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From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity By Jacques Depelchin
Confrontation – Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip, Palestine (Photo credit: Robert Croma) First, not quite, but we have to start somewhere, There were the Arawaks, the…
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Fear of emancipatory history in the DRC: From Kimpa Vita to Lumumba to the women of Panzi By Jeacques Depelchin
Patrice Lumumba à l’hôtel de ville de Montréal, 29 juillet 1960 en présence du maire Sarto Fournier (Photo credit: Archives de la Ville de Montréal)…
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Tower of silence – African leaders and the G20 By Jacques Depelchin
Hommage à Aimé Césaire sur le Skatepark de Royan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Appeared 2009-04-06 We hear a lot of people speak of a systemic crisis,…
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Let Haiti be Haiti by Jacques Depelchin
Cover of Dignity To all those who have lost loved ones, please accept our most sincere condolences. Our deepest sympathies to the entire Haitian population…
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It is all interconnected, why pretend otherwise? By Jacques Depelchin
Nagasaki, Japan, before and after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Adjusted version of File:Nagasaki 1945 – Before and after.jpg (rotation and scaling). Français…
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LUO NYATITI MUSIC FROM KENYA
famous (Photo credit: the apostrophe) Nyatiti is an eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya. It is a classical instrument used by the Luo people…
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German university honors Kenyan writer
Ngugi’s literary works, like "The devil crucified" and "Matigari," pointed mostly to shortcomings within the Kenyan state. Now, Germany’s University of Bayreuth is awarding him…
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African Creative Economy Conference 2014: call for volunteers continued and logo announced!
Arterial Network’s 4th African Creative Economy Conference, organized in partnership with the associations Racines/ Arterial Network Morocco, will take place from the 13-15 November 2014…
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AMANDLA: A revolution in 4 part harmony Directed by Lee Hirsch
Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This internationally acclaimed film is the intense and triumphant story of how music kept alive the…
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Urbain, Olivier, editor. Music and Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics. 2008. I.B. Tauris, UK, in collaboration with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan. BY THERESA WOLFWOOD. DIRECTOR, THE BARNARD-BOECKER CENTRE FOUNDATION
“Music has an inexplicable way of elevating humankind to its noblest action.” Youssou N´Dour, Senegalese singer “…creative ability is a quintessential part of being human:…
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Arundhati Roy, the Not-So-Reluctant Renegade By SIDDHARTHA DEB
“I’ve always been slightly short with people who say, ‘You haven’t written anything again,’ as if all the nonfiction I’ve written is not writing,” Arundhati…
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Homage to International NYT By Johan Galtung
at a seminar at Netanya Academic College (Israel) on Peace Journalism and media coverage of war. Johan Galtung is a pioneer of peace and conflict…
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A message to young Congolese….
A message to young Congolese…. There may have been days when you felt that there was not much you can do to change the situation…
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Four New Specialized Human Rights Online Courses
English: Logo for DCPEACE, initiative of UPEACE/US (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dear Colleague, The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE)…
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Haïti : Evolution of a Coup by Nia Imara
The damages and suffering accrued by the Haitian people over more than two centuries of intermittent occupation, foreign interference, and dictatorship are immeasurable. The present…
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Haiti/Honduras Same System, Different Playersby Charlie Hinton*
Now countries from all over the world, from China, Nepal, and the Philippines, to countries in the Americas that might be considered “friends,” like Chile,…
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International Days in Solidarity with the Haitian People: February 23 – March 8, 2014
10 years since the 2004 Coup … 210 years since Haiti’s Revolution Haiti Action Committee sent the following letter earlier in February 2014 Monument to…
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Thank you, Haiti! Thank you, Cuba!
article & photos by Marilyn Langlois Left: Discussion group and street scene on the Paseo de Martí, Havana. Right: Discussion group at the Aristide Foundation…
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Belles Lettres. A tous ceux qui sont nés d’une femme…
depuis belle lurette que les femmes se battent pour l’amélioration de leur condition humaine. Et, pas de doute, l’inspiration du roman d’Assia-Printemps Gibirila intitulé Elles,…
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We Stand With Our Sister: Stop the Attacks on Myrlande Liberis-Pavert and the Lavalas Movement
A Statement from Haiti Action Committee On Friday, January 17, it was reported by news agencies that a Haitian judge investigating the assassination of Jean…