden Tours UCSF During Bay Area Visit NBC Bay Area

First Girl Jill Biden spent her Day Friday touring the College of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Helen Diller Household Complete Most cancers Heart for an up-close take a look at native efforts to battle breast most cancers U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier and different elected officers accompanied Biden on the tour, which the First Girl’s workplace stated was to spotlight the Most cancers Moonshot initiative of her husband, President Joe Biden, in addition to to mark Breast Most cancers Consciousness Month. The initiative seeks to chop the dying price from most cancers by at the least 50% over the following 25 years. The First Girl shared private tales together with the story of 4 buddies who had been identified with breast most cancers on the similar time. “My journey continued within the most cancers area with each my dad and mom, my sister and naturally, the lack of our son,” Biden stated. “So, it’s private and I feel that makes us much more extra passionate as a result of we have now gone by means of this journey.” Friday’s dialogue together with not solely docs and researchers but in addition sufferers. “When Dr. Esserman known as to inform me {that a} spherical of injections had apparently reversed my early stage breast most cancers in a matter of weeks, I used to be elated and I advised her. Then, I’d love to speak to folks about my expertise,” stated affected person Penny Marienthal. She stated how her case was dealt with was key in getting her from a daunting prognosis to a spot of hope and confidence. “I feel you’re fairly courageous as a result of I feel at the least it’s arduous to undergo all of the remedies you must undergo in having the illness of most cancers after which, to be requested to be in a medical trial takes a number of braveness, as a result of you could have been by means of a lot already,” Biden stated. This was Biden’s first journey to the campus as first woman. However not her first go to. She had an analogous tour again in 2016. Biden then joined Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others on the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee’s Girls’s Lunch and Points Convention on the Fairmont San Francisco Resort within the metropolis’s Nob Hill neighborhood. In response to pool experiences, Biden talked about how “extremist Republicans are passing state legal guidelines that forestall ladies from getting the well being care they want,” and recounted her mom permitting her good friend to get well at their household’s residence after getting an abortion within the late Nineteen Sixties. “Secrecy. Disgrace. Silence. Hazard. Even dying. That is what outlined that point for thus many ladies,” she stated. The First Girl was going to journey to the state of Washington following her go to to the Bay Space. Bay Metropolis Information contributed to the report. Supply hyperlink Originally published at SF Newsvine

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Nancy Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Armenia

Nancy Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Armenia

The trip is intended to highlight the United States’ “firm commitment to a peaceful, prosperous and democratic Armenia, and a stable and secure Caucasus region,” the California Democrat said in a statement Saturday. Joining Pelosi are Democratic lawmakers she referred to on Twitter as “proud and longtime champions of Armenia”: Reps. Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Jackie Speier of California,…

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with Reps Jackie Speier and Anna Eshoo - Armenian Genocide Museum (18th September, 2022)

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Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Armenia : Inside US

Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Armenia : Inside US

The trip is intended to highlight the United States’ “firm commitment to a peaceful, prosperous and democratic Armenia, and a stable and secure Caucasus region,” the California Democrat said in a statement Saturday. Joining Pelosi are Democratic lawmakers she referred to on Twitter as “proud and longtime champions of Armenia”: Reps. Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Jackie Speier of California,…

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Women have taken significant risks to defend access to abortion today

Women have taken significant risks to defend access to abortion today

Seventeen members of Congress were arrested outside the Supreme Court today as they protested the High Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Among those arrested for “unlawful protest activity” — that is, blocking traffic during the protest — included Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Katherine…

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HIGHLIGHTS FOR ABC NEWS’ ‘GMA3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW,’ JULY 11-15

The following report highlights the programming of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know” during the week of July 11-15. “GMA3: What You Need to Know” is a one-hour program co-anchored by Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, with Dr. Jennifer Ashton as chief medical correspondent. The news program airs weekdays at 1:00 p.m. EDT | 12:00 p.m. CDT on ABC, and 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EDT on ABC News Live.

Highlights of the week include the following:

Monday, July 11 — Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA); Money Monday with author and money expert Nicole Lapin; actor Simon Pegg (“Luck”)

Tuesday, July 12 — Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney; Parents Editor-in-Chief Grace Bastidas

Wednesday, July 13 — Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA); author and Clever Girl Finance CEO Bola Sokunbi (“Choosing to Prosper”); a performance by Ashanti; Deals and Steals with ABC e-commerce editor Tory Johnson

Thursday, July 14 — Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO); Olympian Allyson Felix; beauty and lifestyle expert Milly Almodovar; actress Rachel Dratch (“I Love My Dad”)

Friday, July 15  — Condé Nast Traveler executive editor Erin Florio; Faith Friday with film producer and author DeVon Franklin (“It Takes a Woman”); GMA Summer Concert Series continues with a performance by OneRepublic

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Democrat Rep. Speier Wants States Banning Abortions To Force 'Impregnator' To Pay $350,000 'Bond'

Democrat Rep. Speier Wants States Banning Abortions To Force ‘Impregnator’ To Pay $350,000 ‘Bond’

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, condemned the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and suggested that states banning abortion should force the “impregnator” to post a $350,000 “bond” to help take care of the child. Speier, who shared her personal story of abortion on the House floor in a 2011 speech, was shown a clip of that moment…

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Democrat Rep. Speier Wants States Banning Abortions To Force 'Impregnator' To Pay $350,000 'Bond'

Democrat Rep. Speier Wants States Banning Abortions To Force ‘Impregnator’ To Pay $350,000 ‘Bond’

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, condemned the Supreme Courtroom’s current resolution to overturn Roe v. Wade and prompt that states banning abortion ought to drive the “impregnator” to publish a $350,000 “bond” to assist care for the kid. Speier, who shared her private story of abortion on the Home ground in a 2011 speech, was proven a clip of that…