Women – Vote out the Trump Taliban!

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Vote for your freedom!

Vote against misogyny!

Vote for your rights!

Vote for Equality!

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Opher Goodwin Endorses Kamala Harris

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I can’t vote but I know what’s right!

I am a man who believes in fairness and equality.

I detest fascism.

I detest rapists, sex pests and liars.

I think criminals should be punished even if they are exceedingly rich and powerful.

I detest cults.

I know a conman when I see one.

GET OUT AND VOTE!!

Capitalism

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The truth about socialism!

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Why do you think the wealthy use everything in their power to convince you that socialism is bad?? They don’t want fairness and equality. They are run by greed.

Before and After – Misogyny in action!!

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Misogyny straight out of the Dark Ages!!

Women in Iran – before the 1979 revolution – studying for a future as equals.

After the 1979 revolution – second-class citizens with no education, no rights and a greatly reduced life.

This is religion in action – misogyny and severe control.

Iran: Woman whipped 74 times for not covering her head | Latest News | WION – YouTube

Brave women protest this primitive draconian misogyny from the Dark Ages. Not all women want to be shackled and coerced!! The religious thugs in Iran, Afghanistan and other Islamic countries who enforce this vile restriction on women have blood on their hands!!

A Man of Integrity

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A Man of Integrity

I’m a man of great integrity.

                I’ve sought justice all my life.

Standing up for equality

                Supporting the weak in times of strife.

In a world of mean corruption

                Run by thugs with gun and knife.

Tyrants deploy their goons

                Suppression and violence ever rife.

A man must make his protest

                And stand up for what is true.

Even though it may destroy him

                It’s the only thing to do.

So I plough a lonesome furrow

                Taking on the evil few.

In the hopes that we might prosper

                And the world can start anew.

I’m a man of great integrity.

                I’ve sought justice all my life.

Standing up for equality

                Supporting the weak in times of strife.

Opher – 11.5.2023

I was thinking about Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan when I was writing this.

I do seem to have spent the whole of my life fighting for a better, fairer world. Bit late to stop now!

Equality – in reponse to Neil’s prod.

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I’m always spouting about equality. I believe in it. But is it really clear what equality really means? No it isn’t.

I certainly do not want everybody being the same or having the same.

I certainly understand that people are not all equal. People have greatly different talents, skills, abilities, intelligence, physical attributes etc. They cannot all be the same.

So what do I mean when I talk about equality? I’ve had to think quite hard about how to explain my thoughts.

  1. I want people to have the same opportunities regardless of their gender, race, age, religion, geographical position, disability, wealth, class or anything else.
  2. I want the world to be fairer with rewards for efforts, abilities, risks and responsibilities being proportionate.I do not think it is fair for someone like Rees-Mogg or Johnson to make millions out of a few speeches or a Brexit vote, while others work all their lives in hard circumstances and never earn a million. I see this as part of equality. I do think that exceptional sportsmen and women, risk-takers, business people and managers deserve to be paid well for what they do. I think that needs to be in proportion to those at the bottom. I want a more equal world where those at the top cannot earn say – more than twenty times those at the bottom.
  3. I want a level playing field for education, health, courts and job prospects where the rich cannot buy privilege, where there is a meritocracy, not one based on nepotism, advantage, cronyism and privilege (like this Tory government handing out huge contracts to donors and Johnson putting his father forward for a knighthood). You should earn your position and reward through effort and ability – not patronage.

So when I talk about equality I do not want everyone the same. I merely want everyone to be equally important and have the means to prosper through their own efforts and abilities. I want to put an end to the situation where some are fast-tracked to wealth and power through privilege and not ability.

I want a more equal world.

I Am Woke

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I Am Woke

In a perfect world it would not be necessary

                To point out all the evils in one’s own culture.

All cultures have unpleasant, nasty and even

                Downright evil aspects hidden in their history.

Making oneself aware of the things that were

                Wrong in the past is the first step.

Wearing rose-tinted glasses and pretending

                That everything about one’s culture is perfect

Only serves to perpetuate the problems

                So that nothing ever gets better.

Keeping your senses and mind open to accept

                That mistakes were, and still are, being made

Enables us to find better ways of living together

                And accommodating those who are different.

I Am Woke to the knowledge that my ancestors got lots of things horribly wrong.

                I am woke to their mistakes and cultural attitudes.

I am woke to a better world.

                I Am Woke!

22.2.2023

I live in a culture that once felt so superior to other cultures that they condoned racism and slavery.

I live in a culture that used to think wild animals could be abused without remorse, that condoned bear-baiting, bull-fighting, dog and cock fighting and believed that watching animals tearing each other apart was entertainment.

I belong to a culture that thought war was glorious and that to die in battle was noble.

I belong to a culture that believes some people deserve much more than others because they, by birth, are inherently superior.

I belong to a culture where ordinary people had to fight, protest and die for the right to vote, for a fair day’s pay for a fair days work and for safe conditions in the workplace.

I am woke to all this and lots more.

What are the evils that existed in your culture? Misogyny? Persecution? Cruelty? Violence?

What aspects still need addressing?

I am woke to the need for equality, freedom, fairness and a world that lives in harmony with nature.

My patriotism is so big in encompasses the whole world and every living thing.

I am not ashamed to be woke!!

Democracy – The long and often bloody fight for freedom – The Peterloo Massacre.

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Struggle


You can only have real democracy when you have transparency, fair representation and a vote for every man and woman. That was far from the case two hundred years ago.
Women were denied the vote. Only landowners could vote. Some towns with only a handful of voters were electing two MPs. Two towns electing two MPs each had only 1 eligible voter. Half of the MPs in the House were elected by a mere 154 votes. Cities with hundreds of thousands were grossly underrepresented.
The economic and employment situation in the North was dire and people felt they had no recourse to justice. They had no vote and no representation.
At St. Peter’s field near Manchester between 60,000 and 80,000 gathered to hold a peaceful public meeting and protest. The establishment was rattled. They thought it might develop into a riot, ferment general unrest and lead to a revolution. They banned it. But the protesters still met.
The cavalry were called to charge. People were trampled and slashed with sabres. The crowd was eventually dispersed. They left 11 to 15 dead and over 600 to 700 badly injured – 168 of which were women. The first to be killed was a baby knocked out of his mother’s arms by a charging cavalryman. Witnesses claimed the cavalrymen slashed out indiscriminately at anyone they could. The area was sodden with blood.
It became known as the Peterloo massacre in ironic contrast to the recent battle of Waterloo.

It led to renewed impetus for justice and the Chartist Movement who fought for the right to vote.

Freedoms and rights are not freely given. They are paid for with lives and blood and can so easily be stripped away again.