Super Dads Video.....YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS

[joni]

This video was made of the Fathers 4 Justice march on the prime minister's home in London this past summer.  It's a beautiful tribute.  If watching it doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will.

http://www.ukscreen.com/screen/95

It's my understanding the the Fathers 4 Justice is in the process of setting up a formal office here in the States.  

As you'll see in the film, their signature color is purple.  It started me thinking that we should have some symbol as our solidarity.

I found a web site, //www.theribbonlady.com.  She has nice enamel pins in various colors.  For $9 and shipping, you could have a dozen of these pins for yourself and give to friends and family members to wear to symbolize Equal Parenting Rights.

I thought purple because it's the color that Fathers 4 Justice is already using.  The problem is, purple ribbons are associated with Domestic Violence in Canada.   Considering most members on this board are falsely accused on domestic violence......maybe it's appropriate just for that reason....maybe not.

Please share your thoughts about this and see if you think, as a community, we should try to do something like this to get our message out.  It would be nice to have the color purple to work consistently with the Fathers 4 Justice.

[MYSONSDAD]

Wonderful idea to get something that would show unity for fathers.

What is the color for hope? Blue maybe...a rainbow?

Somewhere on Sparc, posted some time ago, were bumper stickers, shirts, things like that. Maybe this is something that could be added.

[joni]

Well...a rainbow symbolizes that gay/lesbian community....I like purple to be consistent with Fathers 4 Justice.  Their movement is already international and they're in the process of having a presence in the US.

[4honor]

Brown, the color of good loamy life sustaining soil (and takes alot of crap and still gives back better than it got).

Its a masculine color. It's solid and consistent.

It is the color of Chocolate (magical substance).

To me, Brown is the color of hope.
People Hope to be able to afford a home/property/land/soil.
It is the color of horses -- those strong, beautiful creatures capable of defending valiantly, working unceasingly, loving tenderly, and striving for the finish line wholeheartedly.
It is the color of cildren's dirty faces as they stop and press their noses against the glass at a choclate shop in hope and anticipation of what surely is to come.
It is the color of a seed, ripe with expectation, bursting forth and becoming a mighty oak.
It is the color of my father's hair in all my memories, (though now he is getting grey at the temples and has a 5.5 head instead of a forehead.)

And did I say it is the color of chocolate?

[MYSONSDAD]

It came out so clear, that this is nothing more then a peaceful protest done out of total love and comittment. Very moving. Impressed with the support they also receive from the grandparents.

It changed my attitude toward this group. They get the media where ever they go.

Some years ago, they did a hands across America, might be a thought.

As far as colors, purple has to stay, maybe something along the lines of a lighter purple used for the heart inside the hand. Green would also be good for new growth that 4honor just posted about using brown.

They ever bring this to the States, I would seriously consider taking action along side them.

[MYSONSDAD]

the color of the American Eagle...

"Children learn what they live"

[kitten]

The last name of a wonderful father that I know and love!

[joni]

Purple is the color of valour....as in the purple heart.  Certainly, enough dads on this board deserve the purple heart for being wounded in the battle for their children.  Purple is also the color of mourning...and so many of us in this community mourn for our children.

This video also changed my attitude towards Fathers 4 Justice.  I thought they were vigilantees...and probably, that's the way the international press wanted to portray them in order to discredit them.

We have to maintain purple to be consistent with this organization and have an international presence.  I will tell you when they form in the States, my husband and I will become members.

I wrote the director of this video complimenting on how beautifully moving it was.  He responded back to me!  He said he's working on another documentary on the Fathers 4 Justice for 2005.

[MYSONSDAD]

It symbolizes their entire international community...
It must stay the same to receive worldwide recognition


"Children learn what they live"