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Rwanda Day San Francisco: Bay View journalists get the boot
October 6, 2016
Rwanda Day-San Francisco was a bad day for identity politics. Rwandan President Paul Kagame stepped to the podium and said that he was happy to be in San Francisco because itās so diverse, seeming not to understand that his guest speaker, Rev. Rick Warren, champion of the 2008 Prop 8 ballot measure banning same sex marriage, wouldnāt appeal to San Franciscoās diverse population.
Alfred Olango, from US-backed persecution in Uganda to police execution in US
October 2, 2016
The El Cajon police shooting of Alfred Olango is one of the most recent police shootings of an unarmed Black man to make national and international headlines and inspire Black Lives Matter protests. Olango and his family fled war and persecution by the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda with an iron fist since 1986. KPFAās Ann Garrison filed this report.
Dr. Leopold Munyakazi deported to Rwanda
September 27, 2016
Dr. LĆ©opold Munyakazi was deported to Rwanda early this morning. The linguist, scholar and former French professor at Goucher College was arrested shortly after giving several lectures at Northeastern University college campuses in which he said that the Rwandan war of the 1990s was a class conflict, not an ethnic conflict, and that it was therefore incorrectly characterized as genocide.
Uganda: āA Brilliant Genocideā
September 18, 2016
āA Brilliant Genocideā tells the story of the Acholi Genocide that President Yoweri Museveni and his army committed against the Acholi people during their 20-year war and occupation of the Acholi homeland in northern Uganda, from 1986 to 2006. Museveni waged that war in the name of fighting Kony and claimed to be protecting the Acholi, not destroying them. RT will air āA Brilliant Genocideā on Oct. 1.
Green Partyās Stein and Baraka on ballot for 90% of US voters
September 18, 2016
The Green Party campaign for presidential candidate Jill Stein and vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka has completed its 2016 ballot access drive. Stein-Baraka will be on the ballot in 45 states, including Washington, D.C., and they will be official write-in candidates in three more states. Ballots cast for official write-in candidates are counted, whereas unofficial write-in ballots are not. KPFAās Ann Garrison spoke to Rick Lass, ballot access coordinator for the Stein-Baraka campaign.
Dominican University partners with CPD to exclude Jill Stein from presidential debates
September 4, 2016
On Tuesday, Sept. 6, Bay Area Green Parties will protest the Commission on Presidential Debatesā youth engagement function at Dominican University in San Rafael. The CPB is a private, corporate-funded corporation controlled by the Republican and Democratic National Committees that excludes third parties. Dominican University is partnering with the private entity to produce College Debate 16, an event they say will encourage student involvement.
Who is killing indigenous people in Beni, DR Congo?
August 28, 2016
Beni Territory is a vivid example of the phrase, āEverybody wants a piece of Congo.ā Beni Territory is rich in oil, timber, gold, diamonds, wolfram, coltan and cassiterite. Now the people of Beni are being massacred for their land and its riches. KPFAās Ann Garrison filed this report after speaking to a Congolese human rights defender and author of āCongolese Genocides from Leopold II to Paul Kagame,ā Boniface Musavuli.
Unworthy victims: Houthis and Hutus
August 25, 2016
Last week the āŖU.S. helped its āŖāSaudi pals bomb another hospital and school in Yemen. Donāt imagine that its intentions are any more humanitarian ināŖ Burundi just because theyāre not selling fighter bomber jets and guided bombs to their pal Paul Kagame, Rwandaās president for life. Kagame is intent on bringing down President Pierre Nkurunzizaās government in Burundi, as Saudi sheikhs are intent on bringing down the Houthi government in Yemen.
Green Party ticket: Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka
August 7, 2016
Cheers and chants filled the room at the Green Party Convention at the University of Houston, where physician and activist Jill Stein was named as the Green Partyās presidential candidate with human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Stein said that too much is at stake this election for people to be voting out of fear. Stein said that if people had the courage to vote for the greater good rather than the lesser of two evils, it would be numerically possible for the Green Party to win.
Rwanda, the Clinton dynasty and the case of Dr. LĆ©opold Munyakazi
July 28, 2016
I answered some heartbreaking calls from Dr. LĆ©opold Munyakazi phoning from an Alabama jail this week. Dr. Munyakazi is a gentle Rwandan born scholar, with a PhD in linguistics and further advanced degrees in French and African linguistics. He has lost his immigration case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and will all but certainly be deported to Rwanda to face prison or worse.
What will Bernie delegates do in Philadelphia?
July 18, 2016
The first major survey of Bernie Sanders delegates reveals big concerns about Hillary Clintonās pending choice of a vice presidential candidate, with many delegates expressing their willingness to publicly denounce prospective running mates and even protest on the convention floor. I spoke to Jeff Cohen of RootsAction after they released the survey results.
Beyond Bernie: Socialist Alternative endorses Jill Stein
July 12, 2016
On Saturday, July 9, Socialist Alternative and Movement4Bernie held the first of a series of forums titled āBeyond Bernie: We Need a United Party for the 99%.ā Socialist Alternative is a nationwide membership organization which initially endorsed Bernie Sanders but has now endorsed Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Marching on the DNC, an interview with Cheri Honkala
July 8, 2016
The Democratic National Convention will take place in Philadelphia from July 25 to July 28. City authorities readily issued permits for four marches during the convention, but the Poor Peopleās Economic Human Rights Campaign had to file a complaint in federal court, with the help of the ACLU, to get a permit for their march, the March for Our Lives. KPFAās Ann Garrison spoke to campaign organizer and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala.
Obamaās AFRICOM nominee would expand terror war, seek authority to assassinate
June 27, 2016
Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee questioned Marine Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, President Obamaās nominee to become the next four-star general commanding AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command. Most of the discussion focused on the conflict in Libya, where territory is now controlled by seven different forces. KPFAās Ann Garrison has more.
Clinton e-mail on Libyan conquest: We came, we saw, we got oil
June 21, 2016
Less than a month after Col. Qaddafiās assassination, in a Nov. 16, 2011, āTripoli Situation Reportā in Hillary Clintonās e-mail archive, ācountry managers of the three U.S. firms comprising the Waha Group (Marathon, Conoco Phillips and Amerada Hess) said meetings with its Libyan joint venture partner and the National Oil Company [NOC] this week were āextremely positiveā and that they were encouraged by an apparent sea change in the NOCās attitude toward its U.S. partners.ā
Philadelphia refuses to permit poor peoplesā march at Democratic convention
June 4, 2016
The Democratic National Convention will take place in Philadelphia, from July 25 through July 28. City authorities have issued permits for four marches during the convention, but they have thus far refused to grant a permit to the March for Our Lives organized by the Poor Peopleās Economic Human Rights Campaign. KPFAās Ann Garrison spoke to campaign organizer, Philadelphia native and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Cheri Honkala.
Uganda: Besigye and Museveni, a tale of two presidents
May 16, 2016
Dr. Kizza Besigye and Gen. Yoweri Museveni both swore in as president of Uganda at competing inaugural ceremonies this week. Both claim to have won the Feb. 18 election, and Dr. Besigye has demanded an election audit. Gen. Museveni, the incumbent president now entering his fourth decade in power, had Besigye arrested and charged with treason. KPFAās Ann Garrison has more.
Ugandaās Museveni orders arrests, house arrests and media bans before inauguration
May 8, 2016
A Ugandan political party, Forum for Democratic Change, has announced plans to hold country-wide demonstrations ahead of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveniās inauguration on Thursday, May 12, because they believe that their candidate, Dr. Kizza Besigye, in fact won the election. Museveniās government responded by banning not only the protests but also press coverage of the protest. KPFAās Ann Garrison reports.
Bruce Dixon on building the Greens into a mass party
May 5, 2016
Bernie Sandersā defeats in the East Coast primaries have triggered a flurry of conversation about what the 25 to 35 percent of Sanders supporters whoāve told pollsters they will not vote for Hillary Clinton will do instead. Seattle-based Socialist Alternative has called for Sanders to run as an independent or join the Green Party ticket. Ann Garrison spoke to Georgia Green Party activist and Black Agenda Report Editor Bruce Dixon.
Remembering Burundiās 1972 Hutu Genocide
April 30, 2016
Burundiās 1972 Hutu genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Burundian Hutu people were massacred by the countryās Tutsi army, was commemorated in Burundi on April 30. Commemorations were also held in other parts of the world, including one on the state capitol grounds in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
