June 2012
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May 2012
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In Response to "American Apparel California" Ad, DREAMer Artivist Creates "Undocumented Apparel" →
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Last week, American Apparel published an ad that perplexed many and offended just as many. (Note: this week we have left two messages with American Apparel for comment but we have heard nothing so far.) This was one just one of the several AA images that were just plain weird.
The response among many DREAMers has been one of outrage, and rightly so. One DREAMer, the artivist Julio Salgado, has created his own line of fashion, called “Undocumented Apparel.” All images here are Salgado’s and if you are interested in learning more, you follow him on his Tumblr.
“Africa has what it takes to make her dream of revival come true”
—Nelson Mandela
Africa Day 2012
Greetings from Egoli (Johannesburg)!
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”
—Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS: Open Society Initiative For Southern Africa →
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MAZUBA HAANYAMA SPEAKS ON HOW PEOPLE OF AFRICAN-DESCENT ARE LEADING THE CHARGE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
Beginning with the Youth Summit on May 21, 2012 and ending with the OpenForum Summit May 22-24, 2012, the African Foundation of the Open Society will welcome activists, businesspeople, academics, and policymakers from throughout the African continent and around the world will convene for an unprecedented conference about “Money, Power, Sex and the Paradox of Unequal Growth” in Cape Town, South Africa. Ebony talks with Mazuba Haanyama a Program Associate for Special Projects with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) about this historic event and how Africa and people of African-descent are leading the charge for global change.
EBONY: Could you tell us about OSISA and the four Open Society foundations?
MH: The Open Society has many foundations around the world including the Open Society Institute in the United States, but there are four African foundations. OSF SA (Open Society Foundation for South Africa) was the first African Open Society foundation and then OSISA (Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa), OSIEA (Open Society Initiative for East Africa), and OSIWA (Open Society Initiative for West Africa) soon followed.
We, OSISA, do not conduct operations in South Africa as there is already the South African foundation (OSF SA) instead we focus our efforts in 10 countries in southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition to coordinating the Open Forum 2012, we have several programs, such as HIV and AIDS, Language Rights, Education, Gender/Women’s Right, LGBTI Initiative and more that our websitewww.osisa.org details.
SXBS #7020 A1 THE SOUL SEARCHERS ~ We... The People Redone
We the People ~ The Soul Searchers
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