Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Just Requital
Their kicking down the statues
Destroying grotesque monsters,
Deplorable figures of injustice and inequality
Spectres of an inglorious shameful age,
In moments of beauty and resistance
Marching to the beat of a different drum,
Exorcising the past, creating a brighter future
As symbols of terror, sink into deep waters,
Shed no tears, for images of exploitation
The shackles of colonialism and oppression,
Now defiant people, crush them to the ground
With power instead of whips and chains,
Tear down mantles of subjugation and horror
While voices of freedom keep on singing,
With strength beneath fingertips
Exhaling images of hate and deceit,
Sanctifying our surroundings, casting out evil
Delivering mercy, the joy of triumph's won,
let the empty spaces, be filled with spirit of liberation
Tomorrow's passion jubilantly dancing,
We breathe, as justice and equity change history
Cancelling out the signposts of hate,
Moving forwards, no longer submitting,
Soaring and spiralling on the breezes of life.
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# Just Requital # Poetry
Sunday, 7 June 2020
Song for the Day : Hozier and Mavis Staples - Nina Cried Power
Originally released in September 2018, the remarkable "Nina Cried Power,"by Hozier. the Irish-born, indie-folk singer who came to fame with "Take Me too Church" (his ripping condemnation of homophobia in religious organizations in 2014 ) could not feel more relevant, an anthem of resistance and strength in an increasingly tumultuous time.
The song honors the legacy of musicians and activists who made protest songs part of their repertoire. The iconic artists mentioned in the track's lyrics include the song's namesake Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, James Brown,Woody Guthrie, Billy Holiday and Curtis Mayfield, among others who all fought for something they believed in through music, whether it was clean water, equality or peace.. Hozier told Rolling Stone: "The fights that took place 100 years ago or 200 years ago for whatever - civil rights or workers' right etc. - don't stop. There is no final victory."
Hozier’s appreciation for the work of Black musicians shapes the entire track, including the lyrics, the gospel-inspired chorus and, most importantly, the involvement of a prominent civil rights singer, Mavis Staples, whose voice blends seamlessly and soulfully with Hozier’s, their harmonies highlighting and giving way to one another. Although known for his poignant lyricism, here Hozier opts for a simple yet rousing chorus in which he and Staples cry the word “power” — a tribute to Simone’s song “Sinnerman."In an interview with The Guardian, Hozier said that from a very young age, he used to listen to Nina Simone's albums before going to sleep and therefore he greatly admires African-American music.
Hozier’s efforts to give credit and recognition to these singers goes beyond the track itself. In the same Billboard interview, Hozier had no reservations about addressing the appropriation of rock music. “There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music,” he said. “There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. It is, of course, a really difficult subject. Everything that’s popular music swings off the work and the achievements and the legacy of Black artistry.” By opening up these types of conversations about race, Hozier presents the music world with an important example of how to appreciate, rather than appropriate, art forms created by people of color.
Moreover, when considering today’s political and artistic climate, “Nina Cried Power” has even wider implications. A song like this along with the legacy of all the great Black artists that it honors, serves to remind us that art is never just art. Everything that we choose to read and watch and listen to carries a message with it, and those messages have a profound impact on our society. Art is power, as the song’s title suggests..Music can be used to provoke and empower people to become bold enough to fight against forces much greater than themselves. Unlike so many great promoters of peace, social justice and equality, many musicians are blessed with the fact that millions of people are listening to their songs, since their work is so easily accessible via social networking and platforms like youtube, bandcamp and spotify. With that much influence, it only seems logical that they would choose to write about something worthwhile.
Before the release of ' Nina Cried Power', Hozier posted a message to his Facebook page told his fans that it's about "crediting the spirit and bravery of people whose voices have made impact on our world..."The video is a collection of Irish activists all with very amazing legacy’s and features them listening to the song for the first time. It's simply quite moving.In this defiant song Hozier and Staples have challenged us as artists and as consumers to follow the lead of Dylan and Curtis, of Holiday and Woody, and of Simone, they have challenged us to use our voices and to cry power, whilst highlighting all the ways music is a force to be reckoned with when we put actions to words.
Considering the mess that the world is right now, we definitely still need the push of inspiration and encouragement that comes from song, Whilst injustices continue to be challenged, and people unequivocally stand in solidarity with Black communites in their fight for justice,with unprecedented sense of urgency, and it is our duty to play are part in the protection of Black lives and all others facing ongoing oppression. People have the power, their is power in music and song that we can use to rally one another and help keep us strong. This music is blowing across all continents, and the times are here for a changing.
Nina Cried Power- Hozier and Mavis Staples
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It is the groundin' of a foot uncompromisin'
It's not forgoin' of the lie
It's not the openin' of eyes
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It's not forgoin' of the lie
It's not the openin' of eyes
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It's not the shade we should be cast in
It's the light and it's the obstacle that casts it
It's the heat that drives the light
It's the fire it ignites
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It's the light and it's the obstacle that casts it
It's the heat that drives the light
It's the fire it ignites
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It's not the song, it is the singin'
It's the heaven of the human spirit ringin'
It is the bringin' of the line
It is the bearin' of the lie
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
It's the heaven of the human spirit ringin'
It is the bringin' of the line
It is the bearin' of the lie
It's not the wakin', it's the risin'
And I could cry power (power)
Power (power)
Power, Lord
Nina cried power
Billie cried power
Mavis cried power
Power (power)
Power, Lord
Nina cried power
Billie cried power
Mavis cried power
And I could cry power (power)
Power (power)
Power, Lord
Curtis cried power
Patti cried power
Nina cried power
Power (power)
Power, Lord
Curtis cried power
Patti cried power
Nina cried power
It's not the wall, but what's behind it
Oh, the fear of fellow man, it's mere assignment
And everything that we're denied
By keeping the divide
It's not the waking, it's the rising
Oh, the fear of fellow man, it's mere assignment
And everything that we're denied
By keeping the divide
It's not the waking, it's the rising
And I could cry power (Power), power (Power)
Oh, power
Nina cried power
Lennon cried power
James Brown cried power
And I could cry (Power) power, (Power) power
Hey, power
B.B. cried power
Joni cried power
Nina cried power
Oh, power
Nina cried power
Lennon cried power
James Brown cried power
And I could cry (Power) power, (Power) power
Hey, power
B.B. cried power
Joni cried power
Nina cried power
And I could cry power
Power has been cried by those stronger than me
Straight into the face that tells you
To rattle your chains if you love being free
Ah, lord, I could cry power
Power (power)
'Cause power is my love when my love reaches to me
James Brown cried power
Seger cried power
Marvin cried power
Yeah ah, power
James cried power
Millie cried power
Patti cried power
Billie, power
Dylan, power
Woody, power
Nina cried power
Power has been cried by those stronger than me
Straight into the face that tells you
To rattle your chains if you love being free
Ah, lord, I could cry power
Power (power)
'Cause power is my love when my love reaches to me
James Brown cried power
Seger cried power
Marvin cried power
Yeah ah, power
James cried power
Millie cried power
Patti cried power
Billie, power
Dylan, power
Woody, power
Nina cried power
Friday, 5 June 2020
Ben & Jerry's : Black Lives matter, so do Palestinians
In the aftermath of George Floyds death in Minneapolis, US, thousands have taken part in protests and demonstrations across the world supporting the Black Lives Movement and calling for an end to police brutality against black people.
“We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalisation, and repression because of their skin colour, and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. We have to say his name: George Floyd,” the firm said.
“Today, we want to be even more clear about the urgent need to take concrete steps to dismantle white supremacy in all its forms,” the firm stated.
The ice cream brand said it is calling upon US President Donald Trump and other elected officials “to commit our nation to a formal process of healing and reconciliation”.
The company is also calling upon the US Congress to pass legislation that would “create a commission to study the effects of slavery and discrimination from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies”.
Commendable stuff that all this is, activists meanwhile, say that slamming white supremacy, especially with the Trump administration in the White House , without invoking the rights of Palestinians is hypocritical and short sighted. In violation of their social mission, their Israeli franchise sells ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, transported on Jewish-only roads, on trucks with Jewish-only license plates, passing easily through military checkpoints that bedevil others, and by doing business in Israeli settlements it makes the company complicit with the crime of apartheid.
Israeli soldiers make it possible for Jewish-only settlements to grow in number and for supermarkets in those settlements to offer all the amenities of the "good life," including pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream--in contrast to the economic and social deprivations imposed on the Palestinian people.
As long as Jewish settlers remain the beneficiaries of settler-colonialism in occupied Palestine and companies like Ben & Jerry's are not held accountable for their business ties to the settlements, the suffering and dispossession of the Palestinian people will continue and intensify.
As a result since 2013, thousands of individuals and nearly 250 organizations in 20 countries have called on Ben & Jerry’s to stop sales to Israeli illegal settlements and to publicly oppose Israel’s occupation and settlements. They have refused to do so. Selective humanity is no humanity at all. Ben & Jerry's silence on this issue speaks volumes.
Ben & Jerry's has built a carefully managed brand image and a loyal following around its social mission of "deep respect for human beings" and "the communities in which they live." Because of its well-known reputation as a business with a social conscience, Ben & Jerry's commercial ventures with Israel, more so perhaps than those of any other company, contribute significantly to "normalizing" the occupation by obfuscating the contradiction between cooperation with Israel and the imperatives of social justice. There is no such thing as ethical commerce in a land under military occupation, or with a system of settler-colonialism, or with apartheid.
Today happens to marks the anniversary of the Naksa (the setback) following the six day war when in 1967 Israel illegally seized what was left of the Palestinian's historic homeland,the Sinai, the Golan heights, the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem .Nearly 400,000 Palestinians were added to the hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced in 1948 and their homes were razed to the ground by the Israelis. Leading to over 50 years of occupation.
As the Palestinian people face further annexation in the West Bank, Ben & Jerry's activities in the settlements is an insult to this collective pain, and until they have a change of mind, and stop supporting apartheid and occupation all Ben & Jerry's other gestures, will just feel empty and hollow. For more on this story read below :-
Ben & Jerry freezes when it comes to Palestine
https://bit.ly/2XYT6z2
Wednesday, 3 June 2020
We Should All Be Antifa Now.
We are currently collectively grieving. The brutal police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, David Mc Atee, Sarah Reed, Tony Mc Dade, and so many other lives that have been wrongfully stolen. and the miltarized police escalating across the USA show us once again that people are not truly free. and if you are not anti fascist you are part of the problem. Now is the time to dismantle the systems of white supremacy, colonialism and privilege that continues to destroy and strip Black communities of their dignity, and too often their lives.
We need to demand justice and support the fight now, not just today, which is specially important, but next week, next month. until the fight is won.The sad truth is that police kill or commit violence against unarmed Black men almost every day , not just those times when it is caught on camera and is covered in the news. In all of 2019 there were only 37 days when police did not kill someone.We must be unified as a movement for justice, racial justice, economic justice, social justice, everywhere for as long as it takes, standing in solidarity with all victims of police violence and structural racism and oppression.
The uprisings demanding justice, risking their health and safety to rise up against police brutality and systematic violence against Black people, are echoing across the world right now. Silence is not an option, it's up to us to demand change , demand the end of racist violence and racial inequity, our solidarity should lead the way in these dark times, not ignorance. We must honestly acknowledge that our society has constructed an elaborate system of legal , economic and social codes that perpetuate systematic racism, rooted in the barbarism of our collective history of genocide, enslavement and Apartheid. And that people, especially white people benefit from this system.
To realize the systematic change, we need as individuals to recognise our role in collective mass denial. This mass denial allows us to live in a society where people of color today are negatively and disproportionately impacted by every societal measurement of well being. In health, education, poverty, housing, state sanctioned violence.
White people must , without pausing actively follow the direction of Black, brown and indigenous voices doing what they can to destroy and dismantle the systems of institutional racism currently in place. The continued murder , of Black, brown, and indigenous people shows us that so much more needs to be done. It is so important to recognise that it is not just in the United States where black people face institutionised violence , targetting and incarcernation. While Trump is threatning protestors for social justice with army intervention, while our own government remains shamefully silent, while in the name of profit, the UK continues to sell riot gear, tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress a peoples rightful anger and dissent that deserves global condemnation.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-floyd-protests-uk-export-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-shields-us-a9543106.html
I would urge you to write to your MP as a matter of urgency.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-floyd-protests-uk-export-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-shields-us-a9543106.html
Attending a protest in person is maybe not an option for some amid Covid -19, but that does not mean you can't contribute to the anti-racism movement in other ways. We can no longer be silent. now is the time to do everything in our collective power to be vocally anti-racist, anti- fascist, with love and fierce resistance.Without justice, there can be no peace.
Eager for an enemy to blame whilst ignoring root causes of the protests rocking his nation, President Trump on Sunday signalled that he was preparing to label those associated with the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement as " domestic terrorists."
A move in a complete distraction would simply be unconstitutional , you cannot make illegal a peoples autonomous rage, or a peoples continual rage against an unjust system. We must all be antifa now keep supporting the black lives projects, however we can, supporting those who put their bodies in front of police lines, unafraid to to make sure the ugliness and violence of racism never goes unopposed. let us continue to be ever vigilant and continue to speak out against racism and fascism everywhere.
Sunday, 31 May 2020
Justice For George Floyd; Black Lives Matter
On May 25, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, was killed by the Minneapolis Police. Officer Derek Chauvin, a white police officer with over a dozen complaints for brutality during the course of his career, kneeled on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — even though Floyd was lying face down on the ground and hand-cuffed from behind. Officer Thomas K. Lane held Floyd’s legs down and Officer J. Alexander Keung held his back. The other arresting officer, Tou Thao, stood by and watched.
Floyd protested that he could not breathe. Under the circumstances, it is clear that Floyd posed no threat to anyone. Officer Chauvin continued kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 2 minutes and 53 seconds after Floyd had become unresponsive. When bystanders pleaded on Floyd’s behalf, they were threatened with being pepper-sprayed. Floyd was tortured to death. This was a lynching of a black man, pure and simple.
Following this horrific incident Minneapolis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. are just a few cities where protests, riots, and looting has occurred within the last few days, with civil unrest erupting across America. In Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, the site of a 1921 massacre of black people that left some 300 dead, protesters blocked intersections and chanted the name of Terence Crutcher, a black man killed by a police officer in 2016.
Police have arrested nearly 1,400 people in 17 US cities as protests continue over the death of George Floyd, according to the Associated Press news agency.The actual number is likely higher as protests continue.Some observers have rushed to judge the protesters, among them Donald Trump, highlighting the irrationality of looting and burning buildings in their own neghbourhoods, but in the words of Martin Luther King " a riot is simply the cry of the unheard"and where there is oppression there will be resistance.I support the uprising in Minneapolis, the intifada of people subjected to an ongoing, vicious, and structural racism. inheriting a lengthy and rich tradition of Black restance, organizing and struggle.
Many people around the world are also condemning this latest killing and are showing solidarity with Mr Floyd, his family and the entire black community, the demonstrations have morphed into wider anger over police killings of black men, with thousands of protesters gatherering in Berlin, London and Toronto and in cities across the US to demonstrate against police brutality, racial injustice and decrying years of deaths at police hands. .
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the American embassy in Berlin with banners sporting slogans like "Black Lives Matter"” “No justice no peace” and “I can’t breathe”.
“I can’t breathe” were some of George Floyd’s last words, heard in the footage of his death. Chauvin with over a dozen complaints for brutality during the course of his career, has since been charged with third degree murder..
The calls against racial injustice were also heard today in the London at Trafalgar Square, partly to show solidarity with Floyd but also to point that the UK isn’t innocent when it comes to racism. It is crucial that we in the UK recognise that we are not immune from this disease of state-sanctioned murder. Black people disproportionately suffer from police use of force in the UK.
“We’re doing this because we’re angry. We feel like our voices haven’t been heard,” said one protester. Some London protestors, crowded together despite social distancing restrictions, holding signs reading ' Justice for George' and ' Rest in Power.'
Following the earlier killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and after the African American unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, the epidemic of police violence against people of color in the US captured national and global attention, for a time.
When Brown was killed, the words of Eric Garner, gasping “I can't breathe” as he was crushed by officers in New York City a month earlier, were still echoing in the national conversation. Protests rose up in Ferguson, a new movement for racial justice grew under the banner of Black Lives Matter and talk of systemic reform filled the air.
Six years have passed which has seen police-involved shootings of unarmed people of color further fuel efforts to increase accountability of public safety officials and better understand the needs of the communities they are meant to serve.And as national protests spread anew in reaction to the state violence inflicted on black people by the police, people are asking what has changed and are actively resisting with the grief , anger trauma reaching boiling point. Black men are still more likely to die by police violence than white men. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, over the course of a lifetime, black men face a one in 1,000 risk of being killed during an encounter with police, a rate much higher than that of white men. This is the kind of unequal and brutal treatment African Americans can expect from police who are potentially in mortal danger every time they happen to get near to a police officer,
Because of the recent death people are standing up for their brothers and sisters across America and the world. They are simply saying enough to a system which has persecution and inequality hard wired into it.
It is crucial that we show our solidarity and support, The Minnesota Freedom Fund https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ is one that has been asking for it, while the following black-led organisations and bail funds also deserve and require support right now. https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#intbail & https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#intvictims
We are all one, Power to the People, I can understand the undertows of rage and disbelief, our tears cannot be simply washed away. We must demand that all four officers be charged in the murder of George
Floyd and that the charges against all four include murder one. They
should all spend the rest of their lives behind bars. We must demand
justice for George Floyd and all victims of racist police
brutality. Black Lives Matter. People are rightfully outraged and disgusted. No one should lose their lives by the hands of those charged with protection, we must never give up on demanding a system where all lives can live and thrive. Those of us who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes. Rest in Power George Floyd.
Please sign the following :-
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Friday, 29 May 2020
These are The Bastards - Commoners Choir
The clapping is coming to an end, and with it a big chunk of the goodwill, community and solidarity that were there when we first locked down and started to understand the value of the frontline workers and what they do for us. The neighbourliness isn’t fading away because we’re tired of it. It’s because the government, and specifically Boris Johnson, has undermined, ridiculed and dismissed it with his open, slavish, arrogant lick-spittle support for his boss Cummings.
The start of the pandemic, and specifically our national reaction to the lockdown, showed how we could learn to look after each other, on a local, street-by-street, level. There really was a feeling of us all pulling together, taking care of our neighbours and our families and making decisions for the good of all of us, not just ourselves.
Even though the daily press briefings turned quickly into party political broadcasts for the Conservative Party, and became daily lists of excuses and denials for everything they got wrong (and the list was long), we still had a sense of communal responsibility.
This all evaporated with the Cumming’s road trip to Durham, or in fact with Johnson’s refusal to admit to the hypocrisy and the lies. The gloves were off; we were back to the same-old, same-old. One rule for them, the old boy’s club, the old school tie, the powerful elite sticking together like shit. So we’re back to us and them, back to anger instead of hope. That’s what this song is about
But there is a way out, and that is to take the stuff we learned among ourselves – the stuff about valuing everyday workers above super-rich politicians, the stuff about asking our neighbours if they needed shopping, the stuff about doing without everyday rampant consumerism – that we can hold on to.
If we can mix that sense of possibility and change in with the anger that we now have towards the two-faced political class in power, then we might, just might, be on to something... 'These Are The Bastards' film by Catherine Long, music by Commoners Choir, a radical choir that combines political activism with singing – and hope, and my goodness we need a barrel loads in days like these.
Companion song/film 'These Are The Hands (After Michael Rosen)' is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__356...
These Are The Bastards
These are the bastards...
1.
That underfund That rarely work
That pay no tax That swagger and smirk
That print the fibs That build the walls
That fiddle the books That write the laws
These are the bastards...
2.
That make the money Declare the wars
That play their golf That damn the poor
That manage the funds That privatise
That shoot the grouse That tell the lies
These are the bastards...
3.
That missed the chance And failed to act
Delayed the tests And botched the masks
That favoured Herd immunity
That couldn’t supply The PPE
These are the bastards...
4.
That understaff
That underpay
That claim and fence
Our rights of way
That cut the grants
Condemn the sick
With public school
Arithmetic:
(Nursery rhyme):
“One and one is two
Two and two is four
They’re making sure it all goes back to
The way it was before...”
These are the bastards...
5.
That sell the arms
That hurt, abuse
That own the land
That fake the news
That front the appeals
That sing and smile
Then fly off back
To their domiciles
These are the bastards...
6.
That set up an airline
Flew a balloon
Bought an island
Promised the moon
Proudly sued The NHS
Then sent a grovelling
SOS
These are the bastards...
And after the clapping has faded away
– Remember what we learned today
http://www.commonerschoir.com/
We are currently living in a state that cannot be refprmed must be rebuilt anew we must get angry, correct the wrongs.
Join Undod : For a Radical Independent Socialist Wales
With Westminster politics sinking to a new low, a rotten system broken beyond repair. with one rule for them another for the rest of us.and Unionist politicians showing their contempt for Wales, now's the time to join the new socialist pro-independence Group Undod who are working with other groups to promote the march for independence the people of Wales want. One that could create real democracy and challenge capitalism and state power. "The current ongoing crisis (of which Covid-19 is the latest episode) – and the growing suffering of communities across the country – has created the necessary conditions for change". People only have to look at the chaos in Westminster to understand Wales could do it much better if we had the right to rule ourselves.”
Undod (meaning ‘unity’) say they will fill a “vital gap in the burgeoning indy movement” by representing the “dominant socialist heritage” of the country whilst being radical and internationalist.at the same time, a future that is not rooted in the cvrumbling corridors of Westminster.
The new group set out their working principles as follows:
We are a democratic, non-hierarchical, republican movement established to secure independence for Wales.
1(i) The British state is a fundamentally undemocratic, warmongering and imperial order which exploits the working class, the marginalised and the dispossessed for the benefit of the elites.
(iii) An independent Wales should be a beacon of international solidarity. We support oppressed peoples, leftist movements and progressive independence movements, oppose warmongering and imperialist wars, and strive for peace.
2) (i) We stand for the protection of our natural environment as it is essential for all our futures as Welsh citizens and inhabitants of this planet to ensure a worthwhile life for ourselves, our children and generations to come.
(ii) The means of economic production and Wales’s natural resources should be owned by the people of Wales. Justice, care and sustainability are the cornerstones of the economy and the basis for a flourishing nation, not profit and capital.
(iii) We support an ethical economy for Wales; we oppose the military and prison industrial complex.
3 (i) Welsh is our national language and it belongs to everyone in Wales. We demand Welsh-medium education for all and use of the language in all areas of everyday life. We will work to see it flourish as a community language in all parts of the country.
(ii) We demand justice for women, people of colour, LGBT people, migrants and disabled people. Together, we will fight for a society where everyone is liberated from oppression.
(iii) We demand shelter and high quality healthcare for all, and free universal education for people of all ages.
We intend to use our democratic rights to free assembly, freedom of expression and protest. We will exercise these rights vigorously, through non-violent direct action to secure our aims and further our values.
"Offering a practical vision for an alternative Wales & working now to achieve it is necessary – a vision that offers food for the soul, & one that above all, emphasises that compassion can conquer."
Sick of Westminster politics? There Is An Alternative that provides hope and vision whilst clearly articulating the kind of independent, radical socialist Wales we need to develop, one that speaks of the principles of social justice,.equality, fairness, internationalism and solidarity.in which our small nation can contribute sustainably to peoples economic, social and environmental wellbeing..While at same time supporting the most disadvantaged and vulnerable among us. Rydw i'n cefnogi annibyniaeth radical Gymru.,ymuno fi yma.. I support the movement for a radical independence of Wales. Join me here.:-
Link to Join https://undod.cymru/en/ymuno-join/
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