Africa

Our Cry for Cheap Oil Is Crude and Deadly

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:39:45 -0400

Our Cry for Cheap Oil Is Crude and Deadly
The Niger Delta should now be an oasis of riches. But the people live with nothing
by Johann Hari

Women Leaders Ask Where Is Our Money

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:46:19 -0400

Women Leaders Ask Where Is Our Money
by Joyce Mulama

GLASGOW - Even though seven out of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) impact on women, both donors and governments receiving aid overlook the need to make resources available for gender empowerment.

Socialism 2008: June 19-22, Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:04:08 -0400

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

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:38:41 -0500

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

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:24:52 -0500

Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya

by Yifat Susskind

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!

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:12:10 -0500

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

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:36:21 -0500

*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

ML — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:20:36 -0500

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

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:17:13 -0500

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

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:50:50 -0400

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.