The weight of ‘change’?: AFRICOM and the US presidential election (Pambazuka News)

Life and Debt:
Globalization and Jamaica

Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.

and....

The Francophone Community Partnership and the Democratic Republic of Congo's Hands Association are sponsoring the

FETE FANTASTIQUE FRANCOPHONE

What: Celebration of Congolese (central African) culture with a fashion show, dance performances, music video projection, American and Congolese Food, and live music
Where: University YMCA, Wright St., Urbana
When: Saturday, April 26th from 7-10pm
Cost: $3 w/U of I i.d., $10 general admission

tha illest

yo its been a while since i posted so i feel like i owe yall people out there something good....this mix is something i put together for friends, and alls ive heard back is like 'yo that mix is bangin!' so, hereyago....

THA BANGER VOL. 1

[get it]

tracklist:

4.16.2008

Repatriation an Unfinished Business

Repatriation not migration
Set the people free
It is known to every nation
Each vine to his fig tree

Repatriation not migration
A difference you will see
One stands for all the people's freedom
The other not for me.

Repatriation not migration
Then shall captives free
From savage and oppressive rule
To justice and equality

Repatriation not migration
It is for us to see
Three hundred year of hard oppression
Was read in history

Repatriation not migration
Our homes we long to see
Now comes the end of tribulations
As told in prophecy

Repatriation not migration
United we must stand
To claim our promised portion
With true determination

Repatriation not migration
All aliens now must flee
We know the truth of revelation
What is to be must be.

REPATRIATION: YES!
MIGRATION: NO!

-Author unknown

New album by BURNING SPEAR coming out this year!
JAH IS REAL

[WEBSITE]

April 21, 1966
Groundnation Day

04.09.2008

Black Power [Kwame Ture]

celebration

channeling

you up on this 2.0 . . .so i was thinking about how we might help the internet to organize itself better, or more specifically to enhance the ways in which consciousness raising information/experiences can reach people more and in concert with each other. . .resonate...vibrate...so this is some stuff ive 'channeled' to yall from some other sites (of which most you can find at links on the side of this page)...

[oh an click up on the liberator bar sometime to see whats crackin ova there - if you dont 10 times a day already...]

[OFFICIAL (personal) WEBSITE ]
Al Gathafi Speaks. . . . .

{EARTRIP E-ZINE}
issue 1, march 2008

our vision is our voice

& a prayer . . .

04.02.2008

[click for schedule]

April 3-5, 2008 @ UIUC

AND ALL STOOD BY

03.26.2008

The Ravaging of Africa Pt. IV: AFRICAN RESISTANCE

Written by Asad Ismi and produced by Kristin Schwatrz
The Ravaging of Africa is a four part audio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the continent.

Angela Davis was recently at the University of Illinois for the 2nd time this month for the 2008 Women Of Color Conference.
Just wanted to say THANK YOU DR DAVIS for inspiring us all and droppin' the truth.

some organizations she mentioned:

CRITICAL RESISTANCE

INCITE! WOMEN OF COLOR AGAINST VIOLENCE

tha conexshuns

03.19.2008

The Ravaging of Africa, Part 2:
ECONOMIC WAR

Written by Asad Ismi and produced by Kristin Schwatrz
The Ravaging of Africa is a four part audio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the continent.

Eleni Gabre-Madhin on the possibility of ECEX (Ethiopian Commodities Exchange)

The Ravaging of Africa, Part 3:
CORPORATE PLUNDER

Written by Asad Ismi and produced by Kristin Schwatrz
The Ravaging of Africa is a four part audio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism on the continent.

Euvin Naidoo on investing in Africa

you up on dis?

readers - just to give you an idea of some of things you might find by checking out the links on the right side of this blog. everything you see here can be found by exploring there...i wonder what else is out there??

blog ya bantukelani

(blog oyo ezali na francais, angele, mpe lingala)

Ce blog est destiné aux personnes noires Afrikaines de n'importe quelle partie du monde. Il a pour but d'informer et de vulgariser la vérité historique dans le respect des instructions laissées par les Grands Héros qui jalonnent l'histoire des peuples Afrikains. Je vous offre des informations qui peuvent nous rendre service en ces heures critiques où les Afrikains souffrent. Je suis une adepte de la Tradition Kongo (BUKONGO) et de la spiritualité Afrikaine. Je ne me trompe pas quand je dis que notre libération est d'ordre spirituel car c'est l'ésprit qui libère le corps, celle qui ouvre la voie de la libération véritable et au futur préstigieux prophétique du continent Afrikain. Si vous ne connaissez pas l'idéologie Afrocentriste et Panafrikaniste lisez d'abord la section HOTEP KIMIA YENGE et procurez vous les livres que je conseille et vous saurez tous. Bonne visite et que nos Ancêtres forts et exemplaires vous guident.

Virtual Museum of Political Art: Paintings from the Congo

Cheri Cherin (Kinshasa)

"L'Esclavagisme (Slavery)", oil on canvas, 152 x 250 cm, 2006.

Rumba Lingala as Colonial Resistence

by Jesse Samba Wheeler
published in Image & Narrative (2005)

note: This article is dope and it even includes samples of music and images. Image & Narrative is a pretty slick online journal too in both content and layout, and I would highly recommend checking out at least issues 10 & 11 . Some of the other articles include:

- Visualization of subliminal strategies in world music: An ethnomusicological analysis of socio-cultural transformations through maracatu and mangue beat in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

- We Are Who We Believe Ourselves to Be': Curaçao Jazz and the Expression of Identity

- Heeding the Creole Voice (in the Seychelles Islands): Alternatives to race and nation as identifiers of cultural value

- Ribbon Shirts in Rasta Colors: Native American Syncretic Musical and Visual Strategies of (Jamaican) Resistance in the Lyrical Imagery, CD Jacket Art, and Performance Costuming of Hopi/Diné Reggae Singjay Casper Loma-Da-Wa

- Lyrical Subversion in Cuban Reggae

DocSouth

Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.

The texts, images, and other materials come primarily from the premier Southern collections in the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These original Southern materials can be found in several library locations, including the Southern Historical Collection, one of the largest collections of Southern manuscripts in the country; the North Carolina Collection, the most complete printed documentation of a single state anywhere; the Rare Book Collection, which holds an extensive Southern pamphlet collection; and Davis Library, which offers rich holdings of printed materials on the Southeast.

note: this is an amazing resource - and it is free.

breath of life | a conversation about black music

alls i go to say about this one is that brother listens to great music, and always brings the truth when choosing albums to feature and what he be sayin about the music too.