>News Flash: National Coalition of Free Men, Board of Directors, Meets in San Diego to Chart Course for the Future!

Members of the Board of the National Coalition of Free Men (NCFM) met in San Diego, California over the weekend to chart a course for NCFM for the future. NCFM Board members came from as far away as Minnesota, and NCFM general members came from as far away as New York, to participate in (and witness) this historic meeting.

Over the course of the next two days, the assembled board members addressed issues pertaining to structure and direction for NCFM in coming months and years.

The coming year will certainly not be a boring one for the NCFM Board, it’s members, and friends.

Thanks to Marc A. for the tip.

Story here. Excerpt:

'MANY persons would have witnessed a St Thomas wife roughing up her husband on live TV aired Tuesday, after the man, appearing without his voters' ID for the general elections, refused to do the legal alternative and swear to the presiding officer.

The fellow, a tall, bearded man, who said he only swore to God, was draped up and dragged away by his chubby wife, who berated him for acting the fool.'

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Part Two - NEW

Part One

Story here.

Insisting that she has "First Amendment" rights in the courtroom, a Nebraska woman sues a judge who barred the word "Rape" at trial. There has already been two mistrials in this case. We'll just have to see if feminist protesters with tape on their mouths decide the outcome of this rape case, instead of the facts themselves. Can someone tell me why she just won't describe to the jury what happened? Why is it so important to her to use inflammatory remarks? Excerpt:

'LINCOLN, Neb. -- The 24-year-old woman at the center of a sexual assault case has sued the judge who barred the word "rape" and other words from being used during the trial.

Tory Bowen said in the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Lincoln that Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront violated her First Amendment right to free speech.'

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FAMILY COURT HELL

With special guests...
Mark Harris, the English father who was jailed for waving at his daughters as they drove past in the family car, and author of a new book "Family Court Hell", a rare and unique insight into the secret British family court system.

"Family Court Hell" is one man's harrowing story of frustration and determination as he battled for access rights to his young daughters following the bitter break-up of his marriage. Incredibly, his was a journey that spanned almost ten years, with 133 hearings by 33 judges, and which reportedly cost the taxpayer over GBP1 million.

"... there is no other court in the land where the penalty for perjury does not exist - you can lie repeatedly and not only NOT be punished for it, but actually be rewarded for it. There is no other court where you are presumed guilty until proven innocent. And for non-custodial parents...especially fathers...going through a divorce...and the never-ending litany of custody issues and all the rest that goes with it...it can feel like eternal damnation."

So says a father of two from New Jersey, who has undergone an ordeal in which he was verbally abused by a judge, physically accosted by police officers, criticized by child welfare officials, shown the door by school administrators, and even turned away by life-long friends.

Situations such as this will be perpetuated by House Resolution 590. It allows for the continued abuse of domestic violence laws, creating a dynamic in which allegations are made solely for the purpose of obtaining an advantage in litigation.

Story here. On the heels of the college article, note there are no call for equalizing the numbers of brain-injured war veterans so that it's 50/50 male/female. Or adding women to the selective service act. Or anything else like that. Excerpt:

' NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers*.

Thousands of troops* have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.'

* For "soldiers' and "troops", read "men".

Article here. Excerpt:

"After years of fighting for educational equality, it is disheartening to think that the college admissions' bar has been raised even higher for young women. My guess is that at some private colleges with balanced gender enrollment, women are getting the short end of the admissions stick."'

Related article: College Admission: Tough Times For Girls?

Story here. Excerpt:

'Shauna Mahoney posted a photograph of her baby online earlier this year and described herself as a proud mother.

But a different picture has emerged this week, one of a troubled woman who became the coldblooded killer of her 17- month-old son.
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Some of those who know her, including the dead child’s father, told The Buffalo News Thursday that Mahoney had been suffering from postpartum depression for some time."

“She never wanted anything to do with the baby,” said the child’s godfather, Michael Kriewaldt.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Fathers in the USA are a lot less supportive and accepting than TV sitcom dads, even falling short of the low bar set by Homer Simpson, a study of college students' views suggests.

Many young people blame constant work demands — seldom portrayed on TV — for draining their fathers' energy and time from parenting, says Janice Kelly, a communications researcher at Marymount Manhattan College in New York.
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She showed episodes from eight comedies to 108 college students. The programs were as diverse as The George Lopez Show, The Simpsons, My Wife and Kids and Everyone Loves Raymond. She asked the students to rate TV fathers and their own on such qualities as support, guidance, acceptance of other family members and oppositional behavior (for example, ridiculing children). On every measure, TV fathers were rated significantly better than the students' own dads.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'"The National Organization for Women (NOW) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against fatherhood programs in Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. The objective of these programs is to provide career counseling to fathers in three tough categories: incarcerated, military and fathers with disabled children. NOW has objected because women are excluded from these programs 'solely because they are women.'

"There is an old saying that you should be careful what you wish for, since you might get it. I think NOW should think twice about trying to win this lawsuit. If they win, wouldn't that endanger the innumerable government-funded programs that benefit only women?'

First let me say this is in no way to be considered as competition for the excellent discussion group, Men's Issues Online. Or Mensactivism, for that matter. This is something else entirely. In fact if the guys from either of those would like to join us at Gather, they'd be quite welcome to promote the heck outta their valuable activist efforts!

Right now, there is no centralized location where people can get a handle on men's issues in a general-interest community. While there are many politically-oriented sites and groups that occasionally feature "our" issues, and most of you already have your own websites, networks and e-mail discussion groups, I thought you'd all like to have the opportunity to reach a new group of people.

This is at no cost to you in terms of dollars and cents. In fact, you might even make a few bucks! Here's Gather's PR site.

Marc Rudov says "Women can pay their own way."

Mr. Rudov always states that women want so-called "equality" when the money -- and benefits -- are coming towards them yet become 'oppressed' when it comes time for them to pay or refuse unjust female privileges.

I agree with Mr. Rudov as do many intellectuals. Yet the two women on the panel don't agree of course and nor does the chivalrous male wallet that is defending the exploitation of men by women in the following clip.

See the clip here.

Thanks to Greg for the heads-up. Article here. Excerpt:

'It is all rather troubling, especially for the parents of little angels like my daughters. Evidently, it is impossible to satisfy the—apparently justified—parental demand to educate girls in single-sex schools and boys in mixed classes. (Not for the first time in my life, I conclude that the world doesn't have enough girls in it.)'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Police did not know the motive but said Billie Reynolds admitted pouring the scalding water on Gregory Laughlin earlier this week. Laughlin suffered second-degree burns on over 20 percent of his body and remained hospitalized on Friday.'