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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.
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Sunday, July 3, 2016
Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties break down Pennsylvania ballot access barriers SHARE
Pennsylvania is one of the 11 "swing" states - Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, and Virginia.- where presidential election outcomes are unpredictable. That didn't stop the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution Party from joining together in a lawsuit that has broken down the state's formidable access barriers.
Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties break down Pennsylvania ballot access barriers SHARE
Pennsylvania is one of the 11 "swing" states - Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, and Virginia.- where presidential election outcomes are unpredictable. That didn't stop the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution Party from joining together in a lawsuit that has broken down the state's formidable access barriers.
Friday, June 24, 2016
Clinton E-Mail on Libyan Conquest: We Came, We Saw, We Got Oil SHARE
On 10.20.2011, NATO-backed forces murdered their captive Muammar Ghaddafi grotesquely on camera. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said “I want him dead,” and after his death gloated that, “We came, we saw, he died,” refiguring Julius Caesar’s message to the Roman Senate after one of his own conquests in the same Mediterranean region. Less than a month later, in an 11.16.2011 “Tripoli Situation Report” in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail archive, “country managers of the three U.S. firms comprising the Waha Group (Marathon, ConocoPhillips and Amerada Hess) said meetings with its Libyan joint venture partner and the National Oil Company [NOC] this week were ‘extremely positive’ and that they were encouraged by an apparent sea change in the NOC’s attitude toward its U.S. partners.”
Clinton E-Mail on Libyan Conquest: We Came, We Saw, We Got Oil SHARE
On 10.20.2011, NATO-backed forces murdered their captive Muammar Ghaddafi grotesquely on camera. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said “I want him dead,” and after his death gloated that, “We came, we saw, he died,” refiguring Julius Caesar’s message to the Roman Senate after one of his own conquests in the same Mediterranean region. Less than a month later, in an 11.16.2011 “Tripoli Situation Report” in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail archive, “country managers of the three U.S. firms comprising the Waha Group (Marathon, ConocoPhillips and Amerada Hess) said meetings with its Libyan joint venture partner and the National Oil Company [NOC] this week were ‘extremely positive’ and that they were encouraged by an apparent sea change in the NOC’s attitude toward its U.S. partners.”
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Burundi is Africa's Syria SHARE
Rwandan journalist Didas GasanaThe unipolar, US-led global order is facing its most difficult challenge since the US rise to global supremacy, most notably from economic, military and nuclear powers Russia and China. This competition is currently most obvious in Syria, but Rwandan journalist Didas Gasana writes that it is also playing out in Burundi, the tiny but geostrategic East African nation which borders Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east, and the resource rich Democratic Republic of Congo to the west. Gasana writes that Burundi is Africa's Syria, deep down in the center of sub-Saharan Africa.
Burundi is Africa's Syria SHARE
Rwandan journalist Didas GasanaThe unipolar, US-led global order is facing its most difficult challenge since the US rise to global supremacy, most notably from economic, military and nuclear powers Russia and China. This competition is currently most obvious in Syria, but Rwandan journalist Didas Gasana writes that it is also playing out in Burundi, the tiny but geostrategic East African nation which borders Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east, and the resource rich Democratic Republic of Congo to the west. Gasana writes that Burundi is Africa's Syria, deep down in the center of sub-Saharan Africa.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Blue Angels air show: San Francisco's choice SHARE
Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are as San Franciscan as Rice-A-Roni, the Powell Street cable car and the Ellis Act. So is the annual Columbus Day Parade, aka the Italian Heritage Day Parade, through North Beach as the Blue Angels tear up the sky overhead.San Francisco is, after all, as historian Grey Brechin pointed out, Imperial San Francisco. Few aside from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and the rest of the USA’s military industrial giants have made more money on the Iraq War than California’s U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum. Their $20 million Pacific Heights mansion looks out over San Francisco Bay and its art deco signature, the Golden Gate Bridge.The Blue Angels first came to San Francisco in 1981, three years after the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, when Feinstein was mayor.
Blue Angels air show: San Francisco's choice SHARE
Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are as San Franciscan as Rice-A-Roni, the Powell Street cable car and the Ellis Act. So is the annual Columbus Day Parade, aka the Italian Heritage Day Parade, through North Beach as the Blue Angels tear up the sky overhead.San Francisco is, after all, as historian Grey Brechin pointed out, Imperial San Francisco. Few aside from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman and the rest of the USA’s military industrial giants have made more money on the Iraq War than California’s U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum. Their $20 million Pacific Heights mansion looks out over San Francisco Bay and its art deco signature, the Golden Gate Bridge.The Blue Angels first came to San Francisco in 1981, three years after the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, when Feinstein was mayor.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Congo's Kabila makes his way through the mud to Goma SHARE
Congolese President Joseph Kabila completed a six day, 1000 kilometre, road trip last week, after traveling through the country's east to Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, on its border with Rwanda. North Kivu has long been most ravaged by Rwanda and Uganda's M23 militia and its previous incarnations. Kabila said that he had undertaken the road trip to demonstrate that territory once occupied by M23 is now safe. However, the dirt roads were so drenched with rain that video showed his vehicle and those of the rest of his entourage struggling through mud, turning over, and being pushed out of the mud by soldiers or hoisted out by tow trucks.
Congo's Kabila makes his way through the mud to Goma SHARE
Congolese President Joseph Kabila completed a six day, 1000 kilometre, road trip last week, after traveling through the country's east to Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, on its border with Rwanda. North Kivu has long been most ravaged by Rwanda and Uganda's M23 militia and its previous incarnations. Kabila said that he had undertaken the road trip to demonstrate that territory once occupied by M23 is now safe. However, the dirt roads were so drenched with rain that video showed his vehicle and those of the rest of his entourage struggling through mud, turning over, and being pushed out of the mud by soldiers or hoisted out by tow trucks.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
BHP Billiton and the Navajo Nation SHARE
BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, has signed an agreement to sell its Navajo Coal Mine on the Navajo Reservation to the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Tribal Council says they voted to buy the mine to save 800 much needed jobs, both at the coal mine and the Four Corners Power Plant, but Navajo environmental activists say that the purchase could ultimately bankrupt the nation by making them responsible for environmental clean-up liabilities.
BHP Billiton and the Navajo Nation SHARE
BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, has signed an agreement to sell its Navajo Coal Mine on the Navajo Reservation to the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Tribal Council says they voted to buy the mine to save 800 much needed jobs, both at the coal mine and the Four Corners Power Plant, but Navajo environmental activists say that the purchase could ultimately bankrupt the nation by making them responsible for environmental clean-up liabilities.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
M23's creators and commanders are in Rwanda and Uganda SHARE
U.S. officials and the corporate press have agreed to identify the M23 militia as "Congo rebels," despite the 2012 UN report that says M23's chain of command ends in the office of Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe. This week the U.S. said that it is prepared to lift sanctions on Rwanda if it simply "cuts ties" with M23.
M23's creators and commanders are in Rwanda and Uganda SHARE
U.S. officials and the corporate press have agreed to identify the M23 militia as "Congo rebels," despite the 2012 UN report that says M23's chain of command ends in the office of Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe. This week the U.S. said that it is prepared to lift sanctions on Rwanda if it simply "cuts ties" with M23.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Rwandan Supreme Court to rule in Victoire Ingabire's appeal on Nov. 1 SHARE
The Rwandan Supreme Court was set to rule on the appeal of political prisoner and opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on November 1st, but it has now postponed the ruling until December 13th. In 2010, when Ingabire attempted to run against Rwanda's sitting president, the London Independent called her "the woman who dared to take on Paul Kagame." Her case is of great significance not only in Rwanda but also in neighboring DR Congo, where the war and conflict that followed the Rwandan Civil War and Genocide has cost millions more lives there.
Rwandan Supreme Court to rule in Victoire Ingabire's appeal on Nov. 1 SHARE
The Rwandan Supreme Court was set to rule on the appeal of political prisoner and opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on November 1st, but it has now postponed the ruling until December 13th. In 2010, when Ingabire attempted to run against Rwanda's sitting president, the London Independent called her "the woman who dared to take on Paul Kagame." Her case is of great significance not only in Rwanda but also in neighboring DR Congo, where the war and conflict that followed the Rwandan Civil War and Genocide has cost millions more lives there.
Friday, June 21, 2013
San Francisco's urban farmers join battle for green space, invoking Istanbul SHARE
Occupiers who attempted to save Hayes Valley Farm renamed it Gezi Gardens, invoking the battle for green space in Istanbul, Turkey. KPFA Radio spoke to San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos about the push and pull over public land use, and his efforts to help build community consensus around an urban farm in another part of the city.
San Francisco's urban farmers join battle for green space, invoking Istanbul SHARE
Occupiers who attempted to save Hayes Valley Farm renamed it Gezi Gardens, invoking the battle for green space in Istanbul, Turkey. KPFA Radio spoke to San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos about the push and pull over public land use, and his efforts to help build community consensus around an urban farm in another part of the city.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
San Francisco Trans March to honor Bradley Manning at opening of PRIDE 2013 SHARE
The San Francisco Pride Board of Directors announced on Friday that it will not reinstate Bradley Manning as a 2013 Pride Parade Grand Marshal but the Dyke and Trans Marches have both said that they will honor Bradley Manning at their Pride Weekend events. The Trans March will present an award certificate to Bradley Manning, to be accepted by a trans member of the Bradley Manning Support Committee, as Pride Weekend begins. Nearly 300 people have already signed up to march with the Bradley Manning contingent in Sunday's Big Parade.
San Francisco Trans March to honor Bradley Manning at opening of PRIDE 2013 SHARE
The San Francisco Pride Board of Directors announced on Friday that it will not reinstate Bradley Manning as a 2013 Pride Parade Grand Marshal but the Dyke and Trans Marches have both said that they will honor Bradley Manning at their Pride Weekend events. The Trans March will present an award certificate to Bradley Manning, to be accepted by a trans member of the Bradley Manning Support Committee, as Pride Weekend begins. Nearly 300 people have already signed up to march with the Bradley Manning contingent in Sunday's Big Parade.
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Friday, June 7, 2013
Presidents Obama, Kikwete, Kagame and the Democratic Republic of the Congo SHARE
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete outraged Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other top Rwandan officials when he said, essentially, that the Rwandan Civil War transplanted to the Democratic Republic of the Congo - for almost 20 years - has to end. It is unlikely that he would have said so if he was not confident that President Obama agrees.
Presidents Obama, Kikwete, Kagame and the Democratic Republic of the Congo SHARE
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete outraged Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other top Rwandan officials when he said, essentially, that the Rwandan Civil War transplanted to the Democratic Republic of the Congo - for almost 20 years - has to end. It is unlikely that he would have said so if he was not confident that President Obama agrees.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Congo peace treaty or roadmap to balkanization? SHARE
A peace treaty for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was signed on February 24th, but is it making way for peace or for the balkanization of the mineral rich D.R.C.?
Congo peace treaty or roadmap to balkanization? SHARE
A peace treaty for the Democratic Republic of the Congo was signed on February 24th, but is it making way for peace or for the balkanization of the mineral rich D.R.C.?
Friday, February 22, 2013
Dear Mandela: The dream you went to prison for has never been achieved SHARE
South African President Jacob Zuma, in his State of the Union address, promised to speed the pace of land redistribution and housing construction to replace the country's urban shantytowns, but nearly 20 years after the end of apartheid, the number of people living in shantytowns has doubled and the state violence to evict the residents has increased.
Dear Mandela: The dream you went to prison for has never been achieved SHARE
South African President Jacob Zuma, in his State of the Union address, promised to speed the pace of land redistribution and housing construction to replace the country's urban shantytowns, but nearly 20 years after the end of apartheid, the number of people living in shantytowns has doubled and the state violence to evict the residents has increased.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Wartorn Mali's national soccer team advances to African Nations Cup semi-finals SHARE
As American football fans geared up for tomorrow's SuperBowl, over 50,000 South African fans filled a stadium to cheer for their national futbol, aka, soccer, team, in the quarter finals of the African Nations Cup. However, after an electrifying game that went into overtime and finally penalty kicks, wartorn Mali's team triumphed, securing a place in the semi-finals. Team captain Seydou Keitu said again that he and his teammates are fiercely motivated by the desire to give comfort to their friends and family in danger at home. In this African contest, teams often carry the flag of national struggle or aspiration onto the field.
Wartorn Mali's national soccer team advances to African Nations Cup semi-finals SHARE
As American football fans geared up for tomorrow's SuperBowl, over 50,000 South African fans filled a stadium to cheer for their national futbol, aka, soccer, team, in the quarter finals of the African Nations Cup. However, after an electrifying game that went into overtime and finally penalty kicks, wartorn Mali's team triumphed, securing a place in the semi-finals. Team captain Seydou Keitu said again that he and his teammates are fiercely motivated by the desire to give comfort to their friends and family in danger at home. In this African contest, teams often carry the flag of national struggle or aspiration onto the field.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Victoire Ingabire's third Christmas behind bars in Rwanda SHARE
After Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's M23 militia terrified another 900,000 people into fleeing their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012, Victoire Ingabire spent her third Christmas in Rwanda's 1930 maximum security prison. The 900,000 figure is the estimate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
In 2009, when a Dutch television broadcaster asked Victoire's 9-year-old son Riszt - who is now 11 - why his mother was returning to Rwanda, he said, "So that there won't be war anymore." Ingabire returned to stand for the presidency against Kagame, but she was not allowed to run and was instead imprisoned, like so many others who threaten Kagame's iron will.
Kagame has been a U.S. ally and "military partner" since leading an invasion of Rwanda from Uganda in 1990 and seizing state power in 1994.
Victoire Ingabire's third Christmas behind bars in Rwanda SHARE
After Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's M23 militia terrified another 900,000 people into fleeing their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012, Victoire Ingabire spent her third Christmas in Rwanda's 1930 maximum security prison. The 900,000 figure is the estimate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
In 2009, when a Dutch television broadcaster asked Victoire's 9-year-old son Riszt - who is now 11 - why his mother was returning to Rwanda, he said, "So that there won't be war anymore." Ingabire returned to stand for the presidency against Kagame, but she was not allowed to run and was instead imprisoned, like so many others who threaten Kagame's iron will.
Kagame has been a U.S. ally and "military partner" since leading an invasion of Rwanda from Uganda in 1990 and seizing state power in 1994.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Does UK budget support provide cover for Rwanda's war in Congo? SHARE
On November 8th, UK Parliament's International Development Committee held the first of two hearings to reconsider the resumption of budget support to the Government of Rwanda UN Experts have reported that Rwanda is behind the M23 militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Human Rights Watch has reported that M23's atrocities include gang rape, forced recruitment, and summary execution of child soldiers who tried to flee.
Does UK budget support provide cover for Rwanda's war in Congo? SHARE
On November 8th, UK Parliament's International Development Committee held the first of two hearings to reconsider the resumption of budget support to the Government of Rwanda UN Experts have reported that Rwanda is behind the M23 militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Human Rights Watch has reported that M23's atrocities include gang rape, forced recruitment, and summary execution of child soldiers who tried to flee.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Third Party ballot access activists gain legal muscle SHARE
Covington and Burling, an international, Washington D.C.-based law firm, has joined Gautam Dutta as pro bono co-counsel to Third Party ballot access activists, whom San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow ordered to pay $250,000 in attorneys fees to groups funded by Charlie Munger, Jr., son of billionaire Berkshire Hathaway executive Charlie Munger. Gautam Dutta said that the activists will now appeal the decision, and that Covington and Burling's agreement to join their legal team makes it clear that they will be able to fight for the long haul.
Third Party ballot access activists gain legal muscle SHARE
Covington and Burling, an international, Washington D.C.-based law firm, has joined Gautam Dutta as pro bono co-counsel to Third Party ballot access activists, whom San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis Karnow ordered to pay $250,000 in attorneys fees to groups funded by Charlie Munger, Jr., son of billionaire Berkshire Hathaway executive Charlie Munger. Gautam Dutta said that the activists will now appeal the decision, and that Covington and Burling's agreement to join their legal team makes it clear that they will be able to fight for the long haul.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Will Congo get a mention in the Obama/Romney foreign policy debate? SHARE
The death of six million European Jews in the holocaust is one of the pillars of U.S. foreign policy, but the death of six million Black people in Congo, the heart of Africa, after the invasion of U.S. military partners Rwanda and Uganda, may not even get a mention in tomorrow night's presidential debate. Congolese American Eric Kamba sent CNN a question he'd like the candidates to answer nevertheless.
Will Congo get a mention in the Obama/Romney foreign policy debate? SHARE
The death of six million European Jews in the holocaust is one of the pillars of U.S. foreign policy, but the death of six million Black people in Congo, the heart of Africa, after the invasion of U.S. military partners Rwanda and Uganda, may not even get a mention in tomorrow night's presidential debate. Congolese American Eric Kamba sent CNN a question he'd like the candidates to answer nevertheless.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
South African armed forces protect multinational mining interests SHARE
Striking miners at the Lonmin Corporation's platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, returned to work after accepting a 22% wage increase, but wildcat strikes have spread to other mines in the country's platinum belt, and South African armed forces have been deployed to contain them.KPFA spoke to David Van Wyk, mining researcher for the South African Council of Churches' Bench Marks Foundation.
South African armed forces protect multinational mining interests SHARE
Striking miners at the Lonmin Corporation's platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, returned to work after accepting a 22% wage increase, but wildcat strikes have spread to other mines in the country's platinum belt, and South African armed forces have been deployed to contain them.KPFA spoke to David Van Wyk, mining researcher for the South African Council of Churches' Bench Marks Foundation.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Victoire Ingabire and the refugee crisis in D.R. Congo SHARE
Rwandan political prisoner and opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza has called for ending the "refugees crisis" in the Democratic Republic of Congo with dialogue, not invasion. Is it any wonder she has spent the last two years in Kigali's maximum security 1930 prison? Invading Congo has been very profitable for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and the elites surrounding them.
Victoire Ingabire and the refugee crisis in D.R. Congo SHARE
Rwandan political prisoner and opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza has called for ending the "refugees crisis" in the Democratic Republic of Congo with dialogue, not invasion. Is it any wonder she has spent the last two years in Kigali's maximum security 1930 prison? Invading Congo has been very profitable for Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and the elites surrounding them.
