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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Environment</title>
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		<title>Ken Saro-Wiwa on how it was, how it remains &amp; how it could be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil Cabal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KSW reminds us of a struggle Nigerians have largely ignored or at best dismissed. The Nigerian media [pre social media] has to take major responsibility for the lack of information and analysis no doubt bullied as usual by military and pseudo military governments including Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s. He reminds us of our right to stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the condition of Nigeria by Nigerians….</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/nigeria-by-nigerians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion and the Nigerian state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three excellent insightful articles by Nigerians on Nigeria with my brief comments. “People In The Niger Delta Now Recognize That Jonathan Is A Waste Of Time” – Isaac Osuoka Issac Osuoka is a long time environmental and social justice activist from the Niger Delta and a founding member of the IYC and more recently Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond COP17 &#8211; language and grassroots realities</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/12/beyond-cop17-language-and-grassroots-realities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A clip from a roundtable discussion on the South African media&#8217;s reporting on Climate Change which has failed to amplify the voices of those most affected.]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse me while I die</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/excuse-me-while-i-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16 Days Against Violence Against Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[16Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COP17]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shackdwellers south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are 4 days into the 16 Days of Activist Against Violence Against Women which dates back to 1999. Fourteen years of days and weeks where the world supposedly focuses on violence against women will end on Human Rights Day, the 10th December. In Durban the 17th UN Climate Change conference begins today and continues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Normalisation of oil pollution and violence in the Niger Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/normalisation-of-oil-pollution-and-violence-in-the-niger-delta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/normalisation-of-oil-pollution-and-violence-in-the-niger-delta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bamako 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Osodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miliartism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new series of photos from Nigerian photo activist George Osodi presented at Bamako 2011. The series shows &#8220;the duality of life&#8221; in the Niger Delta where oil pollution and violence have become a normalised everyday part of life &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Japan to donate food from Fukushima region to global south countries</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/japan-to-donate-food-from-fukushima-region-to-global-south-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/japan-to-donate-food-from-fukushima-region-to-global-south-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NHK [Japan National Broadcasting] reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is proposing to purchase industrial and canned fish products from disaster hit areas, Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate as “a means to tackle harmful rumor against their products”. The Ministry applied for a budget $65 million for this purpose under overseas development aid[ODA]. These products have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report finds Shell complicit in human rights abuses &amp; payments to militants</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/report-finds-shell-complicit-in-human-rights-abuses-payments-to-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/report-finds-shell-complicit-in-human-rights-abuses-payments-to-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miliartism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell Guilty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report has found that Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants. The report, called Counting the Cost, is published by Platform and a coalition of NGOs and featured in todays UK Guardian. The report, uncovers how Shell’s routine payments to armed militants exacerbated conflicts, in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visionary and extraordinary woman: RIP Wangari Maathai</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/visionary-and-extraordinary-woman-rip-wangari-maathai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/09/visionary-and-extraordinary-woman-rip-wangari-maathai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GreenBelt Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planting Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wangari Maathai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blacklooks.org/?p=8438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In her honour let us continue to plant trees, plant seeds of life, plant good governance, plant love of each other &#160; Gukira has an excellent post honouring Wangari Maathai &#8220;Wangari&#8217;s Daughters&#8221; Over the past few years, it has been my immense privilege to meet and come to know women I now think of as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trapped in water privatisation</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/06/trapped-in-water-privatisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pan-African ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Right to water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water privatisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water wars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently complained that she now had to pay for water as it was no longer included in her rent. She now has to be more conscious about the amount of water she uses for showering and washing dishes.   Water is one of those natural resources which those living in the Global North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toilets are a human right:   From poo to compost in 6 months</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/01/right-to-toilets-from-poo-to-compost-in-6-months/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/01/right-to-toilets-from-poo-to-compost-in-6-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compost & Recycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberation Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOIL Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toilets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformational Organising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I met  Sasha Kramer the co-founder of SOIL [Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods] one Sunday afternoon at a Haitian  family wedding party high up on the top of a hill in Pernier district of Port-au-Prince.    About 20 of us piled into the flat bed truck and drove up and up at some points the road [...]]]></description>
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