The thousands of letters, faxes, phone calls, and personal visits we've been making are beginning to work. Our lobbyists in Washington say the doors are beginning to swing open, and our message is being heard more sympathetically.

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Roy writes "If you thought feminists were in favor of Equal Employment Opportunity, apparently that doesn't extend to hiring a man to oversee a battered women's shelter. The battle over the next director of (Boston's) Transition House has got activists in the shelter system questioning whether embracing male leadership is the next logical step in the progress of the shelter movement or a violation of its mission to protect and treat women and children affected by domestic violence. Some feminists protest - "We human rights activists have always had the vision of abolishing male violence--not making a living off of it. It's such a regrettable irony that some men (and women) previously opposed to feminism are now doing just that by exploiting the initiatives of feminists and making a profit off of male violence against women."

Full article here."

A Study on the health and human services website shows that women child abusers outnumber men by a ratio of 2:1.

radikal writes "
Story here:

A 13-year-old boy threw his body in front of a little girl early yesterday as a gunman sprayed a Brooklyn stoop with bullets, wounding the two children, police said."

Anonymous User writes "
This is an article about how Canadian parents (mostly dads) will now be forced to pay increased back support payments even though they have abided by the courts decisions over the last 15 years. This is disgusting. There should be income support limits. Why should you pay a woman 50,000 a month just because you are a millionaire? The payment is for the clothing, shelter and education of a child. This can be easily achieved for no more than $2000 a month maximum (assuming that she is also responsible for the other half)

This is getting out of hand. No wonder so many honest guys these days simply just leave the country."

VIP SAFE NH writes "

Executive Director of SAFE-NH accepts nomination to the Board of Director's of NH TREE

Lee Newman, Executive Director of SAFE-NH and his wife were recently invited to attend the quarterly Board of Director's meeting and dinner of New Hampshire Transgender Resources for Education and Empowerment.
NH TREE is a non-profit Transgendered Rights organization which among other initiatives holds a Spring Summit (conference)on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in collaboration with the UNH Alliance for GLBTQ students.
Mr. Newman had met with Sarah Thompson the Executive Director of NH TREE several months ago to discuss future possible collaborations between the two organizations due to the fact that SAFE-NH provides services and support to Transgendered clients who have experienced intimate partner violence/domestic violence. Many Transgendered individuals "identify" as gay and lesbian as well as heterosexual so the fact that SAFE-NH counts ALL victims and survivors among their clients is conducive to some collaborative efforts between these organizations.

During the quarterly meeting ,Mr. Newman was asked to join as a Director, after nomination and voting was completed, Mr. Newman accepted a seat on the Board.

The Board then made decisions regarding upcoming initiatives and discussions listed on the agenda. Mr. Newman is looking forward to a positive and productive term with NH TREE."

With age not always comeths wisdom, I suppose. The latest example is here.

Ray writes " VAWA Reauthorization: Billions for battered women, not a penny for battered men!

Mark Rosenthal writes: "Even after receiving $5.1 billion under the past two VAWA bills, battered women's advocates still argue that there's too little money, and therefore the government should allocate no funding whatsoever for organizations whose primary purpose is to help the 835,000 men the U.S. Dept. of Justice estimates are assaulted by their partner annually.7 Yet somehow there's enough money in the current $4.2 billion VAWA reauthorization bill to make special provisions for an estimated 32,600 Native Americans,8 but of course, only if those Native Americans are female. No males need apply."

Steven Brown writes "For British people: On BBC2 this Monday evening (Aug. 22) at 7:00 PM is the beginning of a 'light-hearted' series all about how 'desperate housewives' are using dog-training techniques to train their husbands... a Chris Morris type spoof? I'm afraid not. Link here."

Anonymous User writes "An article written by a woman interviewing, interestingly, only women, about who loses out more financially in breakups. I wonder how the article would look if it was oh, equal in information and interviewees. Nothing new here but it is amazing how blatantly MSN can take sides on these issues."

Miss A writes "This post quotes NJ and NY judges on the treatment of men in the family courts. If this is what judges say on the record, imagine how bad the situation really is."

Evil White Male Oppressor writes "BREAKING NEWS: Long-time British newsreader has had enough and blasts the changes a feminist society has wrought. NOT-SO-BREAKING-NEWS: Is Anybody Really Listening Anymore?"

Anonymous User writes "Wade Horn, Asst. Secretary for Families and Children speaks out about men's loss of rights in divorce, in a recent NRO article. Could this indicate a change in the way our government veiws men?"

Congress reconvenes after Labor Day, a mere three weeks from now. Since the Violence Against Women Act expires September 30th, it's likely that the 2005 reauthorization bill will be one of the first things to be considered by Congress once they're back in session.

During the coming three weeks our lobbyists will be meeting with congressional staffmembers, working to convince them to remove the gender-bias from the bill. But those who want the discrimination to continue will be lobbying hard as well.

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VIP SAFE NH writes "Lee Newman, Executive Director of SAFE-NH was nominated, recently elected and named Co-Chair of the Greater Derry Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.

Mr. Newman has been an active and contributing member of this council for 2 years and is pleased to be able to continue his necessary and important work with the council in this new capacity. Mr. Newman will also be the council's Administrative contact for it's website which is in development."

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