In 2006, RADAR greatly expanded its activities over the previous year, continuing to monitor for media bias and promoting advocacy efforts from the local level all the way to the United Nations. RADAR also maintained an active presence in the U.S House of Representatives and Senate.

During the year, RADAR issued 44 Alerts, 15 press releases, 8 Special Reports, and organized 3 major campaigns. In the process, an estimated 20 million learned the truth of domestic violence and how the Violence Against Women Act violates civil liberties.

RADAR also spearheaded a national consortium of concerned groups, the VAWA Reform Coalition, which grew to 62 affiliates by year end.

Passage of the Violence Against Women Act

On January 5, President Bush signed into law the 2005 Violence Against Women Act. The law contained the following non-exclusionary wording in Section 40002(b)(8):

"Nothing in this title shall be construed to prohibit male victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking from receiving benefits and services under this title."

The wording in this article is very vague -- probably because of the media ban that has been put into effect.

Was Elaine Campione charged with murdering another one of her children before the two more recent murders that landed her in jail? Excerpt:

'A woman charged with murdering her newborn baby has regained the right to spend time with the child's surviving twin.

"The baby's father is devastated," the man's Toronto lawyer, Irving Solnik, said yesterday.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A 21-year-old German woman who did not feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped.

Police in the Bavarian town of Straubing said Wednesday they had launched a massive search throughout the region for the woman who disappeared on December 23 but turned up unscathed the following morning, saying the kidnapper had set her free.'

Lawyers for the three railroaded Duke Lacrosse Players have sought federal intervention from the U.S. Attorney General. They have clearly demonstrated that their civil rights have been violated and that a higher branch of government must step in to protect it's citizens from out an of control local government. I can't help but wonder if this is history in the making? Perhaps we as MRAs will look back on these events as the beginning of our own revolution which has been so long in the making?

Link here:

NOW invites all NOW members and INTERESTED PERSONS to submit a workshop proposal for the 2007 National Conference. We will be gathering in Dearborn, Michigan at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, July 13-15, 2007.

Proposals will be reviewed and accepted if they are timely, inclusive and directly related to NOW's feminist issues...

Panelists and topics should reflect DIVERSE populations and perspectives and each workshop should incorporate the following components if possible:

A. The nuts and bolts of the issue/topic from a FEMINIST perspective - with a focus on current policy discussions or skill building."

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Interesting that the instructions state a need to reflect
“diversity" ... from a "feminist perspective”!

Anybody want to propose a workshop on “Why N.O.W. Is Then?”

As in O-V-E-R? (The average age of a N.O.W. member is a big secret, because they have almost ZERO members under age 50!)

This op-ed purports to defend male rape victims, but Susan Estrich's feminist bias eventually emerges when she says things like, "boys need to be taught that it isn't their fault if a man rapes you," and also where she suggests that men's reluctance to report rape stems from "male ego."

Estrich also doesn't call it "female ego" when women are reluctant to report rape. Somehow that's only when it's a male. And she completely ignores female perpetrators, of course. She is certainly familiar with all the statutory rape being committed by female teachers. And women do forcefully rape men, especially physically or mentally disabled men, young boys, etc. One such case was just posted on this site, in which two Kuwaiti women were sentenced to 7 years in jail for kidnapping, beating and forcefully raping a man.

Since this is the season for Presidential pardons how about one for H. Beatty Chadwick? He has been in jail for 11 years now for contempt because some misandric tyrant in a black robe thinks he is holding out on assets in his long ago divorce case.

Link here.

James Brown must be doing a soulful dance in heaven knowing that his bitch-wife #4 (who 911-d him with DV allegations) is learning how to sing the lyrics of his first hit song -- "Please,please, please!"

Article excerpt: "James Brown’s widow said Monday she was denied access to the home she shared with the singer and their 5-year-old son, claiming the gate was padlocked at the request of Brown’s lawyer and accountant. Tomi Rae Brown, 36, who was one of James Brown’s backup singers, said she was at a retreat when her 73-year-old husband died shortly after he was hospitalized in Atlanta. “The last thing he said to me was, ‘I love you baby and I’ll see you soon,”’ she told The Augusta Chronicle."

Nadia Lockyer, the wife of outgoing California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, has just taken over as Executive Director of the Alameda County Family Justice Center in Oakland California. Please take a look at this brochure (.pdf file).

For those of you who do not know, the "Family Justice" centers are one stop shopping for people who allege domestic violence. But though by law they have to be gender neutral, they are being funded by grants from the US Department of Justice "Office on Violence Against Women" -- the OVW.

At the centers, women who claim to have been abused get free legal help, not just counseling with prosecutors, but child custody, divorce, and even immigration lawyers. Under a special loophole in the immigration laws, if a woman comes here on a marriage visa, and breaks up with her husband quickly, but alleges domestic violence, she can apply for a special visa and gain permanent entry to the United States.

Story here. Excerpt:

"The two women were convicted of raping the man by forcing him to have sex against his will, Al-Rai newspaper said, without providing their names or that of their victim."

"They were also found guilty of beating the man, who filed a medical report to the court."

Story here. Excerpt:

"The nation's first openly lesbian big-city fire chief was demoted without severance pay Friday amid allegations of discrimination and sexual harassment."

"She will be completely and permanently stripped of ever holding leadership or management in the city," the mayor said. "She has been severely and significantly demoted, and her pay will be cut by $40,000."

Special thanks to Joseph Neff and Benjamin Niolet, Staff Writers at the News and Observer for this article. Excerpt:

'DURHAM - To press forward in the Duke University lacrosse case, District Attorney Mike Nifong must rely on scanty evidence while deflecting serious questions about whether he broke the law or violated the ethics rules governing prosecutors.

Nifong has acknowledged that the case now hangs on what the accuser says from the witness stand in a hearing scheduled for February. Meanwhile, pressure on Nifong continues to build.'

Article here. Excerpt:

"This is a betrayal. If this rape allegation was false, then it is the lowest thing a woman can do to other women."

"It's not just about the Duke case. It's about all the other cases involving a sports culture that objectifies women and rewards a ridiculous hubris and machismo."

"A real problem exists in this sports culture, and a false rape accusation in such a public case serves only to hurt the real victims everywhere else."

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Ed. note: The author of the article can be reached at gcouch-at-suntimes.com.

Letters to the editor can be sent through this form.

Story here. Excerpt:

"A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on charges of first-degree attempted murder and child abuse after being accused of forcing her 10-month-old daughter to drink bleach."

"Liverine Cajuste told Winter Haven Police Department officers that she tried to kill herself and her daughter, Luciene Beawbrin, because she was depressed."

Story here. Excerpt:

"A 23-year old Newton woman was arrested Thursday morning and charged with making a false rape report to authorities."

"On Nov. 6, Sereca Thomas, 23, of Spring Street, told Newton Police she was attacked and sexually assaulted in the lower Spring Street area by Hispanic men late Nov. 3."

"Thomas was charged with a disorderly persons offense."

F.Y.I... A lower misdemeanor type criminal matter is under the "Disorderly Person" offense