Continued….. The demonstration was organised by pan-African group Africa Rising, and called on the Zambian government to ditch visa-entry requirements for Africans and the diaspora. It’s certainly in line with the country’s founding President Kenneth Kaunda. He was a renowned Pan-Africanist whose leadership significantly aided the liberation of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique.

Will Zambia take the lead?

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FREE THE DRC FREE PALESTINE

Pictures can speak louder than words, and it was certainly the case when a DRC flag was hoisted behind President Joe Biden. The US leader was speaking at the graduation ceremony of Morehouse College, when two professors pulled off the silent demonstration.

They say they did it to highlight the United States’ complicity in the exploitation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Washington supports Rwanda which is accused of backing M23 rebels in the east of the country. It’s from there diamonds are extracted to fund Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

African Studies Professor Samuel Livingston didn’t mince his words in an interview with Democracy Now. And we appreciate his actions along with fellow International Relations professor Cynthia Hewitt.

African Stream’s @ahmed.ghoneim.official, breaks down their heroic protest and how it shows the inextricable link between struggles demanding peace, justice and dignity.

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The naira in free fall, government wastage, run-away corruption, inflation, insecurity and a worsening economic crisis. If you thought Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s record was already dismal one year after taking charge of Africa’s most populous country, it’s just got even worse. With little to no public dialogue, he’s changed the country’s national anthem, replacing it with a version that was not only written by a Brit but also was dropped nearly half a century ago because it lacked Nigerian input. The 72-year-old head of state assented to a bill proposing the change just a day after lawmakers, drawn mostly from the ruling party, rushed it through both chambers of the National Assembly in just one week. The readopted anthem was first introduced in 1960 when Nigeria gained independence from Britain before it was dropped by a military government in 1978.

BIDEN GETS AWAY WITH MURDER?

In this clip, content creator Somaya pointed out the mainstream US media has not been holding US President Joe Biden accountable for continuously saying he has seen photos of babies H*m*s allegedly had beheaded, even though the White House itself walked back that claim. The Nigerian sister argued a bias exists, whereby the media is more lenient with Democratic Party presidents than when Republicans like Donald Trump took office. News outlets began publishing regular fact-checks during his term.

Continued…. The 1988 book, ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,’ argued that US mass media perpetuates powerful elites’ interests. The book outlined five mechanisms that filter media content: Ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak (slang for a public relations professional), and anti-communism.

In the 1990s, media consolidation significantly accelerated under Democratic President Bill Clinton, primarily due to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This landmark legislation aimed to foster ‘competition and innovation.’ However, it led corporations like CBS, Disney, General Electric, News Corp., Time Warner and Viacom buying out smaller media companies, drastically reducing the number of media outlets.

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SUDAN’S FEMALE ARMY FIGHT R*PE

Thousands of Sudanese woman have answered calls by the country’s army to take up arms and fight. They’re being trained at military centres as the 13-month war against the Rapid Support Forces militia rages on.

But the main incentive for many women is self defence, with spiralling incidents of r*pe being committed by RSF soldiers.

Qatar-based network Al Jazeera visited one of the training camps and spoke to recruits who’re fighting for their survival. This is their report.

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PT. 1: STANDING FOR CONGO & PALESTINE

Here, we have representatives from two generations fighting for one cause. One is a 20-year-old Palestinian activist studying at Georgetown University who was part of a student encampment police cleared on 8 May; the other is a Black organiser with nearly 60 years’ experience.

Selina Al-Shihabi of the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia) Students for Justice in Palestine Coalition and Friends of the Congo co-founder Paul Pumphrey joined a coalition of organisers and advocates on 29 May at the Swiss embassy in Washington to protest mining giant Glencore’s annual general meeting in Switzerland. While their focuses seem disparate, they share a common purpose in spotlighting big businesses and governments for their role in oppressing and exploiting vulnerable people worldwide. 

Continued…. Watch part 1 of their passionate exposition of the Congo’s tragic situation, in which mining companies aided by Western powers continue to milk the giant central African country dry. The UN and others have accused Congo of helping create a conflict that has k*lled at least 6 million since the 1990s and displaced more than 8 million. 

The coalition’s action on Wednesday represents a growth in consciousness in the global movement of resistance, transcending generations, nationalities and social classes. Their work is a testament to the power of collective action to birth a new reality.

Help these two activists roar louder by sharing and commenting on this video.

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‘FINISH THEM’ NIKKI HALEY WRITES ON ISRAELI AMMO

Viral photos of staunch Israel supporter Nikki Haley writing ‘Finish them! America [loves] Israel’ on the side of an Israeli artillery shell have elicited anger on social media. Haley’s signature comes a few months after US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield referred to a ‘final solution’ in Israel’s military onslaught of the Gaza Strip. The phrase reminded some of the N*zis’ ‘final solution’ for Jews in the 1940s.

Danny Danon, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and a Likud Party member of the Israeli parliament, shared the photos of Haley after accompanying her to northern Israel on 27 May.
 
The governor of the US state of South Carolina and failed US presidential candidate (funded by wealthy pro-Israel donors) paid the visit a day after a 26 May airstrike that triggered a fire k*lling 45 displaced Palestinians in a tented camp in Rafah.

Continued….. This attack came despite the International Court of Justice ordering Israel on 24 May to cease its offensive in Rafah following South Africa’s urgent request on its pending g*nocide case.

About 1.5 million people took shelter in the southern Gaza city after the Israeli government advised that the military onslaught would not occur there. Yet, in recent months, Israel had threatened to attack Rafah. Those threats became a reality with the 6 May invasion.

Now, seven months into Israel’s military onslaught and escalated siege, it has k*lled over 36,000 Palestinians, primarily women and children.

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STILL NO JUSTICE FOR MURDERED BLACK TEENAGER

31st May marks three years since the gruesome murder of British-born Jamaican teenager Dea-John Reid in broad daylight in the city of Birmingham.

Reid was murdered by a group of grown men and teenagers who chased him down a street and stabbed him multiple times while shouting racial slurs. The brutal incident was captured on security cameras.

Reid’s family are still demanding justice over his murder. A 15-year-old White boy was convicted of the lesser crime of manslaughter - but not of murder, as demanded by the family and prosecution. He received a six-and-a-half-year sentence for the crime, but he is likely to serve only half of his sentence behind bars because of the nature of the British judicial system.

Two other teenagers and two adults who had been accused of taking part in the attack on the Jamaican teenager walked free after the court acquitted them of all charges.

Continued…. Many have described the verdict as a miscarriage of justice. They blame the composition of the jury for this. Out of the 12 jurors, 11 were White, while one was of Asian descent. The Ministry of Justice says jurors are randomly selected, but given the fact that people of colour make up over half of Birmingham, it is difficult to understand how a jury in such a case could be 91% White.

This has led to calls for deliberate efforts to make juries more ethnically diverse, especially in cases where race is at the centre.

Please follow the Justice 4 Dea-John Reid campaign at https://www.facebook.com/share/c7WE41c8M2kpsEZx/?mibextid=LQQJ4d and lend the family your support.

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WHITE PROFESSOR SCHOOLED ON RACIST AMERICA

Here’s American Black writer James Baldwin explaining why he fled to France in the 1940s. Put simply, there was a ‘danger of death to negros’ in the U.S. and he had to get out.

He’s on a 1968 episode of the Dick Cavett Show, and had just been asked by a White Yale professor: ‘Why must we always concentrate on colour, when there are other ways of connecting men?’

Baldwin quickly exposes the out-of-touch academic. And reels off the list of realities facing Blacks. From the segregated congregations of the Christian church, to the real estate lobby that kept him ‘in the ghetto.’

Baldwin arrived in Paris with just $40 in his pocket. But he didn’t care. France was able to release him from the ‘social terror’ he’d experienced in the United States.

Continued….. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953, and it made Time magazine’s top 100 list.

Baldwin died in 1987, and is remembered for his civil rights activism as well as his writing. And, of course, passionate interviews like this.

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FRANCE’S 170-YEAR OCCUPATION OF KANAKY

The struggle against colonialism is intensifying worldwide. This video by Congolese journalist Maud-Salomé EKILA BOFUNDA (@ekilaaa) the spokeperson of the organisation @urgencespanafricanistes and @afriqueresurrection goes into the history of the indigenous Kanak people, who are confronting violent French settler colonialism and an effort to seize their lands.

What the French call ‘New Caledonia,’ aka the islands of Kanaky, an archipelago not far from Australia, has been inhabited by Pacific Islanders since around 1000 BCE. The French seized the islands in 1853 and made it an ‘overseas territory’ in 1956. Today, the French and their settlers on the island are trying to consolidate and solidify their power at the expense of the Kanak people once again.

Continued…. The goal is to eliminate the the Noumea Agreement of 1998, which grants Kanak people some level of political control over their ancestral homelands. In doing so, settlers born in France who migrated to Kanaky would be allowed to participate in local elections. For decades, the strategy on the part of the French to crush the power of the Kanak people has been to encourage more and more mass French settlement on the islands.

Many Kanak, including very well organised sectors of the population, understand that their only true pathway to liberation is through full independence from France and an end to all colonial ties and relations.

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WHY WEST BACKS ISRAEL DESPITE HORRIFIC RECORD

For more than seven months, massacre upon massacre in the Gaza Strip has been livestreamed to the world. Be it Palestinian parents begging for justice by holding up their children’s dead bodies or Israeli soldiers playing with women’s lingerie after they raid Palestinian homes, the world has seen the true face of Zioni*m. However, the West has remained Israel’s friend.

As pro-Palestine activist Fiona Lali of the UK’s Revolutionary Communist Party points out, Israel is crucial to upholding Western imperialism. It is an unsinkable aircraft carrier, a Western outpost in West Asia used to destabilise the resource-rich region.

Instead of clamping down on Israel’s military onslaught that has k*lled more than 36,000 Palestinians, the West has poured resources into Israel. That has included UN vetoes against ceasefires, refusing to recognise a Palestinian state, shipping weapons, and sending tens of billions of dollars since 7 October.