Help us promote ICMI18 outside the venue: Birmingham City FC v Aston Villa FC, Sunday, 29 October

In four weeks’ time we’ll be promoting ICMI18 outside the venue where it will be held – St Andrew’s Stadium, the home of Birmingham City FC. The game (which, unusually, starts at 12:00 on a Sunday, 29 October) will be a big local derby, against Aston Villa FC. We’ll be engaging with fans, handing out leaflets, and holding placards (printed both sides, no expense spared). We invite you to join us. To ensure we have enough placards and leaflets, please let us know (info@j4mb.org.uk) if you’ll be attending. Thanks.

Paul Elam to be presented with a Churchill award at ICMI18

Occasionally we present Churchill awards to people who’ve made an outstanding contribution to fighting for men’s rights. Philip Davies MP won the award, as did Barry Wright for investing a huge sum of money in putting on screenings of The Red Pill in Norwich, and funding the travel and accommodation of Paul Elam, Cassie Jaye, Erin Pizzey and Dr Randomercam. A link to Barry’s award is here.

We’re going to present Paul Elam with a Churchill award during the dinner on the second night of ICMI18, July 7. The dinner will be held in the Jasper Carrott Suite, which overlooks the pitch and the large LED screen next to it. We’re planning to have this image on the screen during the dinner:

Conservative party conference, Manchester – anti-MGM protests (2/3 October)

If you’ve never been to a protest before, or never been at an anti-MGM protest, I urge you to make the protest in Manchester your first. The first day’s protest will be next Monday, and we’ll be there Tuesday too. You’ll find a warm welcome, and you’ll be doing your bit to end the illegal and harmful human rights violation that MGM undoubtedly is. We’ve invested heavily in new materials including new banners, placards, and leaflets. New placards will include ones pointing to the Jewish case against MGM, and the Muslim case against it.

In 2015 and 2016 we organized anti-MGM protests outside the Tory party conferences, making thousands of people aware (many for the first time) that MGM is illegal, unethical, physically and sometimes psychologically damaging. Video footage from the 2015 conference is here (3:13) and the 2016 conference here (16:04).

The Tory conference website is here. I urge you to support this important protest, and if you expect to be able to attend, please email me (mike@j4mb.org.uk) or call me (07967 026163), so we have an idea of numbers. I look forward to meeting you there. We shall as usual be video recording with both videocams and bodycams.

Woman who exposed her genitals in front of Mona Lisa to be prosecuted

Woman who exposed her genitals in front of Mona Lisa to be prosecuted

 

Words fail me. The piece starts:

A woman performance artist who exposes herself in museums is to be prosecuted for exhibitionism after baring her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa in Paris, her lawyer said Thursday.

Deborah de Robertis spread her bare legs before Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece on Sunday in the Louvre museum, shouting ‘Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright’ as several dozen tourists looked on. ‘The goal was not to exhibit my genitals,’ the 33-year-old said, ‘but to copy a famous photograph by Valie Export’ – an Austrian performance artist known for her sexually provocative acts during the 1970s. ‘My message is to question the place of women artists in the history of art. That’s why it’s necessary to do my performances in museums,’ said Robertis, who has dual French and Luxembourg nationality.