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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Sep 26, 2008
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With assistance from Australia-based COHRE, Afrobrazilians being evicted from their ancestral lands are taking their case to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). More later...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Sep 25, 2008
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Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Aug 31, 2008
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We're tracking Hurricane Gustav which many say could be worse than Hurricane Katrina almost exactly three years ago. New Orleans is now under a mandatory evacuation order, this time around providing bus transport for its residents without cars. Gustav has...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Aug 26, 2008
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Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney's running mate Rosa Clemente did a very informative interview earlier today with Kojo Nnamdi of WAMU-fm (part of American University). Great interview, Rosa. You can hear it online here. It seemed a bit strange...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Jul 2, 2008
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French and U.S. media report the military rescue of Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt along with three persons identified as U.S. State Department military contractors, and several Colombian military. Betancourt and her campaign manager, Clara Rojas (released several months ago), were...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Jun 11, 2008
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My cab driver, transplanted from Ethiopia, told me first. That was weeks ago. But I couldn't believe it till I read the headline of today's Independent (London): "Price of oil will double." Folks, we have now reached 'put up or...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Apr 24, 2008
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In London in September or October 2004 this writer spoke on the panel, "Alliances We Need to Fight Racism" at the 2004 European Social Forum. I participated as a member of the network Alliance of People of African Descent in...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Apr 17, 2008
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Aime Cesaire est mort aujourd'hui. Aime Cesaire has died today. We awoke to this news, 17 April 2008. He made it to age 94. The Martiniquan poet, novelist, playwright and former mayor of Fort de France and member of French...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Apr 5, 2008
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Since his accession to the French presidency, I seem to have lost track of the times when to hear Nicolas Sarkozy speak is to re-affirm that truth indeed is stranger than fiction. It's likely that for most of his listeners...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Mar 23, 2008
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Spring in Washington means a lot more than cherry blossoms. Throughout April Washington, DC -- or at least some of us -- will recognise the 146th anniversary of the abolition of Black enslavement in the District of Columbia which took...... [view]
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Posted By: MarianD
Posted On: Feb 23, 2008
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From Cuba this week, at age 81, Fidel Castro announced his retirement. As a child in the late 50s, early 60s, I remember the feeling if not every political detail, of the way Cuba's "surprise" revolution shifted forever the power...... [view]
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