The Nation: Lackland Instructor Convicted for Sex Crimes, As Pressure on Congress Mounts
Soumya Karlamangla in The Nation reports about Protect Our Defenders: On Tuesday, a human rights group launched a Twitter campaign...
Huffington Post: It’s Time for Congress to Act on Sexual Assaults in the Military
Nancy Parrish, Protect Our Defenders President, writes in the Huffington Post: Seventy-eight members of Congress, along with Paula, are asking...
Press Release: More than 7,000 Advocates Demand Rep. Buck McKeon Open Investigation About Lackland Sexual Abuse
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Today, Protect Our Defenders announced that more than 7,000 people have signed an online petition...
ABC News: Air Force “Not Doing Enough” to Stop Sex Abuse
Julie Percha for ABC News reports “What we have been doing is not working,” said Gen. Mark Welsh III, in...
San Francisco Chronicle: Can the Military Solve Its Rape Problem?
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board reports: Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, asked today on the House floor, “Apparently we have a...
The Nation: Why Won’t Congress Investigate the Sex Abuse Scandal at Lackland Air Force Base?
Soumya Karlamangla reports in The Nation about Protect Our Defedenders: “When [the Department of Defense’s] leadership clearly fails to solve...
Huffington Post: Veteran Bikes to End Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
Nancy Parrish, Protect Our Defenders President, writes in the Huffington Post: On Sunday, Ret. USAF Staff Sgt. Colleen Bushnell began...
NBC Nightly News: Air Force Sexual Abuse Trial Gets Underway
Brian Williams and Jim Miklaszewski report on sexual assault in the military, with Protect Our Defedenders Advocacy Board member Jen...
Current TV: Human Rights Organization on the US Investigating Military Rape Cases: ‘Nothing’s Changed in 20 Years’
The Young Turks on Current TV reports about Protect Our Defenders: Brian Purchia, the communications director for the human rights...
Ms. Magazine: Court-Martial Begins in Air Force Sex Abuse Case
The Feminist Newsire in Ms. Magazine reports about Protect Our Defenders: …California Congresswoman Jackie Speier…is joining forces with Paula Coughlin,...
Sexual Assault in the Military Remains Rampant in Spite of Recent Court Martial
Jackie Chazan in The Examiner reports on Protect Our Defenders Sexual assault against military service-members, despite pledges of zero-tolerance from...
Press Release: Lackland Survivor Bikes Across Country to Raise Awareness About Military Sexual Assault Epidemic and Money to Help Veterans
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Ret. Air Force SSGT Colleen Bushnell rides in honor of Army PFC LaVena Johnson, who...
The Daily Beast: Lackland Rape Scandal Shines Spotlight On Military Failure
Jesse Ellison in The Daily Beast reports about Protect Our Defenders: Coughlin, who now goes by her married name Puopolo,...
San Antonio Current: Lackland Fallout
The San Antonio Current reports about Protect Our Defenders: Coughlin-Puopolo’s petition over at the Protect our Defenders website calls on...
Petition Calls for Hearings on Lackland
Glenda Wolin reports in My San Antonio about Protect Our Defenders: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, one of 87 servicewomen who were sexually...
Tailhook Whistle-Blower Calls for Lackland Sex Scandal Hearing
Kristen Davis reports in Military Times: A petition authored by Coughlin-Puopolo and posted on the Protect Our Defenders website got...
Stars and Stripes: Advocacy Group Demands Congressional Hearing on Lackland Sex Scandal
Leo Shane III reports in Stars and Stripes: Members of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders are demanding Congressional hearings...
ABC: Tailhook Whistle-Blower Petitions for Hearings on Lackland
Arlette Saenz for ABC News reports about Protect Our Defenders: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, the whistle-blower in Tailhook, one of the military’s...
Huffington Post: Tailhook Whistleblower Demands Congress Investigates Lackland Assaults
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes in the Huffington Post: The unfolding scandal at Lackland shows how little has...
Lackland’s Instructor on Rainbow Sex Crimes, Told By One Who Lived the Nightmare
Michael Barajas and John Lasker in the San Antonio Current report on Lackland and Protect Our Defenders: “The unfolding scandal...
Press Release: Tailhook Whistleblower Starts Petition Demanding Congress Investigates Lackland Sexual Assault Scandal
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Washington DC – More than 20 years ago, 87 servicewomen were sexually assaulted while serving...
Pres. Nancy Parrish on PTS Treatment Worldwide Radio
Fuzzy Manning on Blog Talk Radio interviews Nancy Parrish about Protect Our Defenders for his PTS Treatment Worldwide Radio Show....
Local Veteran To Bike Across America
Maddie Gionet for Albany.com reports about Protect Our Defenders: Currently, Bushnell works as a volunteer advocacy and outreach board member...
Local Veteran Raising PTSD Awareness on Cross Country Bike Tour
Matt Hunter for Albany YNN reports about Collen Bushnell’s ride, sponsored by Protect Our Defenders: In 2003, Bushnell was sexually...
Local Veteran to Raise Awareness of PTSD by Cycling 4,200 miles
Danielle Sanzone for Troy Record reports about project sponsored by Protect Our Defenders: Life hasn’t been easy for Staff Sgt....
Who’s Doin’ It Right: Protect Our Defenders Grows from 0 to 20,000 Supporters in Less Than a Year
Beth Johnson for Salsa Labs reports about Protect Our Defenders: Today’s story is from Protect Our Defenders, a group leading...
The Nightmare Of Male Rape
Leslie Linthicum for The Albuquerque Journal reports about Protect Our Defenders: The topic is one that makes people uncomfortable, so...
Editorial: Zero Tolerance is the Right Goal
Editorial in Omaha World Herald: The most recent military sex scandal, this one at the Air Force training center at...
Washington Post: Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault in the Military
Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury creator, and Loree Sutton, Psychiatrist and Founding Director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health...
Air Force Sexual Assault Victim Starts the Long Road Home
Rusty Weiss in the Daily Caller reports: California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, who sponsored the bill, told TheDC that it...
Lackland Sex Scandal Continues to Roil Air Force: 31 female recruits accuse a dozen instructors of sexual misconduct
Karisa King and Sig Christenson in the Houston Chronicle report: In the dark morning hours before they shipped out from...
ABC News Reports on Protect Our Defenders On the Hill
Arlette Saenz for ABC News reports: Four military victims of alleged sexual assault by a fellow comrade or officer in...
Scarred But No Longer Scared
Warren Rojas for Roll Call reports about Protect Our Defenders: A cadre of sexually mistreated warriors brought their very personal...
Marine Sexual Assault In San Diego County: 76 Reports In 2011
Joanne Faryon, Patty Lane, Alison St John, and Claire Trageser for KPBS San Diego report: In 2011, there were 76...
Protect Our Defenders Delivers Letters on Capitol Hill
KTVU San Francisco reports: Victims met with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier in Washington today asking for help. These four...
Military Rape Victims Lobby for Bill with Protect Our Defenders
Steve Berg and Jacqueline Fell on KRMG News Radio reports: Sexual assault victims were in Washington D.C. Wednesday, asking lawmakers...
Military Rape Survivors Call On Congress To Stop The Silent Epidemic
Lauren Brown for Business Insider reports about Protect Our Defenders: Today a group of veterans delivered letters signed by 200...
Protect Our Defenders Brings 200 Military Sexual Assault Survivors Together to Call On Congress to Advance STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Washington DC – On Wednesday, Protect Our Defenders delivered letters to Congress signed by almost...
Two More Lackland Trainers Charged in Scandal
Sig Christenson for My San Antonio News reports: Two more instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland were charged Tuesday in...
CBS News Reports on Lackland Air Force Base and STOP Act Legislation
Ana Werner for CBS News reports: Today survivors of military sexual assault will be lobbying with members of Congress on...
Pres. Nancy Parrish in Huffington Post: Enough Already, Pass the STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parris writes for the Huffington Post: There is a crisis in our military and while...
Media Advisory: Survivors to Deliver Letter to Congress In Support of STOP Act
Protect Our Defenders Media Advisory: Washington DC – On Wednesday, Protect Our Defenders will deliver letters to Congress signed by...
Chief of Naval Operations Decries Sexual Assault Epidemic
Andrew Lapin of Government Executive reports: Even as he looks ahead to the Navy’s expanded role in global security, the...
Number of Instructors Ousted at Lackland is “Extraordinary”
Sig Christiansen of San Antonio Express News reports: The Air Force said Monday that it has removed 35 instructors in...
Tighter Lackland Rules Eyed
Sig Christenson reports for the San Antonio Express-News on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish’s reaction to the Air Force’s...
National Council of Jewish Women CEO Endorses STOP Act
Nancy K. Kaufman, the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, has endorsed the STOP Act, targeting and sexual...
Protect Our Defenders in Boston Globe: Helping Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma
Jan Brogan in the Boston Globe reports: At ProtectOurDefenders.com, founder and activist Nancy Parrish says that treatment for MST can...
Protect Our Defenders Announces Appeal in Cioca v Rumsfeld
Today, the law firm of Susan Burke filed an appeal in the class action lawsuit Cioca v. Rumsfeld. The appeal,...
Protect Our Defenders supports lawsuit vs. DOD for failure to protect cadets at academies from rape or sexual assault
Protect Our Defenders is supporting a new lawsuit released today accusing the US Military of failing to protect cadets from...
Protect Our Defenders Calls on Panetta to Stop Pentagon’s Minimizing of Rape Crisis
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes for the Huffington Post: On Friday of last week, the Department of Defense...