It's really great to know that Maria Shriver is working so hard to help those her husband screwed over.  Today, domestic violence shelters all over the State of California are waiting anxiously to see if Arnold Schwarzenegger will sign into law a bill sponsored by Senator Yee of San Francisco.  This bill aims to restore (temporarily) the funding ( Read more... )

Hey, everybody!  Take a moment of your time to talk to the nice folks at the CA gov’s office and let them know you support the bill!

SB 3X 13

Now is the time to call!  It’s quick and easy!  Pass it on!

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633

Now it is time for the Governor to show he is a decent human being.  Please don't fail in this, Arnold.

Bill to Save Domestic Violence Shelters Approved by Senate
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Yee: Governor will have a second chance to do the right thing

SACRAMENTO - The California State Senate today unanimously approved legislation to restore $16.3 ( Read more... )

http://www.safenetwork.net/GrantAdmin/GranteesList.aspx

...on how to help Domestic Violence survivors with technology and how to protect them against stalkers who use technology to harm them.

It is amazing the lengths that some S.O.B.s go to. Grrr.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814Re: Reinstate funding to Domestic Violence Programs!Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

I'm writing to urge you to reinstate funding to domestic violence programs in California.

I am horrified to learn that Governor Schwarzenegger has line item vetoed the ( Read more... )

CA Gov has eliminated funding for Domestic Violence Programs. Lives will be lost. You can help! CA residents please act now!

(Cross-posted from sami406 )

Or go to our website in specific if you wish to donate to Tri-Valley Haven.

http://www.trivalleyhaven.org

Thanks, all of you, for caring.  :)

Well, we just lost one of our biggest State contracts.  Not just us.  Everybody did.  Domestic Violence funding in the State of California just got the plug pulled.

Wish us all luck, everybody.  This is going to be really bad, no matter how it shakes out.

Anybody feel like donating to a worthy cause, our website is here and all of us who do this ( Read more... )

I am glad to read stuff like this.  Hooray!  (Although I find the line "Several times each day in America a woman is abused or assaulted" rather ridiculous in the amount of understatement involved.)

( It is sad that people have to even say things like this, but wonderful that they do... )

This would be funny, only it is beyond horrific.  Somehow, I wonder if the irony even has hit this man.  Ugh.

Founder of Islamic TV station accused of beheading wife

From Deborah Brunswick and LaNeice Collins
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes has confessed to ( Read more... )