Dick Rodgers
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Full time political activist, former medical doctor, current volunteer assistant clergyman. |
| Location | Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a medical doctor and clergyman in Birmingham, England and founded a political party called The Common Good. I qualified as a doctor in 1970 and did surgery in London, Southend, Belfast and Bristol, then trained for the Church of England ministry at St John's College Nottingham: ordained in 1977. Curate in Derby and then junior surgeon there and Bangor Gwynedd and Birmingham as orthopaedic registrar. Travel to Nigeria as medical student and to Israel, the US and Canada and to India overland. I worked for the release of christian prisoners of conscience in Soviet Russia 1985-9 and to resolve the civil war in Sudan 1993-7 travelling to north and south Sudan and Kenya to meet government and rebel leaders. A peace deal was eventually signed and a referendum is due in early 2011. I have wanted a humane, just and purposeful society in Britain since the winter of 1973-4 when there was electricity only 3 days a week. I wanted the church to have something important to say about it but felt frustrated that the church often seemed more interested in its own internal politics than to try to heal the nation's life in any meaningful way. |
| Interests | allotment gardening: I am not an expert but learning on the job. |
| Favorite Music | ABBA |
Have a look at the website of the Common Good party and see whether you might help me get this party organised or stand in an election (or help someone else to do so) or campaign on some issue that you are fired up about (such as saving the NHS) that fits with out agenda. If so it would be great to hear from you! Dick