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16:26
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“Du 4 au 8 juin 2008 pour une série limitée de représentations, nous vous présentons ce spectacle événement !
Fabuleux, éclatant, irrésistible, ce spectacle musical sud-africain venu tout droit de Johannesburg est un pur bonheur.
UMOJA, en zoulou, signifie « ensemble ». Ensemble, chaque soir, sur les scènes du monde entier, 35 artistes retracent l’histoire artistique, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Umoja in Paris", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/umoja_in_paris.html" });
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10:32
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Democracy Now! | Interview with medical activist Dr. Paul Farmer
Challenges Profit-Driven Medical System While Bringing Healthcare to Poor Communities Worldwide
(tags: interviews socialjustice medicaljustice haiti)
Egypt: Court Upholds HIV Sentences, Reinforces Intolerance
Egypt: Court Upholds HIV Sentences, Reinforces Intolerance
Five Convictions in Fear-Driven Crackdown a Blow to Health and Justice
(tags: HIV Egypt prison)
Nigeria churches continue to attack LGBT community
(tags: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-31", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-31.html" });
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7:53
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Congratulations to Ushahidi as this excellent African project has won first prize at the Net Squared Challenge competition. This is one huge prize and just shows what can be done with little resources - where there is a will there is a way. They project now has $25,000 so there is no telling where [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ushahidi wins Netsquared competition!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/ushahidi_wins_netsquared_competition.html" });
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10:36
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Renewed attacks force IDPs back to camps
(tags: refugees kenya violence)
Nixon on “little negro bastards”
RICHARD NIXON: We’re going to [put] more of these little Negro
bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family–let people like Pat
Moynihan and [special consultant] Leonard Garment and others believe
in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work,
(tags: Nixon USA [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-28", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-28.html" });
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19:03
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“God is simply a name for an uncompromising commitment to equality and justice…..There is no superior to humankind….. There is no Messiah other than the people….. God is a force for resistance, resistance against Macoutes and all evils. It is better not to believe than to believe in a miracle from heaven.” Jean-Bertand [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Message to religion - Women and men take control of their future", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/message_to_religion_-_women_and_men_take_control_of_their_future.html" });
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10:33
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Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)
(tags: privacy twitter internet socialmedia social security)
DRISHTI Media, Arts, Human Rights
(tags: india media humanrights video art journalism)
YouTube - Moving Windmills
(tags: afrigadget malawi youtube william kamkwamba)
Aid workers & UN peacekeepers raping children in Haiti
(tags: haiti UN NGOs rape children)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-05-27", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/links_for_2008-05-27.html" });
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7:16
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The central criminal court in London, the Old Bailey has published court records from 1674-1913 online. The database includes records on the lives of Africans and their descendent’s in London.
The defence of highwayman Joseph Guy in 1767 was that ‘There are a thousand black men in London besides me’. Unsurprisingly, most appear in criminal contexts. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "UK court archives on African history ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/uk_court_archives_on_african_history_.html" });
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8:53
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The bribery allegations against Halliburton’s actions in Nigeria during the Sani Abacha dicatorship have been widened to cover the past 20 years and will include investigating Halliburton’s (and presumably Dick Cheney’s - see video Cheney exposed) relationship with Shell and possibly other oil multinationals operating in Nigeria.
Criminal investigations of former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "US + Halliburton + Cheney + Shell & Nigeria = corruption", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/us_halliburton_cheney_shell_nigeria_corruption.html" });
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2:55
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People ask me:
where is home?
Last time I saw my village
it was burning
in the night.
My house, a screaming
mouth
of firehot fear
in the mask of darkness.
My only thought was flight.
Nobody here understands my language, so
I speak the tongue of compromise.
The grateful grammar
of being alive.
This is my certainty, my identity.
People ask me, where is home?
I say
home is where the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "REFUGEE(by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers)", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/refugee_poem_xenophobia.html" });
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16:53
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South Africa has a long history of movement of labour within the country and within the region. Have we forgotten that workers from Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland risked their lives to mine the minerals that built our country’s economy?
[more…]
To that I would like to add the fact that when our brothers in South [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "We helped South Africans. Why won’t they help us?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/we_helped_south_africans_why_wont_they_help_us.html" });
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7:37
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The West has been using Africa to dump it’s toxic waste and unwantables for years and continues despite being illegal since 1992. In 1998 the EU implemented a ban against exportation of hazardous waste the West. [the USA, Canada and New Zealand refused to sign]. Just after the Tsunami of December 2004, barrels of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Toxic PCs", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/toxic_pcs.html" });
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9:40
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The Ushahidi engine is being used to map xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the “United For Africa” website
Tags:
Xenophobia + South Africa
Ushahidi
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/ushahidi_mapping_xenophobia_in_africa.html" });
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5:35
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Via Poefrika
This poem has a special meaning for me as I grew up in Nigeria being called “half-caste” and always despised the word and refused to acknowledge the term. Even today I meet Nigerians who continue to use the term either as a way of describing themselves or others leaving me cringing. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/half-caste_symphony_half_ear_half_head_half_foot.html" });
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3:12
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No one is illegal - Abahlali baseMjondolo comment on the Xenophobic Attacks in Johannesburg
We condemn the attacks, the beatings, rape and murder, in Johannesburg on people born in other countries. We will fight left and right to ensure that this does not happen here in KwaZulu-Natal.
We have been warning for years that the anger of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "When we get cholera we must be educated about washing our hands when in fact we need clear water.", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/when_we_get_cholera_we_must_be_educated_about_washing_our_hands_when_in_fact_we_need_clear_water.html" });
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3:01
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Social Movements Indaba action against hate
The Social Movements Indaba (SMI) - a co-ordinating national body of social movements, civil society and activist organizations - is organizing with its affiliated organizations and immigrant communities to roll back the groundswell of xenophobia. In the years since its formation in 2002, the SMI [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "- *No one is illegal -*", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/-_no_one_is_illegal_-.html" });
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3:54
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Sweet crude for shell, bitter oil for people
Part 2
Tags:
Niger Delta
Oil
Enviornment
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "no fish for oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/no_fish_for_oil.html" });
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19:04
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A sentimental post
afropanavisions left this thoughtful comment on South Africa
I was so saddened, that the very people who received international solidarity to help bring about the end of the dreadful system of apartheid would turned into such monsters to hurt those who are foreign born.
What a sad day it is indeed.
Despite this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""the world is tragic by nature" so things fall apart?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/the_world_is_tragic_by_nature_so_things_fall_apart.html" });
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12:32
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More presidential madness this time it’s the Gambia. The president has ordered all “homosexuals, drug dealers, thieves and other criminals, to leave The Gambia or face serious consequences if caught“. This is so ridiculous, so bloody stupid, breaks every law that exists in Gambia and human rights laws everywhere. So what happens in 24 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "presidential madness and stupidity", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/presidential_madness_and_stupidity.html" });
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6:41
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Zoliswa Nkonyana was a 19 year old lesbian woman who was brutally murdered on 4 February 2006 by a mob of 20 men of which only 9 have so far been arrested and charged. The trial has faced delay after delay and has now been scheduled for August 22nd with instructions to all defense attorneys [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Update on the Zoliswa Nkonyana murder trial", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/update_on_the_zoliswa_nkonyana_murder_trial.html" });
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3:42
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Kameelah adds to the discussion on xenophobia in South Africa by linking to a number of articles in Pambazuka News and by making a connection between the violence, poverty and global food crisis.
connected to this food crisis is the rise in violence against immigrants especially in south africa–joburg to be specific though cape [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "more thoughts on anti-immigraton violence ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/more_thoughts_on_anti-immigraton_violence_.html" });
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13:48
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Rethabile remembers Malcolm X on Poefrika. It’s an easy day for me to remember as it’s also my son’s birthday. He spent the day looking at some of his maternal ancestors over at the British Museum in London meanwhile here is Rethabile’s post
For Malcolm X
All you violated ones with gentle hearts;
You [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remembering Malcolm", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/remembering_malcolm-2.html" });
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8:50
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My friend Beauty at “Nigeria What’s New” posted on the violence against immigrants taking place in South Africa and wonders
why bloggers in the diaspora are not screaming about this horrible human rights issue since the story broke on May 1st.
Good point, Beauty after all if this was happening in Spain, France, Britain or [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Xenophobia deflects government failures", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/xenophobia_deflects_government_failures.html" });
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17:53
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So many years,
like a lens over papyrus
when the sun sends rays through it
and it bends them to a point
that burns the surface,
scribes have etched knowledge into books;
a thrust of brush
and a master has detailed a sketch.
Reality paints itself into the picture,
settles at the centre like a lump—
in her eyes, Kyi the woman has
a twin water-colour [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "for Jamyang Kyi", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/for_jamyang_kyi_rethabile.html" });
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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
Tags:
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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