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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Social Movements</title>
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		<title>Interview with Haitian activist Rea Dol</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/interview_with_haitian_activist_rea_dol.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rea Dol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPUDEP]]></category>

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Rea Dol is grassroots community organiser and founder of SOPUDEP school in Port-au-Prince.   Shortly after the earthquake they had to abandon the school which was being used as a shelter due to the stench of dead bodies and sturtural damage which made the building unsafe.  
For the school to continue it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 activist errors &amp; how to avoid them</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/15_activist_errors_how_to_avoid_them.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Rights Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
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The Palestine Think Tank [Haitham Sabbah, Yousef Abudayyeh, Mohamed Khodr, Mary Rizzo,] have published this excellent list of common errors made by activists / movements and how to rectify them.  The errors and solution are applicable to movements and activists worldwide.  
Activism and activists for Palestine have been getting some media attention recently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/11/what_to_do.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-homosexuality Bill Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaz Maviyane-Davies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norm Chomsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda homophobia]]></category>

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&#8220;&#8221;&#8230;what happens from now on depends very much on what people like you are going to do. If you become energized, engaged, involved, active, organized, protesting and so on &#8211; OK, there can be more historical changes. If you choose to resign to apathy and obedience, then you get a reconstruction of what happens before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transgender day of remembrance</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/11/transgender_day_of_rememberance.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daisy Dube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transgender day of rememberance]]></category>

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From Gender DynamiX
This Friday Daisy Dube will be remembered. Daisy was shot and killed in Yeoville in 2008 because of her gender identity. She and three drag queens out for the night stopped and asked three men in a car to stop calling them &#8220;isitabane.&#8221; (A isiZulu slur used for LGBT people). Her cold blooded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for Abahlali against the Slums Act</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/10/victory_for_abahlali_against_the_slums_act.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KZN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor Peoples Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shackdwellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slum Act South AFrica]]></category>

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Congratulations to Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (AbM) for their perseverance and belief in their rights and non-violence.   After being subjected to &#8220;political violence and shameless slander&#8221; over the last two weeks, there  is reason to celebrate.  The Constitutional Court (CC) of South Africa have today declared the provincial KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement by Abahlali baseMjondolo President S&#8217;bu Zikode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shackdwellers south africa]]></category>

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Following the mob attacks on Kennedy Rd settlement, S&#8217;bu and his family and other members of KRDC are now refugees as Kennedy Rd is now being run by the local ANC.   
The movement is still under attack in Kennedy Road and the police are still failing to protect us. The settlement is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are not cowards we will never surrender our struggle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/we_are_not_cowards_we_will_never_surrender_our_struggle.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/we_are_not_cowards_we_will_never_surrender_our_struggle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abaha]]></category>

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In the early hours of Saturday morning mobs attacked the Kennedy Rd settlement.   Now thousands are running from the settlement, the President and Vice President are in hiding, the office is being emptied for fear it will be bulldozed.  This is pure intimidation in what appears to be attempts by the local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mzonke Poni on Public Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/mzonke_poni_on_public_violence.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/mzonke_poni_on_public_violence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abahlali baseMjondolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shackdwellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Cape]]></category>

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Mzonke Poni  of Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape is scheduled to go on trial today for a charge of &#8220;PUBLIC VIOLENCE&#8221;. In this essay, Poni eloquently discusses the notion of &#8220;public violence&#8221; asking what is it? who counts as the public? and most importantly what counts as violence &#8211;  direct action and peaceful protest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abahlali: War against the poor continues in Durban</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/abahlali_war_against_the_poor_continues_in_durban.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/abahlali_war_against_the_poor_continues_in_durban.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African National Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KRDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KZN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Misconduct]]></category>

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On Saturday the Kennedy Road settlement was attacked by a group of 40 heavily armed men.  They destroyed 15 homes belonging to members of the Kennedy Road  Development Committee [KRDC]   including that of S&#8217;bu Zikode.  Some people were killed including two of the attackers.   The police were called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life for rapist and murderer of Eudy Simelane</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/life_for_rapist_and_murderer_of_eudy_simelane.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/09/life_for_rapist_and_murderer_of_eudy_simelane.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African LGBTI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Township Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African lesbians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eudy Simelane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>

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Themba Mvubu, 24, from Kwathema, was found guilty of murder, robbery and being an accessory to the rape. He continued to show no remorse and left the court muttering  &#8220;I&#8217;m not sorry&#8221;. Possibly after a few years in jail he might at some point reconsider this statement.  In summing up the case the [...]]]></description>
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