Men's Hour

UEPC 2008

There's discussion of a United Equal Parenting Conference 2008. No details are settled yet but I'll keep you informed.

Wendy Turner, Lisa Cohen (JUMP) and more - The Best Interests of the Child - UEPC2007 Reading

Wendy Turner, Lisa Cohen (JUMP), Neil Lyndon, Barry Worrall, John Holden, EPA and more to speak at the United Equal Parenting Conference 2007  – The Best Interests of the Child. The conference, at The Warehouse, 1a Cumberland Road, Reading, RG1 3LB  will be on the weekend, 16th and 17th June. The conference will discuss the best interested of the child and will include the following speakers -

United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 - The Best Interests of the Child

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Update on United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 - The Best Interests of the Child

We are pleased to announce the United Equal Parenting Conference 2007 – “The Best Interests of the Child”, to be held in Reading, Berkshire, England on Saturday and Sunday 16th-17th June 2007. The conference aims to discuss the best interests of the child, a much mis-used phrase, children's rights and equal parenting. Campaigners, authors, well-known figures, charities and organisations have been invited to speak. There’ll be talks including “Choice for children?”, “Best interests of the child? A revolutionary & personal view” and from various equal parenting organisations. The full schedule is nearly complete and will be announced later in May.

Want to help plan the way forward? United Equal Parenting Conference – The Way Forward

Want to help plan the way forward?

Come and help plan the way forward at the United Equal Parenting Conference – The Way Forward, this Saturday 17th 10am at the Central Hall Westminster, London (opposite Westminster Abbey and close to Parliament Square). You can hear about from authors like Barry Worrall (“Without Authority”) and Neil Lyndon (“No More Sex War”), hear from Philip A. Else of the Equal Parenting Alliance and from Mike Kelly of Real Fathers For Justice (who may bring a video of the Blair residence protest on Friday) and others. Hear about what they suggest and what others have to say and have your say, what you want and what you’d like to happen. Entrance is free but a donation of whatever you can afford commensurate with a full day’s event would be appreciated. Check out the website www.unitedconference.com for more information. Come and have your say on equal parenting.

Agenda

Time has been allocated for maximum discourse and exchange of views and information

10 am Introduction

10:10 Barry Worrall - Family Law - A personal review

11:00 PACT - Victims of Another War

11:45 Discussion and questions

12 pm Lunch

12:30pm John Campion - Divorce Law Practice - The Matrilineal Society

12:45pm Neil Lyndon - It's time for men to get political

1:30 pm Philip A. Else - Equal Parenting Alliance

2:00 pm Discussion and questions

2:30pm Wendy – A Woman’s Story

2:45 pm Mike Kelly - Real Fathers For Justice

3:15 pm Final Discussion and Panel

4:45 pm Close

YOU ARE WANTED! The United Equal Parenting Conference – The Way Forward is almost here!

YOU ARE WANTED! The United Equal Parenting Conference – The Way Forward is almost here!

It’s a week Saturday in London. A conference to discuss the best way forward for children's rights and equal parenting including mutual support, media campaigning, political lobbying, protest, marches and non-violent direct action. Come and give your opinion on what’s the best way forward for equal parenting. We’ve got authors, including Neil Lyndon (“No More Sex War”) and Barry Worrall (“Without Authority”). We’ve got various equal parenting groups. (We could fit in one or two more speakers for short spots so if you think you can do it or know someone who can, let us know.) There will be a press release soon about it.

The thing we want most is YOU. The conference is about the interaction of all those who pursue the fight for children’s rights and the rights for both mum and dad to parent equally after a divorce or relationship breakdown. Come along and share your views and hear the views and ideas of others. Visit www.unitedconference.com for more details.

Raymond Cuttill

United Equal Parenting Conference

Neil Lyndon, Barry Worrall, Equal Parenting Alliance at the United Equal Parenting Conference - The Way Forward

The United Equal Parenting Conference – The Way Forward (http://www.unitedconference.com/) is proud to announce a conference that includes Neil Lyndon, vilified in the 1990s for his book “No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism”, Barry Worrall, author of “Without Authority” that details his story at the hands of the family courts and The Equal Parenting Alliance, a new UK political party.

Following the disbanding of Fathers 4 Justice earlier this year, it was unclear which way to go and how to get there. A conference was conceived by Thames Valley Equal Parenting and the Men's Hour.  Briefly known as the Men's Hour United Conference, it is now called “United Equal Parenting Conference - The Way Forward” to emphasise the equal parenting nature of the conference. It is on the day before Father's Day, Saturday June 17th, 2006. It is in London opposite Parliament and Big Ben, at the Central Hall Westminster.

I'll be back or at least my friend will be back - Matt O'Connor hands Fathers 4 Justice over

Re-Born Fathers 4 Justice Launch 'Child Focused' Campaign

Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) announced yesterday on Radio 5 Live's 'Forgotten Fathers' programme that it's high profile campaign IS to continue despite the group formally disbanding in January following the alleged Leo Blair plot.

See Re-Born Fathers 4 Justice Launch 'Child Focused' Campaign

Fathers 4 Justice Suspended Following “Plot” To Kidnap Leo Blair

F4J is now suspended following the ‘plot’ to kidnap 5 year old Leo Blair. The plot appears to be little more than pub talk following a F4j march in December. Some mentioned are ex-members of F4J. So far as I can tell only 1 remark was made (and that remark is disputed) and no-one agreed with it or followed it up.  It does appear however that some members of F4J have been warned they will be shot if they participate in a protest near Downing Street.

Matt O’Connor, leader of F4J, appears again to have given up the fight because of this negative publicity. It currently looks like Matt has had enough and gone as far as he can and sees no way forward.  Only this week an author who published a book saying that the Family Courts where biased was interviewed on the BBC’s Woman’s Hour (aka Feminism Forever) and was confronted with a solicitor making bland sweeping claims that everything was alright now following some recent changes in the courts. It seems likely that the task of getting Fathers Rights is going to take longer than the 3 years of Matt’s original plan. Whatever happens now everyone owes Matt a great debt, but the battle isn’t over. A new hope is needed.

F4J Press Release here

I'm Writing A Novel - No! Really! - National Novel Writing Month

I am busy in november because I am currently one of the participants of National Novel Writing Month.  The participants try to write a 100 page novel between !st Novemeber and 31st November inclusive. This is help my writing skills, poor as they are, so one day I will write that book on feminism that I have been thrreatening for over a decade.

National Novel Writing Month

What is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) ?

NaNoWriMo (My blog on NaNoWriMo)

F4J Protest finished

The protest has finished now.

Fathers' group roof protest ends

A couple of quotes

A fathers' rights campaigner who scaled the roof of the Houses of Parliament has ended his protest.

Fathers 4 Justice protester Guy Harrison had earlier climbed on top of Westminster Hall, bearing a banner which read "Does Blair care?".

He clambered down part of the roof to waiting police officers at 2000 BST - five hours after his protest started.

Mr Harrison, 37, of Ashurst, Sussex, also protested at the House of Commons last year, hurling flour at Tony Blair.

On Tuesday evening, he was escorted from the tower and driven away in a police van, to the claps and cheers of waiting supporters.

And

Leader of the House of Commons Geoff Hoon, speaking from the Labour conference in Brighton, said Mr Harrison had "exploited the opportunity" offered by summer tours of Parliament.

"I'm not in any way minimising the seriousness of the situation, but obviously MPs are not there and ministers are not there... but this is a serious situation and we will look at very carefully," he told BBC News.