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14:56
From: Black Looks
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As headlines focus on conventions and running mates, the third anniversary of Katrina offers an opportunity to examine the results of disastrous federal, state and local policy on the people of New Orleans. Several organizations have released powerful reports in the past week, examining the current state of the city; while grassroots activists have plans [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Race at work: remembering Katrina three years on", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/race_at_work_remembering_katrina_three_years_on.html" });
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14:19
From: Black Looks
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Multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta have time and time again colluded with the Nigerian government in police and military action against local communities including women and children. In Etche Ogoni Egi and Ijaw, Shell Elf and Chevron have all paid for and employed the services of the para [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Chevron on trial", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/chevron_on_trial.html" });
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3:36
From: Black Looks
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The discussion on Climate Change has tended to focus on the impacts for the West. But this report on the sinking coastal regions of West Africa is a wakeup call for the continent.
Swathes of West Africa’s coastline extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon will be [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Our waste is your waste and your waste is ours", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/our_waste_is_your_waste_and_your_waste_is_ours.html" });
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8:22
From: Black Looks
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“Yeah, we’re Americans for 10 seconds then we’re just “niggers”! a documentary on the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.
Links: Tibet
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1968 Olympics Mexico
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "It was so right", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/it_was_so_right.html" });
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7:00
From: Black Looks
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St Lucian poet and Noble Prize winner, Derek Walcott pulverizes VS Naipaul at a literary festival in Jamaica - I had so much pleasure reading this since I am unlikely to ever meet Mr Naipaul I was satisfied with the image of him squirming in his seat having his Biswas knocked off his [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Demolishing Naipaul", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/demolishing_naipaul.html" });
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18:32
From: Black Looks
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Nehanda Abiodun celebrates her 58th birthday in Cuba. Like her friend and fellow activist, Black Panther Assata Shakur, Abiodun has been living in exile in Cuba where she set up a branch of the Black August Hip-Hop project. Black August was set up to honor Black Panthers San Quentin Six - [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Black August, birthdays, prisons & assassinations", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/black_august_birthdays_prisons_assassinations.html" });
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19:15
From: Black Looks
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Ghana is preparing to embark on oil exploration and it looks like they have learned some lessons from their neighbours in Nigeria and Gabon on the need to have a PLAN
Ghana has taken a bold initiative towards a systematic establishment of economic, technical and legal framework to manage its oil extraction, whilst maximizing its benefits [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Avoiding the slippery road ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/avoiding_the_slippery_road_.html" });
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7:49
From: Black Looks
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President Museveni of Uganda continues his assault on the Ugandan LGBTI community by praising the Anglican church in Uganda for “resisting homosexuality” and for this he is happy to give Bishops presents of cars “since walking is outdated”………
“I salute the Archbishop and bishops of Africa for resisting disorientation and a decadent culture, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""I am not a foreigner, I am not white"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/i_am_not_a_foreigner_i_am_not_white.html" });
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7:27
From: Black Looks
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The finalists for the 2008 Black Weblog Awards (including this here blog) are up at Electronic Village………..
Here is the list for the 2008 Black Weblog Award Finalists. Click here to cast your vote. The winners in each category will be announced on September 4.
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Blogging
Black Weblog Awards
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Black Weblog Awards", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/black_weblog_awards.html" });
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6:27
From: Black Looks
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Thembi Ngubane spent a year recording her daily life and struggle living with AIDS in South Africa. The recordings are organised as “chapters” and start with a discussion with her mother about AIDS. Thembi is also blogging at “Thembi’s AIDS Diary Tour: South Africa”
Via DigiActive
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Thembi Ngubane
South Africa
HIV/AIDS
Blogging
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Thembi's AID's Diary", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/thembis_aids_diary.html" });
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8:42
From: Black Looks
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The case against three Ugandan LGBTI HIV/AIDSactivists has been dismissed. The three were arrested on 4th June 2008 during the HIV/AIDS Implementers meeting in Kampala. They were objecting to the exclusion of Sexual Minorities from the HIV/AIDS Prevention programmes in the country. After two days and nights of detention in police [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ugandan LGBT activists acquitted", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/ugandan_lgbt_activists_acquitted.html" });
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6:20
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There’s a tune by Midival Punditz, Bhranga Fever, which always reminds me of Lagos, a city of both grids and swerves. It’s loud, fast, uplifting but tiring, contradictory, polarised and expensive! Expensive in Lagos is scary, especially when you consider that the majority of people exist on less than $2 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lagos Grids and Swerves", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/lagos_grids_and_swerves.html" });
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5:44
From: Black Looks
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Haiti is well known as the sight of the first successful slave revolt which resulted in independence in 1804. But African slaves, brought to Mexico by the Spanish in the late 16C , also have a history of rebellion and at the time Mexico had the largest African population outside the continent. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Africans in Mexico", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/africans_in_mexico.html" });
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7:39
From: Black Looks
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Today is the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Haitian human rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. His wife, Michelle has sent this open letter to the Haitian authorities expressing her and her family’s resolve and calling for the truth to be revealed and her shock at calling his mobile and someone answering the phone.
Madam/Sir [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remembering Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/remembering_lovinsky_pierre-antoine.html" });
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7:22
From: Black Looks
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Nigeria’s “high rollers” return home in a rush of “reverse brain drain”. Meanwhile property prices for the elite reach US highs at the expense of bulldozing the poor to make way for $million homes for the new high rollers in business suits. This crew of new patriots are apparently abandoning regular power supplies and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nigeria: progress is nigh", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/nigeria_progress_is_nigh.html" });
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6:41
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Google launches 9 dedicated African news services including Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe.
News.google.com.ng for Nigeria
news.google.co.ke for Kenya
news.google.com.et for Ethiopia
news.google.co.zw for Zimbabwe
news.google.com.na for Namibia
news.google.com.gh for Ghana
news.google.co.ug for Uganda
news.google.co.bw for Botswana
news.google.co.tz for Tanzania
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Africa
Google News
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google launches African news", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/google_launches_african_news.html" });
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8:05
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Every week Kikuyumoja [his blog] sends me at least 7 Del.icio.us links and I am very grateful as mostly they are gems and a few weird things like this exercise routine that would kill me if I dared to attempt it - which makes me wonder what he thinks of me! Here are [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Music bits", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/music_bits.html" });
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10:32
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France accused in Rwanda genocide
(tags: france rwanda genocide)
Advocacy Project - Undugu Society of Kenya
(tags: streetchildren kenya technology capacitybuilding)
monitter : real time, live twitter monitor search engine
(tags: twitter socialmedia web2.0)
Citizens for Nigeria - "Online Think Tank
(tags: Nigeria commentary news)
Digital Story Project: Young Kenyans express themselves
(tags: Kenya digital blogging)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/links_for_2008-08-09_deliciouscom.html" });
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8:10
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“Rubens to Dumas - Black is Beautiful” is a collection of paintings, drawings and manuscripts portraying Black people over 8 centuries by Dutch artists Rubens, Rembrandt, Jordaens, Mostaert, Breitner, Jan Sluijters, Karl Appel and Marlene Dumas.
Together these works give an idea of the changing role of black people in Dutch art and culture. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Eight centuries of Black presence in Holland", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/eight_centuries_of_black_presence_in_holland.html" });
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3:48
From: Black Looks
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This time last year I was visiting Haiti and my host was Rea Dol and her family, all members of the Lavalas Movement and she herself co-founder of SOPUDEP school. SOPUDEP which created in 2001, is a private non-profit school that exists through the sheer determination of Rea and her colleagues. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SOPUDEP turning a house of torture into community school in Petion-Ville, Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/sopudep_turning_a_house_of_torture_into_community_school_in_petion-ville_haiti.html" });
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13:02
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I came across some new music over the weekend from a band called, Soulfège (’sOl-fezh) which goes under the name “Afropolitan Fusion” which I assume explains the mix of high energy AfroJazz, Hip-Hop and Reggae along with the conscious lyrics. They have recently released their second album “TakeBack TheMic” which [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some youth conscious music", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/some_youth_conscious_music.html" });
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11:05
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With the pre and post election crisis in Zimbabwe there is, quite rightly, a focus on the present and future - a Zimbabwe without Mugabe and Zanu-PF. However Zimbabwe’s history is often lost in the present environment of fear, violence and economic catastrophe in the country. In this extensive article “In the Shadow [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zimbabwe in the shadow of empire", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/zimbabwe_in_the_shadow_of_empire.html" });
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5:29
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Gordon Brown recently offered to help the Nigerian government “fight rebels in the oil-producing Niger Delta“. Niger Deltans and other progressive thinking Nigerians reject any form of military assistance by the British government to Nigeria to be used in the Niger Delta or any part of the country. Please sign the petition [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Niger Delta rejects UK government plan to arm Nigeria", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/niger_delta_rejects_uk_government_plan_to_arm_nigeria.html" });
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6:16
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Following on from my post on Nigeria that never got further than a jumble of thoughts flushing around in my head just when I would be trying to sleep - take a deep breath…. I found a blog via “Nigeria, What’s New” called “Looking for good in Lagos“.
It is fascinating to discover new [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Demonic cabals", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/demonic_cabals.html" });
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7:29
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A couple of years ago - maybe a year I cant remember - I read a blog post by Keguro on things he thought of / wanted to blog about but didn’t. Thinking about blogging on something and not doing it is a sure sign of blogger paralysis / disinterest / being blogged out [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Joker is wild", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/the_joker_is_wild.html" });
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10:33
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Matt Simmons and Peak Oil: How to Silence Fast Money Team : TreeHugger
(tags: environment oil perspective)
OSRAM|About Us|Society and the Environment - Global Care|Products and the environment|Off-Grid Lighting|index
(tags: ecology green products kenya)
Blackdown:Upping Dubset
(tags: music blogging uk)
My Mercedes is not for sale - photos | Mein Mercedes ist nicht zu verkaufen - Fotos
(tags: travel photography funny blog [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-07-30", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/links_for_2008-07-30.html" });
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16:13
From: Black Looks
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Sokwanele are calling supporters to take action against Austrian company : Jura JSP
ACTION: We are calling on all our supporters and subscribers today to phone, email and write to Jura JSP and ask them to withdraw the software licence from the Zimbabwean government on the grounds that the cash they print has been used to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Action alert: putting the pressure on Mugabe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/action_alert_putting_the_pressure_on_mugabe.html" });
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14:32
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Marko Phiri of Kubatana draws the analogy between women being unable to exercise their democratic right to vote for their choice of candidate and that of the right of a woman not to be physically molested and to dress as she pleases.
I listened with disgust the other day to a woman and two men [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Molesters and Voters", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/molesters_and_voters.html" });
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1:37
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“Reflections in Exile: Five Contemporary African Artists Respond to Social Injustice” at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. The show collects work by five immigrants, four of them now living in Greater Boston, the fifth a former MassArt student.
Slide Show
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African Art
Social Injustice
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "African artists respond to social injustice", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/african_artists_respond_to_social_injustice.html" });
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5:00
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“Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,”
Links: Playstation Wars
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Coltan
Sony Play Station
DRC
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Kids behind Playstation 2", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/the_real_war_behind_playstation_2.html" });
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6:13
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LGBTI
South Africa
Hate Speech
Homophobia
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hate speech kills", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/hate_speech_kills.html" });
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11:51
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My first reaction was “here we go again” but this is far worse. I’m referring to an article in the South African Sunday Sun “Call me names but gay is NOT OK”. The article - which includes a despicable cartoon equating same sex realtionships with bestiality, calls for a rewriting of the SA constitution [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Appalling homophobia", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/appalling_homophobia.html" });
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5:29
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The South African supermarket chain Shoprite has been expanding into various countries across the continent, including Nigeria, for the past 10 years. The Lagos branch is part of the “Palms” mall complex at Lekki Beach opened in late 2005 and one of two malls on Victoria Island, Lagos’s most expensive real estate. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Not taking poverty seriously", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/not_taking_poverty_seriously.html" });
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12:13
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I was not here in the 70s so no, I don’t remember Olive Morris but do remember the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in the early 80s which she was a founder member. Morris was part of the Brixton Black Panther Party and early post -WWII Black struggle in Britain. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remember Olive Morris? - History of Black Britain", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/remember_olive_morris_-_history_of_black_britain.html" });
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8:01
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Just in case anyone noticed I have been away for the past 3 weeks (Nigeria). Wish I had something to say about the trip but am too tired and there are too many stories to know where to begin and even after a mere 24 hours it all seems to incredibly far away in some [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "To anyone who reads this blog ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/to_anyone_who_reads_this_blog_.html" });
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4:35
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Excitement gripped me when I was able to go back across the border to visit my family in Zimbabwe. Pleased as I was, I tried to ignore all the media reports on the country’s disregard of acceptable and proper treatment of human beings. Before going home, I braced myself for whatever the hell was to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Country That Never Was......Zimbabwe, ……………..wait before you……………….!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/the_country_that_never_waszimbabwe_wait_before_you.html" });
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6:41
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Photos from “Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
The lure of oil is its cheapness. What we mean is that oil is a cheap source of energy. It is cheap partly because oil’s costs of extraction—in the Niger Delta and much of the tropical world—are not reflected in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Niger Delta: 50 years of oil", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/niger_delta_50_years_of_oil.html" });
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10:35
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100 years of Namibian diamonds -
Although Namibia accounts for just over 1% of the annual world diamond output - about 160-million carats — the high percentage of high-quality gems has made Namibian diamonds among the world’s most sought after.
(tags: leviev blooddiamonds namibia)
UNICEF shuns Leviev money
(tags: leviev blooddiamonds angola namibia palestine)
Jews sans frontieres: UNICEF to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-25", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-25.html" });
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3:52
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The breakaway Anglican Church, Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) has banned eight Anglican Church activists including Nigerian gay activist, Davis MacIyalla of Changing Attitude Nigeria. Gafcon which includes a large number of preachers of intolerance and un Jesus like individuals such as Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jesus loves me, the bible tells me so............ but the bishops tell me no", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/jesus_loves_me_the_bible_tells_me_so_but_the_bishops_tell_me_no.html" });
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10:35
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Kenya: Citizen Media in a time of crisis
(tags: kenya citizen media elections web2.0 blogging)
History Matters
Promoting citizenship and democracy in South Africa
(tags: blogging citizenship democracy southafrica)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-24", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-24.html" });
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8:22
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In an outrageous statement against LGBTs and asylum seekers, UK’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith claims gay and lesbian asylum seekers can be deported to Iran (and other countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon) safely as long as they are “discreet”.
In a letter to a Liberal Democrat peer, seen by The Independent, Ms Smith [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forget about being executed just be descreet!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/forget_about_being_executed_just_be_descreet.html" });
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10:35
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Neocosmos: The Politics of Fear and the Fear of Politics (Essay on the pogroms) | Abahlali baseMjondolo
(tags: southafrica apartheid xenophobia)
Leviev :Striking workers suspended in Namibia
Leviev has a diamond polishing plant in Namibia, which recently has been making news over labor strife:
(tags: Leviev blooddiamonds diamonds namibia)
UK tops world table of weapons sales
Britain won a dubious new [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-23", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-23.html" });
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9:41
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The awful reality of the violence against opposition leaders and supporters in Zimbabwe is made visual and very real by Sokwanele’s June map of terror.
Via White African
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Zimbabwe
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mapping terror in Zimbabwe", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/mapping_terror_in_zimbabwe.html" });
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2:31
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An Angolan gay couple get married in the midst of hypocrisy walking in the night……….
Angolan couple, Bruna and Chano paid a high price for making their homosexual relationship public.
The two young men met when they were both living in the Luanda neighbourhood of Bês. After seeing each other for three and a half years, they [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "An Angolan wedding - ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/an_angolan_wedding_-_.html" });
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14:33
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This essay was written by a friend of mine, Richard Pithouse, in response to the xenophobic violence in South Africa. The essay is particularly interesting as Richard identifies links between the role of the state in the violence, post apartheid oppression, land rights and the state’s disdain and attacks on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On the Pogroms in South Africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/on_the_pogroms_in_south_africa.html" });
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10:34
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The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - Two Sean Bell Video Tributes
(tags: murder usa racism newyork)
Autonomous London
portal to various radical social centres and autonomous spaces in London. New spaces come and go in a seemingly constant cycle of occupations and eviction.
(tags: london radical socialchange activist)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-20", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-20.html" });
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6:05
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Pote Mak Sonje (Whoever Bears the Scar Remembers) : The Raboteau Trial explores how a community mobilized against formidable obstacles-a long history of impunity, corruption, lack of infrastructure, extreme poverty, and illiteracy-to bring about the best criminal prosecution ever in Haiti, and one of the most significant human rights trials in the Western hemisphere in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half hour for Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/half_hour_for_haiti-4.html" });
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4:58
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An exceptionally long rant about Nigerian 419ers and Ghanaian politicians - not sure of the connection except they sound very much like Nigerian politicians…
We can never move forward as a people, if we don’t end the culture of indiscipline and impunity that pervades our nation from the very top to the lowest rungs of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Collective indiscipline in Ghana", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/collective_indiscipline_in_ghana.html" });
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11:42
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Rethabile introduced me to Geoffrey Philp a couple of months ago - now I visit his blog all the time. This poem he wrote reminds me of the conversation a few weeks ago here on Black Looks on xenophobia, belonging and the words not to call people
Red by Geoffrey Philp
It burst from those lips [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Learning to love "Red"", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/learning_to_love_red.html" });
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9:15
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The Chinese in South Africa have won their case to be designated “Black” showing us how arbitrary racial categories are. Lucky them, under apartheid they were able to take advantage of not being “Black” (they were coloured” - slightly up in the racial chain) and now they can take advantage of being “Black” and go [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "switching race and other pessimisms", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/switching_race_and_other_pessimisms.html" });
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10:37
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Digital Humanities: Timbuktu Project
A project to electronically digitize ancient manuscripts and books from Timbuktu
(tags: africa history digital)
Forgotten Kenyan conflict exposed
(tags: kenya conflict)
What is the Bulungula Incubator? « The Bulungula Incubator
(tags: ngo poverty projects southafrica tourism development)
Afrigadget.com - 50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME
(tags: web2.0 africa technology)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-17", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-17.html" });
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6:49
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Danny Glover speaking at LA vigil calling for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
Please sign the petition
Weekly Vigil in London every Wednesday 5-6pm outside the Brazilian Embassy
Links: Lovinsky Pierre Antoine (blog under construction)
Global Women’s Strike - Lovinsky
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Haiti
Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
Brazil
UN + MINUSTAH
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half Hour for Haiti", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/half_hour_for_haiti-3.html" });
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15:42
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On June 17th & 18th the EU will vote on the proposed anti-immigration legislation”Returns Directive” which will enable member states to:
Detain and deport migrants including vulnerable people, unaccompanied minors (under 18 years of age) and pregnant women.
Expel unaccompanied minors and other migrants to a country where they have neither family nor legal support.
Ban an expelled [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Returns Directive" immigration policy with the lowest common denominator ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/returns_directive_immigration_policy_with_the_lowest_common_denominator_.html" });
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15 year old Eritrean Arsema Dawit was murdered in London on June 2nd 2008.
Via Africa Rise
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It seems it is so easy to move from name calling to drawing a gun and shooting someone simply because they are different, different sexualities, different nationalities, different races. The murder of Daisy Dube is under investigation but like so many previous murders, rapes and acts of violence, the perpetrators remain free sometimes even [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ""Shoot lezitabane" Drag Queen, Daisy Dube", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/shoot_lezitabane_drag_queen_daisy_dube.html" });
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This is my second and sadly the final edition of what has been an excellent series of posts and debates on HIV/AIDS. Ron Hudson who started the ICP has decided to end the Carnivals….
It is with relief and sadness that I have decided to allow the International Carnival of Pozitivities to come to an [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "International Carnival of Positives - Final Edition", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/international_carnival_of_positives_-_final_edition.html" });
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El Oso Words Without Borders
Review of Words Without Borders book publication
(tags: literature online)
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria :Youth-led Social Technopreneurship and ICT Capacity Building.
PIN provides five key services: Consulting, ICT Capacity Building, Research, Telecentre Support and Youth-led Social Technopreneurship. Through these services, PIN connects individuals, people-groups, institutions and communities with the socio-economic o
(tags: nigeria icts development)
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One of the three Ugandan LGBTI activists who was arrested at the
HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting in Kampala on the 4th of June 2008, was
re-arrested and held for an additional four and a half hours today.
In response to demands for his release from his lawyer, the
Chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), and UNAIDS, Usaam
Mukwaaya was released this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "LGBT activist released and re-arrrested", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/lgbt_activist_released_and_re-arrrested.html" });
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10:33
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A micro view of xenophobic violence from a township in durban
To convey the reasons and effects of xenophobia in South Africa and its effect on the working class,
(tags: xenophobia southafrica violence)
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Three Ugandan LGBT activists have been arrested in Uganda whilst attending the HIV/AIDS Implementers Conference in Kampala. The LGBT and HIV / AIDS activists were protesting against comments made by the head of the Ugandan AIDS Commission that no funds would be given to AIDS programmes working with men who have sex with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ugandan LGBT activists arrested", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/1959.html" });
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Risking it All to Find Safety by Kai Wright
On the margines of Queer America - being young Black and gay on the wrong side of town
(tags: LGBT usa africanamerican)
Rights Groups Fear for Gays in West Africa
(tags: LGBT africa humanrights)
Roundtable on g8 Resistance:
Perspectives for the Next Phase of Global Anti-Capitalist Uprisings
(tags: capitalism globalisation g8)
Naomi Klein [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-05", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-05.html" });
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This article “The Great Immigration Panic” is set in the US but in many ways speaks to the whole issue of immigration across the world including Europe and South Africa………..
Immigrants in detention languish without lawyers and decent medical care | |
