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	According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> It is also possible that Moody was involved in [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Aid_for_the_Elderly_in_Government_Institutions AEGIS (Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions)] - a pressure group set up by [[wikipedia:Barbara_Robb\|Barbara Robb]] (d. 1976) to campaign for better treatment of elderly people in the psychiatric and geriatric wards in British hospitals.<ref>See [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/1/3 Roger Moody (social worker); ff.105-111], in Memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings and narrative by BR [Barbara Robb], June 1966 - September 1972. [LSE Library Archives]. See also [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/2/1 [ff.109-113<nowiki>]</nowiki> "We Haven't Met One Like This Before", by Roger Moody], in Volume 1 of the original manuscript from Robb's influential book ''Sans Everything''.</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>		According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> It is also possible that Moody was involved in [[wikipedia:Aid_for_the_Elderly_in_Government_Institutions\|AEGIS (Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions)]] - a pressure group set up by [[wikipedia:Barbara_Robb\|Barbara Robb]] (d. 1976) to campaign for better treatment of elderly people in the psychiatric and geriatric wards in British hospitals.<ref>See [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/1/3 Roger Moody (social worker); ff.105-111], in Memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings and narrative by BR [Barbara Robb], June 1966 - September 1972. [LSE Library Archives]. See also [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/2/1 [ff.109-113<nowiki>]</nowiki> "We Haven't Met One Like This Before", by Roger Moody], in Volume 1 of the original manuscript from Robb's influential book ''Sans Everything''.</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>

	Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":		Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":

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	According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> It is also possible that Moody was involved in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_for_the_Elderly_in_Government_Institutions AEGIS (Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions)] - a pressure group set up by [~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Barbara_Robb Barbara Robb] (d. 1976) to campaign for better treatment of elderly people in the psychiatric and geriatric wards in British hospitals.<ref>See [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/1/3 Roger Moody (social worker); ff.105-111], in Memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings and narrative by BR [Barbara Robb], June 1966 - September 1972. [LSE Library Archives]. See also [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/2/1 [ff.109-113<nowiki>]</nowiki> "We Haven't Met One Like This Before", by Roger Moody], in Volume 1 of the original manuscript from Robb's influential book ''Sans Everything''.</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>		According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> It is also possible that Moody was involved in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_for_the_Elderly_in_Government_Institutions AEGIS (Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions)] - a pressure group set up by [[wikipedia:Barbara_Robb\|Barbara Robb]] (d. 1976) to campaign for better treatment of elderly people in the psychiatric and geriatric wards in British hospitals.<ref>See [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/1/3 Roger Moody (social worker); ff.105-111], in Memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings and narrative by BR [Barbara Robb], June 1966 - September 1972. [LSE Library Archives]. See also [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/2/1 [ff.109-113<nowiki>]</nowiki> "We Haven't Met One Like This Before", by Roger Moody], in Volume 1 of the original manuscript from Robb's influential book ''Sans Everything''.</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>

	Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":		Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":

Prue: /* Moody's left-wing activism */

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Moody's left-wing activism

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	According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>		According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> It is also possible that Moody was involved in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_for_the_Elderly_in_Government_Institutions AEGIS (Aid to the Elderly in Government Institutions)] - a pressure group set up by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Robb Barbara Robb] (d. 1976) to campaign for better treatment of elderly people in the psychiatric and geriatric wards in British hospitals.<ref>See [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/1/3 Roger Moody (social worker); ff.105-111], in Memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings and narrative by BR [Barbara Robb], June 1966 - September 1972. [LSE Library Archives]. See also [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AEGIS/2/1 [ff.109-113<nowiki>]</nowiki> "We Haven't Met One Like This Before", by Roger Moody], in Volume 1 of the original manuscript from Robb's influential book ''Sans Everything''.</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>

	Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":		Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":

Prue: /* Moody's left-wing activism */

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Moody's left-wing activism

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	According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].		According to an obituary in ''Peace News'', Moody was vegan "before it became fashionable," and "sometimes adopted contrarian positions almost as a way of testing people’s commitment to their own views."<ref>https://peacenews.info/node/10334/obituary-roger-moody-1940s-june-2022</ref> A lengthy discussion of Moody's life is provided by Cassandra Cogno Russell (Oct. 2015).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457</ref> Russell claims Moody was a graduate from the University of Edinburgh, and that Moody was offered a character reference from Member of Parliament (MP) Gwynfor Evans before his 1979 trial.<ref>Gwynfor Evans was parliament's first MP for Plaid Cymru, representing Carmarthen from 1966-1970 and 1974-1979</ref> Evans is claimed to have met Moody in Vietnam, as part of the the peace-group ''Non-Violent Action in Vietnam'''s campaign to send British delegates to Vietnam in August, 1967. "Although initially keen," Russell writes, "the MP's party HQ had told him not to appear in person on behalf of the outspoken paedophile activist, since "they feared further 'adverse publicity' after a recent bad run." In 1971, Moody co-founded [[Wikipedia:Operation_Omega\|Operation Omega]] with [[Wikipedia:Paul_Connett\|Paul Connett]], a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into East Pakistan during the [[Wikipedia:Bangladesh_Liberation_War\|Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>See also, [https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SHORE/21/2 Report on the Bihari communities at Dacca by Roger Moody, Jim Scarlett and Joyce Keniwell, 5-8 February 1972]. [Bangladesh and the Biharis.], 1969-1979; Reference number: SHORE/21/2; LSE Library Archives.</ref>

	Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":		Moody's non-MAP focused activism is explained in a 2022 obituary.<ref>http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/403589</ref> According to the obituary, Moody ''"was born in Bristol in the 1940s ''[...]'' active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (''Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action'') to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world."'' Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining, with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "''Mines and Communities'' was awarded the UK-based [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhi Foundation's]] prestigious ''Peace Prize'', largely because of Roger's work on mining in India.":

Jim Burton: /* Moody's MAP and Youth-related writings */

2026-01-18T23:22:21Z

Moody's MAP and Youth-related writings

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	Since Moody is known to have used pseudonyms, we archive and summarize/quote Moody's writings on intergenerational sexuality that are written without a pen-name.		Since Moody is known to have used pseudonyms, we archive and summarize/quote Moody's writings on intergenerational sexuality that are written without a pen-name.

	*[[Media:19750613-PeaceNews opt.pdf\|"the "vilest People in britain"]] - in Peace News (1975).		*[[Media:19750613-PeaceNews opt.pdf\|"the "vilest People in britain""]] - in Peace News (1975).
	*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)		*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)
	*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.		*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.

Jim Burton: /* Moody's MAP and Youth-related writings */

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Moody's MAP and Youth-related writings

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	Since Moody is known to have used pseudonyms, we archive and summarize/quote Moody's writings on intergenerational sexuality that are written without a pen-name.		Since Moody is known to have used pseudonyms, we archive and summarize/quote Moody's writings on intergenerational sexuality that are written without a pen-name.

			*[[Media:19750613-PeaceNews opt.pdf\|"the "vilest People in britain"]] - in Peace News (1975).
	*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)		*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)
	*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.		*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.

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	''The magistrate threw out the case of the photographic books but he was convicted of possession of the slide. We all agreed that if he didn't know he had it, he wasn't really in possession of it. The Sex Offender Register was coming in soon, meaning that if he lost the appeal he might be put on the register and no longer be able to travel to India. So he paid the fine. After this a teacher had one of the same books that Roger had been acquitted over and was successfully prosecuted. Over the years he tried every way to get his conviction overturned without success, even trying to take the case to the European Commission for Human Rights.''</blockquote>		''The magistrate threw out the case of the photographic books but he was convicted of possession of the slide. We all agreed that if he didn't know he had it, he wasn't really in possession of it. The Sex Offender Register was coming in soon, meaning that if he lost the appeal he might be put on the register and no longer be able to travel to India. So he paid the fine. After this a teacher had one of the same books that Roger had been acquitted over and was successfully prosecuted. Over the years he tried every way to get his conviction overturned without success, even trying to take the case to the European Commission for Human Rights.''</blockquote>

			==See also==
			*[https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/crime/23416048.north-london-youth-worker-roger-moody-proud-paedophile/ North London: Youth worker Roger Moody was a proud paedophile] (''Islington Gazette'', 28th March 2023) - A negative obituary which platforms an alleged victim of Moody. As with all information on this website, we invite readers to critically engage with information and come to their own conclusions...

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	*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)		*Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190709133756/https://www.byline.com/column/27/article/457 Paedophile Politics, PIE Newsletter No. 8 - autumn 1975.]</ref> A shorter version of this article appeared in ''Gay Left'' No. 2 (Spring 1976)
	*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.		*Roger Moody. (May, 1980). [[Media:Moody - 1980 - PAN Article.pdf\|'Child Protection, English Style']], in ''PAN: A Magazine about Boy-love'', pp. 15-19.
	*Roger Moody. (1981). [[Media:Moody - 1981 - Man-Boy Love and the Left.pdf\|'Man/boy love and the Left']], in ''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent'', ed. by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications: Boston, and Gay Men's Press: London), pp. 147-155.		*Roger Moody. (1981). [[Media:Moody - 1981 - Man-Boy Love and the Left.pdf\|'Man/boy love and the Left']], in [https://library.lol/main/E9CBDB46170B45354650BEFF403D8341 ''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent''], ed. by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications: Boston, and Gay Men's Press: London), pp. 147-155.

	In the above article, Moody conducts a historical retrospective of age-disparate homosexuality (then "pederasty") from the 1900's to 1980. He identifies 3 developments which "came from within the radical movement" and "were to halt any burgeoning idea that children's autonomy and free adult/child sensuality might be inter-related" (p. 149). These are gay assimilation / "the mainstream gay movement's readiness to adopt the medical-pychiatric model of pedophilia, and equate man/boy love with molestation. [...] [A] strategy of pure self-defence"; the adoption of "child protection" discourses via the women's/[[Feminism\|feminist]] movement; and the retreat of the communes movement and widespread embracing of notions of privacy and exclusiveness. Similar to the argument of historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] 40 years later,<ref>Cleves similarly wrote: "During the late 1980s and 1990s, the figure of the monstrous pedophile took center stage in the cultural imagination of English-speaking countries, entirely replacing the earlier ambivalent figure of the pederast. The pedophile, or child sexual predator, was the subject of sex crime panics on both sides of the Atlantic. People who wrote or spoke about adult-child sex in non-condemnatory terms risked public attack. The rhetoric of molestation became “so powerful that those who do not join in its ''danse macabre'' are often accused of participating (either literally or figuratively) in the abuse.” (''Unspeakable'', 2020, pp. 278-279).</ref> for Moody, "the perception of pederasty has drastically changed and will - under the impact of feminist thinking, gay liberation praxis and above all, children's changing awareness - never be simple again" (p. 154):		In the above article, Moody conducts a historical retrospective of age-disparate homosexuality (then "pederasty") from the 1900's to 1980. He identifies 3 developments which "came from within the radical movement" and "were to halt any burgeoning idea that children's autonomy and free adult/child sensuality might be inter-related" (p. 149). These are gay assimilation / "the mainstream gay movement's readiness to adopt the medical-pychiatric model of pedophilia, and equate man/boy love with molestation. [...] [A] strategy of pure self-defence"; the adoption of "child protection" discourses via the women's/[[Feminism\|feminist]] movement; and the retreat of the communes movement and widespread embracing of notions of privacy and exclusiveness. Similar to the argument of historian [[Rachel Hope Cleves]] 40 years later,<ref>Cleves similarly wrote: "During the late 1980s and 1990s, the figure of the monstrous pedophile took center stage in the cultural imagination of English-speaking countries, entirely replacing the earlier ambivalent figure of the pederast. The pedophile, or child sexual predator, was the subject of sex crime panics on both sides of the Atlantic. People who wrote or spoke about adult-child sex in non-condemnatory terms risked public attack. The rhetoric of molestation became “so powerful that those who do not join in its ''danse macabre'' are often accused of participating (either literally or figuratively) in the abuse.” (''Unspeakable'', 2020, pp. 278-279).</ref> for Moody, "the perception of pederasty has drastically changed and will - under the impact of feminist thinking, gay liberation praxis and above all, children's changing awareness - never be simple again" (p. 154):

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	*When the law goes below the waterline, Roger Moody, Letters to the Editor, ''The Guardian'', 1 August 1983.		*When the law goes below the waterline, Roger Moody, Letters to the Editor, ''The Guardian'', 1 August 1983.
	*'Not so menacing a magazine' Roger Moody, Letters to the Editor, ''The Guardian'', 4 May 1984.		*'Not so menacing a magazine' Roger Moody, Letters to the Editor, ''The Guardian'', 4 May 1984.
	*Roger Moody. (1986). 'Ends and Means: How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable...?', in ''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'', ed. by Warren Middleton (CL Publications: London), pp. 120-133.<ref>[https://~~ianpace~~.~~wordpress.com~~/~~2014/07/05/betrayal-of-youth-1986-including-the-contributions-of-middleton-owens-faust-tatchell~~/ 'Ends and Means: How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable...?', in ''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'', ed. by Warren Middleton (CL Publications: London), pp. 120-133.]</ref>		*Roger Moody. (1986). 'Ends and Means: How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable...?', in [[The_Betrayal_of_Youth_(Book)\|''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'']], ed. by Warren Middleton (CL Publications: London), pp. 120-133.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/D3E65600BCD53F898EE99AEBF6BCBC24 'Ends and Means: How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable...?', in ''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'', ed. by Warren Middleton (CL Publications: London), pp. 120-133.]</ref>

	In ''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable'', Moody argues that free sexual expression in childhood is tied to the degree of historic constraint around young people's freedom and participation in society: egalitarian 'primitive' societies tended to impose less restriction and are consequently more permissive, whereas post-industrial 'civilized' societies reflect the opposite trend. Like gay historian [[John D’Emilio]], who argued that capitalism and other social forces outside the control of activists were the driving force behind gay liberation,<ref>See John D’Emilio's chapter in, ''Against Equality Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion'', ed. by Ryan Conrad (AK Press, 2014) https://library.lol/main/DD4D1C4C3CE07971C2DE09315132F098</ref> Moody argues that there can only be liberation of "pedophilic relationships" rather than pedophiles as such, because such liberation would be "contingent on the freedom of both the younger and the older person to withdraw without and form of blackmail or hurt, and also to relate freely to others of any age or gender" (p. 124). The notion of a 'sexual utopia' where freedoms emerge from abstract ideas of equality, not fundamental changes in social organization, Moody calls the "utopia myth". Similar to political scientist Harris Mirkin,<ref>Harris Mirkin, 'The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia', ''Journal of Homosexuality'' (1999). https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm</ref> Moody cites Paulo Freire to argue that "the mystification of language is the basic tenet of social control." MAPs need to recognize that sex is given primacy in the West "because it is uniquely situated to being channeled and manipulated by the powerful in the interest of maintaining their power" (p. 122), and respond with accounts in their own language which do not reproduce the social-control terminology of an oppressive society.<ref>Moody cites Charles Shivley in ''Fag Rag'', and Daniel Tsang's then defunct ''Gay Insurgent''.</ref> Pre-dating modern transgender politics, Moody argued for a separation between sex and gender, and consequently, that MAPs have been held back by not treating male and female experiences as separate and fundamentally different. Moody concluded with 3 "essential" medium-term aims:		In ''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable'', Moody argues that free sexual expression in childhood is tied to the degree of historic constraint around young people's freedom and participation in society: egalitarian 'primitive' societies tended to impose less restriction and are consequently more permissive, whereas post-industrial 'civilized' societies reflect the opposite trend. Like gay historian [[John D’Emilio]], who argued that capitalism and other social forces outside the control of activists were the driving force behind gay liberation,<ref>See John D’Emilio's chapter in, ''Against Equality Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion'', ed. by Ryan Conrad (AK Press, 2014) https://library.lol/main/DD4D1C4C3CE07971C2DE09315132F098</ref> Moody argues that there can only be liberation of "pedophilic relationships" rather than pedophiles as such, because such liberation would be "contingent on the freedom of both the younger and the older person to withdraw without and form of blackmail or hurt, and also to relate freely to others of any age or gender" (p. 124). The notion of a 'sexual utopia' where freedoms emerge from abstract ideas of equality, not fundamental changes in social organization, Moody calls the "utopia myth". Similar to political scientist Harris Mirkin,<ref>Harris Mirkin, 'The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia', ''Journal of Homosexuality'' (1999). https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm</ref> Moody cites Paulo Freire to argue that "the mystification of language is the basic tenet of social control." MAPs need to recognize that sex is given primacy in the West "because it is uniquely situated to being channeled and manipulated by the powerful in the interest of maintaining their power" (p. 122), and respond with accounts in their own language which do not reproduce the social-control terminology of an oppressive society.<ref>Moody cites Charles Shivley in ''Fag Rag'', and Daniel Tsang's then defunct ''Gay Insurgent''.</ref> Pre-dating modern transgender politics, Moody argued for a separation between sex and gender, and consequently, that MAPs have been held back by not treating male and female experiences as separate and fundamentally different. Moody concluded with 3 "essential" medium-term aims:

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	'''Roger Moody''' (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British socialist and civil libertarian MAP author, social worker, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, nuclear disarmament and an opposition to war, and the right of mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities, including MAPs and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, before this previously obscure psychiatric term became widely known in Britain and heavily demonized/stigmatized in the 1980s (Basannavar, 2019).<ref>[https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> Moody briefly became the co-editor of the longstanding pacifist magazine ''[[Wikipedia:Peace_News\|Peace News]]'' (1936-present)<ref>See also https://web.archive.org/web/20190510221337/https://peacenews.info/node/6200/peace-news-first-75-glorious-years</ref>, publishing a short book through ''Word is Out/Peace News'' entitled "Indecent Assault" (1980).<ref>~~https://web.archive.org/web/20220630222645/~~https://www.brongersma.info/Indecent_assault</ref> Structured as a collection of diary entries, ''Indecent Assault'' gives Moody's reflections during the proceedings of a legal case brought against him, which alleged 4 counts of sexual touching (known legally as "indecent/sexual assault") and 1 count of attempted anal sex ("attempted buggery") with a 10-year-old male. Moody was acquitted of these charges in April 1979, and continued to publish on and participate in a wide variety of political movements, including MAP-related activism with writings such as "''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable''" (1986) and "''Man/Boy Love and the Left''" (1981), which we archive and summarize in this page.		'''Roger Moody''' (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British socialist and civil libertarian MAP author, social worker, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, nuclear disarmament and an opposition to war, and the right of mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities, including MAPs and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, before this previously obscure psychiatric term became widely known in Britain and heavily demonized/stigmatized in the 1980s (Basannavar, 2019).<ref>[https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> Moody briefly became the co-editor of the longstanding pacifist magazine ''[[Wikipedia:Peace_News\|Peace News]]'' (1936-present)<ref>See also https://web.archive.org/web/20190510221337/https://peacenews.info/node/6200/peace-news-first-75-glorious-years</ref>, publishing a short book through ''Word is Out/Peace News'' entitled "Indecent Assault" (1980).<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/Indecent_assault Indecent Assault, by Roger Moody]</ref> Structured as a collection of diary entries, ''Indecent Assault'' gives Moody's reflections during the proceedings of a legal case brought against him, which alleged 4 counts of sexual touching (known legally as "indecent/sexual assault") and 1 count of attempted anal sex ("attempted buggery") with a 10-year-old male. Moody was acquitted of these charges in April 1979, and continued to publish on and participate in a wide variety of political movements, including MAP-related activism with writings such as "''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable''" (1986) and "''Man/Boy Love and the Left''" (1981), which we archive and summarize in this page.

	[[PAN\|PAN Magazine]] (1980, below) credited Moody with publishing "the first article ever to appear in a British journal (Peace News) in which the author identified himself as a paedophile" (p. 15), in October 1975. Moody was most publicly active in the [[MAP_Movement\|1st wave of the MAP Movement]] during the 1970's, with his name being mentioned in ''PAL'' (Paedophile Action for Liberation's) Newsletter "Palaver" in its June/July 1975 issue. [[File:Moody in PAL's 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3..jpg\|thumb\|Roger Moody mentioned approvingly in Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL's) 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3.]] The minute meetings of the [[Conspiracy Against Public Morals]] committee (CAPM), suggests that Moody was involved in efforts to protest and overturn the legal indictment of 5 PIE members, which famously saw PIE chairman Tom O'Carroll imprisoned for 2 years for 'Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals'.<ref>https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/islingtons-pro-paedophile-activists-network-roger-moody-and-sandy-marks/</ref> We have no indication that Moody was ever a member of PAL, and MAP activist Tom O'Carroll stated in a 2022 obituary that Moody was never a member of PIE, the ''[[Paedophile_Information_Exchange\|Paedophile Information Exchange]]'' which succeeded PAL.<ref>See ''RODGER THE DODGER, WHO BEAT THE RAP'', in https://heretictoc.com/2022/06/16/lets-be-clear-about-prepubertal-orgasm/</ref> Moody died peacefully in his home in June, 2022.		[[PAN\|PAN Magazine]] (1980, below) credited Moody with publishing "the first article ever to appear in a British journal (Peace News) in which the author identified himself as a paedophile" (p. 15), in October 1975. Moody was most publicly active in the [[MAP_Movement\|1st wave of the MAP Movement]] during the 1970's, with his name being mentioned in ''PAL'' (Paedophile Action for Liberation's) Newsletter "Palaver" in its June/July 1975 issue. [[File:Moody in PAL's 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3..jpg\|thumb\|Roger Moody mentioned approvingly in Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL's) 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3.]] The minute meetings of the [[Conspiracy Against Public Morals]] committee (CAPM), suggests that Moody was involved in efforts to protest and overturn the legal indictment of 5 PIE members, which famously saw PIE chairman Tom O'Carroll imprisoned for 2 years for 'Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals'.<ref>https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/islingtons-pro-paedophile-activists-network-roger-moody-and-sandy-marks/</ref> We have no indication that Moody was ever a member of PAL, and MAP activist Tom O'Carroll stated in a 2022 obituary that Moody was never a member of PIE, the ''[[Paedophile_Information_Exchange\|Paedophile Information Exchange]]'' which succeeded PAL.<ref>See ''RODGER THE DODGER, WHO BEAT THE RAP'', in https://heretictoc.com/2022/06/16/lets-be-clear-about-prepubertal-orgasm/</ref> Moody died peacefully in his home in June, 2022.

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	'''Roger Moody''' (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British socialist and civil libertarian MAP author, social worker, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, nuclear disarmament and an opposition to war, and the right of mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities, including MAPs and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, before this previously obscure psychiatric term became widely known in Britain and heavily demonized/stigmatized in the 1980s (Basannavar, 2019).<ref>[https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> Moody briefly became the co-editor of the longstanding pacifist magazine ''[[Wikipedia:Peace_News\|Peace News]]'' (1936-present)<ref>See also https://web.archive.org/web/20190510221337/https://peacenews.info/node/6200/peace-news-first-75-glorious-years</ref>, publishing a short book through ''Word is Out/Peace News'' entitled "Indecent Assault" (1980).<ref>~~https://web.archive.org/web/20220630222645/~~https://www.brongersma.info/Indecent_assault</ref> Structured as a collection of diary entries, ''Indecent Assault'' gives Moody's reflections during the proceedings of a legal case brought against him, which alleged 4 counts of sexual touching (known legally as "indecent/sexual assault") and 1 count of attempted anal sex ("attempted buggery") with a 10-year-old male. Moody was acquitted of these charges in April 1979, and continued to publish on and participate in a wide variety of political movements, including MAP-related activism with writings such as "''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable''" (1986) and "''Man/Boy Love and the Left''" (1981), which we archive and summarize in this page.		'''Roger Moody''' (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British socialist and civil libertarian MAP author, social worker, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, nuclear disarmament and an opposition to war, and the right of mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities, including MAPs and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, before this previously obscure psychiatric term became widely known in Britain and heavily demonized/stigmatized in the 1980s (Basannavar, 2019).<ref>[https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40384/1/FINAL%20SUBMISSION%20-%20Nick%20Basannavar.pdf Basannavar, Nicholas Ranjan Gadsby. (2019). Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965-1991. [Thesis<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> Moody briefly became the co-editor of the longstanding pacifist magazine ''[[Wikipedia:Peace_News\|Peace News]]'' (1936-present)<ref>See also https://web.archive.org/web/20190510221337/https://peacenews.info/node/6200/peace-news-first-75-glorious-years</ref>, publishing a short book through ''Word is Out/Peace News'' entitled "Indecent Assault" (1980).<ref>[https://www.brongersma.info/Indecent_assault Indecent Assault, by Roger Moody]</ref> Structured as a collection of diary entries, ''Indecent Assault'' gives Moody's reflections during the proceedings of a legal case brought against him, which alleged 4 counts of sexual touching (known legally as "indecent/sexual assault") and 1 count of attempted anal sex ("attempted buggery") with a 10-year-old male. Moody was acquitted of these charges in April 1979, and continued to publish on and participate in a wide variety of political movements, including MAP-related activism with writings such as "''How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable''" (1986) and "''Man/Boy Love and the Left''" (1981), which we archive and summarize in this page.

	[[PAN\|PAN Magazine]] (1980, below) credited Moody with publishing "the first article ever to appear in a British journal (Peace News) in which the author identified himself as a paedophile" (p. 15), in October 1975. Moody was most publicly active in the [[MAP_Movement\|1st wave of the MAP Movement]] during the 1970's, with his name being mentioned in ''PAL'' (Paedophile Action for Liberation's) Newsletter "Palaver" in its June/July 1975 issue. [[File:Moody in PAL's 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3..jpg\|thumb\|Roger Moody mentioned approvingly in Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL's) 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3.]] The minute meetings of the [[Conspiracy Against Public Morals]] committee (CAPM), suggests that Moody was involved in efforts to protest and overturn the legal indictment of 5 PIE members, which famously saw PIE chairman Tom O'Carroll imprisoned for 2 years for 'Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals'.<ref>https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/islingtons-pro-paedophile-activists-network-roger-moody-and-sandy-marks/</ref> We have no indication that Moody was ever a member of PAL, and MAP activist Tom O'Carroll stated in a 2022 obituary that Moody was never a member of PIE, the ''[[Paedophile_Information_Exchange\|Paedophile Information Exchange]]'' which succeeded PAL.<ref>See ''RODGER THE DODGER, WHO BEAT THE RAP'', in https://heretictoc.com/2022/06/16/lets-be-clear-about-prepubertal-orgasm/</ref> Moody died peacefully in his home in June, 2022.		[[PAN\|PAN Magazine]] (1980, below) credited Moody with publishing "the first article ever to appear in a British journal (Peace News) in which the author identified himself as a paedophile" (p. 15), in October 1975. Moody was most publicly active in the [[MAP_Movement\|1st wave of the MAP Movement]] during the 1970's, with his name being mentioned in ''PAL'' (Paedophile Action for Liberation's) Newsletter "Palaver" in its June/July 1975 issue. [[File:Moody in PAL's 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3..jpg\|thumb\|Roger Moody mentioned approvingly in Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL's) 'Palaver' Magazine, No. 3. (June-July, 1975), p.3.]] The minute meetings of the [[Conspiracy Against Public Morals]] committee (CAPM), suggests that Moody was involved in efforts to protest and overturn the legal indictment of 5 PIE members, which famously saw PIE chairman Tom O'Carroll imprisoned for 2 years for 'Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals'.<ref>https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/islingtons-pro-paedophile-activists-network-roger-moody-and-sandy-marks/</ref> We have no indication that Moody was ever a member of PAL, and MAP activist Tom O'Carroll stated in a 2022 obituary that Moody was never a member of PIE, the ''[[Paedophile_Information_Exchange\|Paedophile Information Exchange]]'' which succeeded PAL.<ref>See ''RODGER THE DODGER, WHO BEAT THE RAP'', in https://heretictoc.com/2022/06/16/lets-be-clear-about-prepubertal-orgasm/</ref> Moody died peacefully in his home in June, 2022.