We're off the regular computer for a few days; thank goodness for handheld blogging! Saturday (yesterday) witnessed the local "state" Democratic Party conference. I qualify the word *state* since the citizens of capital city, including numbers of the people who...
posted 3:12 pm at Marian's Blog
In London in September or October 2004 this writer spoke on the panel, "Alliances We Need to Fight Racism" at the European Social Forum (Malmo, Sweden Sept. 2008). I participated as a member of the network Alliance of People of...
posted 8:36 am at Marian's Blog
If you're in the U.S. or nearby, when you need to shop start using this site - Co-op America's National Green Pages.
posted 7:14 pm at Marian's Blog
What is there to say about Zimbabwe? 18 April marks the 28th anniversary of Zimbabwe's freedom from colonialism and state-sponsored apartheid. Some of us, like me, marched and protested to help put an end to Rhodesia. Most people acknowledge something's...
posted 8:25 am at Marian's Blog
Aime Cesaire est mort aujourd'hui. Aime Cesaire has died today. We awoke to this news, 17 April 2008. He made it to age 94. The Martiniquan poet, novelist, playwright and former mayor of Fort de France and member of French...
posted 10:57 am at Marian's Blog
There are lots of things I admire and love about my other home, Italia. Overall though, the public status of women is not one of them. I haven't yet heard how the voting is going today and tomorrow but I...
posted 12:51 pm at Marian's Blog
Not being there, I feel I'm missing out as Italia prepares to vote - again - on tomorrow and Monday. (Can't the U.S. take the hint about weekend elections?) Italy's current election situation seems sooo eerily deja-vu, like we've been...
posted 7:33 pm at Marian's Blog
The current global food crisis makes me remember being in Jamaica in the last quarter of 1977. Michael Manley was prime minister. For some reason, the U.S. government did not consider Mr. Manley a friend. Somehow I sensed that perhaps...
posted 6:23 am at Marian's Blog
April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration coming from the Asian subcontinent into East and Southern Africa?? India and the African Union each has its...
posted 7:38 am at Marian's Blog
Since his accession to the French presidency, I seem to have lost track of the times when to hear Nicolas Sarkozy speak is to re-affirm that truth indeed is stranger than fiction. It's likely that for most of his listeners...
posted 3:16 pm at Marian's Blog