Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Sep 26, 2008	Brazil: Afrodescendant Land Claims go to ILO
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008	One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Sep 21, 2008	Global crisis: Congress was warned in 2000 of predatory loans
Thanks to my sister for sharing news of veteran U.S. legal aid attorney William Brennan and his testimony in Congress on 24 May 2000. So Congress had first-hand knowledge of what was going on from an attorney helping elderly, often...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Aug 29, 2008	Katrina: 29 ways you can help @ katrinaaction.org
Katrina Information Network has a list of 29 things you can do right now to assist the displaced and victimised citizens of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. They have some beautiful New Orleans local music on their site....... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008	Greens' Rosa Clemente on WAMU.org Radio, 26 Aug
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Jun 4, 2008	Election 2008: the meanings of "history"
Over the past several months I've talked with about sixty journalists about the issues of ethnicity (which is neither colour or "race"), representation and the lack of it, and history - particularly the history of the USA and every other...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Apr 24, 2008	Hastings holds State of Black Europe hearing in Congress
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Apr 17, 2008	Aime Cesaire, 1913-2008 - Negritude, gender, diaspora
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Apr 8, 2008	India-Africa Summit in Delhi: Hard questions?
April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration coming from the Asian subcontinent into East and Southern Africa?? India and the African Union each has its...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Mar 23, 2008	Washington's Slavery Emancipation, April 1862
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]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Feb 4, 2008	The international conversations Black America's not having: Reading Yvonne Bynoe
Came across an interesting article from nearly a year ago: author Yvonne Bynoe's Black America After Jim Crow: Still Feels Like Segregation, published on AlterNet. (They have good stuff and deserve your consideration of $upport.) For decades I've been having...... [view]