Fleeting fad or transformative moment? Can US citizens count on "No Fly" support from NATO against the Evil American Empire's global dictatorship?
Police Arrest About 500 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge - NYTimes.com
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Showing posts with label human rights. Show all posts
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Police Arrest About 500 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge - NYTimes.com
Police Arrest About 500 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge - NYTimes.com
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
HOW THE BRITISH STOLE ZIMBABWE
"The white settlers subject[ed] them [Africans] as their colonial slaves." (if veiwing from Facebook, click here.)
Joshua Mgabuko Nyongolo Nkomo, former rival of Robert Mugabe
Good summary of the political life of Joshua Nkomo. The writer sneaks in a nonsensical claim in the last paragraph equating the takeover of white farms with "human rights abuses." Where were these writers and the so-called "international community" when the white people were stealing black land and abusing Zimbabwean laborers for decades? GI
Source: Africa Confidential
Joshua Nkomo died in 1999 but he is still a force to be reckoned with in Zimbabwean politics. Nkomo is regarded as the founder of African nationalism in Zimbabwe and led all the political parties formed between1952 and 1962, only losing favour with his lieutenants in 1963 when they broke away from ZAPU to form the Zimbabwe African National Union. Though ZANU became more popular than ZAPU, largely because of its support from the majority Shona, who constitute more than 80 percent of the population, Nkomo remained a paternal figure in the country and was popularly known as Father Zimbabwe.
Nkomo went into business quite early in the 1950s and he was initally more interested in the economy than just politics. This led him to seek solutions with Ian Smith, resulting in some of his colleagues in the liberation struggle to accuse him of being a sell-out. It was only after 1977, when he concentrated on the liberation struggle, that be regained his political weight. Though he had formed the Patriotic Front with Mugabe, Mugabe decided to go it alone in the 1980 independence elections. The results spelt doom for Nkomo. Mugabe walked away with 57 of the 80 blackseats. Nkomo won 20. Mugabe tried to make Nkomo the ceremonial President of the country but he turned this down because he felt he would sink into political oblivion. He opted instead to become Minister of Home Affairs.
Read more @ Africa Confidential
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| "Zapu Election Badge c. 1980" (Image credit: Wikipedia) |
Source: Africa Confidential
Joshua Nkomo died in 1999 but he is still a force to be reckoned with in Zimbabwean politics. Nkomo is regarded as the founder of African nationalism in Zimbabwe and led all the political parties formed between1952 and 1962, only losing favour with his lieutenants in 1963 when they broke away from ZAPU to form the Zimbabwe African National Union. Though ZANU became more popular than ZAPU, largely because of its support from the majority Shona, who constitute more than 80 percent of the population, Nkomo remained a paternal figure in the country and was popularly known as Father Zimbabwe.
Nkomo went into business quite early in the 1950s and he was initally more interested in the economy than just politics. This led him to seek solutions with Ian Smith, resulting in some of his colleagues in the liberation struggle to accuse him of being a sell-out. It was only after 1977, when he concentrated on the liberation struggle, that be regained his political weight. Though he had formed the Patriotic Front with Mugabe, Mugabe decided to go it alone in the 1980 independence elections. The results spelt doom for Nkomo. Mugabe walked away with 57 of the 80 blackseats. Nkomo won 20. Mugabe tried to make Nkomo the ceremonial President of the country but he turned this down because he felt he would sink into political oblivion. He opted instead to become Minister of Home Affairs.
Read more @ Africa Confidential
Thursday, July 15, 2010
20th-Century Slavery in the United States
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| Willie Mae Wilham, former sharecropper |
See also:
• American Slavery (Antoinette's website)
• The New Jim Crow
• The US Prison System Doesnt Punish Criminals, It Controls Black People (Blackmon video)
• Post-Civil War Neo-Slavery (Douglas Blackmon on NPR) dap @ Adia
I recently had a chat with Antoinette Harrell who is doing courageous work documenting modern day peonage, abject poverty, and generalized black oppression in the rural southern United States. There is a movement afoot to take the United States before the World Court to face charges of human rights violations against African Americans. Sister Antoinette needs your support which, at this stage, is just a matter of circulating her videos as widely as possible to create awareness about this problem.
Please spread the word and be on the look out for future developments.
2/18/2010 Update from Antoinette Harrell:
Dear Family and Colleagues,
Several people are trying to steal my research and take credit for what I have done in this area of research for 10 years. The documentary entitled...The Cotton Pickin Truth...Still On The Plantation is schedule to be screened across the United States. I didn't do this work for the love ofmoney, but for truth and justice for all humanity. Please help me to circulate any information on the subject of Slavery in the 20th Century. This story has been out here for 10 years. They are claiming that they revealed that slavery exist in the 20th Century. [Click on Selma Times Journal link below for details]
You can contact sister Antoinette Harrell directly by cell phone 1-504-858-4658 or email Afrigenah@yahoo.com
20th-Century Slavery in Mississippi and Louisiana. Click on video or here.
"We Were Slaves." Click on video or here.
The Untold Story: 20th-century Slavery Press Conference. Click on video or here.
tags: slavery, human rights, southern United States, racism
Monday, October 12, 2009
Not Hispanic! Not Latino! Not La Raza! Reconsider Columbus Day (H/T Shango and Davey D)
European Terrorism
Reconsider Columbus Day
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