Friends of the Congo


Please join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Boston & NY Metro and Friends of the Congo for *"Silence = Rape",* an event on the ooccasion of the International Women's Day.

*Date: Sunday, March 8th, 2009; Time 2:30 PM*Event: "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"Film Screening and Q&AWinner of the Special Jury Prize Documentary 2008 Sundance Film Festival
*Jane Ngondo, an activist (Shalupe) from the Congo will provide testimony and report. This event will also include a PowerPoint presentation about the role of multinational corporations in the Congo and ideas for local community action.*
*Venue: The YWCA, 140 Clarendon Street, Kuumba Library, 2nd Floor, Copley Square
*More than five million people have been killed in the ongoing Congolese war and thousands of women and girls raped and mutilated.
"Christine watched from the forest floor as the rebels raped, burned and butchered. She was lying on her belly when she saw that her 18-year-old daughter, Chantal, had been captured. Chantal has not been seen since." - The New York Times
*Break the Silence - End the Violence* For More Info: Contact Boston WILPF

School of self government opens in Chile


TEMUKO, Chile – Based on sections of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Mapuche School of Self Government began its first day of classes Jan. 14 in Temuko, Chile. (more).

30 Days Reality Show - In Jail

Whenever you see this type of "let me put myself in their shoes" documentary, always be cautious. This is a pretty good episode of 30 Days in that it gives those who've never been, a good look into what Jail (not Prison) is like. The downside, of course, is that we don't really get to see the lives of the inmates once they've served their sentence. That, of course, is an important element. Unfortunately, it's missing here. Knowing that this show fails there, however, can help you enjoy it for what it is. Courtesy Achali

Witness stops cooperating - BUCKRA PANYARING

This Negro.

If we only but read our history: see 'bad jackets' letter from COINTELPRO above right-how the FBI set BPP(fSD) off against each other & first hand account of the FBI work in the slave trade (fbi b/4 fbi was fbi eh?) above left.

Ronald Wilburn, the federal government's "cooperating witness" in a bribery sting targeting former state Senator Dianne Wilkerson and Councilor Chuck Turner of Boston, said he is no longer cooperating. ( more )

A Prayer - Aja Monet

Chinua Achebe returns home for only the 2nd time in 20 years


...More than 2,000 people turned out to listen to him.
He spoke to them in a slow, gentle but strong voice. His message was clear. He is deeply disappointed at how little Nigeria has achieved since independence.
His generation struggled for freedom, but "we don't seem to have the receipt", he says.
Nigerians must "overcome that miseducation that we received under colonial rule... and celebrate our lives".
He believes that Africans must not reject their own culture but look to their past to discover values that will enable Africa to develop now. ( more )
Rootz fya.

Happy Black Love Day


ini heart to the black woman/man, family, race, community, spirit & Uself.

Pictures Speak 172,000 words




Bconx Alert: $100mn dollar boy


uggh.

African Mind Was Not Limited to 26 symbols...


Bought this for the second time, a few weeks ago at the 'Semetic' Museum in Harvard U. Am having the yuts at the center add the correct labels to each script: they are learning that the first one, the top script in it's older form had over 400 symbols. Bby a go call 'proto-canaanitic' fi dem backthorn cian't just come to say african spirit ovas undas all dem sad myth. The short 'upside-down' turned-around path to the 26 latin symbols we use today is na but limitation fi dem express dem spirit, awo. Similar too: the distance between the modern vershuns of the scriptures of the 'abrahamic' faiths from those mdw ntr vershuns [dem] distance from the grimi-khoisans scripture whey written pon dem heart muscles -most high, AWO.

Pachamama

Bolivia’s new constitution empowers indigenous majority

[ yes they can...for real ]

...The previous constitution officially recognized and upheld Catholicism, the new document recognizes the Christian God as equally as the Andean Pachamama (Mother Earth), a central figure for various indigenous religions across the Andes. ( more )

Pass Me Over - Anthony Hamilton



For Hap, Doug & Paula. ;)

Ve mphi ven ze ve ghah! ( the dead are speaking).

John newton credited with the 'write' of 'Amazing Grace' but song, is 'unknown'. Little did he know that the now dead were just using him to tell about thier ordeal in the slave ships. Listen (if you listen quietly).

Matongteh bro. Tifah, matongteh.