USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pambazuka News 705: Killing Blacks: Racism in 'the land of the free'

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 705: KILLING BLACKS: RACISM IN 'THE LAND OF THE FREE'

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Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839

CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts


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1 Features
WHY WE WON'T WAIT
Robin D. G. Kelley

While Black people waited for the indictment of white officer Darren Wilson who killed an unarmed Black youth in August, more Blacks were shot dead. Eventually Wilson was exonerated, sparking outrage across the country. The grand jury's decision doesn't surprise most Black people who are struggling for justice.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93549
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THE DARREN WILSON NON-INDICTMENT: RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
Ajamu Baraka

The American State's response to the mass discontent in the aftermath of the non-indictment of murderer of Michael Brown demonstrates the heavy-handed use of violence to deny the people the human rights to peacefully assemble and freedom of association. This is consistent with the historical uses of violence to control and suppress opposition.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93546
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FERGUSON'S RECKONING FOR OBAMA
Margaret Kimberley

There is no need for more task forces or advisory commissions. The police must stop killing black people with impunity and nothing will make that less likely to happen than the sight of Wilson and his partners in crime sitting in federal prisons.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93548
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KILL A BLACK KID AND GET RICH: UNIQUELY AMERICAN
Mike Caccioppoli

Killer cop Darren Wilson's increased renown and profiteering from the death of Michael Brown is very much a product of contemporary American society's attitudes toward media, fame, race, and class.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93551
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RENEWED REBELLION IN FERGUSON EXPOSES US HUMAN RIGHTS FRAUD
Obama administration encourages calm amid national outrage
Abayomi Azikiwe

Washington has engineered attacks on other nations around the world accusing them of human rights violations. Yet the administration has initiated no concrete programs to improve the plight of African Americans, particularly young black men. Every 28 hours, an unarmed black citizen is killed.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93553
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ASSATA: THE FBI'S MOST WANTED WOMAN
A new (2014) introduction to her autobiography
William Gumede

In this edited version of a new introduction to Assata Shakur's autobiography, Prof Gumede points out that centuries of colonialism, slavery and apartheid have left a legacy of institutional racism, whereby dark skins are often instinctively prejudiced in societies across the globe. Racism is also endemic in global relations between nations.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93555
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MAURITANIA: HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THE EXCLUSION OF BLACKS LAST?
Cire Ba and Boubacar Diagana

Since independence on 28 November 1960, Mauritania has put in place a system of exclusion of its black population, promoting the affirmation of an exclusively Arab identity and the negation of the country's African foundations
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93556
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CELEBRATING SOBUKWE'S 90TH BIRTHDAY
Motsoko Pheko

5 December marks the 90th birthday of revolutionary anti-apartheid icon and pan-Africanist Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe. This tribute is an introduction to a new book on him.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93554
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BUNGE LA MWANANCHI (THE PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT) PT. I
Reflections on social movement struggles in Kenya during the era of neoliberal globalization
Gacheke Gachihi

Bunge la Mwananchi has revolutionized grassroots politics in Kenya since the 1990s. Against the backdrop of elite politics and entrenched neo-liberalism, the movement has created a critical space for democratic participation from below and its impact has been far-reaching. Part II of this article appears next week.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93544
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2 Announcements
CALL FOR GRANT PROPOSALS

The Emerging Powers in Africa Project is issuing a call for grant proposals. The grants are aimed at examining the political, economic, social and cultural impact of the emerging powers footprint in Africa. The grant is specifically related to empowering civil society actors in gaining the appropriate knowledge and developing the necessary tools to articulate an informed perspective on the emerging powers in Africa and the corresponding impact. Click here ( http://www.fahamu.org/resources/ResearchGrantsCall28Nov2014.pdf ) for details.
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3 Comment & analysis
SOUTH AFRICA RETREATS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATE POWER
Patrick Bond

Protection of transnational corporate property rights, including the objectionable constitutional treatment of the corporations as "juristic persons" with the same rights as us humans, is one reason SA corporations have become the world's fraud champs. But there are grounds for hope in fighting them.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/93557
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HOW THE ANC AND SWAPO EXPLOIT AFRICAN INSECURITIES TO STAY IN POWER
Alexander O'Riordan

In last week's elections in Namibia, the ruling South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) won a landslide 80 percent of the vote up from 75 percent. How did the independence party achieve this?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/93559
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EBOLA: THE US DOES NOT DO ANYTHING IN AFRICA FOR AFRICA'S SAKE
Antoine Roger Lokongo

The international response - more so from the US - to the Ebola crisis in West Africa has little to do with aiding Africa, but rather ensuring control over its resource wealth. Where will the cooperation or competition between US and China leave Africans?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/93541
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THE POLITICS OF THE EBOLA CRISIS IN WEST AFRICA
Is this a warning of things to come?
Zaya Yeebo

The countries reeling under the Ebola outbreak were recovering from prolonged conflict that had destroyed health infrastructures. Additionally, in the 1980s through the 1990s, these countries implemented neo-liberal reforms imposed by IMF and World Bank, whereby welfare systems were abandoned in exchange for donor support.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/93550
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4 Advocacy & campaigns
GROSS VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT WIETA FARM

On 2 December, a farmworker was assaulted and freedom of association denied on a WIETA farm outside Robertson, South Africa.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/93545
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POLICE REFORMS KEY TO SOLVING INSECURITY IN KENYA
Cidi Otieno David

Following the second attack in Mandera Town in Kenya in less than two weeks, leading to the death of 36 people, Kenya's police chief announced his retirement and the Internal Security Cabinet Secretary was removed. But this is not enough to improve security.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/93542
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SUDAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST STILL HELD IN UNKNOWN LOCATION

Human rights defender Mr Rashid Shikhaldeen Abash continues to remain in detention without charge for more than two months
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/93547
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5 Books & arts
ON THE SWEETNESS OF A FAKE BOOK
Karim F Hirji

Retired Professor Hirji, a book addict, has bought copies with frayed, half-torn or missing pages. He has on occasion received via mail a book other than the one ordered. But buying a fake book? Only in Dar es Salaam!
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/93543
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ANNE KANSIIME: A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HUMOUR
Odomaro Mubangizi

There is a lot going on in Africa: Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria, the Ebola crisis, armed conflict in South Sudan, rhetoric of 'Africa arising', the dramatic exit of Blaise Compaore, presidential elections... Many of these are issues that tend to make people get too serious and stressed. Uganda's star comedia Anne Kansiime is offering people some respite.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/93552
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