February 2011
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“I think [Obama] plays the game that he plays because he sees no threat from...”
– Harry Belafonte, legendary singer, actor, humanitarian and activist
Full interview
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'Gay' Ugandan Brenda Namiggade wins temporary... →
fyeahafrica:
A Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian has been granted an injunction temporarily preventing her deportation.
Brenda Namiggade says she fears for her life if she is returned from the UK to Uganda, where gay sex is illegal.
Her initial asylum application had been refused. The Home Office said a court had ruled she was “not homosexual” and therefore did not have a genuine...
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WatchEritreans exiled in Eastern Sudan are among the world’s longest standing refugees
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If you're outraged about Egypt shutting down the...
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“A bill giving the president an Internet “kill switch” during times of emergency that failed to pass Congress last year will return this year, but with a revision that has many civil liberties advocates concerned: It will give the president the ability to shut down parts of the Internet without any court oversight.” -Raw Story
How large of a role does the internet play in...
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Give Peace A Chance.: What's Happening in Egypt... →
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promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai peninsula, is in Asia. Its other neighbors are Sudan (to the South), Libya (to the...
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In Memory of David Kato
“Across the entire country, straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex Ugandans mourn the loss of David, a dear friend, colleague, teacher, family member and human rights defender,” said Frank Mugisha, the chairman of Sexual Minorities Uganda.
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Holocaust Memorial Day
This postcard from Lucie Lasker was written while in Riebnig, a transit camp, where she had been taken following the removal of most of the Jewish community from the town of Breslau in Germany.
“What we do know is that there was a very, very rare opportunity to write a postcard. My great-grandmother duly did write a postcard to a relative in Sweden and from Sweden the postcard found its...
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WatchPeace between North and South Sudan could rest in the Abyei region where both the African Dinka and Arab Misseriya reside in this oil-rich region.
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9-Year-Old Boy Sells Toys To Help Representative...
When 9-year-old Isaac Saldana heard about the shootings in his hometown of Tucson, he knew he had to do something about it.
Isaac said:
“Me and my brother were about to go walk the dog when we saw them saying on TV that a little girl and Gabrielle Giffords got shot. I just thought, whoa! I didn’t know that people carry around guns here in...
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Timeline: Algeria's Civil War
January 11, 1992 – The second round of what would have been Algeria’s first democratic elections is cancelled by military, who stage a coup d’état to prevent a victory by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).
June 29, 1992 - Mohamed Boudiaf, the Algerian president and a founding member of the FLN who had returned from exile to govern the country at the...
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nezua:
Victor Jara sings and plays Letra de a...
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“I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the...”
– Paulo Freire
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Happy Thaipusam
Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (January/February).
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“If true justice is to be done in Haiti, the Haitian authorities need to open a...”
– Javier Zuñiga of Amnesty International
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“Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year...”
– Chinua Achebe
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“Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year...”
– Chinua Achebe
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Patrice Lumumba's Last Letter
My dear companion,
I write you these words without knowing if they will reach you, when they will reach you, or if I will still be living when you read them. All during the length of my fight for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and myself have consecrated our lives. But what we wish for our...
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Patrice Lumumba's Last Letter
My dear companion,
I write you these words without knowing if they will reach you, when they will reach you, or if I will still be living when you read them. All during the length of my fight for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and myself have consecrated our lives. But what we wish for our...
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Deported DREAMer Saad Nabeel finds hostility and...
November 3rd 2009 is a day I will never forget. My mother called me and told me that my father had been detained by ICE and that we needed to leave immediately to Canada to seek refugee status. Being an only child, I had to take care of my mother and go with her.
My mother and I were denied entrance into Canada and sent back to the USA as if we were common...
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Deported DREAMer Saad Nabeel finds hostility and...
November 3rd 2009 is a day I will never forget. My mother called me and told me that my father had been detained by ICE and that we needed to leave immediately to Canada to seek refugee status. Being an only child, I had to take care of my mother and go with her.
My mother and I were denied entrance into Canada and sent back to the USA as if we were common...
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