Posted on 22 February 2008
Martin Luther King was assassinated at age 39 on 4 April 1968.
Back when Cut Rite waxed paper bags held our school lunches, we couldn’t wait to get to the church.
It was only ten minutes on foot to St. Andrew’s, the protestant one a block up from the President movie theater.
Others, like Tony, Dave and Big [...]
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Posted on 19 February 2008
Amsterdam is a hub for trafficking children asylum seekers into sex slavery
What I didn’t like was the way the people hogged the whole sidewalk along the Amstel river. It seemed to get worse and worse the closer I got to seven hundred year old inner Amsterdam.
I like to step along at a good pace. I’m [...]
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Tags: african migrants, amsterdam, asylum seekers, Europe, holland, netherlands, racism, sex slavery, trafficking children
Posted on 09 February 2008
Future Here and Now: China has 25% of its oil coming from Africa
There is a movement among us who are dedicated to seeing Africa free from oppression. We don’t talk too much from a point of view that isn’t both historical and forward looking. Voicing opinions, facts or inspiring rhetoric, will be in brackets: a [...]
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Tags: china in africa, colonialism, diaspora, ethnic, oppression, religious
Posted on 07 February 2008
Monocultural planting of corn around the world is not in the best interest of people or nature. Pesticides are used more in Africa than in Australia, Europe, North America, South America or Asia.
It was tough on my friend. His hopes had been up, recently though. He told me of his plan from his booth at [...]
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Tags: african agriculture, african debt, Africans, Agriculture, Asia, australia, bauxite, Cold War, Europe, Farmer Africa, Lansana Conté, Marxist Muslim, mineral resources in africa, Moscow, National Dance Theater of Guinea, North America, organic farming, Philadelphia Community College, poisons in africa, South America, Spring Garden street, Touré, USAID, western aid and development
Posted on 27 January 2008
A Priority For Some
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