How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside?
How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted on my brothers and sisters in the human family...
HAITI: A CALL TO ACTION
Sunday, March 3rd, 1-3 pm
East Side Arts Alliance
2277 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA
On the 20th anniversary of the 2004 coup that overthrew the democratically elected administration of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and...
Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015
The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms...
How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside?
How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well stocked, knowing what unbearable suffering is being inflicted...
Most reporting on the Rwandan 1994 atrocities was false and driven by the Clinton administration’s need to hide its culpability. The book Survivors Uncensored allows Rwandans to tell their own story.
21 Sep 2022...
The Soul of Uganda Through Song by the Dutch journalist, music archivist and documentary filmmaker, Michiel van Oosterhout, is a lyrical telling of Uganda’s history in the period starting at independence in 1962 to...
Photo Courtesy of Siddharth Kara
Siddarth Kara’s book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. It’s one of the many poetic phrases that make this book easy on the ear but hard on the heart and mind. There’s pleasure in turning the pages of such finely crafted prose, pain in knowing that, if you have half a heart, you’ll never be able to see your smartphone, laptop, tablet, solar power system, or electric car quite the...
February 17 Eritrean Independence Day Celebration in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was attacked by violent protestors who threw bricks at police and set a tractor trailer on fire. Police made eight arrests.
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From the Peace 2000 Institute an
d Mirpuri Foundation
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal....
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Professor Wamba, welcome to Berkeley.
Thank you very much.
Where were you born and raised?
I was born in the...
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
“Most American supermarkets are...
Angolan rapper Luaty Beirão, also known as Ikonoklasta. (Facebook / Luaty Beirão) On Monday, 17 Angolan activists received sentences ranging from two to...