Africa
Socialism 2008: June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
Watch IVAW northeast regional coordinator and featured Socialism 2008 speaker
ADRIENNE KINNE
on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! tomorrow, May 13, at democracynow.org.
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SOCIALISM 2008
June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare
"A weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment."
http://www.socialismconference.org
Mar. 7: Come Let's Dance -- United for Uganda
United For Uganda will host A hip hop benefit concert for Come Let’s Dance
on Friday, March 7 at 8 p.m. at the Independent Media Center at 202 S.
Broadway in Urbana. Local rappers and breakdancers will perform. Entrance
is open to all ages and costs $6. Performers include
•Krukid, a Ugandan native and rising international star. He is signed with
Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
From day-one of the crisis that has gripped Kenya this year, much of the mainstream media has been quick to label the violence “tribal warfare,” while the top US
No to French Military Intervention in Chad!
While the devastating rebel offensive in Chad marks time, the French government is showing its teeth.
The crisis in Kenya and the hypocrisy of the WSF
*A member of the collective editorship of the Venezuelan publication El Libertario (www.nodo50.org/ellibertario, in Spanish & English) exposes the inconsistencies of the bureaucracy that manipulates the World Social Forum through a reading of their evasive silence with regards to the tragedy that Kenya is experiencing today.
independent media activists telling their stories in kenya
This interesting post comes via the Stubblefield LPFM list and is written by Hannah Sassaman. The good work that the Indymedia network does has worldwide reach.
I wanted to point people at Nancy Scola's great post at
WorldChanging.com on the power of cell-phones to break the media
blackout on the struggles of everyday people in Kenya,
post-stolen-election:
Under Siege, Unions Seek Int’l Support
Under Siege, Unions Seek Int’l Support
by Abra Pollock
WASHINGTON - In the face of globalisation, the U.S. labour movement is striving to reinvent — and reinvigorate — itself by establishing closer ties with the world’s network of international unions.
Maternal Mortality Shames Superpower US
Maternal Mortality Shames Superpower US
by Haider Rizvi
United Nations - Despite its enormous wealth and highly advanced technology, the United States lags far behind other industrialised countries — and even some developing ones — in providing adequate health care to women during pregnancy and childbirth.
The U.S. ranks 41st in a new analysis of maternal mortality rates in 171 countries released by a group of U.N. public health experts on Friday. The survey shows that even a developing country like South Korea is ahead of the United States.
More "Drug War" Stupidity: Drugs Banned, World’s Poor Suffer in Pain
Left unsaid and univestigated in this article is the role of the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency. It has long sought to impose its stamp of approval on the drug laws of other nation's, often with results exactly like this. It would have been a much more incisive article if this contributing factor to the lack of effective pain relief in the developing world had been explored.
Drugs Banned, World’s Poor Suffer in Pain
Kenyan Farmers’ Fate Caught Up in U.S. Aid Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/world/africa/31food.html?th&emc=th
