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	<title>Black Looks &#187; DRC</title>
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		<title>The blood that feeds the heart of DRC&#8217;s conflict.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two films from the DRC &#8220;There is a global consensus that exists that says it is OK for nearly six million black people to die in the heart of Africa and for us to be silent&#8221; Blood in the Mobile is an exceptionally well produced documentary which traces the mobile phone [Nokia] to it&#8217;s source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning pain to power: City of Joy in Bukavu</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/06/gender-violence-in-the-drc-city-of-joy-in-bukavu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City of Joy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eve Ensler [V-Day founder] and Congolese Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver [director of V-Day Congo] discuss with Amy Goodman, the opening of the City of Joy in Bukavu which will be run by survivors of rape in the eastern Congo. The American Journal of Public Health published a report this month which estimates more than two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criminalising homosexuality in the DRC</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/11/criminalising-homosexuality-in-the-drc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTIQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRC Anti-homosexuality bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ejiba Yamapia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kinshasa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The DRC parliament is presently debating proposed in the process of discussing legislation which will criminalise homosexuality. There are a number of major difference between the DRC Bill and legislation proposed in for example, Nigeria and Uganda which have proposed similar legislation. First the DRC does not presently have any laws on homosexuality and secondly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sange</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/sange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Quarcoopome</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Blogger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil spill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=7437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We thought collecting black gold would make us truly free You do not blame a woman whose belly has been empty for fifty years If she scoops the sand onto which the gari has spilled Hoping to sift through later So as soon as we saw the tanker tipping over Agonizing Slow Like a tortoise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimpa Vita – a profile of courage</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/07/kimpa-vita-%e2%80%93-a-profile-of-courage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimpa Vita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the anniversary of the death of Kimpa Vita who together with her baby (Kembo Dianzenza va Kintete) and her boyfriend, were burned to death on July 2nd 1706 by the Catholic church. I only just found out about Kimpa Vita – there is so much of our African and Diaspora history that is unknown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking silences</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/04/7210/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rape survivors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Mutamba Muhunde&#8217;s poem is dedicated to raising awareness of survivors of rape in conflict zones in parts of Africa and breaking the silence. Amanda pulls no punches in raising your conscious a notch or two as she lyrically details a woman’s account of her own rape, and her unfulfilled wish to no longer breath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand theft Congo &#8211; who are the plunderers?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/grand_theft_congo_-_who_are_the_plunderers_/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/grand_theft_congo_-_who_are_the_plunderers_/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=4916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us probably havent even heard of cassiterite &#8211; the mineral used in electronics especially laptops.  There was a time when laptops used to be hugely expensive. Now you can pick up one for a couple of hundred pounds.  I dont know whether there is a relationship between the cheap price of laptops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda, DRC and Nkunda</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/02/2642/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurent Nkunda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of Congo provide some context into complex situation between the Congo and Rwanda and the arrest of Laurent Nkunda. Is Laurent Nkunda’s arrest a positive development? We have reasons to doubt that Laurent Nkunda has been arrested. Rwandan Maj. Jill Rutaremara said that Nkunda was in Rwanda but &#8220;not in jail.&#8221; If Nkunda has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring African Wars</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/02/ignoring_african_wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us the hourly news reports showing the horrific slaughter and devastation of the Israeli attack on Gaza is still very much fresh in our minds. Daily coverage on TV, radio and news media with endless analysis, pundits as well as live reports. At some point in the war I remember thinking how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/from_africa_to_haiti_to_gaza_fidelity_to_humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/from_africa_to_haiti_to_gaza_fidelity_to_humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darfur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[zionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Depelchin, peace activist and Executive Director of the Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity based in the DRC, has written a poem &#8220;From Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to humanity&#8221;. The poem makes the connection between historical and contemporary struggles for liberation and justice from Africa to the Americas, to the [...]]]></description>
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