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Join Bands, Not Gangs offers music lessons to vulnerable teens in dangerous Western Cape neighbourhoods, encouraging those at risk to choose an instrument rather than a gun. By: Jan Bornman Photographer: Barry Christianson …
Judge Timothy Walmsley delivered sentences to the convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery on Jan. 7. The 25-year-old Black man was chased and trapped by the pickup truck-driving, shotgun-wielding father and son team…
First and foremost, South Sudanese Peace mediators should strive wholeheartedly to restore peace and stability in South Sudan. ” South Sudanese leaders, cannot bring peace in the region, if there is no…
Like frogs in water that keeps getting hotter and hotter, we are nearing the boiling point. A plague of “vaccine mandates” and “vaccine passports” is rapidly spreading across the globe. There has…
The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse, says the novelist and essayist. For reasons of narrative symmetry if nothing else, as the US…
Dear MoveOn Member, I’m Robert Cruickshank of Demand Progress and I started a petition to Congress, which says: We demand you publicly denounce Amazon for trying to build its South African HQ…
Dear Western world, I am writing to you from the Pearl of Africa, the gifted country that doesn’t miss much of your offerings. We can avail all to ourselves too, only that…
Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests. 25 Jul 2021 – In September this year, the United Nations will host a Global Food…
Photo: Amnesty International Reacting to the news that Parliament voted on 23 July to abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira Daoud said: “Parliament’s vote…
by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working many to death. Enslaved…
Watch last Saturday’s fantastic program with Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide speaking about UNIFA with the Mt. View School District https://youtu.be/oGRFizDNxFo
Author: Yar Ajak/Woja Emmanuel Journalists Waakhe Simon Wudu (left) and David Mono Danga (right). Two South Sudanese journalists have scooped separate international awards this week. David Mono Danga and Waakhe Simon Wudu…
In this interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Vandana Shiva says, “… if In the next decade, if we don’t protect what has to be protected … and take away the sainthood from…
June 2017. The death of Carol Atuhairwe, the smiling lady whose story of battling throat cancer moved the country. The public fundraised for her treatment in India, where she died. Uganda’s only…
Carmen Navas Reyes and Laura Franco respond to the article published in the New York Times which attempts to speak about the problems facing Venezuelan women without mentioning the economic and financial…
I am a child of the Ganga Himalaya , nourished materially and spiritually by Dev Bhoomi, our sacred land. The mountains , forests and Ma Ganga have shaped my imagination, my knowledge…
The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges, with escalating violence propagated by the military coup in Myanmar, resulting death of a young protester from a bullet wound[i], the…
Paul Rusesabagina under arrest after his rendition to Rwanda. Is there any limit to how far the West will go to cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s Crimes? asks Ann Garrison. “With…
The Biden administration’s response to Haiti’s spiraling political crisis may be motivated by wariness of entangling the U.S. in a neighbor’s affairs, or adding another challenge to the Administration’s extremely full plate.…
“Refugees are not the problem, but they have problems”. Our first information session of the rights of refugees took place yesterday on Sunday February 14th, 2021 in Kituku – Goma. We greatly…
This was part of their continuing struggle against the three farm laws that were passed by the Narendra Modi led govt in September last year. Appeared on February 07, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch On…
The text of Arundhati Roy’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021 on January 30. I thank the organisers of the 2021 Elgar Parishad for inviting me to speak at this forum to…
A new wave of protests began in Haiti on January 10 against US backed president Jovenel Moïse and his attempt to extend his term in office till Feb 2022. February 02, 2021 by Peoples…
Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to…
In yet another fiery speech to attendees of an elite annual summit, climate activist Greta Thunberg made clear on Monday that young people aren’t backing down from demands that world leaders treat human-caused climate…
