propaganda press! freedom in Guyana

AllAfrica: More than 30 months after the history-making arrest of Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo - the first suspect to be sent to The Hague in the Netherlands to face war crimes charges before the newly-established International Criminal Court (ICC) - a question mark still hangs over whether he will ever face trial.
In July the ICC’s Trial Chamber ordered him released from custody. This week the court’s Appeals Chamber overturned that decision. What has gone wrong and what happens next? In this question-and-answer feature, the International Center for Transitional Justice explains.

Maria Namafu, 70 years old
Raped by 3 soldiers who told her “you’re not too old for us.”

Director’s Note: These are the faces of some of the women I met in eastern Congo, all of them rape survivors. I talked to them in their huts, in hospital beds, on the hard benches of the local church. Some of them waited for several hours to tell me their stories. And for every woman I spoke with there are many thousands whose voices we will never hear.
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo is a shocking exposé of a decade-old epidemic of kidnapping, rape and torture of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often carried out with impunity by gangs of armed militias, these atrocities leave survivors traumatized and isolated - shunned by society and their families, and suffering lifelong health effects, including HIV…Since 1998, a brutal war has ravaged the DRC, killing over 4 million people.

to all house negroes. we’re gunnin’ for you as you’re neck deep pursuing the enemy’s agenda and you gotta go. there’s no other way. all house negroes gotta go. from the north to the south. from the east to the west. ALL collaborators, killers, murders, psychos and plunderers will be removed from Africa.

Men and women of the Congo,

Victorious fighters for independence, today victorious, I greet you in the name of the Congolese Government. All of you, my friends, who have fought tirelessly at our sides, I ask you to make this June 30, 1960, an illustrious date that you will keep indelibly engraved in your hearts, a date of significance of which you will teach to your children, so that they will make known to their sons and to their grandchildren the glorious history of our fight for liberty. Read the rest of this entry »

If one were to glide through the Sudan, Congo, Haiti, New Orleans, and the rest of Sam’s plantation one would notice the same thing. Black folks are being exterminated in a cold calculated way by our enemies.

Some of the question we need to start asking ourselves is how should we respond. Have the ‘protest’ tactics worked?. If we don’t have the right to live do the people who are involved in these campaigns have a right to live?. In a (Ruins of Empire) piece called ‘Negroes quit playing’ Slave Revolt deal with this topic head on.

Then in a (Beyond the shadow) segment called ‘The problem with Cynthia McKinney’ we deal with why the State hates one it’s own Representative in Congress. Read the rest of this entry »

Eight UN peacekeepers have been killed in clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as they were searching for rebel fighters. The Guatemalan special forces had been looking for fighters from the Lord’s Resistance Army, accused of carrying out atrocities across northern Uganda and in southern Sudan. The UN is trying to remove numerous armed groups from eastern DR Congo before elections. Despite an official end to a five year civil war in 2003, civilians still live in fear of militia groups. DR Congo’s first multi-party elections in four decades are due at the end of April.