Anthony T Corniche III is the amazing man responsible for the recording and editing of the presentations at ICMI16 and ICMI17. He’s kindly agreed to do the same again for ICMI18, and has started a crowdfunder for £1,000 towards the £2,450 cost of buying some equipment for the event – here. Donations have just passed the halfway mark. Please support Anthony if you can. Thanks.
Last month we posted a piece titled, Five men that had paedophile ring charges dropped hit out at ‘serial fantasist’ accuser. We’re delighted to report that one of the men – Patrick Graham, 61, retired social worker – has agreed to speak at the conference. We’ve just updated the speakers page with his image, and the following text:
Patrick Graham – “Sex offence fantasists, and their police enablers”
A survivor of the ongoing plague of false allegations of rape/historic sex abuse, Patrick is busy campaigning for changes to the criminal justice system, and justice for all the many falsely accused, using skills developed during a media and community development portfolio career. He is a busy moderator of the accused.me.uk forum which has doubled in size to 1,500 members in the past 9 months.
You can order your conference ticket(s) here.
We start with some great news. Steven Svoboda, a highly respected longstanding campaigner against MGM, will be giving a talk at the conference. We’ve just added his details to the speakers’ page on the website – here. Those details:
J. Steven Svoboda, Executive Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child – “Genital autonomy, gender equity, and the world”
Steven presented to the United Nations on male circumcision. He’s the National Coalition for Men’s (NCFM’s) Public Relations Director and longest serving board member. He graduated with honours from Harvard Law School and has published 40 peer-reviewed articles. His interview with Cassie Jaye for Red Pill/Raw Files is here.
Now for some unfortunate news. Two German speakers – Prof. Gerhard Amendt and Tom Todd – were planning to share one speaking slot. Sadly they’ve had to withdraw, for professional and personal reasons.
With only six weeks left before ticket sales for the conference end on 31 March, we want to promote the conference strongly over the period. One way is to promote it outside stadiums on afternoons / evenings when high-attendance Premier League football games are being played, handing out leaflets and displaying our promotional placards. The first match will be Chelsea v Barcelona at Stamford Bridge, tomorrow evening. The game starts at 19:45, we’ll aim to meet around 18:00. Please email us ASAP if you can join us ([email protected]), so we can bring along sufficient placards and leaflets. Thanks.
You can book your conference ticket(s) here.
We’ve had very good reasons to expose the hostility of Wikipedia ‘editors’ in relation to men’s issues, men’s rights organisations, and individual MRAs, but this story takes the biscuit. I was pleased to be emailed by a supporter who’d been checking out the Wikipedia page on AVfM, and was pleased to see a line linking to the July conference website, and alerted me to it. I was pleased to hear the news, but here’s the thing. When I checked out the AVfM website, the text was nowhere to be seen. So I checked out the history, and learned the following had been posted at 23:49:
He [Mike Buchanan] announced on his party’s website on 1st December 2017, that a contract had been signed with a new venue in London, for a conference over July 20-22, 2018.
The line was followed by a reference, clicking on which would take readers to this website.
At 00:07 – just 18 minutes after the addition had been posted – ‘Grayfell’, a Wikipedia ‘editor’, removed it. His (or her?) justification was as follows:
Find a reliable, independent source, please.
The history of the edit is here. So this website, posted by an established political party campaigning on men’s issues, giving details of a forthcoming International Conference on Men’s Issues, is not “reliable”.
Wikipedia’s coverage of gender-related matters is predominantly written, edited, and censored by feminists.
We’re delighted to report that Cassie Jaye, the American filmmaker behind the groundbreaking film The Red Pill, will be joining us at the conference. She’ll be happy to stand for pictures, sign autographs, and will have The Red Pill merchandise available for purchase. She would also like to do interviews with some attendees for her YouTube channel. Evan Davies, who did all the camera work on The Red Pill, will be bringing his equipment. If you would like to be interviewed, let them know by sending an email to: [email protected]
We’re delighted too that Barry Wright, a Norwich-based man, will also be attending the conference. He generously funded two screenings of The Red Pill in January 2017, and paid for the travel and accommodation of a number of people including Cassie, Erin Pizzey, Paul Elam, DoctorRandomercam and myself. A couple of photographs taken during that time, starting with Barry and Cassie:
Most people reading this blog piece will be aware that Birmingham City FC terminated the contract to host this year’s conference at its home ground, St Andrew’s Stadium. Various blog pieces on this website and the J4MB website have explored the matter in some detail. We’re pleased to report that we’ve negotiated an out-of-court settlement with the club. Our thanks to Tony, party treasurer, for leading the negotiations, and to Ian, our legal advisor, for his support.
We’re not permitted under the terms of the settlement contract to divulge any details, but we can now finally put this matter behind us, and focus our energies on the London conference.
