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[NOTE:  Many apologies if a) this is wholly inapproriate to a group where 
it ends up posted, and b) if you've already seen this in this group in the 
past week or so.  I had a change in machines and lost my list of groups 
recently posted to.]


Hi, many of you may know me from alt.dads-rights, alt.child-support, 
or from alt.support.  Many of you may also know me from having read my 
fathers' rights oriented paper which has been circulating.

For those of you who don't know me, I am a law student at Stanford, in
my 3rd and final year of school.  Upon graduating I will be joining a
small California law firm as their family law department.  My background 
is in fathers' rights advocacy, which rights I intend to continue to 
work to further upon becoming a licensed, practicing attorney.

I am compiling a list of people who are concerned about the state of
fathers' rights (or rather lack thereof), and who are willing to get
involved.  This list and its membership have come to be known as
FREE (Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange).  The FREE membership is
now about 125 strong, with members (so far) in 28 states, Canada, and
Japan.  We have area coordinators in 15 states, plus Canada.

So far the primary activity of FREE has been to maintain an emailing list
of its members for the purposes of both disseminating and exchanging
information.  Members who are in the same state have exchanged email and
support.  FREE members local to the Bay Area have instituted meeting
as a group.

Hopefully this will all lead to other, more direct action activities.
Already we have seen this begin, as FREE members have gotten actively
involved in a telephone and letter writing campaign protesting the
United Way's Atlanta Office's use of billboards claiming that "More
Fathers Run Away From Home Than Children Do" and television spots
picturing a swimming sperm, with a voiceover saying "Unfortunately this
sperm is the only contribution that some men will ever make to their
children".


If you would like to be on the FREE list, please send me the following:

Your name
Your address
Your preferred email address
Is it ok to share your email address only with other FREE members?
Your telephone number
Your interest in this area (i.e. are you a divorced father?  The wife of
divorced father?  The adult child of a divorce in which you saw the
inequities of the system?)

If for some reason you prefer not to include one of the above pieces of
information, that is ok too, but please let me know that you are
omitting it, so that I don't think you just forgot to include it.

Please send this information to shedevil@leland.stanford.edu

Please be sure to make your subject line something like "Add Me To the
List" so that I will be able to pick these pieces of email out readily.

Also, if you haven't already done so, please feel free to ftp my
fathers' rights oriented paper from leland.stanford.edu.  The directory
is /pub, and the file is "dads".

-- 
     LOOKING FOR:  Nan Booton, Lorna Taylor, Linda Dalgard, & Sumi Furiya
I am: Anne Mitchell, mom, law student, shedevil@leland.stanford.edu or @vix.com
     	  founder of FREE, the Fathers Rights and Equality Exchange.
   The fathers' rights paper is ftpable from leland.stanford.edu;/pub/dads