Comments on: Real Father’s For Justice in Belfast http://www.mckenziefriend.com/2009/11/13/real-fathers-for-justice-in-belfast/ brought to you by leading McKenzie Friend and Lay Advocate, John Junk of www.familycourtsupport.co.uk Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:03:17 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David http://www.mckenziefriend.com/2009/11/13/real-fathers-for-justice-in-belfast/comment-page-1/#comment-6 David Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:07:37 +0000 http://www.mckenziefriend.com/?p=224#comment-6 Thanks for the mention. RFFJ (as we like to call ourselves ;-) ) aim to highlight the continuing challenges faces by fathers in the Family Court process. The demo today was a low key affair, but part of a continuing campaign which will once again seen some higher profile stunts. The need for a political group is well understood, but F4J, RFFJ, New or any other flavour for that matter are certainly not the correct vehicle for that endeavour. We already have FNF, and EPA performing political approaches. The direct action campaign groups must stick to what they do, as they actually help keep the topic alive so that the political debate and academic research gets good air time. Without groups like RFFJ continuing to push the issue through demos, protests, marches and publicity stunts, the issues will get pushed further back the on the political agenda and once more vanish from public gaze. I hope we cross paths in the future, and that you can see what role our group plays amongst the many other organisations that are all pushing for the same overhaul of the current Family Law systems. As for Guantanamo Dads, yes, it is a theme adopted first by us when we were all part of the original F4J and continued during Geoff Hibbert's recent trial http://bit.ly/KSq91 Thanks for the mention. RFFJ (as we like to call ourselves ;-) ) aim to highlight the continuing challenges faces by fathers in the Family Court process. The demo today was a low key affair, but part of a continuing campaign which will once again seen some higher profile stunts.

The need for a political group is well understood, but F4J, RFFJ, New or any other flavour for that matter are certainly not the correct vehicle for that endeavour. We already have FNF, and EPA performing political approaches. The direct action campaign groups must stick to what they do, as they actually help keep the topic alive so that the political debate and academic research gets good air time.

Without groups like RFFJ continuing to push the issue through demos, protests, marches and publicity stunts, the issues will get pushed further back the on the political agenda and once more vanish from public gaze.

I hope we cross paths in the future, and that you can see what role our group plays amongst the many other organisations that are all pushing for the same overhaul of the current Family Law systems.

As for Guantanamo Dads, yes, it is a theme adopted first by us when we were all part of the original F4J and continued during Geoff Hibbert’s recent trial http://bit.ly/KSq91

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