- All persons should be free from fear and intimidation and that exerting power and control over another is unacceptable.
- Victim’s safety must be paramount in all domestic violence efforts.
- Victim empowerment and self-determination is essential in all domestic violence efforts.
- Perpetrators of domestic violence use coercive tactics to gain and maintain power and control regardless of their gender or type of intimate relationship.
- Our culture must hold offenders accountable for their acts of domestic violence.
- Systems responsibility is necessary to all domestic violence coordination efforts.
To eradicate domestic violence, we must…
- take our leadership and be accountable to those who are battered and oppressed.
- build our change strategies based on their experiences and needs.
- challenge ourselves to reflect on and apply their reality and truths to our understanding of oppressions and how they intersect.
- embrace efforts to alter the culture of oppression found within the United States of America in order to realize comprehensive social change.
