On Tuesday, Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez advocated a reform of the international financial system that allows developing countries to face the climate crisis. “The lack of political will to act is not the real problem. We do not have sufficient resources to meet the planetary challenge. That is the underlying problem,” she said when…
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Increasingly sophisticated weapons are being trafficked into Haiti mainly from the United States and especially from Florida amid worsening lawlessness in the impoverished Caribbean nation, according to a new U.N. report By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press March 4, 2023, 1:35 AM UNITED NATIONS — Increasingly sophisticated weapons are being trafficked into Haiti mainly from the United States…
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Organizers are rediscovering how song culture can help lead the way to social change. PAUL ENGLER JANUARY 4, 2023 This piece was originally published at Waging Nonviolence. Social movements are stronger when they sing. That’s a lesson that has been amply demonstrated throughout history, and it’s one that I have learned personally in working to develop trainings for…
Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States. ANN GARRISON – DEC 15, 2022 The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman for the M23 militia. It did…
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Dr. Jared Ball is the host of iMiXWHATiLiKE! with Jared Ball podcast, the flagship program of the Black Power Media collective. He is a professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University, Maryland’s leading HBCU. He is the author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, of which a second expanded…
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DW spoke exclusively with the Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, from COP 27 in Egypt, about the relationship between climate, racial and gender justice in Colombia, Latin America and the world. Francia Márquez has a life story as a social leader, lawyer, environmental and human rights defender, which has led her to become and…
On the November 6, 2022 edition of Vantage Point Radio, Don Rojas joined the Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the Black World Media Network.
by STAFF WRITER October 5, 2022 By Nelson A. King NEW YORK, Oct 5, CMC – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has denounced a plan by New York City to open Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers to support hundreds of asylum seekers, including Caribbean nationals, primarily Haitians, who are arriving in the city daily…
Published: September 27, 2022 8.27am EDT Two very different Brazils could emerge after voters go the polls to elect a president on Oct. 2, 2022. In one scenario, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s current president, will manage to stay in power – by either winning the vote or illegally ignoring it – and continue to push the…
Under the ‘American Plan,’ women could be detained for sitting in a restaurant alone, changing jobs—or, often, for no reason at all. SCOTT W. STERN – UPDATED:JUL 21, 2019 ORIGINAL:MAR 27, 2019 For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked people up without trials simply for having sexually…
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