RADAR ACTION ALERT: Stop funding increase for wasteful, ineffective DV programs. Call your Congressperson today!

Just yesterday RADAR announced the release of our new special report (.pdf file), "$1 Billion for DV Programs That Misuse Taxpayer Money and Place Victims at Risk".  Our report could hardly have been more timely.  Just today we've learned of a major campaign to pressure legislators to increase the VAWA appropriation in the President's 2009 budget.

Please contact your Representative on Capitol Hill and tell them that Violence Against Women Act funds have been subject to widespread waste and fraud.  Furthermore, scores of research studies show that a great many domestic violence programs are ineffective at best and harmful at worst.  The National Academy of Sciences describes these programs as "driven by ideology and stakeholder interests rather than by plausible theories and scientific evidence of cause."  Tell your Representative you want to see funding spent on programs that actually work.

Refer them to RADAR's press release here and RADAR's Special Report at here (.pdf file) for further information.

To find your Representative's phone number, call: 202-224-3121.  Or you can look it up at http://www.house.gov/.

Your call will help counteract the campaign being organized by http://StopFamilyViolence.org/.

Please call today!