Tweet The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches In the book I push back against the myth of the accessible American dream and look at the devastating impact that the recession has had on communities of color. I ask how one creates a just society based on the principles of anti-racist godlessness; [...]
Haiti: Interview with LGBT organization, KOURAJ

Tweet I recently met with Ernest Gaubert of KOURAJ Ayiti which is a grassroots organization with members in Cap Haitian, Gonaïves, St Marc, Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. It began as a social organisation Ami – Ami [friend to friend] in 2010 but the group soon realized they needed to expand to include advocacy around rights, access to [...]
A poem on the joys & freedom of getting old
The Week on Sunday (weekly)
Tweet We will bite our tongues no more | Education | Mail & Guardian Suren Pillay’s recent contribution to the debate on the humanities and social sciences is important because it places the task of “decolonisation” at the centre of transforming these disciplines (“Decolonising the humanities”, tags: education Decolonise humanities Africa Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: [...]
Profile: Soweto born soccer star, Phumla Rose
Tweet From Inkanyiso – Greeted with an everlasting smile by a body that doesn’t seem to age, Phumla Rose Masuku welcomes us to her home. Present is Phumla’s life partner Nombulelo ‘Bulie’ Vimbelela. For a person in her mid 30s Masuku expresses that she’s excited that she is ageing gracefully. She has always feared the age [...]
Haiti: Occasional Musings – 13,

A second article in the Guardian [2009] by Paul Collier [Clinton's economic policy bag man] is even worse as he advocates Haiti seize the ‘window of opportunity’ by mirroring Bangladesh’s garment industry. Haiti should be running as far away as possible from the Bangladesh model which has resulted in the deaths of over 1000 garment workers over the past few years including the so far 640 people killed when a building collapsed last week – imagine the uproar if 640 US workers had died as a result of negligence. The whole point of factories in Bangladesh and Haiti is to robotize people and bleed the workers to death. That is the cost of cheap food, cheap clothes, and expensive iPhones, workers are bled. In Caracol, farmers sold their land for $1200 and this is one of the problems in the new ‘open for business’ Haiti. Poor farmers and displaced people are being offered meagre sums of money to sell land or to move from camps. Its hard to resist and consider the long terms when you have nothing. I attended a May day protest by some of the women workers who make t-shirts for yes, you guessed it, Walmart.
The Resurrection
Tweet Anthony Adero granted me the privilege and the honor of discussing with him his redemptive experience following the trauma of being gang raped. We delved into his “afterlife,” his journey through fear, denial and social resistance, and the overwhelming difficulty of finding the expressive language to capture an awful occurrence that grew into a blessing [...]
A Gay Kenyan’s Gang Rape (Part 1): The Blessing
Tweet On the morning of Dec. 11, 2007, Anthony Adero decided to leave his hometown forever and head to the capital, because he wanted to kiss a man for the first time in his life. He packed the few essentials needed for his five-hour trip, little things that carry weight, like family photographs and a [...]
40 years of independent journalism from New Internationalist
Tweet The New Internationalist timeline is a documentary of 40 years of social justice journalism. Take August 1st 1983 “6 rules for real aid” which calls for reform of the aid machine. Sadly little has changed except the aid machine has grown into a huge industry and network profit machines. Despite three decades of official [...]





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