SAVE takes on Verizon

The Verizon Foundation has produced a frightening video titled Monsters. The video's perverse message can be summed up in this slide: "She's afraid of her dad."

The video revels in powerful yet destructive stereotypes: fathers as abusers, wives as victims, and young boys as future abusers. The video tells the impressionable viewer:

"The child who lives with domestic violence... is afraid of the monster just down the hall," a girl's voiceover intones, while frightening images of a hunchbacked monster-dad flit across the screen: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/52044-verizon-foundation-national-domestic-hotline-video-launch-monsters click here

To be honest this video is not just biased, it's awful. Tell Verizon (politely) to clean up its act.

Contact Bob Varettoni, Executive Director of Media Relations:
•Telephone: (908) 559-6388
•Email: robert.a.varettoni@verizon.com


Please call today - thanks!

Sincerely,

Teri

Teri Stoddard, Program Director

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments

It's really bullshit that Verizon did this and we should definitely give Verizon a piece of our mind on this issue by letting them know a video like this is unacceptable.

The good and the bad at Demand Progress

I received the following from Demand Progress:

Great news: 100,000 people have asked Senator Wyden to read their names during his filibuster of the dreaded PROTECT IP Act.

Worse news: This legislation could come to a vote as soon as later this week.

But the nastier we make this prospective filibuster look, the better the chance that Senate leadership won't even call for a vote.

Will you help us muster more troops? Please consider posting a link to StopCensorship.org on your blog or website, and share it with your friends:

Here's the message Senator Wyden's office issued to Demand Progress a few days ago, asking for more support from Internet users:

The filibuster affords senators an opportunity to stand up for what they believe in and there are few things I believe in more than ensuring that every American has a voice and an opportunity to get ahead.

Right now, the Internet gives every American that voice while making it possible for every entrepreneur, thinker and innovator to compete alongside the biggest and most moneyed interests.

It is my hope that -- with your help – my colleagues in Congress will realize that a free and open Internet is something that we as Americans should celebrate and not allow those special moneyed interests to quash.

It is my hope that – with your help – my colleagues in Congress will realize that PIPA/SOPA are the wrong way to protect intellectual property because the price they exact on the Internet is too high.

With your help, I believe we can get that word out and prevent these misguided bills from every reaching the House and Senate floor, but if they do reach the floor you can count on me to stand up and make our voices heard.

Let's make it clear to the Senator that we have his back, and that we plan to stand with him on the floor of the Senate.

I believe they are talking about this. If you haven't signed the petition then please do so.

A Thankgiving message from SAVE

I received the following from SAVE:

During this season of gratitude we realize that all of the things SAVE is thankful for are due to your efforts.

We want you to know how much we appreciate your calls and emails to legislators. We want to thank you for your generous donations. And we want to honor all of the volunteers who have joined the Domestic Violence Legislative Project (DVLP), the Countering Abuse Misinformation Project (CAMP), and Campaign 2012.

Your many calls and emails have already improved Senator Leahy's discussion draft of VAWA. Your generous donations have allowed us to distribute press releases, give dozens of radio interviews, and sponsor two public events in the last year, Hoax! and False Allegation Awareness Summit. Every one of your gifts, from $5 on up make a difference.

I want to take this moment to give a heartfelt "thank you" to each and every one of you who have committed yourselves to our success by joining the DVLP, CAMP, and Campaign 2012.

Your many calls and emails have already improved Senator Leahy's discussion draft of VAWA. Your generous donations have allowed us to distribute press releases, give dozens of radio interviews, and sponsor two public events in the last year, Hoax! and False Allegation Awareness Summit. Every one of your gifts, from $5 on up make a difference.



I want to take this moment to give a heartfelt "thank you" to each and every one of you who have committed yourselves to our success by joining the DVLP, CAMP, and Campaign 2012.

Each month I am amazed by the number of people who join our DVLP conference calls. I love reading the articles, letters to the editor and op-eds written by our CAMP crew. And I get a kick out of seeing photos of Campaign 2012 members wearing their t-shirts and hearing how the public reacts.

Know that you are a valuable part of SAVE. We do.

Know that you can make a difference...you already have, and together we will continue to do so!

Sincerely,

teri

Teri Stoddard, Program Director

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments
www.saveservices.org

When it comes to the MRM I am thankful that we have turned things around and that we're making the feminazis take us seriously. I am thankful for the work Paul Elam is doing and how working together we can combat institutionalized misandry. Yes there is more work to be done but we should take time out and look back at what we've accomplished and be proud of it.

Identify the SCUM members and get paid $1,000.00

You read right,that is $1,000.00 American money to whoever can provide the facts we request. That is why I'm joining in with A Voice For Men in promoting this message so we can shine the light of truth to make the cockroaches scurry about but afford them no hiding places. Not anymore.

She and her friends did the following:



Our second culprit is this woman:

Here is where she is guilty of bigotry:

If you know of the identities of the profiled women then contact A Voice For Men immediately. One more outed misandric bigot is one less that can hide behind an anonymous label.

Oppose blacklist bill in the Senate and get officially recognized

The above video is from Senator Ron Wyden who like the rest of us is opposed to internet censorship and he has promised to vigorously oppose this bill he will even filabuster if necessary. Wyden will read the names of those of us who are opposed to this bill into congressional records (that's a million + BTW) recording our opposition to this bill. Sign the petition to let your Senators know where you stand on this issue. Sign that petition today.

The TSA is 10 years old and still groping

I received the following from Campaign For Liberty:

Everyone’s “favorite” bureaucracy is growing up.

Today marks 10 years since the TSA’s creation.

And if I could make a birthday wish on their behalf...

... it would be that this is the last holiday season we have to put up with their poking, groping, and scanning.

In what should be “the most wonderful time of the year,” the path home for many Americans begins with a long wait at the airport – and dealing with people who think a government ID gives them the right to put their hands where they don’t belong.

Remember the joyous, exciting holiday travel of yesteryear?

“Over the river and through the woods…”

Well, no one will be writing Christmas carols about modern holiday travel – though we may hear some blues about how miserable the experience can be.

Since its inception, perhaps no other agency has been more flagrant in its violations of our civil liberties and as flippant toward Americans’ constitutionally protected rights as the TSA.

As you may remember, in March of 2009, a C4L staffer found himself temporarily detained and interrogated by the TSA after attempting to fly back after our first Regional Conference with the event’s proceeds in his carry-on.

It’s not illegal to fly with cash and checks on domestic flights, but these agents made it their business – something the TSA does far too often to too many people.

Since that time, the situation has only gotten worse.

For the past year, the TSA has been installing potentially dangerous backscatter imaging machines across the country to perform virtual strip searches on airline passengers.

This leaves passengers the “option” of either being scanned and possibly exposed to dangerous radiation or enduring the very public humiliation of receiving one of their infamous “pat-downs.”

When the policy was first implemented, Senator Claire McCaskill downplayed the invasive groping that makes up one of the TSA’s “enhanced pat-downs,” referring to them as “love pats.”

The senator apparently no longer feels that way (after selling her private jet), and she recently complained about their invasiveness to TSA Administrator John Pistole.

"I try to avoid a pat-down at all costs," McCaskill told Pistole. "There are many times women put their hands on me in a way that if it was your daughter or your sister or your wife, you would be upset."

And as people continue to make their mistreatment and abuse at the TSA’s hands public by sharing their stories online, more members of Congress are beginning to take notice.

Others, unfortunately, still don’t see the bigger picture.

Without immediately reining in the unaccountable TSA and eliminating their procedures of scanning and groping passengers at the airports, I’m afraid the situation will only continue to get worse.

In the past, we’ve warned about the TSA’s plans to expand its scanning beyond our nation’s airports – to our highways, train stations, and bus stops.

Unfortunately, this is already happening.

Last month in Tennessee, the TSA’s VIPR teams were deployed to conduct random searches of vehicles on the highways.

This has to stop.

And you and I are the ones who can fight back.

Members of Congress may think this issue has blown over, but it’s up to Campaign for Liberty to remind them that we’re more outraged than ever at what’s taking place every day in our airports.

Please, as soon as you can on Monday, call Congress at 202-224-3121 and demand they rein in their Frankenstein creation.

Don’t let them sell you a bill of goods, either.

They can force the TSA to abandon their policies of scanning passengers (in what amounts to a virtual strip search) or groping them (in a manner that would constitute sexual assault were it coming from a regular individual).

Ultimately, Congress should abolish the TSA altogether and return the responsibility for security to the private sector.

Just like other federal government overreaches, the TSA believes telling us this is necessary for “our safety” allows it to do whatever it wants, including shredding our Fourth Amendment rights.

We must expose this lie, and I hope we’ll have your help to do so.

The responsibility for airline security lies with the airline industry in the first place.

Since 9/11, only alert passengers and flight crews have thwarted additional terrorist attacks on airplanes, not the TSA!

Tell Congress to pass appropriate, common-sense legislation like H.R. 2438, the “American Traveler Dignity Act,” and to cut off funding for the maintenance of existing scanners and implementation of new ones.

Even the European Union has banned the use of these scanners because of the possible health risks!

So please, reach out to Congress as soon as you can on Monday at 202-224-3121 and urge them to rein in the TSA by outlawing their scanning and groping.

Or you can email them,just look them up here. Perhaps emailing the Senate will help too. No harm in trying to so let's do it.

Throw out the cake and presents because this is one birthday that SHOULDN'T be celebrated.

Ever since the Senator sold her private jet and has to fly commercial along with the rest of us peons she's had a change of heart and is now complaining. But Senator I thought those were just "love pats" (which would make them sexual harassment and sexual assault) and now they're "violations of our bodies". I guess things are different when the queen is forced to live under her own rules.

Chivalry:nature vs nuture

I've heard the argument that men are hard-wired to be chivalrous toward women thus protecting them but I wondering if that is all bunk. If being chivalrous is hard-wired such as breathing is then why do MRA's exist? If the preceding is fact it would be impossible to be an MRA because men would not be able to resist being chivalrous anymore than they can resist breathing. Also take into consideration it is women who condition the young boy to grow up to embrace chivalry,often through repeated reinforcement. When the young boy cannot or will not acquiesces to their demands then they shame him to make him comply and it is through their shaming that they reinforce chivalry. The conclusion we come to is that chivalry is a form of subservience rather than a form of power. We may look at the man guarding the woman (white knighting) and conclude that since he is physically stronger he has the power. What very few people do is realize that the woman in question may have used manipulation (reward/shame) tap his "protect women" programming that was propagated to him when he was a child. So let's take a look at it again: the man is guarding the woman and some will say he has the power. Others will say she goaded a stranger to fight her battles for her and she has the power. Who really has the power: the overt or the covert? Let me put it this way: Who has the most chance of getting injured or kill?  Who has the best chance of walking away without a scratch? That should tell you who has the  power.