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by Anonymous User on 06:54 PM November 8th, 2005 EST (#1)
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Activists! Unite! This is a body of work that should be conducted in EVERY STATE IN THE UNION!!
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The General Court recognizes that men are an important resource for families and children, and wishes to explore the causes and consequences of a variety of social, economic, and health problems facing men, and to have recommendations for relief made available to the public.
Specifically, the General Court recognizes that fatherlessness is a severe social problem and that
New Hampshire children who have a poor or nonexistent relationship with their father are the
largest users of a variety of statefunded
services. In addition, men whose average life expectancy was formerly on a par with that of women are now dying 10 years sooner, with much higher rates of suicide and mortality from the 15 leading causes of diseases and accidents. Educationally, the General Court recognizes the need to address the relatively poor performance of boys in the areas of reading and comprehension and to increase the grade passage rate for boys while encouraging the pursuit of postsecondary
degrees. The New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men was therefore created by the legislature to address and reverse the deteriorating status of men and boys in New Hampshire.
The Commission was enabled by passage of HB587FNA
(Chapter 267:2, Laws of 2002,
effective July, 1, 2002).
Membership consists of seven members appointed by the Governor:
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by Anonymous User on 07:44 PM November 8th, 2005 EST (#2)
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Agreed, absolutely!
This document is obligatory reading for every MRA, and should be printed out and mailed to your Congressional reps.
Truly exemplary activism and scholarship by the pioneers in New Hampshire.
I hope they mailed an autographed copy of the report to Ms. Prez Kim Gandy at N.O.W.!
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by Anonymous User on 08:33 PM November 8th, 2005 EST (#3)
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Fully agreed. But whoever sends it to their reps should *follow up* with phone calls and ask for a bill to create a similar commission. Just mailing it without calling and persisting will probably have little effect. We need to organize in our localities, find sympathetic officials, and work with them.
Marc A.
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by Anonymous User on 10:12 AM November 9th, 2005 EST (#4)
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Yes. Follow up is required. But, also, so is funding. The biggest flaw in this proposition is that the NH govt yanked the funding...while the feminist programs are at least partially funded.
We need to get similar bills passed in every state and maintain the funding.
Its nice that the govt allows a website to be put up, but they need to FULLY endorse the activities, as they historically have done with women's groups/programs.
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by Anonymous User on 08:10 PM November 9th, 2005 EST (#5)
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I'm not sure men's groups are ready for prime time. I did a search on google news for "New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men" and found no news item. In fact one of the articles I found was the usual misleading stuff about the wage gap (http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html ?article=62318).
OK, the job done with breaking the silence does offer a glimmer of hope. We took on the big girls (e.g. NOW) and kicked their butts, however in the win loose column we're trailing way behind.
We need to know to how to get this things on the new wires, media and mainstream internet. My guess is that we need media consultants to advise us and start pulling resources and come up with a strategy. We can't just depend on batman and robin to get us in the paper (truly no offence intended, I admire your work).
This should have been a mainstream news item, but it was not...
I Hope the next report can be.
p.s. good work to the "New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Men" for getting this far.
jm
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by Anonymous User on 10:13 AM November 10th, 2005 EST (#6)
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This is why the work Glenn Sacks does is so important. He actually has a fairly visible platform, which is what men's activism needs.
We are fractured, certainly.
However, taking the NH report to a national level is exactly what needs to be done. Getting Sacks (who is media savy) on to Fox News with O'Reily or 20/20 or Nightline or any other major news rag, with this NH report and say we are going to do this in every state until people HEAR and GET the message - I think is a viable course.
We need to exploit whatever platforms are available. The web is just an initial research tool that allows us to "share" and "connect". OK. Well, now that we know there are many many men out there that are fed up, let's do something about it.
Surely there are attorneys, and experienced marketing men, or recently fired (for making sexually based statements) advertisement executives that are willing to put in a minimal few hours a week to help.
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