Cynthia Maloney Special to Global News Centre

Today is Independence Day. This is a day to celebrate America’s history of independence and freedom. As you celebrate today I want you to consider how free you truly are. Were you allowed the freedom to a whole unaltered body? Were you allowed the freedom to decide for yourself what body parts you were able to keep? In the Declaration of Independence, the entire reason behind the celebration of the day, we are told:  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”The forced genital cutting of infants and children is a direct violation of these truths. The forced genital cutting of infants and children takes these basic rights away.  For nearly two months now I have been featuring an intactivist from each of the 50 States every day in order for you to see that we are not a fringe group. We are Americans demanding for the rights that we were promised in the Declaration of Independence. We are Americans demanding that our son’s Constitutional rights not be violated. We come from all corners of the country, all walks of life and we are angry and disgusted at this blatant violation of human rights. Each of the people in this video has taken a stand to end the forced genital cutting of infants and children. Every person in this video is doing something to protect the basic human rights of children. The intactivists featured in this video:

Alabama: Nicole Warren Brown

Alaska: Rosemary Romberg

Arizona: Lawn Griffiths

Arkansas: Whitney Neidhart Waggoner

California: Brian Herrity

Colorado: Gillian Longley

Connecticut: Amber & Andrew Showalter

Delaware: Amanda Elise Becker

Florida: David Wilson

Georgia: Aubrey Terron

Hawaii: Harry Guiremand

Idaho: Sarah Anne

Illinois: Matthew Weyer

Indiana: Seth Anderson

Iowa: Kimberlie Wolff

Kansas: Ryan Lewis

Kentucky: Haileigh Elizabeth Bennet

Louisiana: Callie Gillard

Maine: Janna Todd

Maryland: Ryan McAllister

Massachusetts: Kenneth Thomas

Michigan: Norm Cohen

Minnesota: Deltrece Craven-Roth

Mississippi: Amelie Hahn

Missouri: Patricia Robinett

Montana: Minga Farley

Nebraska: Chad Perez

Nevada: Eddy Cameron

New Hampshire Mary Bristol

New Jersey: Craig Adams

New Mexico: Christiana Elizabeth Furnari

New York: Jonathan Friedman

North Carolina: Celeste Melody Lyons

North Dakota: Annie Magnan

Ohio: Ryan M Chovan

Oklahoma: Autumn Nikelle Martin​

Oregon: Achlee Johnson

Pennsylvania: Sandy Roman

Rhode Island: Michelle Merritt

South Carolina: David Paxson

South Dakota: Eleanore Fontanelle

Tennessee: Ashvin Rawtani

Texas: Teri Mitchell

Utah: Ashley Hopper

Vermont: Amanda Fortier

Virginia: Robert Clover Johnson

Washington: Lainey Clark

West Virginia: Chelsea Fields

Wisconsin: Steven Wasmundt

Wyoming: Amanda Campbell

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!!

Other intactivists seen in this video:

Cynthia Maloney, from Massachusetts, seen in the Delaware photo.

James Loewen, from Vancouver, Seen in the Georgia photo.

Marilyn Milos, from California, seen in the Maryland photo

Brother K, from California, seen in Mississippi, New Hampshire and West Virginia photos

David Atkinson, from Massachusetts and New York, seen in Mississippi and Tennessee photos.

Lauren Meyer, New Jersey

Danielle Cruzen, From California, seen in the Ohio photo

Danelle Frisbee, Rhode Island

Tanya Cain, Texas

Andi Smith, Texas

A special thanks to James Loewen for openly sharing his photographs and videos. I’d also like to thank Danelle Frisbee for allowing me to use some of her beautiful photography for this project as well. And a special thanks to Brother K and Carrie Simon for helping me to find the right intactivists for this project!

I would also like thank Ace Knight for use of his amazing intactivist anthem! This video would not have been the same without it! I could not have dreamed of a better sound track!

And to Jonathon Conte, wherever you are, your work was not in vain. You made a huge difference in the lives of each and every one of us. We will continue this fight. We will continue to educate and we will change the culture.

“If we don’t talk about it it’s never going to end. And it’s got to end. It has to end. It absolutely has to end” ~ Jonathon Conte ~

Video production by Cynthia Maloney

Music Production by Ace Knight feat. Professor D/Encore Music Academy,  

Photography by James Loemen

Video Production by Cynthia Maloney

Ace Knight with directors at Encore Music Academy & Recording Studios

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Music Commissioned by award winning journalist Tim King

With almost 25 years of experience on the west coast and worldwide as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor, Tim King is owner  and Executive News Editor of GlobalNewsCentre.com. His background includes covering the war in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, and reporting from the Iraq war in 2008. Tim is a former U.S. Marine who follows stories of Marines and Marine Veterans; he’s covered British Royal Marines and in Iraq, Tim embedded with the same unit he served with in the 1980′s. Tim holds awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing from traditional mainstream news agencies like The Associated Press and Electronic Media Association; he also holds awards from the National Coalition of Motorcyclists, the Oregon Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs; and was presented with a ‘Good Neighbor Award’ for his reporting, by the The Red Cross.

Ace Knight is a multi-talented freelance journalist who has been making videos professionally for on-line news, musicians, academics, and others for several years. He is also a student of comparative religion whose writings have been praised and reviewed by noted scholars in the field. In addition to these accomplishments, he is also a composer and writer of songs, a couple of which are being used in one of the biggest parades in America. Despite all of these achievements, he says that his most important goal is to serve humanity as embodied in his love for his family and the raising of his three sons.

Say No to Infant Circumcision —Ace Knight with his boys