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------Original message------ From: Pambazuka Editor <[email protected]> To: "pambazuka-news" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:27:31 PM GMT+0300 Subject: Pambazuka News 629: Imperial agendas, wage slavery and Black struggles PAMBAZUKA NEWS 629: IMPERIAL AGENDAS, WAGE SLAVERY AND BLACK STRUGGLES The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Letters & Opinions /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features SOUTH AFRICA'S SUB-IMPERIAL SEDUCTIONS Patrick Bond South Africa is this week hosting yet another major conference, the World Economic Forum for Africa, amidst increasing evidence that the nation is fast growing as a sub-imperialist power http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87288 ****** BANGLADESHI TEXTILE FACTORY COLLAPSE: OVER 800 DEAD, LESSONS FOR AFRICA Horace G. Campbell The kind of tragic exploitation of workers in Bangladesh is present all over Africa, where people are denied basic labour rights as part of state efforts to attract and retain foreign investment. Militant and sustained efforts are needed to resist this trend http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87286 ****** WHAT'S BEHIND RENEWED ATTACKS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM FIGHTER ASSATA SHAKUR? Exiled Black Panther Party veteran has lived in Cuba for three decades Abayomi Azikiwe On the 40th anniversary of the shooting and capture of Assata Shakur, the FBI and the State of New Jersey has now placed the African American revolutionary on the most wanted terrorist list http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87267 ****** A CANDID CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT KIM ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM Justice for Blacks A year ago, we were hopeful that your presidency would open a new chapter in overhauling the World Bank's justice system. But a year later, the presidential mantle that we had hoped would dismantle the racist institutional culture seems to be drawn toward the center of gravity of the status quo http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87266 ****** MR NAFIE GOES TO WASHINGTON Eric Reeves For Sudan which listed as a sponsor of terrorism and whose president is a suspected war criminal, the invitation to Washington of Al Bashir's aide is an extraordinary reward to a regime that craves nothing so much as legitimacy, and to a man who is utterly ruthless and savagely cruel http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87269 ****** THE OBAMA LEGACY, PT 1 OF MANY Top ten things Black America will have to show for 8 years of President Obama Bruce A. Dixon When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black America, his earliest and most consistent supporters, have to show for making his political career possible? We'll have the T-shirts and buttons and posters, the souvenirs. That will be the good news. The bad news is what else we'll have.... and not. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87265 ****** DID THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA ENGAGE IN IGBO GENOCIDE? Emma Enekwechi Chinua Achebe's recent book has revived fierce discussions about the Biafra genocide, the darkest chapter in Nigerian history. The country is still divided over the issue and 'Biafrans' want out of Nigeria http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87285 ****** BEYOND JONATHAN'S 5.7 BILLION NAIRA LARGESSE Uche Igwe If the Nigerian government is sincere about achieving peace and solving the recurring problem of electoral violence, it must implement the Sheikh Lemu Report wholly and not selectively. It must, as recommended, mete out punishments alongside compensation and adopt preventive measures http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87268 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements FAHAMU MOVEMENT BUILDING BOOT CAMP, MAY 12-17, 2013, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA The Adilisha Program will be holding a movement building boot camp for activists' from social justice movements and organisations in Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The boot camp being held in Lusaka ,Zambia from May 12 -17, 2013 will facilitate activists' consciousness of their context from a deep analysis and connect what they are doing to the bigger picture or vision of social change they seek to achieve. Participants will critically analyse their organising strategies and tactics to develop alternative strategies for effective and creative organising.It is also expected that the participants will derive approaches for educating political education and elevation of the voice and leadership of their constituents. This will also be a space to examine, reflect and learn why social movements occur, who joins or support social movements, how social movements are organised, what they do and what change social movements bring about. It is expected that this will inspire the participants to embrace strategies that build collective action. ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis WHY SUPREME COURT OF KENYA DISMISSED RAILA ODINGA'S ELECTION PETITION Miguna Miguna The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president of Kenya has been dismissed by a number of legal analysts as 'shallow', 'unconvincing' and based on questionable precedents. But petitioner Raila Odinga's former aide defends it http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87292 ****** WILL THE JAVA GENERATION PLEASE STAND UP? Abdullahi Boru Halakhe It seems that Kenya's middle class of shoppers at Java have become complacent with constitutional change at a time when they should be pushing for further implementation of the constitution http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87290 ****** IS AFRICAN PEACE KEEPING MISSION IN DRC DOOMED TO FAIL? Bu Nizar Visram With the recent loss of 12 South African troops in the Central African Republic and the US bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the extent to which an African peace keeping mission will meet a similar fate seems likely http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87289 ****** AFRICA MUST BE IN CONTROL OF ITS FORTUNE Winnie Byanyima As the World Economic Forum meets in Cape Town this week [8-10 May], they must commit to implementing programs that will assist the millions being left behind by economic growth. Otherwise, social and economic progress on the continent will be undermined http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87282 ****** THE PRESIDENT MUST HEAR THIS Abdulrazaq Magaji Warnings that there will be war if Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015 are an anathema to genuine democracy, tolerance and fair play in Africa's most populous nation that should be leading by example http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87280 ****** WHAT THE OGA AT THE TOP DOESN'T KNOW Tunde Oyateru The government should have capitalised on a recent embarrassing incident in which an official was exposed as incompetent to mount a major PR coup against its critics. But it is too optimistic to expect state bureaucrats in Nigeria to see rare opportunities thrust right under their noses http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87303 ****** KENYAN WORKERS SHOULD STRENGTHEN SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY Julius Okoth There is a genuine concern that trade unions and its leadership have failed to protect workers and that trade unions are dens of corruption in Kenya. There is a need to revive a genuine trade union movement that protects workers' rights and promotes workers' solidarity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87281 ****** WHAT NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD ADDRESS FIRST AT COAST Nagib Shamsan The unresolved land question at the Kenyan coast has continued to stagnate development, stoke negative ethnicity and create squatters. Successive governments have displayed lamentable laxity in carrying out the required reforms. The people need to push the new administration on this urgent matter http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87293 ****** CHALLENGES OF TRANSITION Wongai Zhangazha Violence across Africa is often fueled by political elites who try to cling to power. They play on tribal historic injustices and often leave the poor to fight each other. Transitional processes in the post-conflict societies of Kenya and Zimbabwe are yet to fully achieve their goals http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87295 ****** MAY DAY AND FAILURE OF THE MAINSTREAM IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MOVEMENT Ajamu Baraka The American immigrant rights movement has failed because it allowed itself to be influenced by the paternalism and conservative politics of the liberal non-profit industrial complex and the interests of the Democratic Party http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87294 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns AFRICAN UNION URGED TO UPHOLD PRESS FREEDOM Committee to Protect Journalists New York, May 2, 2013-The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union, to uphold press freedom by calling for justice in journalist murders in Africa and for the release of all imprisoned journalists. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87297 ****** KOFI ANNAN SPEAKS OUT AFRICA'S NATURAL RESOURCES Kofi Annan See video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHY8WNcVWjc ) ****** MAYOR WARNED TO HOUSE POOR OR FACE BEING HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa City cannot 'throw up hands in horror' when asked to house the homeless, Judge says http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87301 ****** NIGERIA: JUNE 19 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION Ayo Ademiluyi Mass movement against education cuts, mass unemployment, pro-rich looting and obnoxious electoral laws http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87299 ****** NO TO MILITARY INVASION OF AZUZUAMA COMMUNITY IN BAYELSA STATE Ayo Ademiluyi Instead of tackling the underlying causes of restiveness and militancy, which are mass unemployment and collapse of education, the Jonathan regime has resorted to brute force http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87296 ****** SLEEPING IN THE RAIN Even snakes treat us with more respect than the City of Cape Town Abahlali baseMjondolo, Western Cape 'The City of Cape Town is heartless. They want us to get sick. They want to punish us for trying to do what's best for our families, for our children. But we are not going anywhere' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87300 ****** VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN ETHIOPIA Arid Lands Institute Statement delivered at the 53rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in Banjul, Gambia http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87298 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Letters & Opinions 'UNMASKING TERRORISM IN IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM' Tsitsi Dangarembga Hi Colleagues, Thank you for this edition [Issue 628]. It brings into the public space a phenomenon or cluster of phenomena that we have to label appropriately. For my part I have been calling it 'existential terrorism', meaning the terror that is brought to bear on certain groups by other groups by virtue of the fact that the former group exists in the relation it does to the former. Definitions are notoriously difficult, so it is wonderful that we have found the words to open up this discussion. Tsitsi Dangarembga Director Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust (incorporating Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe and Nyerai Films) Founder International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) Harare, Zimbabwe ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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