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17:13
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Amy Goodman discusses the 60 years of Israeli occupation and Palestinian dispossession with Palestinian writer Ghada Karmi. The Dispossession,, Nakba displaced 750,000 Palestinians including Ghada Karmi. Her childhood memories of Palestine and her life as a refugee are chronicled in her book “In Search of Fatima” reviewed here and here.
I was [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: " Ghada Karmi on 60 years of dispossession", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/_ghada_karmi_on_60_years_of_dispossession.html" });
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19:00
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After spending three hours on Tuesday listening to some 30 African women asylum seekers testify about their treatment by the British government, many of whom had been imprisoned in Yarl’s Wood detention Center, I thought I would write a general piece built around their stories. However before I started I received an email [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bloggers Nigerians unite for human rights", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/bloggers_nigerians_unite_for_human_rights.html" });
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9:26
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Sandy Cioffi, director of the documentary “Sweet Crude” interviewed on Democracy Now!
In this small region of Nigeria known as the “south-south,” something huge is happening. The adverse effects of oil exploration have been unfolding in the Niger Delta for the past 50 years. Now, the people have had enough. From environmental [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Sweet Crude" the poverty of oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/sweet_crude_the_poverty_of_oil.html" });
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4:39
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Photos from the 7-7-7 Campaign
The five accused of the murder of Eudy Simulane reappeared in court today. The hearing was initially delayed because accused number 5 was appearing in another court on charges of rape and robbery, which he was out on bail for . Once proceedings began, they were further bogged down [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Update on Eudy Simelane - tactics employed by defense attorneys", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/update_on_eduy_simelane_-_tactics_employed_by_defense_attorneys.html" });
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19:02
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Just over two years ago a friend of mine Kayode Ogundamisi wrote a piece “Are you a Black man? Don’t go to Russia” in which is spoke of the racism experienced by African students in Russia…..
It is a shame that the Russian government is turning a blind eye on the growing level of attacks on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Racist hate in Russia", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/racist_hate_in_russia.html" });
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18:06
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W.TEC launched the Networking For Success Project in Lagos, Nigeria……….Future projects need online volunteers to act as mentors, and cash, books, software, computers. Contact W.TEC via their website.
The Networking for Success project will teach women how to use Web 2.0 tools and other ICTs to effectively develop and advance their work. Participants will [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/quick_links-11.html" });
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17:08
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Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1930 [12th of May]. He graduated from the University of Natal with a paper on traditional and modern Zulu poetry. In 1959 he obtained a grant to complete his doctoral dissertation in London.
From this point on Kunene dedicated himself to the struggle [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy birthday, Mazisi Kunene!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/happy_birthday_mazisi_kunene.html" });
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15:52
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Two important events from the DRC - The one month campaign against sexual violence in the DRC took place between March 17-April 17th and coincided with a new law to ending the crimininalisation of children by accusing them of witchcraft. The campaign was funded by the UN Population Fund. However the question is in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Limited campaign against sexual violence", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/limited_campaign_against_sexual_violence.html" });
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0:59
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When time works against us
and weighs at the heart
somewhere in a foreign land,
night turns to day, and
the fashion in shop windows
I pass on my way from work
into djellabas, the smell
of restaurants into kuskus
on a market day,
hands all out, stretched
to acknowledge this gift,
walking in the shadow
of African women, men,
with their fear of anchored boats
on coastal fronts. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blood river train", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/blood-river-train-rethabile.html" });
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6:17
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The 15th May - a day for bloggers to unite and focus on human rights everywhere. For more information Bloggers Unite.
Via Devious Diva
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Blogging
Human Rights
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bloggers Unite under Human Rights", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/bloggers_unite_under_human_rights.html" });
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4:58
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May’s International Carnival of Pozitivities is up at dropdeadhappy. Two blog posts stand out - “Myths and misconceptions about HIV and AIDS” by The AIDS Pandemic in which he looks at some of the “old” myths and some more contemporary myths such as HIV is a “black disease” or “two positive people do not need [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/quick_links-10.html" });
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15:20
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Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, Johannesburg, South Africa.
In a packed Springs Magristrate Court C, the five young men accused of murdering Eudy Simalane appeared this morning before Acting Chief Magistrate Mandla Mthombeni. The five young men, (K. Magabhula, J. Mahlangu, T. Mvuba, T. Pitja and T. Phithi) did not have anything to say to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Killers of EUDY SIMELANE appear before a packed court. ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/killers_of_eudy_simelane_appear_before_a_packed_court_.html" });
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8:03
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Once again another lesbian has been raped, tortured and murdered in South Africa on Monday 28th April. Sizakele Sisgasa and Salome Masooa were tortured and murdered just 10 months ago. Since then lesbians, gays and transsexuals across the continent - Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal and Cameroon, have been attacked and beaten and arrested [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Eudy Simelane: Another lesbian raped and murdered", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/eudy_simelane_another_lesbian_raped_and_murdered.html" });
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18:25
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In Prison The Whole Of My Life is a documentary covering the arrest, trial, imprisonment and fight for a retrial for Mumia Abu Jamal. Mumia’s is presently undergoing a complex appeal process which focuses on three major trial violations - the racism of the judge who was heard by the stenographer at [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "No Visible Movement", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/no_visible_movement.html" });
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21:04
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Zimbabwe: Black America must not be silent
Bill Fletcher (2008-04-17)
Much of Black America stopped discussing Zimbabwe after its liberation in 1980; at least, we stopped discussing it for a while. After years of regular coverage of the liberation war, details regarding Zimbabwe became harder to obtain as attention shifted to struggles in Mozambique, Namibia, Angola and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zimbabwe: Black America must not be silent", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/zimbabwe_black_america_must_not_be_silent.html" });
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5:25
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PRESS STATEMENT: SA LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY CONCERNED ABOUT DEMOCRACY CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE
The South African Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP), formerly known as the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE), is concerned about the deepening political, economic and social crises in Zimbabwe. We express our full solidarity with the lesbians, gay men, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/solidarity_with_the_people_of_zimbabwe.html" });
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5:18
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Black Perspectives on the South African Human Rights Ruling
Against the Forum for Black Journalists
The details surrounding the Forum for Black Journalists (FBJ) and Radio 702’s Katy Katapodis showdown have been rehashed in the media ad nauseam and while these may soon be blurry bits of yet another tantalising ‘racism’ story, what is likely [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We Write What We Like", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/we_write_what_we_like.html" });
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0:07
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Bram Fischer was born on 23 April 1908. Happy Birthday to him.
Lawyer, born into a prominent Afrikaans family. He studied law in South Africa and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He became an active member of the Communist Party, while also reaching the heights of the legal profession. He defended those charged in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy birthday, Bram Fischer!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/happy-birthday-bram-fischer.html" });
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15:08
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It is a question that bothers me–WHY? WHY do we ask WHY? Especially when we are dealing with issues of women and abuse?
While this thought has occurred to me for a long time, two recent discussions on “BBC Africa Have Your Say” - “Is Mob Justice Justified?” and another on “Pambazuka News Podcast” -”Interview with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SHOULD WE EVEN ASK WHY?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/should_we_even_ask_why.html" });
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4:55
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Mostly in the name of Christianity and Islam……….
Even in Africa–a continent not known for its gay-friendly cultures or governments—Nigeria stands out for the virulence and violence against gay men in particular as well as lesbians. Continued………….
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Nigeria
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Religion + Christianity + Islam
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "death threats from mob violence & state sponsored homophobia in the name of religion", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/death_threats_from_mob_violence_state_sponsored_homophobia_in_the_name_religion.html" });
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16:33
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Prophecy
There,
where adventure keeps a clean eye
there where women shimmer with language
there where death is beautiful in the hand like a milk season bird
there where on bended knee the underground gathers a wealth of sloes more violent than caterpillars
there where for nimble wonder anything goes
there where vigorous night bleeds the speed of true vegetables
there where bees [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "R.I.P. Aimé Césaire", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/rip_aim_csaire.html" });
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13:50
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The Martiniquan poet, novelist, playwright and activist, Aime Cesaire died today aged 94. I feel sad that the last of our literary and ideological [negritude] warriors is now gone.
Sad that we people of African descent remain at odds with each other. Where the people who stayed behind have forgotten [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Aime Cesaire: 1913 - 2008", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/aime_cesaire_1913_-_2008.html" });
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4:00
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British Airways Must Apologise
I have done my fair share of flying over the years but ever since I can remember, flying to and from Lagos has always been THE most stressful and unpleasant travel experience. From the days of BCal through British Airways and Virgin Nigeria, Nigerians have had to put up [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "136 Nigerians forced to leave BA flight to Lagos", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/136_nigerians_forced_to_leave_ba_flight_to_lagos.html" });
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8:07
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The cover of a Portuguese translation of Black Skins White Masks published in Brazil. Black Brazilians are incensed whilst whites are pretending not to get the racism expressed in these images. There isn’t really much to say on this except it emphasises Brazil is a racist country and racist society and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nao Somos Racistas", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/nao_somos_racistas.html" });
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15:18
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The “food riots” in Haiti are easy fodder for the media especially when no explanation is seen to be necessary. Try and find a single report with any historical background to the food crisis other than relating it to the overall food crisis across the global south and the rise in the West’s demand for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "half hour for haiti: 2", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/half_hour_for_haiti-2.html" });
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4:34
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I just read this morning that a true sista, supporter and inspiration to all her friends and readers, BrownFemiPower has shut down her blog. Devious Diva, another sista blogger explains why
My good friend and inspiration, brownfemipower, has taken down her blog. The reasons are complicated if you haven’t been following. They are simple [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Woman of Color Silenced", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/woman_of_color_silenced.html" });
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3:08
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Nigerian gay activist and Anglican leader of Changing Attitudes Nigeria, Davis Mac-Iyalla, has received death threats from some Anglican leaders in Nigeria. Changing Attitude Nigeria has recently raised it’s profile in Nigeria and elsewhere and this has been the response from the Anglican church. A couple of weeks ago [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nigerian gay activist threatend with death by church leaders", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/nigerian_gay_activist_threatend_with_death_by_church_leaders.html" });
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16:03
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Sokwanele
These photographs were taken the day before yesterday. The two men are MDC MT supporters based on Mashonaland East. They, and others, were viciously assaulted by Zanu PF militia on Tuesday night. Three houses were burned down in the same area in ongoing attacks. This must be stopped!
The Zimbabwean people have spoken in the elections. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Action Alert from Sokwanele: What you can do to help", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/action_alert_from_sokwanele.html" });
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4:31
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Google Earth and the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) have added a new layer of refugee camps around the world - Chad, Darfur, Palestine, Western Sahara to name a few.
Google Earth’s new mapping programme takes you on a virtual reality tour with the UN refugee agency of some of the world’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Refugee Camps Mapped on Google Earth", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/refugee_camps_mapped_on_google_earth.html" });
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3:03
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***Two new blogs from South Africa’s shackdweller movement. The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign is an umbrella body for 15 community organisations. The body was formed in 2000 with the aim of
of fighting evictions, water cut-offs and poor health services, obtaining free electricity, securing decent housing, and opposing police brutality.
***Shackdwellers: Housing Struggles Worldwide [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/quick_links-9.html" });
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4:02
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Although the Nigerian Same Sex Marriage Bill of 2006 appears to be at least temporarily shelved, no one knows if and when it will reappear. For the moment the focus is on another proposed “morality” legislation, the Dress Code Bill sponsored by Senator Eme Ekatte, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Women and Youth [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A nation of police", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/a_nation_of_police.html" });
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4:00
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The map by ILGA is available in English, Spanish, French and Portugese, has been created to “raise awareness of state sponsored homophobia across the world.
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LGBTI
State Sponsored Homophobia
ILGA
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SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Global map of LGBT rights", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/global_map_of_lgbt_rights.html" });
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9:54
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Kubatana.net is the second Zimbabwean human rights group to use Web 2.0 technology to monitor and report on the elections and the third in Africa following the Ushahidi project on the Kenyan elections started in January.
Sokwanele [Enough is Enough] created a google map for mapping election breaches using data they collected from their Zimbabwean [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Human rights groups use technology to map and monitor Zimbabwe elections", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/human_rights_groups_use_technology_to_map_and_monitor_zimbabwe_elections.html" });
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14:49
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S’bu Zikode elected chairperson of Abahlali [February 2008]
Breyani and the Councillor part 1
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Durban + South Africa
Abahlali baseMjondolo;
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dear Mandela", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/dear_mandela.html" });
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14:48
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This poem was written by a terminally young girl in Kennedy road informal settlement. It was sent by Umhlali waseMjondolo
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
At the Jondolo?
Or listened to
the poor people
Struggling for their rights?
Ever followed those people
Who came to let
Movement down
Or gazed at the sun into the fading
Night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so
fast.
Time [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Slow Dance", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/slow_dance.html" });
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2:48
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. I hear that Hilary Clinton and John McCain will be in Memphis to mark the day. I am sure Barack Obama will seize the time add his $2 worth. I hear that Democratic and Republican leaders met yesterday on Capitol [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Martin Luther King Jr", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/martin_luther_king_jr.html" });
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11:53
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The Haitian Education and Leadership Program (HELP – www.haitianeducation..org), a 501(c)(3) corporation registered in New York State, is looking for a student to perform a 10 week summer internship at our young, dynamic NGO. HELP has developed a unique and successful model of merit-based university scholarships for highly disadvantaged Haitian students and is looking [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "10 wk internship for HELP in Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/10_wk_internship_for_help_in_haiti.html" });
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3:25
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Here is a comment to one of my posts. I decided to turn it into a full-blown post because of its length. So here it is. Khotso to all.
Reply:
‘Dear Tim,
“We” can’t freely move anywhere, to Darfur or elsewhere, if any survival attempt on the African’s part is clouded with taunts and suspicions of incompetence and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Reply to Tim's comment", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/reply_to_tims_comment.html" });
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23:37
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Marvin Gaye was born on 2 April 1939. Happy Birthday to him.
© and photo credit: http://photo.sing365.com
Stephen calls him a silky soul singer, which I think is a darn good description. He was born Marvin Pentz Gay, but stuck an “E” to his surname to avoid misunderstandings. Remember I heard it through the grapevine? He followed [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy birthday, Marvin!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/happy_birthday_marvin.html" });
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18:21
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Nice excuses do you have more concocted for the next 100 years or so? I mean its been over 50 years and using the same excuse does not attract pity anymore. I mean take the case of India for example, their population alone is greater than that of the African continent, colonized for more than [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Really, now, why is Africa poor?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/really_now_why_is_africa_poor.html" });
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8:47
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The UN decides Water is NOT a basic right.
The Harper government can declare victory after a United Nations meeting rejected calls for water to be recognized as a basic human right.
Instead, a special resolution proposed by Germany and Spain at the UN human rights council was stripped of references that recognized access to water [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/quick_links-8.html" });
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6:07
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Queuing to vote via Bearded Man
Kids against war
Nigeria’s most beautiful - can you guess the winner?
Padlocked fences via The Road to the Horizon
Extra
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Zimbabwe
Burundi
Nigeria
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Links Photos", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/quick_links_photos.html" });
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4:35
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I’m thinking of Zimbabwe this morning and probably like most people hoping today will end the reign of Mad Bob
Some last words by Sokwanele
Tales are flying. I just had a call from a very connected friend who claims that the police have now all voted…. overwhelmingly against mad bob. Then there are the more than [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "29th March = Z day", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/29th_march_z_day.html" });
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1:25
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Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) report on the political violence experienced by their members on Wednesday 19 March 2008 in Harare.
Another woman testified that she had been abducted from her home in Bulawayo with her 18-month-old grandchild at 4am by Law and Order officers. They threatened to kill her by throwing her and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WOZA: "The effects of fighting repression WITH LOVE".", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/woza_the_effects_of_fighting_repression_with_love.html" });
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13:14
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An ex Albanian sex worker and drug dealer living in Greece, defends her choices - injured husband, no papers, no insurance and a family to support. She goes on to give her take on who is selling what in the “business of sex” and NGOs that work with governments to maintain structures of domination [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A different type of sex", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/03/a_different_type_of_sex.html" });
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6:36
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Thousands of Zimbabweans are to face forced removal back to Zimbabwe after the elections. So far 500 failed asylum seekers have received letters asking them to leave voluntarily or face deportation but the eventual numbers could be as many as 7000. In 2005 the courts ruled in favour of Zimbabwean asylum seekers on the [...]
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16:21
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Sexworkers from across East Africa have been prevented from attending a workshop in Entebbe, Uganda organised by the OSI and Ugandan women’s organisation, Akina Mama wa Africa. The “ethics” minister didn’t like the idea of the women coming together to “devise ways of spreading their vice”. Sounds like he should get together [...]
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8:15
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I had to rewrite this post as weird things were happening with the formatting.
Zimbabwe goes to the elections on Saturday 29th March and there doesn’t seem to be much optimism about the ultimate outcome. According to Sokwanele talk of rigging is dominating the election discussion
All election talk in Zimbabwe revolves around rigging: a [...]
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10:55
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21 March 1960
La 21 Hlakubele 1960, batho ba batšo ba 69
ba bolailoe ka lithunya, ba 180 ba ntšoa likotsi
If when this township was placed under siege
You were present, you would have seen
Life lamented, people wailing, the quick
Holding their heads in the sky to speak
Incantations to disconsolate gods,
The dead still, stacked against the guards,
Body upon body, [...]
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5:48
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This is so cool! Produced by the “FEMChannel1
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Sex Workers
Britain
International Women’s Day
Andrea Smith
Margaret B Jones
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18:27
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thanks ababa,
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Nina Simone
An older Nina, the voice deeper, hoarser - the words slightly different the body language heavier but the beauty remains
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23:00
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***Queerty interviews “Botswanan trans-lesbian Prisca Mogapi” who describes coming out to his family.
I never dreamed of telling anyone close to me, but the media disclosed me as they crashed the party that I threw with my partner.
The article was titled, “Homosexual party in Mmopane,” as well as my and my partner’s names in bold [...]
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1:44
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A group of us including Marian of Marian’s Blog have re-named the March 17th Irish holiday “Billie Holi-DAY” to celebrate the forgotten Black people with Irish ancestry wherever they may be.
Most people do not know but jazz vocalist Billie Holiday, writer Alex Haley, Muhammed Ali and many other Black people [...]
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3:51
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The White Season is publicised as a programme examining why the English white working class feel “increasingly marginalised” but what we end up with is a free for all season for racists attempting to justify their irrational hatred for all people of colour and dislike of anyone foreign. From the dying Bradford working [...]
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23:05
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Facebook | Message: Satire Poems - Prompt Writing
SPEED WRITING Call for Satire: deadline March 15th! Let your talent speak for many. We urge you to write a satirical poem—poke fun at the leader of your choice to flaunt your freedom of speech and your own government’s respect for that human right! [...]
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3:56
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A Cameroonian woman has been awarded £15,000 in compensation for unlawful detention for 8 months at Yarl’s Wood detention center. The woman arrived in Britain and claimed asylum on the basis of being raped and tortured by the police in Cameroon. She was denied the correct procedure for torture victims and [...]
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11:00
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Please take time out to sign the online petition for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine.
The day I arrived in Haiti - 13th August was the day after Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine disappeared. His car was found abandoned on the road side and he has not been seen since. Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is a member of [...]
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On the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war, Iraqi Veterans Against War (IVAW) US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be gathering in Washington today for 4 days of testimony on their experiences and feelings. The testimonies will be streamed on the internet and broadcast on satellite TV.
The veterans are not against [...]
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The “Million women rise” march organised as part of the IWD event in London and supposed to be a day of solidarity between women and women’s group from across Britain ended with one group of women being silenced. The march started in Hyde Park and ended in a rally in Trafalgar Square. Whilst [...]
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Faces and Phases is a 2007 exhibition by South African photo activist Zanele Mutholi. Zanele describes the face as expressing the person but for her the face is her own face to face meeting with women in her community of lesbians in the Guateng townships of “Alexandria, Soweto, Vosloorus, Katlehong, Kagiso”. The [...]
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Rescue Kenya: Post Election Hubis a blog dedicated to collating initiatives, reports and resources on post election Kenya….
To provide an information & coordination portal for ALL those concerned with solving Kenyan post election issues.
To promote a RESULTS oriented approach to the crisis with the aim of moving Kenya & Kenyans forward from the post [...]
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Thanks to Rethabile who edits Poéfrika [A weblog of creative Africa-inspired writing] for rating my blog with the Big “E” for excellent adding…………..
Black Looks teaches me that it’s OK to fight for one’s rights and dignity, that more than being OK, it’s in fact an obligation. “Silence isn’t an option,” Black Looks says.
I spent about [...]
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