If a person really cared about human suffering – torture, mass rape, pillage, torching of homes with people alive inside, targeted rapes to spread HIV/AIDS, burying people alive, chopping off of limbs – then such a person would condemn these acts wherever they may occur and demand that the perpetrators of the crimes be brought to justice.
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Acholis,
Black Star News,
burying people alive,
chopping off of limbs,
Congo,
Congo’s Ituri region,
crimes against humanity,
Enough!,
International Court of Justice (ICJ),
International Criminal Court (ICC),
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo,
John Prendergast,
Joseph Kony,
lobbying efforts in Congress,
Lord’s Resistance Army,
mass rape,
Obama administration,
pillage,
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
targeted rapes to spread HIV/AIDS,
torching of homes with people alive inside,
torture,
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan,
Uganda concentration camps,
Ugandan President Yoweri K. Museveni,
World Health Organization
Be strong, Ayiti! Be strong, Afrikans! Sending love, respect and honor to our Afrikan family in Ayiti, the Congo and around the planet – not in honor of their bloody valentine, but in solidarity with those who know it’s time. For too long we have stayed the wind; now let the wind blow, while we Move the Village to Higher Ground.
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Ayiti,
Ayitians,
Congo,
devorah major,
earthquake machines,
Ezili Dantò,
Freedom,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
homeless,
hungry,
missionaries,
Port au Prince,
Rudwaan,
Spirit People,
tourists,
trigger quakes,
weeping
As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of Black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western based “prescriptions” are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions. The conflict mineral approach or efforts emanating from the United States and Europe are no exception to this symptomatic approach which serves more to perpetuate the root causes of Congo’s challenges than to resolve them.
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Africom,
AngloGold Ashanti,
Anvil Mining,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen,
Banro,
Blattner Elwyn Group,
Bodia Macharia,
Canadian Bill C-300,
Carter Center,
cassiterite,
CNDP,
coltan,
conflict minerals,
Congo,
counterinsurgency,
Eagle Wings/Trinitech,
FDLR,
First Quantum,
FreePort McMoRan,
Group of Experts,
International Court of Justice,
Joseph Mobutu,
Kagame regime,
Kambale Musavuli,
Kemet,
Kivu provinces,
Laurent Nkunda,
Lundin,
Museveni,
Obama administration,
OM Group,
Patrice Lumumba,
Paul Kagame,
Rwanda,
Southern Africa Resource Watch,
Traxys,
tungsten,
Uganda
After two years of researching paraplegic street musicians, I found out that Staff Benda Bilili of Kinshasa, Congo, released their album and were invited to perform at the annual WOMEX Festival – World Music Expo. WOMEX has moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, which is also home to my sister, Pamela Juhl, and the Copenhagen Voice, which she founded. Yes, both my sister and I are journalists for the people!
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Augsburg,
Coco Ngambali,
Congo,
Copenhagen,
Copenhagen Voice,
Cubain Kabeya,
Denmark,
Djunana Tanga-Suele,
Florent de La Tullaye,
Germany,
Global Club,
Kabamba Kabose Kasungo,
Kinshasa,
Leroy Moore,
Line Mompremier,
Michel Winter of Belgium,
Pamela Juhl,
Paulin “Cavalier” Kiara-Maigi,
Randy Buda,
Ricky Likabu,
Roger Landu,
Satonge,
Staff Benda Bilili,
the annual WOMEX Festival – World Music Expo,
The Copenhagen Voice,
Theo Nsituvuidi,
Zadis Mbulu Nzungu,
“Black Man”,
“Moto Moindo”,
“Tonkara”
One hundred years ago, a global outrage surrounding the death of an estimated 10 million Congolese resulted in the end of King Leopold II of Belgium’s rule in the Congo. Ordinary people around the world from all walks of life stood at the side of the Congolese and demanded the end of the first recorded Congolese holocaust. A century later, the world finds itself facing the same issue, where the Congolese people are subjected to unimaginable suffering.
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Africans,
Antonio Guterres,
automobile,
Black people,
Cabot Corp.,
cell phones,
Charity,
cobalt,
coltan,
Congo,
Congo Week,
Congolese holocaust,
copper,
corporate interests,
diamonds,
Eagle Wings,
electronics,
foreign governments,
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki,
Frantz Fanon,
FreePort McMoRan,
Friends of Congo,
geo-strategic battles,
geo-strategic minerals,
gold,
humanitarian industry,
Japan,
justice,
Kambale Musavuli,
Kemet Electronics,
King Leopold II,
Kwame Nkrumah,
local elites,
media caricatures,
military,
misrepresentation of Africans,
multi-lateral institutions,
multi-national corporations,
natural resources,
New Zealand,
OM Group,
poverty,
Rwanda,
technology,
the Congressional Budget Office,
the devaluation of Black lives,
the Financial Times,
the humanitarian industry,
the mainstream media,
the pilfering of Congo’s wealth,
the United States,
tin,
tungsten,
U.S. aerospace,
U.S. business interest,
U.S. corporate foreign policy interests,
Uganda,
Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland,
uranium,
Western economic and military dominance,
World War II,
“Challenge of the Congo”,
“Final Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. congresswoman and member of the Free Gaza movement, gave a talk at the San Francisco Lunacy Theater on Sunday, Aug. 23. The event was a benefit for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, an independent monthly that covers a variety of local and international stories. Her speaking tour follows her recent expedition on a Free Gaza boat attempting to break the siege of Gaza by sea and on a Viva Palestina caravan from Egypt that succeeded in delivering some of its cargo of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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Congo,
Congress,
Cynthia McKinney,
deformed children,
democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
depleted uranium,
Egypt,
Ethiopian immigrants,
F-16 bombings,
Gaza,
health care,
humanitarian aid,
Indybay,
Israel,
kidnapped at sea,
Mexico City,
Oakland-based activist Tristan Anderson,
Officer Johannes Mehserle,
Oscar Grant,
President Patrice Lumumba,
racial discrimination in the U.S.,
socialized healthcare,
The CIA,
the Clinton administration,
the Free Gaza movement,
the impoverished majority,
the International Relations Committee’s Human Rights Subcommittee,
the Iraq War,
the San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
the San Francisco Lunacy Theater,
the United Nations,
United States congresswoman,
Viva Palestina,
wealthy elite,
White House,
“Operation Cast Lead",
“Two Americas”
“We applaud your focus on the horrors of the conflict in the Congo by addressing sexual and gender based violence; however, such violence against women is a direct result of the resource war. The United States can play a key role in bringing an end to the conflict,” Friends of the Congo wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Canada,
Congo,
Friends of the Congo,
Kenya,
Nairobi,
OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) guidelines,
Rwanda,
Secretary Clinton,
sexual and gender based violence,
Sweden,
the Carter Center,
the Congo,
The Netherlands,
the U.S. Embassy,
the United States,
Uganda,
United Nations
Black August begins with a campaign for the acquittal of Francisco Torres, the only member of the San Francisco 8 still charged. Go to www.freethesf8.org for messages to phone or fax to Attorney General Jerry Brown, urging him to drop the charges. Cisco’s hearing is Aug. 10 if the charges aren’t dropped.
Tags:
AfroSolo Arts Festival,
AfroSolo Theatre Company,
Alice Walker,
Alicia Jrapko,
Angola 3,
Antonio Guerrero,
Attorney General Jerry Brown,
Banyamulenge Tutsi,
Bernard C. Parks,
Best of the Bay 2009,
Black August,
Black August Organizing Committee,
Black Panther Party,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brian Freeman,
Brother Hodari,
Brother Rafiki,
Cal Tjader,
Chai Vasarhelyi,
Chairman Fred Hampton,
Chip Fitzgerald,
COINTELPRO,
Congo,
Cuban 5,
Dale Wasserman,
Deborah Johnson,
Desley Brooks,
Destiny Muhammad,
E. Lynn Harris,
Eric Reed Trio,
Ernestine Anderson,
Francisco Torres,
Frank Jackson,
Frankye Kelly,
Frederick Douglass,
Gayle McLaughlin,
George and Jonathan Jackson,
George Jackson,
Gerald Wright,
Great Flood of New Orleans,
Gregory Isaacs with Native Elements,
Hansford Prince,
Honorable Elijah Muhammad,
Hurricane Katrina,
James Baldwin,
James McClain,
Janine Africa,
Jewelle Gomez,
Judith Offer,
Kai Hazelwood,
Karla Brundage,
Kelda Muzik aka “Diva”,
Ken Kesey,
Khatari Gaulden,
Kheven LaGrone,
Kiilu Nyasha,
Lance McGee,
Lauren Whitehead,
Leela James and Bilal,
Les McCann,
Loretta Devine,
Malcolm X,
Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts,
Marcus Garvey,
Mark Clark,
Martin King,
Melvin Atkins,
Michael Jackson,
Michael Torres,
Milt Jackson,
Morrie Turner,
Nicolas Bearde,
Oliver Chin,
President Obama,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
Rahim Sabir,
Raja Rahim,
Ramona Africa,
Ramsey Lewis,
Rev. Liza Rankow,
Robert King,
San Francisco 8,
Sean Davis,
Sekouba Bambino Diabate,
Shaka At-Thinnin,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
Susi Damilano,
Ted Pontiflet,
Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor,
Tia Boyd,
Timothy James,
Tracey Chapman,
W. Kamau Bell,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda’s Picks Radio,
William Kunstler,
Williams Christmas,
www.sfbg.com/bobparty,
Yancie Taylor,
Youssou N’Dour
Recently Cynthia McKinney has been traveling to Gaza on human rights missions challenging the illegal Israeli military blockade. She, along with a number of others who were bringing humanitarian aid to the area, were confronted by the Israeli military on two occasions. The first time the Israelis rammed their ship and nearly sank it. The second time, People’s Advocate Cynthia and the rest of the Free Gaza 21 had their boat commandeered and were kidnapped by the Israelis and taken to prison. Check out the People’s Advocate in her own words.
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Biggie Smallz,
Bob Marley,
building supplies,
Cointelpro files,
Congo,
Congress,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Egypt,
food,
Gaza,
human rights,
humanitarian aid,
Hurricane America,
international waters,
Israeli military blockade,
Jimi Hendrix,
Katrina,
medical supplies,
Minister of Information JR,
natural gas deposits,
Paul Robeson,
People’s Advocate Cynthia McKinney,
President Obama,
the Ethiopians,
the Free Gaza 21,
the Lebanese military,
the special interest media,
three tons of medical supplies,
Tupac Shakur
“The basic cause of most of the trouble in the Congo right now is the intervention of outsiders — the fighting that is going on over the mineral wealth of the Congo and over the strategic position that the Congo represents on the African continent. And in order to justify it, they are doing it at the expense of the Congolese, by trying to make it appear that the people are savages. And I think, as one of the gentlemen mentioned earlier, if there are savages in the Congo, then there are worse savages in Mississippi, Alabama and New York City, and probably some in Washington, D.C., too.” – Malcolm X on radio station WMCA Nov. 28, 1964
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African unity,
Belgium,
Congo,
England,
France,
Freedom,
Friends of the Congo,
Joseph Desire Mobutu,
Malcolm X,
Moise Tshombe,
Patrice Lumumba,
the United Nations,
the United States
Kambale Musavuli, national spokesperson and student coordinator for Friends of the Congo, in this interview by POCC Minister of Information JR, challenges the people of the U.S. and President Obama to stop the resource wars in the Congo that have killed 6 million people, half of them children, for minerals like the coltan that powers our cell phones and almost everything electronic.
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Africa and the World,
Black Dot Café,
Blackberry,
cell phones,
coltan,
Congo,
Congo Independence Day,
Flashpoints,
Friends of the Congo,
Kambale Musavuli,
KPFA,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
President Obama,
Rwanda,
Uganda
The recent UNHCR Gimme Shelter campaign uses the iconic Rolling Stones song and Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s video of suffering in Congo as a propaganda tool to peddle the international catastrophe of Western aid, intervention, plunder and depopulation in Central Africa.
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"wildlife conservation" enterprises,
Alison Des Forges,
Amnesty International,
Banro Corp.,
Ben Affleck,
brutalized,
CARE International,
Congo,
Dan Gertler,
Daryl Hannah,
death camps,
depopulation,
diamond cartels,
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund,
disenfranchised,
Ewan McGregor,
Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda,
Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
genocide,
George Forrest,
International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR),
International Crises Group,
International Rescue Committee,
Jane Goodall Institute,
John Bredenkamp,
Keith Harmon Snow,
Lockheed Martin Corp.,
Lord's Resistance Army,
Louis Michel,
Maurice Tempelsman,
Mia Farrow,
modern day slavery,
MONUC Public Information Office (PIO),
Moto Gold,
Natalie Portman,
National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
North Kivu,
Oxfam,
Philipe De Moerloose,
plunder,
President Bill Clinton,
President Juvenal Habyarimana,
PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PWC),
Raise Hope for Congo,
refugees,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Patriotic Army,
Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA),
Rwandan President Paul Kagame,
Sam Jonah,
Save the Children,
Sudan,
Titanium Resources Group,
U.N. "peacekeeping" mission,
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
Ugandan People's Defense Forces' (UPDF),
UNHCR,
United Nations Development Program (UNDP),
United Nations Observers Mission for Congo (MONUC),
uprooted,
Vangold Resources,
Walter Kansteiner,
Yoweri Museveni
Seeing the resilience of our beloved Haiti has strengthened my commitment to our global revolutionary liberation struggle – until the last drop of my Black royal blood.
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Abdul Olugbala Shakur,
Black church,
Black student unions,
Congo,
Darfur,
fascist government,
genocide,
Haiti Action Committee,
Haiti and Latin America,
Hurricane Katrina,
hurricanes,
Jean-Jacques Dessalines,
Lavalas movement,
New Afrikan Freedom Fighter,
New Afrikan independence movement,
New Afrikan Prisoners Writers' Union,
political prisoner,
President Aristide,
revolutionary liberation struggle,
solitary confinement,
Toussaint L'Ouverture,
United Nations,
United Nations troops,
Yugoslavia
I recently received a phone call from an investigator for the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and I shared my uncertainty about the ethics of collaborating with an “International Criminal Court” that was only indicting Black Africans.
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Action Contre la Faim,
Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical factory,
Alex de Waal,
Alison Des Forges,
Anthony Lake,
Association of Banyarwanda in Diaspora USA,
CARE,
Center for American Progress,
Center for Security Policy,
CHF International,
Clinton administration,
Congo,
copper,
crimes against humanity,
Darfur,
Darfur Genocide Accountability Act,
declaration of genocide,
Eric Reeves,
fertile plantation lands,
Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,
George W. Bush,
gold,
Henry Kissinger,
Hillary Clinton,
human rights violations,
Human Rights Watch,
humanitarian,
Hutu,
International Conference on the Status of Banyarwanda (Tutsi) Refugees,
International Criminal Court (ICC),
International Crises Group,
International Rescue Committee,
Israel,
Israeli-backed Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),
Janjaweed,
John Podesta,
John Prendergast,
Keith Harmon Snow,
Lockheed Martin Corp.,
Lord's Resistance Army,
Madeleine Albright,
Mercy Corps,
Mombasa,
Mossad,
MSF-Holland,
MV Faina,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
Omar al-Bashir,
Oxfam,
petroleum,
President Barack Obama,
President Paul Kagame,
President Yoweri Museveni,
Prudence Bushnell,
Rakiya Omaar,
Roger Winter,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Defense Forces (Rwandan Patriotic Army),
Rwandan President Habyarimana,
Rwandan Tribunal (ICTR),
Rwandan Tutsi Diaspora,
Samantha Power,
SAVE DARFUR movement,
Save the Children,
Solidarites,
Somali "pirates",
Somali fishermen,
Sudan,
Sudan Liberation Army,
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA),
Susan Rice,
the International Rescue Committee,
the Norwegian Refugee Council,
Timothy Longman,
U.S. Committee for Refugees,
U.S. proxy forces,
Uganda,
Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF),
uranium,
Vadim Alperin,
war crimes,
warlords
Cobalt is essential to our military industries’ ability to manufacture the modern weapons of war. So, the Congo War, a.k.a. the African holocaust, is a war for the sake of war itself.
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African holocaust,
African proxy armies,
African World War,
Ann Garrison,
Barack Obama,
Blue Angels,
cobalt,
coltan,
Congo,
Congo War,
Congolese Army (FARDC),
Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP),
Forces Democratique de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR),
Katanga Copper Belt,
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),
Patrice Lumumba,
President Patrice Emery Lumumba,
Robert Gates,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF),
U.N. peacekeepers (MONUC),
Uganda,
Ugandan army (UPDF)
The December 2008 United Nations report is the latest in a series of U.N. reports dating from 2001 that clearly documents the systematic looting and appropriation of Congolese resources by Rwanda and Uganda, two of Washington and London’s staunchest allies in Africa.
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Add new tag,
African Union,
British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
Burundi,
CNDP,
Congo,
Congolese people,
deadliest conflict in the world,
Dr. Clet Niyikiza of GlaxoSmithKline,
East African free trade zone,
eastern Congo,
FDLR,
former President Bill Clinton,
French President Nicholas Sarkozy,
Gen. Jean Bosco Ntaganda,
Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
Herman Cohen,
human rights abuses,
International Court of Justice,
International Criminal Court,
Joe Ritchie,
Kagame's Presidential Advisory Council,
Kambale Musavuli,
National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
reparations,
Rev. Rick Warren,
Rwanda,
Rwanda Development Board,
Rwandan Investment Group,
Scott Ford of Alltell,
Southern African Development Community (SADC),
Tanzania,
the Rwandan Investment Group,
Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa,
Uganda
The corporate press, and the U.S. State Department, are awash in propaganda about the Congo War, also known as the Congo crisis, or, the African holocaust, in which 6 million Congolese have died since 1997. They typically characterize it as an insoluble ethnic conflict, but the Congo War is, most fundamentally, an imperial resource war, [...]
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Africa and the World,
Ann Garrison,
Anthony Fest,
Congo,
ethnic conflict,
imperialism,
KFCF,
KPFA,
KPFB,
Laurent Nkunda,
Obasanjo,
resource war
2008 marked the 100-year anniversary of the removal of the Congo from King Leopold II of Belgium as his own personal property. Global outrage at the King’s brutal rule resulted in his losing the Congo treasure trove on Nov. 15, 1908.
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Belgium,
Break the Silence,
colonial power,
Congo,
Crime in the Congo,
E.D. Morel,
George Washington Williams,
human rights,
Kambale Musavuli,
King Leopold II,
King Leopold's Soliloquy,
Maurice Carney,
Patrice Emery Lumumba,
Robert Casement,
Rwanda,
sovereignty,
The Heart of Darkness,
Uganda,
William Sheppard
Fanon’s work was widely read on three continents and is still worthy of study, not least because the insightful thinker predicted how African rulers would rule if they didn’t unite the continent’s various peoples and failed to develop truly independent and socialist governing systems.
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African economies,
African politics,
colonial power,
colonialism,
Congo,
Eurocentric African leaders,
Frantz Fanon,
hunger riots,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
The Wretched of the Earth,
Toward the African Revolution,
tribalism
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