Rewriting Africa: Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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| Hunter-Gault pushes for diverse reporting on Africa, supports local journalism |
AllAfrica recently interviewed
journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who talks about her experiences as a correspondent for an entire continent. The 5-page article digs into her opinions on media coverage, biased journalism, the changes in local journalism, and her personal experience fighting to get certain stories covered.
“Reporting is dominated by the four ‘d’s… - death, disease, disaster and despair.”
Hunter-Gault has a lot to say regarding the state of reporting from the African continent.
10 October 2006 | 07.00am (CEST) | posted by
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TAGS Politics & Governance | Ethnicity & Culture | Media & Information | History & Heritage
Post-Katrina: New Orleans’ Culinary Heritage
As the rest of the world relives Katrina through the media’s one year after specials, New Orleans residents have been working through the aftermath, day by day. In last week’s
New York Times, there’s an interesting glimpse into the attempts to preserve New Orleans’ culinary heritage, despite the everyday struggle.
30 August 2006 | 04.00pm (CEST) | posted by
Marie | comment |
TAGS Health & Nutrition | Demography & Migration | Ethnicity & Culture | History & Heritage
Preserving History with Public Art
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| Volunteers at the University of Mississippi Museum restored gravestones in rural communities. (Photo: Photocase) |
Huge art projects like wrappings or anonymous snarky graffiti, posters and stickers are an integral part of the urban landscape. Limited financing or a new coat of paint gives this kind of public art an ephemeral “here today, gone tomorrow” quality. Lacking the grand scale, some public art integrates into its environment, engaging community members in dialogue and creating a lasting change of perspective.
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29 August 2006 | 10.00am (CEST) | posted by
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TAGS Education | Demography & Migration | Ethnicity & Culture | Arts & Literature | History & Heritage
The Politics of Going Back to Nature in Europe
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| Bruno the Bear shortly before his demise (DDP © from Spiegel On Line, 2006) |
The European Commission has
clashed with Poland again over a scheme designed to protect wildlife and habitats in member countries. The
Natura 2000 programme already protects 18% of the territory in the pre-2004 EU, and is now working out which areas to bring under its wing in the new, enlarged Union. Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski complained that:
“Natura 2000 has expanded so much that it is practically impossible to build anything.”
14 August 2006 | 11.26am (CEST) | posted by
Susanna | comment |
TAGS Politics & Governance | Demography & Migration | History & Heritage | Environment | Animal Rights
Hobo Days
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| The Great Depression forced 4,000,000 Americans away from thier homes and onto the tracks. |
Every August,
hoboes from all across the United States gather in Britt, Iowa, to celebrate
National Hobo Convention. Living reminders of a bygone lifestyle, they travel into the city ‘the hobo way’: by hopping freight trains. This year, the convention took off by celebrating the opening of the new
Hobo Museum.The hobo life of reclusion from society and constant transition in risky trains has its roots in eras of economic hardship in the United States. As the nation expanded westward after the Civil War, many veterans who had been left homeless assumed a transitory lifestyle, finding work on farms or in construction, building dams, gas lines, or the railroad itself, and hopping a train when the work ran out.
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13 August 2006 | 06.27pm (CEST) | posted by
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TAGS Arts & Literature | History & Heritage | Other
South African Women Commemorate Historic March
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| Rate of violence against women in SA is among the highest in the world |
Thousands of women marched in the South African capital, Pretoria, to protest the country’s high rate of violence against women. They are using the 50th anniversary of a historic demonstration against the apartheid regime to highlight the problems women of SA are still facing today. A South African woman dies at the hands of her partner every six hours, while rape and physical and mental abuse are said to be rampant.
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09 August 2006 | 12.59pm (CEST) | posted by
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TAGS Justice & Civil Rights | Human Rights | Gender Issues | Quality of Life & Prosperity | History & Heritage
61st Anniversary of Hiroshima
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| A woman floats paper lanterns in the Motoyasu River before the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) |
Yesterday marked Hiroshima Day, the 61st anniversary of the dropping of the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Japanese civilians, which killed 140,000 people.
Indy Media have a round-up of links giving both the history of the attacks and details of the memorial services and protests that took place worldwide on Sunday. At a ceremony in Hiroshima Peace Park the city’s mayor,
Tadatoshi Akiba, addressed the crowds:
“Sixty-one years have passed since radiation, heat rays and an atomic blast created hell on earth, but the number of nations enamored of evil and enslaved by nuclear arms has increased. The only role nuclear weapons have is to be demolished.”
07 August 2006 | 09.23am (CEST) | posted by
Susanna | comment |
TAGS Politics & Governance | Peace & Security | Human Rights | History & Heritage
112 Free Voices: Nadja Halilbegovich inspires a generation
“I am honored to be a part of The Table of Free Voices. I believe that to share and learn from hundreds of different people with different experiences and perspectives is a thrilling process and a first step towards creating a deeper understanding, wider awareness and, ultimately, peace and harmony.
Born in Sarajevo, singer, author and peace advocate Nadja Halilbegovich was just 12 when her home city was placed under military seige. Six months later, she was almost killed when a bomb exploded seven feet from her. In the tradition of Anne Frank, Nadia Halilbegovich confided her thoughts and feelings to her
diary.
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04 August 2006 | 08.17pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
TAGS Peace & Security | Children & Youth Issues | Arts & Literature | History & Heritage | dropping knowledge News
112 Free Voices: Avi Primor & the politics of diplomacy
Avi Primor is a renowned Israeli diplomat and author. Born in 1935, Primor joined the Israeli foreign service as a cadet at 25 and, following various posts in Africa and Europe, held a series of key positions in the foreign ministry during the ’70s and ’80s. He was the Israeli ambassador in Brussels (1987-91) and Bonn (1993-99) during one of the most transformative decades in European history. Having served as vice president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1991-93) and Tel Aviv University (1999-2003), he currently directs the Center for European Studies at the
Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
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01 August 2006 | 01.57pm (CEST) | posted by
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TAGS Politics & Governance | Peace & Security | History & Heritage | dropping knowledge News
112 Free Voices: Andries Botha, sculptor of wisdom
“I decided to participate at the Table of Free Voices for two small reasons: (1) I consider it a rare opportunity to be with individuals who have committed their lives to contemplation and social justice. (2) To have the global community generate questions around issues that are deeply significant to them affords for us an opportunity not only to hear these but also to struggle to offer real and sincere answers to our struggling humanity.”
Internationally renowned
sculptor and human rights activist Andries Botha has worked with both governmental and non-profit organizations to promote and preserve South African culture. In the early ’90s, he served as the National Visual Arts Chairperson for the newly elected democratic government.
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31 July 2006 | 09.52am (CEST) | posted by
Marie | comment |
TAGS Gender Issues | Education | Health & Nutrition | Ethnicity & Culture | Arts & Literature | History & Heritage | dropping knowledge News
112 Free Voices: Eliane Potiguara, community-builder & cultural conservationist
Eliane Potiguara is an activist committed to fighting for women’s rights in Brazil’s indigenous population. Also known as Lima de Santos, Potiguara was born after her family emigrated from the state of Paraiba, home of the Potiguara tribe, to Rio de Janeiro. Her devotion to education started at a young age, when she began teaching neighborhood children to read and write. As a professor of Indigenous Linguistics,
Potiguara supports and promotes indigenous literature. One of her most successful projects is the Group of Indigenous Women Educators (GRUMIN -
Grupo Mulher - Educaçao).
29 July 2006 | 11.27am (CEST) | posted by
Marie | comment |
TAGS Gender Issues | Education | Ethnicity & Culture | History & Heritage | dropping knowledge News
Safi Mafundikwa: Trailblazer in the Digital Arts
Amid the political turmoil of the Mugabe government, a beacon for arts is slowly growing in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare at ZIVA, the
Zimbabwe Institute for Vigital Arts. Director Safi Mafundikwa opened the school in 1999 with only 4 students. Since then, enrollment at Zimbabwe’s first graphic design school has grown tenfold.
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26 July 2006 | 02.36pm (CEST) | posted by
Marie | comment |
TAGS Education | Ethnicity & Culture | Arts & Literature | History & Heritage
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