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NCFM Press Release: Battered Men’s Rights Hero, Patricia Overberg, Passes Away

August 16, 2011
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NCFM Press Release: Battered Men’s Rights Hero, Patricia Overberg, Passes Away

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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Posted in Action, Domestic Abuse/Violence, National, Press Release NCFM | 2 Comments »

The California Supreme Court and wool bras

August 16, 2011
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The California Supreme Court and wool bras

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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Posted in Courts Appellate, Discrimination Against Males, Radical, Women Organizations | 5 Comments »

Prostate cancer strikes one in six men but gets very little funding for research

August 16, 2011
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Prostate cancer strikes one in six men but gets very little funding for research

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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Posted in Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Health Men, Ray Blumhorst | 4 Comments »

Pioneering Domestic Violence Advocate Who Refused to Discriminate Leaves Lasting Legacy

August 16, 2011
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Pioneering Domestic Violence Advocate Who Refused to Discriminate Leaves Lasting Legacy

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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Posted in Domestic Abuse/Violence, National | 1 Comment »

NCFM Baja Liaison Robert Yourell scheduled to become Mexico’s first English-language newscaster!

August 11, 2011
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NCFM Baja Liaison Robert Yourell scheduled to become Mexico’s first English-language newscaster!

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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Posted in Action, Mexico, Progress, Radio | 5 Comments »

NCFM gets the attention of the San Diego Union Tribune re Del Mar Fair Ground Ladies Day

August 5, 2011
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NCFM gets the attention of the San Diego Union Tribune re Del Mar Fair Ground Ladies Day

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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Posted in Action, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Los Angeles, National, San Diego | 1 Comment »

NCFM Chicago Chapter President and author says “It all balances out” — Value vs. Validity

July 28, 2011
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NCFM Chicago Chapter President and author says “It all balances out” — Value vs. Validity

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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Posted in Chicago, Discrimination Against Males, Health Men, Health Women, Mens' Organizations, Victim Rights | 4 Comments »

To the women of NOW – a rant

July 15, 2011
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To the women of NOW – a rant

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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Posted in Discrimination Against Boys, Discrimination Against Males, Discrimination Against Men, Myths, Radical, Supremist | 15 Comments »

NCFM PR Director Steven Svoboda letter published in San Francisco Weekly

July 1, 2011
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NCFM PR Director Steven Svoboda letter published in San Francisco Weekly

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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Posted in Action, Activities, Employment, Employment Men, Employment Women, NCFM in the news, Northern California | 5 Comments »