Interesting.

I’m sick to death of headlines referring to boys who have been subjected to atrocities as ‘children’, under circumstances when girls would be referred to as ‘girls’. Likewise men referred to as ‘people’, when women would be referred to as ‘women’. This story is a particularly blatant example of the phenomenon.

An interesting new piece from Mr Purdy. I happen to know he’s on holiday outside the UK at the moment. As Americans say – and it’s said as a compliment – the man’s a machine. He has yet to publish a piece on his blog that wasn’t well worth reading.

Another outstanding piece from William Collins. We’re about to add a RSS feed onto the front page of this website, so his last 10 blog pieces will be visible. In common with Herbert Purdy, all his pieces are very well worth reading. Why not leave a comment after his article, to show your appreciation?

We asked a donor, ‘John S’, why he’d made a generous donation of £150.00 to our current appeal. His response takes up the rest of this piece, and we thank him for kindly agreeing to us reproducing his words here:

I’ve been following J4MB for some time now and I think in the UK at least that nobody else has a viable strategy for forcing the political classes to stop battering men, boys, families etc. etc. Everyone knows how brutal family courts are in denying fathers access to children – and vice versa, which everyone forgets – there’s also the issue of grandparents. I’m the father of a 32-year-old son who’s been devastated by the refusal of his ex-wife to grant him access to his 9-year-old and 12-year-old daughters (and it was her that ended the marriage, leaving my son for another man, with more money, flash car etc.). He’s twice come very close to committing suicide and we’re constantly worried one day he’ll just do it. We’re not a well-off family and can’t afford the many tens of thousands of pounds in legal fees we understand is necessary to have any chance of getting reasonable access. My wife cries herself to sleep every night and I drink heavily to numb the pain.

After seeing Ray Barry’s video in Birmingham we decided not t spend a pile of money we can ill-afford on Xmas presents this year, and the three of us came up with £150. We’re sure you’ll spend it well and we look forward to the mainstream media having little choice but to give your campaign coverage. Good luck at the election. I have no doubt that at each general election you’ll get more and more coverage.

Ray Barry will be standing for J4MB in the May 2015 general election. He’s the leader of Real Fathers for Justice, and we decided to film him protesting about a sculpture recently erected outside the new Birmingham library. The sculpture was created by Gillian Wearing and it’s titled, ‘A Real Birmingham Family’. The absence of a father in the group has sparked a considerable amount of media controversy.

In the minutes before we recorded this piece, a number of people came to see the sculpture. We engaged them in conversation and they, too, were angry that £100,000 of public money had been spent on a sculpture of a family which excluded a father.

Unfortunately it was very windy on the day we visited the sculpture, and this affected the quality of the audio recording in parts. We hope, however, that you’ll grasp the essence of Ray’s protest – here.

Our thanks to a number of supporters for alerting us to this. For all the heartache she’s caused, and cost to the justice system, waste of police time etc. she was sentenced to just four months in prison.

We’ve just checked out some of the stats for our current appeal, which has so far raised £3,840. Our thanks to a regular donor, an Irish gentleman living in the UK, for his latest contribution of £50.00. Donations can be attributed to people residing in the following countries:

United Kingdom £2,280
Australia £375
United States £340
Netherlands £300
Israel £175
Canada £145
Germany £100
Hong Kong £50
Ireland £25

Now, where does the credit for the international flavour of these donations lie? Unequivocally, with AVfM. The stats tell us that of ‘the domains that are directing contributions to this campaign’, £2,095 can be attributed to AVfM. So that’s all the non-UK donations, and around £500 of the UK donations.

AVfM, and AVfM followers, thank you.

An excellent new video (14:00) by the estimable Tom Golden.

Interesting.

Thunderf00t, a British video maker, runs a great website – here. This video alone has been viewed by over 77,000 people in less than 24 hours. We recommend you subscribe. His pieces are always worth catching.