Equal Parenting Alliance News – July 2006
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Equal Parenting Alliance News
July 2006
Dear Friends
Firstly, may I welcome all of you to the Equal Parenting Alliance.
I am glad that more and more people are seeing the political approach as a valid way of advancing the Children’s Rights campaign.
News In Brief
Victory at Durham Union - Steve spoke at Durham Union debating society for the motion “This house supports the father’s rights movement” and won with an overwhelming majority.
United Equal Parenting Conference - Phil spoke at this conference, which was held in London on Saturday 17th June, and described where we see the Equal Parenting Alliance fitting into the
movement. It was generally agreed that this conference had been worthwhile by everyone who attended, and we hope to see a follow-up event next year.
Methodist Church - Phil gave a well received presentation to local ministers from the Methodist church in Glossop on the 26th of April.
EPA Membership fees have been reduced - see back page for full details.
Currently the equal parenting campaign is disparate guerrilla army, formed of over 35 differing organisations of varying size, each with their own injuries, their own way of fighting the war, and many of whom refuse to get on with any other equal parenting organisation. I often think of “The People’s Front of Judea”, but unfortunately, the truth is not so funny.
We need to become unified: not under a single organisation or chief, but as a Movement. We need letter-writing and research organisations standing side by side with self-help and direct action organisations. We need a campaign that will physically move the country in the right direction, by convincing the public of our veracity as parents and proving that the system harms our, (and maybe one day their), children.
Over the course of the next six months we will be talking individually to the various organisations to see how we can help each other, with a view to working with all of them.
Then we will all be on the road to success.
Phil Else, Party Leader
A Personal Welcome from the Party Leader
We’d like to welcome Phil Else as our new party leader after our committee re-organised for personal reasons. Our previous leader and chairman swapped roles and the deputy leader, Pete Molloy, stepped down from the committee.
We’d like to thank Pete for all his hard work during the first few months of the party.
Combined with the support services of such organisations as Families Need Fathers, UK Fathers and Dads UK, and the more controversial activities of Real Fathers and F4J, we can add our effort to the issue, and turn it into a Movement that the politicians and judges will be forced to listen to, and respect.
Our theme this year is awareness, and if you turn to the second page of this newsletter, you will see that this is the first stage of our initial four-year campaign. We hope to raise awareness of our Party, and also of the message we are hoping to spread throughout society and the equal parenting Movement.
The message that all of us need to deal with is that of unity. Our opponents are very cohesive: they have standards texts and terminology they use, they latch onto each other’s buzzwords, happily misuse each other’s survey and research, and they do it in the calm and commonsense way that makes the ordinary people of the UK (i.e. those whose lives are not blighted by the Family Courts) feel they are speaking sense.
