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Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti
by Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee On March 19, 2020, shortly after international institutions made known that millions of dollars would be available to […]
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Deception? Deception?
In Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie”, a stunned Amanda Wingfield enters the second scene repeating an enigmatic question: “Deception? Deception?” Amanda revels in the […]
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next. 3 Apr 2020 – Who can use […]
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Uganda: How music is shaping war on Coronavirus By Denis Nsubuga
It is good to see mainstream artistes step up against coronavirus, even when most of their shows were cancelled Bobi Wine, the Musician-turned-politician, is […]
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‘Vulgarity makes the point polite conversation can’t’ — a conversation with Ugandan dissident Stella Nyanzi
Radical Ugandan activist and academic Stella Nyanzi discusses her recent imprisonment, the power of vularity and anti-authoritarian struggle. Phil Wilmot Appeared on the net […]
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Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity as an Antidote By Stella Calloni
The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the […]
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The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup in Haiti By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second […]
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When A Virus Hits Town, Racists Hit Back!
When A Virus Hits Town, Racists Hit Back! Around the planet, from Peru to Melbourne to Paris, Asians are subjected to threats and abuse […]
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Indigenous women in Kenya rebuild resilience amidst an eco-cultural crisis
In the face of growing climate change, indigenous women in Kenya are remembering and reinstating their native agricultural practices, to build resilience and reclaim […]
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Stop the Extradition of Julian Assange-Defend Freedom of the Press
At Irish Congress of Trade Union, Belfast I would like to thank Eamon McMahon and the Organizers of this event for giving us the […]
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Foreign Correspondence 50 Years Later: A Preface
January 2014 – Some 50 years ago I had been puzzled so much by two problems in connection with foreign news that I decided […]
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25 African Women Writers You Should Read
Source: aaibc.com Authors are listed, alphabetically, by first name. Also check out a beautiful collage of all 25 African Women’s photos, a list of all of […]
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Overlooked No More: Andrée Blouin, Voice for Independence in Africa By
Politicized by her child’s death, she went on to counsel the first post-colonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Ghana. […]
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NO ROSES FROM MY MOUTH: Stella NYANZI´S POEMS FROM PRISON By Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire and Esther Mirembe
In Carole Boyce Davies’ study of the political activism of the Black Communist, Claudia Jones, Davies writes that “[Jones’] was a poetry written by […]
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South Sudan’s leader wins dubious ‘spoiler of peace’ award
South Sudan s President Salva Kiir arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis […]
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Analysis of Violence for Peacebuilders: Galtung’s Triangle
A conflict analysis is a nonnegotiable first step when preparing a conflict transformation and peacebuilding intervention. Understanding violence is part and parcel of this […]
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Haiti: Carnival Protesters Demand an End to PHTK Dictatorship. 26 January 2020. (SHARE).
PHOTO’S: “Kanaval protests in St. Marc, #Haiti this past Sunday. Anti-#PetroCaribeCorruption slogans and expressions denouncing ‘US / UN imposed’ President (Now Dictator) Jovenel Moise […]
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Greta Thunberg speaks out after Ugandan climate activist cropped from photo
The Associated Press said that they cut Vanessa Nakate from the image ‘purely on composition grounds’ Appeared on the net 27.01.2020 TextLia Mappoura Nakate […]
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A pan-African CFA activist is the face of rising anti-French sentiment in Francophone West Africa
By Clair MacDougall in Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoJanuary 9, 2020 After four days in detention in Burkina Faso for “insulting the president and other presidents,” Kémi Séba, […]
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‘‘Women of Allah’ versus Women of Heart – Iran versus USA reality
If Georgia O’Keeffe the American female painter represented a heart of the USA, I am an Iranian female painter representing a heart of Iran. […]
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THE MAN WHO PLANTED
In our urgency to ‘achieve results’ (or, in reality, perhaps to ‘show results’ to others) we often tend to forget the miracles that slow, […]
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UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF CORRUPTION By Jacques Depelchin
In these current times, corruption seems to be everywhere. And yet, depending on the place where it is being discussed, the finger tends to […]
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KALABA RESIGN SHOULD GO FURTHER UP TO THE ROOTS CAUSE OF EMBLEZZMENT IN ZAMBIA!
We have heard about the leader in Zambia, Harry Kalaba, as minister of foreign affairs resigned as a result of over corruption and emblezzment […]
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FEES MUST FALL CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA By: Comrade Nassoro Kitunda
There is a continuous movement for Students demanding a fee free for higher education and education to be free. This tournament is historic not […]
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THE YOUNG HANDS THAT FEED US
Apperead on 19 JUL 2019 An estimated 524,000 children work unimaginably long hours in America’s grueling agricultural fields, and it’s all perfectly legal. It […]