Proposed flier for event

Make Love - Not Kids

Don't make children, fatherhood is a social risk.

With the divorce rate fast approaching 50%, fatherhood is likely to become a financial and emotional hazard for you. Are you aware of this? Don't just think "This can't happen to me"! Each month thousands of children lose contact with their biological fathers, courtesy of the divorce industry.

More than 30% of kids won't see their dad till they turn 18.

Only 2.5% of kids from divorced or separated parents benefit from shared parenting post split - 97.5% live with their mother alone.

85% of children in jail come from fatherless homes.

Over 60% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.

All thanks to the Family Law Courts.
Say "No" to marriage.
Say "No" to fatherhood.
Together we need to smash this corrupt system.

Rally in Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW at 10.00am on Sunday 3rd December 2006."

The problems associated with getting groups to action.

The thing I see as the problem is that we will probably see no resolve. We need to get over the fact that we will suffer. Enjoy it, thrive off it, I know that sounds crazy but what else can we do?

We need to decide to really do this for our kids. Enjoy the fact that we are REALLY doing this for our kids. Be proud of it.
It will be our children and our children's children who will benefit from our work. Hold it close to our hearts. I believe it is our only choice.
What else is there but doom and gloom? -- not just for us but if we don't fight it we leave it for our children to fight. I see a huge mess being left for our children. It is something I wish to stand and be proud of fighting.

Our children will see what we have stood for and they will learn by leadership, they will die if we give up. They will suffer worse than us. We can not let it happen.

We are indeed martyrs. We have no choice in the matter. We can not even choose to provide what is demanded from us, as it is unrealistic and too impoverishing or in fact imprisoning.

Look at the life of Mandella, for most of it all he could do was breathe. Now his children breathe free air. OK to a certain extent but that is the reality of life... we can only change things to a certain extent and then it will be up to the next mob.

So lets do the things we can eh?!

Lets design some "ready to print" A4 posters & pamphlets for letterboxing the facts about:

1. CSA
2. Domestic Violence
3. Realities facing young men who may be deciding to have kids.
4. A to do list for men to have in case their relationship is souring.
5. Family court facts/stats/ outcomes.
6. Other related issues.

Put them on the web-site and e-mail to all F4E members so they can choose to print and letterbox or not. Bit of "pass it forward there". We could also choose to e-mail the Posters/pamphlets/ info to other people, post in other groups send to parliamentarians, women's groups, schools etc. Get the word out there and beyond our group.

Also I think it would be great for Yuri and PTP to come up with some speeches for those who will to tout off to men's groups. There are men's groups and community groups around that have informal gatherings where it would be great for those who will, to be able to give community voice to all of our concerns. With solid fact and back up & some pamphlets to hand out.

Let's see what we can do to help the young men of tomorrow. My boys are growing up in this mess and I want them to have what I didn't, INFORMATION when they need it, NOT after the fact.

The media is controlled.
Yet we can walk and talk.
We can make mail box drops.
We can speak up at community meetings.
And we can have pamphlets at the ready to hand to other men, young and old.

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From a proud Australian in Adelaide:

The choice is yours to participate or not :) and I am sure you will.

To whom you post/poster/ letter box/ pamphlet drive/ speak to etc is up to you.

I think we should send info to womens groups if only to put the wind up them and get them to hassle us out some more.

There's Nothing like being the underdog mate. It's the Aussie institution! They keep hanging the dead beat and bad dad on us... I say give them enough rope :) people I know and I know a few are getting mighty SICK and tierd of hearing the anti violence against women & the BAD DAD campaigns. People are starting to see it for what it is.

WE MUST PERSIST! WE MUST STOKE THE FIRE! I have seen groups of women enraged at the sight of the AVAW ads. It is only the institutions that profit from these ideals that are promoting them. That is where we are different. We are INDEED the UNDERDOGS and the hard done by and the FATHERS of this decades stolen children!

Your feet, your voice, your action. OWN IT & BE PROUD OF IT! :)

We all act and it is a big action. EDUCATING those we think need educating.

Not leaving it to others to decide. Not waiting for others to decide when or how, just a general concensus to act.

Simply I hope those who can supply the facts will do that. Those who can design posters will go ahead and do that with the facts provided. Those who can word process will do that and post to the group. Those who can develop email lists will do that. ANYTHING YOU CAN DO DO IT AND DO IT NOW.

THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT we are HERE !

We need to prepare educational POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, SPEECHES, BACK UP DOCUMENTS for those who take the step of public speaking. EMAIL lists, mailing lists. coordinators. area leaders and contacts. GET IT UP GET IT GOING!

We may not win a vote or make immediate changes but we can INFORM beyond our group and we don't have to do great feats of protest like F4J we can just walk the streets pamphleting. Put up a poster in the local shop or school bulliten board. email all the parlimentarians EVERY SINGLE DAY. Why not it is our right and emails are free. Ok pamphlets might cost a few cents but if you get a good deal at a printing house it could get even cheaper... we could source the country for a good printing deal perhaps find a father just like you and I running a printing business who might do it for cost. etc those sorts of things. WE could send letters to the unions supporting thier actions of unity and struggle against oppression and hopefully win their support and understanding.

Just think about it... you don't have to do anything about it. BUT if YOU do YOU OWN IT AND YOU BE PROUD OF IT!

All I'm asking is if these posters/pamphlets/ speeches etc be made promanent on the F4E site so that anyone can download then print and get the word out there.

Cheers from Dan :)

I'm sick of banging the keys. I want to get out and tell the world all about this shit!