International Financial Reform and Africa: What is to be Done?
African nations will need help coping with fallout from the international financial crisis which they played no part in creating.
Remembering a Black Radical in a Barack Obama America
Remembering the legacy of Kwame Ture in light of the historical election of Barack Obama.
Discussion: Resilience and Recovery: Lessons From Rwanda
Join IPS and the Institute for Victims of Trauma (IVT) in a discussion featuring Ivan Kayonga and Leila Dane, experts on the effects of stress on traumatized populations.
Ivan Kayonga is a media person from Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali. He interviewed Dr. Dane on Rwanda TV in 2005 and produced the DVD, The Value of Resilience in Trauma Recovery. His visit to the U.S is at the invitation of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies for its annual convention, in Chicago this year. He has won his coveted travel grant for his remarkable creative ingenuity in defining a role for the media in facilitating the recovery of affected populations.
Leila Dane, a clinical psychologist, is Executive Director of the Institute for Victims of Trauma in McClean, Virginia. She is a specialist in traumatic stress and conflict resolution and works in conjunction with the American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Directorate as an expert on violence and also on ethno-political warfare.
Light refreshments to follow the presentation. The DVD will roll quietly in a corner, for those who are interested.
Limited seating. RSVP by email to sena@ips-dc.org to guarantee your name is on the reserved seating list.
Africa’s Unnatural Disaster
Economic policy is to blame for hunger in Africa.
Mother Earth’s Triple Whammy
Think the current global food crisis is something new? Just ask the North Koreans.
Richard Wright on Black Power
On the 100th anniversary of Richard Wright’s birth, E. Ethelbert Miller interviews three scholars on the writer’s take on Africa and colonialism.
Destroying African Agriculture
The World Bank and the IMF are the real culprits behind the current food crisis, argues columnist Walden Bello.
Africas Own Needs Should Come First
Rising prices make African oil a tempting prize. But African leaders are resisting U.S. plans to militarize the continent, saying their resources should be used to alleviate poverty.
Candidates for Congress Show the Way Out
The 2006 mid-term election sent a clear signal: Americans want out of Iraq. As the occupation drags on, 10 candidates for the U.S. Congress announce a plan to bring all the troops home.
Africa: Price Hikes, Migration, Displacement & Food Sovereignty
Granny Peace Brigade’s AFRICOM Teach-In
The Granny Peace Brigade’s Teach-In examines the implications of the new U.S. military command infrastructure, AFRICOM; and the direct threat to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of peace, economic justice, and racial harmony AFRICOM poses on the 40th anniversary of his assassination.
AFRICOM would be the sixth Defense Department regional military command, and according to the Pentagon, would consolidate all U.S. functions (Agriculture, Commerce, Treasury, Peace Corps, and others) under its jurisdiction. The department expects to be "fully operational" in October 2008 but the only African nation willing to house the command’s continental headquarters is Liberia. Currently, AFRICOM is based in Stuttgart-Moehringen, Germany.
Vinie Burrows, actor, writer, and member of the New York Granny Peace Brigade will moderate the program.
Speakers:
Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
Horace Campbell, professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University
Frida Berrigan, senior research associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center, World Policy Institute
Sonia Sanchez, poet, educator, and member of the Philadelphia Granny Peace Brigade
Admission is free. Donations are welcomed. Doors will open at 1:15 PM, and light refreshments will be available. For more information, call (212) 865-7875.
Founded in 2005 in opposition to the Iraq occupation, the Granny Peace Brigade stands for peace and condemns the use of military force to resolve conflicts. www.grannypeacebrigade.org.
The Second Shockwave
The global economic crisis is just now hitting the developing world with devastating effects.
Rwanda and the War on Terrorism
A common flaw in U.S. foreign policy is the politicization of foreign assistance. Whether Republican or Democratic, U.S. administrations allow narrowly defined “national interests” – instead of needs, priorities, and realities in a given country – to dictate foreign assistance. And Rwanda is an excellent case in point.
Militarizing Africa (Again)
With the new Africa Command, the United States is increasing its military footprint on an energy-rich continent.
Africa Policy Outlook 2008
The Bush administration is continuing its militarization of U.S.-African relations this year.