AAAS50th Anniversary Symposium
2020-02-29 - Part 5 - Activism

Ursula Bruce was a child when her family fled Nazi Germany to South Africa in the 1930s. When Ursula married and had her own family, she became involved in human rights and joined the Institute of Race Relations, a British organization for research, publishing, and resource collection throughout the world. In her USC Shoah Foundation testimony, Ursula reflects on her childhood, flight from Germany, human rights activism, and relationship with Nelson Mandela (former South African president and anti-apartheid leader).

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Nicknamed “The Black Mr. Rogers”, Joseph Williams is a community activist and violence interrupter from Englewood on the South Side of Chicago. The father of five is the founder of Mr. Dad's Father's Club, an organization he created in 2017 centered around literacy to help foster engagement between fathers and their children, and the community in partnership with Chicago Public Schools.

As a community activist, Joseph often leads efforts to increase community engagement that reduces violence and creates a safe space for children. Since the start of the pandemic, he has led efforts to create a youth march, hosted a back to school community drive and is currently working to bring a community garden to the area.

In conversation with Michael Strautmanis, Chief Engagement Officer at the Obama Foundation, Joseph opens up about his community activism and a recent moment where he viral after stepping in to defuse a tense standoff between police officers and community members.

The Justice Desk educates and empowers everyday people to become Human Rights Defenders.

Their mission is for individuals to be empowered enough to naturally live in an equal and just world. They aim to empower, educate and equip a global society to become agents of change in order to fully realise their Human Rights.

They already have a global footprint, operating in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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About the Kolisi Foundation 16 days of Activism Campaign

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.

We are reminded of the words of our co-founder, Siya Kolisi, to use August as our audit month as the work should be done every day for 365 days.

During 16 days of Activism we will be taking hands with organisations in the GBV space by focusing on amplifying the work they are doing.

Our vision is to create a hub for helping organisations to build capacity, in order for people to find each other, create synergies, provide support and work better together. We cannot win the fight against GBV if we operate with a silo mentality.

Over the next few days, we will introduce you to these organisations. Take this opportunity to learn from and about them, understand the role they are playing in the space and how you can engage with them…

Help is available, we only need to know where to find it.

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As President Biden convenes a major climate summit, we speak with two leading climate activists from Africa about the “climate debt” rich countries owe the Global South and the major emissions cuts still needed in order to avert the worst effects of the planetary emergency. “Given the scale of the crisis right now, the only thing that is going to get us out of it is not going to be baby steps in the right direction,” says Kumi Naidoo, special adviser for the Green Economy Coalition’s Social Contract Initiative, as well as the former head of Greenpeace International. “It’s going to be big, bold, courageous, structural and systemic change to every aspect of society.” We also speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, international program coordinator for Climate Justice and Energy at Friends of the Earth International, who says that while new pledges by the U.S. to cut emissions are “going in the right direction,” it’s still not enough. “We’re calling on the U.S. to do its fair share of emissions reductions, and what that means is four times of what the U.S. has put on the table.”

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A conversation about activism in the African Nova Scotian Community.

South Africa civil rights activist Ernst Roets issued a warning for the people of the United States as globalism and far-left racial politics rise to prominence in both nations on 'Tucker Carlson Today.' #FoxNews #Tucker

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How centuries of division built one of the most unequal countries on earth.

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For decades, South Africa was under apartheid: a series of laws that divided people by race. Then, in the 1990s, those laws were dismantled. But many of the barriers they created continue to divide South Africans by skin color - which in turn determines their quality of life, access to jobs, and wealth. Racial division was built into the fabric of cities throughout South Africa, and it still hasn't been uprooted.

That's partly because, while apartheid was the culmination of South Africa's racial divisions, it wasn't the beginning of them. That story starts closer to the 1800s, when the British built a network of railroads that transformed the region's economy into one that excluded most Black people -- and then made that exclusion the law.

Sources and further reading:

If you want to learn more about the railroads and how they impacted Cape Colony’s economy, check out this paper by Johan Fourie and Alonso Herranz Loncan:
https://academic.oup.com/ereh/....article-abstract/22/

To understand segregation in South Africa’s major urban centers, take a look at this paper about segregation and inequality:
https://www.seri-sa.org/images..../SERI_Edged_out_repo

For more information on post-Apartheid cities, you can read this paper by Edgar Pieterse (who we feature in the video):
https://www.africancentreforci....ties.net/wp-content/

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Vernon Oakes, host of Everything Co-op, interviews Hugh B. Price, Civil Rights Leader, Attorney, Author and Foundation Executive. Vernon and Hugh discuss his autobiography, and how the cooperative principles were interwoven throughout his family history. Hugh B. Price is a long-time civil rights leader, activist and public intellectual. As president of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003, he launched the League's historic Campaign for African-American Achievement, spearheaded pressure on the federal government to combat police brutality and racial profiling, vigorously defended affirmative action, and helped repair frayed relations between the black and Jewish communities. He has been an editorial writer for the New York Times, senior vice president in charge of national production at WNET/Thirteen in New York City, and vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Recently Prince released his reflective autobiography, This African American Life (Blair, 2017). His numerous television appearances range from Meet the Press and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer to Charlie Rose and The O'Reilly Factor. Price is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. In the Fall of 2012 he taught a class at Princeton University, "Innovations in Urban Economic Development: Potential of Worker Cooperatives for Revitalizing Inner Cities and Reducing Poverty." He continues to be fascinated by how the cooperative business model is being used today.

Debora Matthews worked for seven years as Archival Coordinator in the Struggles for Justice Programme at the South African History Archive (SAHA), an independent activist and human rights archive in Johannesburg. SAHA is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and current struggles for justice through archival practices and outreach, and the access to information laws. Established by anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s, SAHA was closely connected in its formative years to the United Democratic Front, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the African National Congress. Matthews archived the Constitution Hill Collection at SAHA.

Debora is now an Archives Consult working for the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), developing and implementing a records and research data management system. She will also be working as a Contract Archivist at GALA, the Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action Archives at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Debora discusses the many roads she has traveled as a middle class Afrikaans woman. In this quest she continues to better understand her Afrikaner roots, as well as better understand the decades of racial segregation under Nationalist government rule. She has come to terms with these two things through her work with activist archives as she continues to better comprehend the injustices done to millions of South Africans during apartheid. Her talk is a glimpse into some of the most exciting and prolific activist archives in South Africa.

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Excellency Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, she's a trailblazer in the up liftment
and empowerment of women across the continent of Africa. Her formidable career as
a medical doctor, activist and politician spans over several decades, beginning in a
time where a woman's career expectations did not go beyond domestic work. This is
the story of Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma.

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https://www.sahistory.org.za/p....eople/nkosazana-clar
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Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma biography: age, daughters, wife, qualifications, leadership style and previous positions held (briefly.co.za)

Dr. Abdullah will trace the history of African American activism against racism, hegemony, and gender discrimination.

Today we celebrate Africa Day, which is the annual day of commemoration for the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963. This day is celebrated throughout the African continent as well as all around the globe. On Expresso this week, we will be chatting to exceptional Africans who are leaving their mark on society and breaking boundaries. Zulaikha Patel is a South African activist and heroine who fought against Pretoria Girls High School's policy regarding black girls' hair in 2016, at the age of 13. She was quoted saying these now famous words, “Asking me to change my hair is like asking me to erase my blackness”. Zulaikha continues to inspire others through her activism and as a women’s rights youth advocate. She is the definition of #BlackGirlMagic - we catch up with Zulaikha on life in lockdown and what it means to be African.

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From climate strikes to Extinction Rebellion, activism is gaining momentum around the world. At The Economist's Open Future Forum we spoke to three campaigners with different takes on how to be an activist today.

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Activism today can take many different forms. Sokeel Park works with defectors from North Korea to accelerate change in the dictatorship. Nimko Ali leads a global campaign to end the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation. Richard Ratcliffe campaigns for the release of his wife from an Iranian prison. Three different activists talk about their campaigns and what they think it takes to be an activist in the 21st century.

If you look at activism around the world there seems to be an amazing sort of flowering of different approaches being taken to tackle these deep-seated problems. What does it take to bring about change in today’s world?

Nimko Ali’s activism grew from her personal experience as a survivor of female genital mutilation or FGM.

Richard Ratcliffe became an activist in 2016 when his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was accused of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.

The most important thing is to keep that hope that the world can be different, the world should be different and, you know, by God will I make it.

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In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of residents around the theme of “Youth as Agents of Transformative Change.” Participants hailed from eight different countries, representing academia, the private sector, civil society, activist organizations, and the arts including novelists, composers, and musicians. And while the focus of the residency was on the subject of youth, the residents themselves ranged in age from those in their 20s to those in their 70s—with every decade in between represented. Over the course of two and half weeks, residents engaged in a unique intergenerational discussion about what motivates and inspires youth, the challenges they face, and how people of all ages can collectively enable transformational change.

This video highlights insights from the residency discussion about the impact of technology on how youth interact with one another to demand and realize change. While young people of every generation have taken action to push for change, today’s youth have more information at their disposal than ever before. They also have access to tools to connect with others across the world around shared values and interests, inspiring new modes of activism.

Building People Power: Lessons from Grassroots Citizen Movements in Cameroon and the U.S.

Political Leader, Activist and Entrepreneur from Cameroon.

Grassroots citizen movements in Cameroon are empowering and engaging women and youth in political reforms. Kah Walla connects movements to actions in the USA—in particular the current gun violence protests across the country.

Kah Walla is a Cameroonian political leader who in 2011 challenged the political status quo when she announced her candidacy for the presidential elections and became the first woman ever to run for the presidency of the nation.

Kah Walla started her advocacy for political change in 1992 following the reintroduction of multipartism in Cameroon. She sided with the main opposition party at the time and soon became one of its key advisers and trainers. She provoked a mini-revolution in working methods and brought in a systematic and strategic approach to politics. In 2007, she was elected into the municipal council of Douala 1, the economic capital of Cameroon. In 2008 she led a dynamic campaign against the constitutional amendment which removed term limits for the presidential terms office.

Aptly featured this year in the book “The Next Africa”, Kah symbolizes the new generation of African political leadership which firmly believes in the continent’s ability to achieve global standards of development and demands that this be done in respect of principles of good governance, equity and democracy. Her leadership style has often been recognized at international level. She received the Vital Voices Global Leadership Vanguard Award (2015), DVF Award (2014), was named one of 150 women who shake the world by Newsweek and Daily Beast (2011) and one of Africa’s 100 most influential leaders by New African Magazine (2011).

Professionally, Kah Walla is an entrepreneur who founded STRATEGIES!, a 20 year old international consulting firm, offering services in leadership and strategy to multinational firms and development organizations on 5 continents. She was recognized as one of 5 African woman entrepreneurs fighting for an enabling business environment on the continent by the World Bank in 2009.

As a community activist, she founded Cameroon Ô’Bosso, a citizens’ movement for change, through which she was recognized in 2009 by the Clinton Global Initiative for her capacity building project in entrepreneurship and policy dialogue carried out with over 500 market women in Douala.

Kah’s leadership can be summarized in her own words “I believe in Africa and our innate ability to succeed as a people.”


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Join us as we connect with life long activist and educator, Dr. Howard Fuller, on the essence of Black Power and Education Reform. Let's celebrate his life and legacy as we learn more about his on-going fight for freedom and liberation for African People.

Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family -- and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament.

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The former US president Barack Obama has spoken against call-out culture. 'I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people ... that the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people and that's enough.' Obama said that achieving change was a much more difficult issue than simply using social media. 'That is not activism, that is not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far,' the 44th US president said at the thir Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday.

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