December 25, 2007: Updates to this post are here, here, and here.
Some changes have been made to the original post to make some clarifications. Changes are in bold and brackets.
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Employees at a beauty salon in New York are taking on domestic violence. Salon employees are being trained to spot cases of domestic abuse that may not get reported
to the authorities -- particularly domestic violence in the Latino community.
Operating off of the belief that women tell all when they're at a beauty salon,
salon employees are hoping they can help put an end to what they consider a huge concern in the Latino community.
Apparently, lots of individuals and groups are concerned about domestic violence, except the 2008 Presidential candidates. The only Democratic candidate who [directly] addresses violence against women [on his campaign page] is John Edwards:
Ending Violence Against Women
Achieving full equal rights for women includes the right to be free
of violence everywhere. Edwards supports efforts to fully fund the
Violence Against Women Act, which provides resources for crisis centers,
domestic violence shelters and continuing education to law enforcement
and the courts. Edwards will also aggressively support political and
economic rights for women where they do not exist and supports efforts
to reduce violence against women and children around the world.
On YouTube's Face the Candidates, domestic violence isn't even a bullet point, and a
quick check of Google and
Yahoo
yields very few articles on how the 2008
Presidential candidates have addressed domestic violence in any comprehensive fashion.
I have $5 that says the moment Fox News makes a domestic violence case the next big story, all the
Presidential candidates will scramble to pen their new and aggressive plans to fight domestic abuse in America. Let's pray we don't need a
dead, white, suburban housewife to get the 2008 Presidential hopefuls interested in domestic violence issues.
