African awakenings: the courage to invent the future
A version of this paper was first published in Pambazuka News and forms the basis of the introductory chapter to a forthcoming book from Pambazuka Press African Awakening: the emerging revolutions edited by Sokari Ekine and Firoze Manji We are living today in what is probably one of the most inspiring times in our recent history, reminiscent of [...]
Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist, journalist and writer. He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July, 3, 1982. This was the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is also the founder of the Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc) [...]
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US activists and progressives have been inspired by the revolts and revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East. The recent movements in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest were echoes of our own neglected legacies of grassroots struggle. But if our movements remain limited to the Democratic Party leadership and the logic of [...]
Continue reading …At the onset of the conflict in Libya, citizens in open revolt against a brutal government rounded up mercenaries and slaughtered them on the spot. Almost all of the three-thousand or so mercenaries transported to Libya to defend Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s embattled regime are dark-skinned men from Niger, Chad, Mali and elsewhere throughout the vast [...]
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