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The DesertLight Journal
Volume 2, Number 3
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February 6, 2002
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The bi-weekly e-zine of the International Men's Rights Movement. This is the first e-zine intended to focus primarily on the issues of domestic violence against men and divorce/child custody issues. We welcome news of groups, websites, and people in the men's rights movement worldwide. We encourage new writers and commentary.
For all the news all the time, visit our buds
http://www.mensactivism.org in the US
http://www.angryharry.com in the UK
or Men's News Daily http://www.divorceport.com anywhere.
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs the river."
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IN THIS ISSUE:
* UK/US VENTURE FIRST TO PUBLISH MASCULIST LITERATURE
* PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP IN IRELAND
* LET THE SOUND OF FREEDOM RING IN ATLANTA GEORGIA!
* BOYCOTT THE BODY SHOP
* UPDATE ON LA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR MEN CAMPAIGN
* BROKEN LINK
* THE SKINNY ON THE MEN'S MOVEMENT
UK/US VENTURE FIRST TO PUBLISH MASCULIST LITERATURE
The online radio show, "The Men's Hour," and the American DesertLight Journal announced today they will join forces to form cyberManbooks.com. Set to launch on 14 February, cyberManbooks is unique in the world of e-publishing. The first publisher to produce distinctively 'man-friendly books,' they will target a primarily male audience with new books, as well as classics.
Unlike other publishers that provide little or no help for new writers, choosing instead to promote and assist proven authors, cyberMan will encourage and help new writers from the time their work is accepted for publication. Raymond Cuttill, who produces "The Men's Hour" online radio broadcast, will use his technical know-how to keep the nuts and bolts of the operation in tune. He will maintain the website, produce the actual books, and assist authors in creating their own personal websites.
Under the guiding hand of Trudy W. Schuett, publisher of Arizona's DesertLight Journal, and author of three novels, authors will learn to promote their work, both online and off. This new concept in publishing will connect authors worldwide to assist each other in their promotional efforts, and give readers free access to contact cyberMan authors.
cyberManbooks.com
"A New World of Words"
http://www.cyberManbooks.com
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PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP IN IRELAND
New groups first Meeting
Supplies information and support to parents who are fighting for access to their children after their marriage/relationship has broken down.
Dublin Central Mission in Abbey Street, (Next to flowing tide pub)
This and every Monday at 7:30.
Contact Peter 087 9711017.
Seán (Meán Gaeilge) 087 2939512
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- LET THE SOUND OF FREEDOM RING IN ATLANTA GEORGIA!
January 31, 2002
FYI - A great big thank you to Rep. Stanley Watson and Rep Barbara Mobley, Esq.
We thank God for touching the hearts of the Senate Special Judiciary Committee
and for the testimony of local Attorney & Fraud victim Jim Albertelli, Esq, many US
Military victims, GA victims, wives, grandmothers and supporters that attended the
various meetings.
The substitute version (mutually agreed upon) of HB 369 passed "unanimously" in
today's meeting. The Georgia Paternity Fraud victims are truly grateful for the
combined efforts of the Chairman Senator Charlie Tanksley and his entire committee.
--NEWS FLASH--
One of our local victims and his 2nd wife has collected more than 100 signatures (men
and women) for our Stop Fraud petition. This couple has lost a lot due to paternity fraud,
but God gave them strength to get back in the fight for our Freedom.
Carnell Smith - Director & Founder
US Citizens Against Paternity Fraud
Website: http://paternityfraud.com
Email: Director@paternityfraud.com
"If the Genes don't fit, you must acquit"(tm)
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BOYCOTT THE BODY SHOP
I have added a whole lot more material under Direct Action Forthcoming Body Shop link at www.lbduk.org which relates to the white ribbon campaign. There is also a link from there to a page of letters to Body Shop, if you have written yours, please forward me a copy.
And don't forget the photos of the boycott.
Thanks.
All the best.
Len
Len Miskulin SCC BA WTC ATBJ
Chairman
Live Beat Dads UK
www.lbduk.org
+44 (0)20-8508 6980
CHILDREN NEED BOTH PARENTS
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UPDATE ON LA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR MEN CAMPAIGN:
Things are going well for the campaign for a Commission for
Men in LA County - but we need more letters. We've got 17
so far and more coming. One is from state Assemblyman Rod
Wright, a black democrat representing L.A., who states in
his letter that 30% of over 280,000 DNA tests in 1999
excluded the tested individual as the father (according to
the American Association of Blood Banks) and that we need a
Commission for Men to help men deal with this and other
issues that affect them as men. He mentions me in the
letter, as well as SAFE, the Black Men's Health Network,
and others. This is a big victory. I will use this letter
to begin soliciting celebrities and local leaders.
I will be on Public Access on 2/7 (Thursday) at 7pm on the
Warren Williams Show discussing a commission for men along
with a woman from the city's Commission for Women. It will
air in Los Angeles and Lynwood.
An LA Times reporter asked me for copies of some of the
letters and will mention this effort in an article he
writes in the spring.
My contact in Mike Antonovich's office says we now have a
commission for men 'on the radar screen,' but we need more
letters. Seventeen isn't enough. I'm trying to get 100
letters by March 30th (my birthday). If you haven't
written, please do. And if possible, get someone you know
to write as well. Just follow the instructions below.
I'll try to send an update every other week. Please keep
those letters rolling!
Sincerely,
Marc Angelucci
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Instuctions on writing letter to LA County Supervisor
supporting a Commission for Men.
1) Find out your supervisor's name and address by calling
(562)466-1310 or by going to http://bos.co.la.ca.us/.
Usually the phone call is faster.
2) Write a letter to that supervisor. They all have the
same address. Here is a model.
Dear [supervisor's name]
L.A. County Board of Supervisors
500 West Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
[BODY OF LETTER: Say you're writing to support a Commission
for Men, give your background (occupation, etc.), say why
you think we need a Commission for Men (your experience,
opinion, etc.), and ask him or her to get back to you.
Sincerely,
[your name, address and phone number.]
3) At the bottom put "cc: board of supervisors", or else
put "cc:" and name the other four supervisors. The
supervisors are: Gloria Molina, Don Knabe, Zev Yaroslavsky,
Yvonne Burke, and Mike Antonovich.
4) Send the original to your supervisor and one copy to:
Marc Angelucci
3848 Los Feliz Blvd. #24
Los Angeles, CA 90017
5) If you have time, send a copy to each of the other four
supervisors at the same address.
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BROKEN LINK
Broken Link is a database with articles from newspapers, websites, scientific journals and
magazines from all over the world to support the cause of divorced parents that have
trouble maintaining contact with their children.
The database is a not-for-profit initiative from the Netherlands, where a monthly
e-zine is made with it. There is not yet an e-zine for the English speaking community
but the database is searchable and we have made a few 'prefab'-searches for the people
who have difficulty defining their questions.
Running a father oriented website? Then this may be something for you!
This search engine is not only on our own website, but also on several others in the
Netherlands. We make pages in the same lay out as these websites and their masters link
to them in a frame. The result is that the visitors of these sites can use a search
engine and have the impression that this engine belongs to this site.
In return for this enrichment of other webpages we ask that these webmasters upload
relevant articles to the database. This way the database can grow to the benefit of
fathers all over the world. Something for you? Contact me at
theo@richel.org
http://www.richel.org/brokenlink/english/
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THE SKINNY ON THE MEN'S MOVEMENT
QIMNew
Jan. 24, 2002
I've been at this for twenty years, but only the past three years in the thick of it on the net with the men's movement. I'm ready to give my report.
I went about this methodically. First I saw on soc.men that the gays were trying to use masculism as a counterinsurgent device, but fortunately they hadn't gotten far or used it much on the net. So I decided to take masculism back for the real insurgents. I observed what was happening on soc.men for nine months and was ready to give birth to the "Masculist Manifesto", which was intended to be a
distillation of men's issues both Left and Right while at the same time hitting feminism where they lived. Most agreed it did a good job in both respects, but people hesitated, either because it was kind of radical or for other reasons. In the next few years I expanded it to three tracts including the Manifesto to what we know now as "The Masculist Trinity". This filled out the rest of what was needed, both from the feedback I received and from the bare ideological necessities.
I shopped all this around to all the men's forums, Left and Right. I was also on the official APA men's studies list, one of the only grass roots men's movement guys to do that. Everything was going pretty well, people seemed to like me OK and the response to my masculism work seemed to be gaining adherents. But something wasn't right. Maybe it was because I was gaining ground and people had to
take it more seriously.
Anyway, one of the functions of masculism was to shake the tree so to speak. By nailing down the issues and how to take out feminism in the most direct fashion, it presents a problem for certain people. Now instead of using the men's movement for their partisan political agenda, here they are being confronted with a truly non partisan approach.
So here we have Cheney (Aaron Burr), the grass roots hero of the Right, coming over to talk to me about the patriarchal approach. I personally don't give a shit what the approach is called to take out
feminism or even if it is from the Left or Right, I just want to destroy feminism!! We have no Left and Right now anyway, we have "Corporate Feminism" which is a kinder and gentler version of
communism.
What is happening is that the guys on the Left in the men's movement, like myself, have no power and little chance of getting it, while the guys on the Right have a little power and chance of getting
more. So it's their way or the highway as far as they're concerned. That their way hasn't worked and probably never will work, is not their concern. They are mostly in it for their own partisan agenda.
Some are just dupes and don't know the political dynamics.
I suspected this was happening but I wasn't sure until now. We have the same thing happening on the Left with the "equalists", the guys that want to defeat feminism by making things more equal. In other
words more feminism.
So in essence the men's movement is riddled with counterinsurgents from both the Left and Right who have their partisan agendas ahead of destroying feminism. Maybe they think this is the way to do it, and that excuse has been used for thirty years now. No, they know better now, but they never gave a shit about destroying feminism in the first place, just furthering their partisan agendas. For them to be
acting this way requires a good deal of pressure from the 'higher ups' in their parties. We can understand the pressure the guys on the Left get, but for the guys on the Right to be doing this is really
pussified, and I surely will use this fact in my coming advocacy.
So where does that leave us real anti-feminists and masculists?
Probably more out in the cold than any identity movement in history. No one will come anywhere near us if we take on feminism directly. Even most of the so called men's movement and father's rights guys
have to have some political association to get anywhere, so they won't be with us and will even work against us to win favor with their partisans. The guys on the Right are already calling me a fag
and commie. My advocacy took special care to distance myself from both, and the ones calling me that know darn well that I have.
I know that politically it is usually wise not to be too radical and to compromise somewhat, but with men and feminism this is not possible. We won't make any progress if we try compromising with
feminism and going to them with our hands out begging. This is not the nature of men. Either we confront them directly or we continue being oppressed....by women no less!! For the guys on the Right this is just peachy keen because it furthers their economic agenda. But for us guys on the Left trying to do this with feminists in full control, it is quite a challenge.
Maybe with true anti-feminists and masculists on the Left and Right who don't have the connections and investment in partisan politics, we can put something together, but it is going to be a grass roots
effort unlike anything this country has seen.
It's a huge challenge, but just that fact makes any progress we make more admirable.
Maybe I'm overstating what is happening, but I doubt it. This is the reality of the situation and the question is whether American Men will rise to the challenge. The pussy counter insurgents will be
there and all smiles wanting to get a piece of the action, if we ever
do rise up.
Tom
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The Masculist Trinity
http://www.geocities.com/qim/masculisttrinity.htm
The American Union of Men (AUM)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aum/
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We leave you with the 'Zonie blessing--"May you always have a full tank of
gas and underwear that doesn't ride up!"
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