Former DV Shelter Director Was the First to Help Battered Men and is Honored by Men’s Rights Activists 8/12/11 – Los Angeles: Patricia Overberg, the first known domestic violence shelter director in the United States to help male victims along with female victims, passed away today (August 11, 2011). Patricia is being honored by men’s rights activists as a hero...
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Tags: antelope valley, domestic violence, los angeles domestic violence council, national coalition for men, ncfm, patricia overbert
Posted in Action, Domestic Abuse/Violence, National, Press Release NCFM | 2 Comments »
It starts out “Dear Herby”. It always starts out that way, the emails from the National Women’s Law Center. It’s like I’m their buddy, long lost sister, or comrade just freed from a patriarchal labor camp where I was whipped into testing wool bras designed to make women scratch themselves silly. The Fe-ME-ists who...
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Tags: discrimination against men, Goodwin Liu, Governor Brown, Jerry Brown, national coalition for men, National Womens Law Center, ncfm
Posted in Courts Appellate, Discrimination Against Males, Radical, Women Organizations | 5 Comments »
By Ray Blumhorst President, NCFM Los Angeles Here’s an important public service announcement from the Prostate Cancer Foundation called “Keep Dad in the Game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMv5gDiDco& Prostate cancer strikes one out of six men, but prostate cancer research gets only a fraction of the annual funding that breast cancer research receives. It is estimated that...
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Tags: cancer research, men's health, mens health, national coalition for men, ncfm, prostate, prostate cancer, ray blumhorst
Posted in Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Health Men, Ray Blumhorst | 4 Comments »
TORRANCE, Calif., August 15, 2011 – She changed the lives of thousands, perhaps millions, but few know her name. Patricia Shanley Overberg, MSW, died of heart failure in Torrance, California, on August 11, 2011, with her children at her side. Overberg, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was 77. With the Violence Against Women...
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Tags: antelope valley, domestic violence, los angeles domestic violence council, mens health network, national coalition for men, ncfm, Pat Overberg, Patricia Overberg, radar, san diego domestic violence council, stop
Posted in Domestic Abuse/Violence, National | 1 Comment »
Robert (Bob) Yourell is our NCFM Liaison in Baja, Mexico. Aside from which, he is a therapist and writer. He also develops continuing education courses for mental health workers, and consults on mental health issues for the English-speaking community in Baja. He offers the free Shimmering Workbook for a valuable self-help skill, and his...
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Tags: bob yourell, mens, mens rights mexico, national coalition for men, national coalition for men mexico, ncfm, ncfm mexico, robert yourell, rosarito
Posted in Action, Mexico, Progress, Radio | 5 Comments »
OK, just hold it for a minute By Tom Blair, Columnist Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:26 a.m. Ladies’ Day at the Del Mar Racetrack is history. As of this week, it’s “Ladies’ and Gentlemen Day” — the result of protest and pressure from the National Coalition For Men. Does that seem silly? Or...
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Tags: discrimination against men], gender discrimination, national coalition for men, ncfm, sexism, women free
Posted in Action, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Los Angeles, National, San Diego | 1 Comment »
My book—Loving Men, Respecting Women: The Future of Gender Politics—is all about convincing the reader that It All Balances Out—which is to say, in the benefits enjoyed and in the liabilities suffered, in the power and in the victimization, in the freedoms and in the constraints, it all balances out between Man and Woman....
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Tags: boys health, california mens centers, discrimination against boys, discrimination against men, feminism, gender discrimination, national coalition for men, ncfm, ncfm chicago, sex discrimination, sexism, Tim Goldich, vawa, violence against men, violence against women act, voice for men
Posted in Chicago, Discrimination Against Males, Health Men, Health Women, Mens' Organizations, Victim Rights | 4 Comments »
By Steven DeLuca Excuse my grammar and spelling. I grew up in housing projects, violent and poorly educated family. I spend summers as a child working in bean and berry fields and like many males from lower-class homes I never caught up with Spelling, grammar and punctuation. That doesn’t make me stupid although I...
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Tags: discrimination against boys, discrimination against fathers, discrimination against men], discrimination in education, disparate sentencing, feminism, gender discrimination, national coalition for men, national organization of women, ncfm, radical feminism, sex discrimination, sex discriminationa, steve deluca
Posted in Discrimination Against Boys, Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Myths, Radical, Supremist | 15 Comments »
When Jobs Become Fatal There’s a gender factor in occupational hazards: I found it curious that Joe Eskenazi’s article saw fit to omit the most salient, indeed, shocking statistic from his source document ,...
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Tags: national coalition for men, ncfm, occupational hazzard, steve svoboda, work deaths, work fatalities, work injuries
Posted in Action, Activities, Employment, Employment Men, Employment Women, NCFM in the news, Northern California | 5 Comments »