Rising from despondency to hope: The tale of a healer
“Violence against women causes trauma. It takes away women’s ability to make progress in their lives. It destroys families, breaks up marriages and increases the spread of HIV/AIDS.” Listening to her striking words, I felt the conviction that drives her…
Proudly Transgender in Turkey.
Portrait: Ebru Kırancı by Gabrielle Le Roux quote: “Hayatı seviyoruz, Bizi öldürmeyin” – “We love life, Dont kill us” Proudly Transgender in Turkey is a social justice project and cultural intervention designed by South African artist Gabrielle Le Roux. The…
Did they entrust fillet to the dogs?
Dogs eat meat- that is a fact. When you serve them with fillet, they eat it all because it is a steak and tender and afterwards nothing remains; not a trace that in that plate once lay a piece of…
links for 2011-09-23
Trend Lines | Africom's Message Evolving, but Mission Unchanged (tags: africa africom militarism) ISLAMIC Supposedly Boko Haram website – (tags: Nigeria BokoHaram) U.S. building secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say – The Washington Post (tags: militarism africa…
The Blame Game
I have been asking myself why it is that people never want to take responsibility for their own actions especially when the consequences of their actions are negative. Why is it so much easier to find scapegoats and shift the…
419 Reasons
In two weeks Nigeria will attempt yet another deception by claiming to “celebrate’ 51 years of independence. There will be the usual speeches, parades and flag waving by undignified dignitaries. Bloggers and Tweeps will simultaneously rubbish the country, ask for…
links for 2011-09-19
On Racial Literacy: "A White Side of Black Britain" Twine shows that living in transracial spaces does not necessarily provide a greater understanding of race and racism. (tags: britain racism Class Gender White_Britain Black_Britain) Difficult love, difficult truth – Mail…
links for 2011-09-15
Cameras Everywhere: Current Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of Human Rights, Video and Technology – Global Voices Advocacy (tags: Advocacy Witness humanrights) The railroading of Troy Davis (tags: Troy_Davis Georgia Capital_Punishment) African & Caribbean Filmmakers To Gather In Cuba…
links for 2011-09-14
Robert Fisk – The Age of the Warrior (tags: Terrorism War USA Torture) Stop Sept 21 Execution of Troy Davis! Campaign Just a week to the state murder of Troy Davis – AND NOW HIS EXECUTION HAS BEEN SET FOR WEDNESDAY,…
links for 2011-09-08
Discovered Files Show U.S., Britain Had Extensive Ties with Gaddafi Regime on Rendition, Torture If ever there was a moment for a revolution in our thinking, this is it. We have not understood, for 10 years, much of what the…
links for 2011-09-04
The meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk In the photograph Thomas Hoepker took on 11 September 2001, a group of New Yorkers sit chatting in the sun in a park in…
links for 2011-09-02
Former freedom fighter Wambui dies in Nairobi She first rose to prominence in 1986 following the death of her husband and prominent criminal lawyer SM Otieno when she waged a court battle against the Umira Kager clan over Mr Otieno's…
Libya: ‘Rats’ and ‘Dogs’ defeated humans?
As the Libyan rebels gain ground towards Tripoli every news station is talking about an end to the grip on power that Gaddafi has had over Libya for 42 years. And just some hours ago the Colonel lost a grip…
They are all terrorists
When most of us hear the word terrorist this is the picture that forms in our heads because it is the most flagged stereotype. A long bearded man, wearing a flowing robe, with a keffiyeh-Islamic headscarf- for men or a…
Democracy is African too!!!
So many times I have heard one too many African leaders deriding the idea of democracy as a Western driven agenda meant to achieve regime change. They have argued that the aim of the West is to get rid of…
links for 2011-08-11
Pambazuka – Famine by man not drought (tags: famine somalia) Pambazuka – No easy path through the embers (tags: shackdwellers, southafrica) There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free |…
links for 2011-07-14
Israel Passes Anti-Boycott Law: This Week in Online Tyranny Israel makes boycotts illegal. One of the time-tested, non-violent ways in which people have attempted to force grass-roots change is by boycotting the products or services of an entity whose actions…
links for 2011-07-12
Monsanto in Haiti Last spring, Haiti’s minister of agriculture gave agribusiness giant Monsanto permission to ‘donate’ 505 tonnes of seeds to Haiti ‘to support the reconstruction effort’. A year later, Beverly Bell asks what has become of the seeds that…
links for 2011-07-08
Dread Scott / "Make revolutionary art to propel history forward … confront the world as it is and radically dream about how it could be different." His most recent work is Burning of the U.S. Constitution. A suite of three…
links for 2011-07-05
No justice, no food, no 4th of July celebration They are also celebrating the massacre of millions of Native people who inhabited the lands we call USA. They are celebrating the kidnapping of millions of Africans from their homeland and…
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