page_title: New Fathers 4 Justice
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: New Fathers 4 Justice / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Bobby Smith at Real Family Statue Birmingham
context_page_description: New Fathers 4 Justice is a UK-based direct action fathers' rights group campaigning for the rights of fathers to see their children. It is a splinter group of Fathers 4 Justice.
context_section_description: In February 2009 New Fathers 4 Justice activist Richard West has climbed on Pylon at Exeter Racecourse where Ben Bradshaw was hosting an equality meeting.
  June 2009 Roger Crawford and Paul Smith held a protest at Oxford's Carfax Tower dressed as a superhero and a court jester to campaign for fathers’ rights
  April 2010 Denis the Menace, Bananaman and Captain Equality were among the superheroes who travelled through Oxfordshire as part of a New Fathers for Justice demonstration.About 40 fathers – and some mothers – from across the country gathered in the centre of Oxford.Activists travelled the streets in two battle buses before heading to Witney to Conservative Party leader David Cameron’s constituency off-ice, where they met Henry Bellingham, Conservative shadow spokesman for justice, who spoke to them for 30 minutes.
  May 2010 Clad in Superherocostumes and kept under a close police watch protesters rallied outside David Laws home near Chard asking him to support the campaign to open up the family courts, a move which would save taxpayers millions of pounds.
  June 2010 Fathers demonstrated outside Ken Clarke's home in West Bridgford. Fathers dressed as superheroes demanded a more transparent legal system from Justice Secretary and Rushcliffe MP Ken Clarke.
  In July 2010 A protest, dubbed ‘Witney’s Glastonbury Festival of Fatherhood’, thirty activists camped on Wood Green, in Woodstock Road, Witney for the weekend.
  In August 2010  Roger Crawford, dressed as a court jester, Archi Ssan, as the Incredible Hulk, and Jeremy Pogue as Superman scaled David Cameron's constituency office roof in Witney.
  In July 2011 An activist for campaign group dressed as Batman tried to "Dad arrest" Justice Secretary Ken Clarke outside his home in West Bridgford. Garry Roe, dressed as Batman, confronted Mr Clarke at his home in West Bridgford, Nottingham.Mr Roe questioned Mr Clarke about the Family Justice Review – a review of the family justice system – using a megaphone while he and his wife unload shopping from their car.
  In July 2011 For the second time three members of the New Fathers 4 Justice dressed as superheroes scaled the Prime Ministers constituency office in Witney. The protesters were Roger Crawford,of Meppershall, Bedfordshire, Jeremy Pogue, of Cefn Hengoed, South Wales, and Archit Ssan of London.The protest marked the start of the group's "CON-DEM(N) CAMERON campaign" to change family law to give fathers equal status to see their children on separation or divorce.
  In September 2011 - Commandos4Justice: Marines on a dangerous mission in Afghanistan deep in the heart of Taliban country in Helmand province brandished placards supporting New Fathers 4 Justice. Dressed in superhero costumes, members of the New Fathers 4 Justice
  February 2012 Dressed in superhero costumes, members of  New Fathers 4 Justice protested outside the home of Huntingdon MP and Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly in Alconbury.
  On Fathers Day in June 2014 Jolly Stanesby,and Archi Ssan,climbed up the face of Exeter cathedral onto the balcony where they unfurled a banner which read "Family courts do evil". Later in the day Archi Ssan abseiled down the front of the cathedral.
  In August 2014 Bobby Smith camped outside the holiday home of the Uk Prime Minister David Cameron in Daymer Bay Cornwall, Smith was briefly arrested for using a megaphone after speaking to Cameron the previous day.
  In August 2014 Martin Matthews staged a one-man protest on the roof of Justice Secretary Chris Grayling’s home.He scaled the roof using a ladder before unfurling a banner reading: 'No rights? Go MAD. Mums and Dads United.'
  Later that month six demonstrators climbed on the Apsley Gate entrance to Hyde Park, central London's biggest, which is adjacent to Apsley House, once the home of the dukes of Wellington. Humanworth activists Steve Dawe and Archi Ssan spent more than a week on top the arch sleeping inside the monument.
  In September 2014 Bobby Smith and fellow activist Carol Wheeler protested outside the home of Broxbourne MP Charles Walker. Smith said "My Children are growing up wit
caption: Bobby Smith at Real Family Statue Birmingham
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