When asked why he wants to restrict gun access for all owners, rather than just bad actors, President Barack Obama said, "It's just not true. ...There have been more guns sold since I've been president than just about any time in U.S. history."

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Activists from across Africa clarify misconceptions about the International Criminal Court and highlight the need for African governments to support the court in this video by 21 African and international nongovernmental organizations.

Community Intervention Centre (CIC)

Their core function is to assist people in trauma and victims of crime.

They have a 24-hour trauma helpline in South African: +27(0) 82 821 3447

They have a vision to provide a trauma centre open to the local community that offers hope, support and empowerment to people in crisis. They strive to provide therapeutic / counseling resources to assist and improve the emotional and psychological well-being of people in crisis.


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.

www.kolisifoundation.org

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On Monday, February 15, 2021 the Departments of African American and African Studies and History with the Black Organization of Students hosted Activism and the Activist, a conversation about the activism and the importance of self-care for the activist with Dominique Rocker, Christina Strasburger, and Loretta Turner.

The event was a kickoff to RUN AfAm Week and as a part of Caring Community Week also featured a mindfulness exercise led by Loretta Turner, a certified leadership coach, nonprofit consultant, and yoga teacher.

Dominique Rocker (she/her/hers) is poet, writer, and first year Masters’ student in the History Department at Rutgers University - Newark. Dominique earned a BA in Print Journalism from California State University, Fullerton in 2013 and an MA in African-American Studies from UCLA in 2020. Between degrees, Dominique attended De Anza Community College in the Bay Area, where she began organizing work. At UCLA, Dominique became President of the Black Graduate Student Association and an advocate for Black students. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant for two years. In her final semester, Dominique TA’ed for Sociology of Criminology in the Spring of 2020 - the first full quarter on Zoom due to the rise of the global coronavirus pandemic and throughout the summer BLM uprisings.

Dominique’s research at UCLA examined the activism and resistance strategies of Black women in the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles, California and New Haven, Connecticut. This work focused on both the narrative and erotic resistance via oral testimony and written poetry of former Panther Ericka Huggins. Dominique used the lessons learned from her research on Huggins as strategies for centering care in resistance as an activist herself and for her students trying to navigate a new learning environment in the midst of a pandemic and social upheaval. In thinking about pleasure as a site of resistance for Black women, particularly as Black women also must negotiate a sexuality enmeshed with pain and trauma, Dominique’s interests have shifted to questions about Black women in pornography in the digital age and the potential for centuring queer pleasure as a radical resistance site.

Loretta Turner, MA, CANP, is a New Jersey-bred, San Diego-based mindfulness and leadership coach and yoga teacher with an MA in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She is an active member of the nonprofit community, both as a seasoned professional and a devout volunteer. She has always worked within human service organizations, emphasizing mindfulness, compassion, and diversity awareness in her leadership roles. Loretta strongly believes that “it only works if you do,” and she’ll always encourage you to put the work in. Follow Loretta on Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin: @loretta.leads

The Emerging Leaders Foundation Africa (ELF-Africa) exists to empower, support and accompany young women and men to achieve meaningful, dignified and impactful participation in governance, economy and public affairs at all levels of society. Anchored on our foundational values-based approach to leadership as service. ELF’s vision is pursued through three program pillars namely the Governance & Civic Engagement, Economic Empowerment, Livelihoods & Opportunity, and our signature Leadership Development Program.

As a feminist organisation, Rape Crisis is committed to working towards the achievement of women’s rights.

24-hour Helpline: 021 447 9762
WhatsApp Line: 083 222 5164

They have a vision of a South Africa in which women are safe in their communities and where the criminal justice system supports and empowers survivors of rape and other sexual offences and acts as a deterrent to perpetrators of crime.

www.rapecrisis.org.za

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.

www.kolisifoundation.org

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German Africa Award 2020 to Ilwad Elman, Peace Activist from Somalia presented by Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Since 1993, the German Africa Foundation has honoured outstanding African personalities, who have contributed immensely to democracy, peace, human rights, sustainable development, art and culture or social issues in Africa, with the German Africa Award. This year, the Somali peace activist Ilwad Elman, who at only 30 years of age is one of the leading voices in the Somali peace process and internationally recognised as an expert in conflict management, is being honoured.

Dr. Runoko Rashidi and I discuss African Origins and the importance of documentation of our people. We discuss the power of images and words and the impact of the N word(nigga). He touches on his teachers and influences and the amount countries he has traveled to.

In each episode of Afrikanists Assemble, people from various academic backgrounds answer a question related to the field of Afrikanistik and African Studies. We post a new episode the first day of every month!

This month’s question is: “From your academic background, do you see any overlap (or potential overlap) between research and activism? If so, where is it? If not, why?”

Let us know how you would answer in the comments!

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro; “free Sénégal” by Fazaho

00:50 Personal reflection: How much space is there for activism in academia? - Monika C. Rohmer

03:23 Bringing research back into the researched communities - Kole Odutola

06:12 Activism as a responsibility hindered by structural dependencies - Janna Perbix

07:47 Activism not as a choice but a necessity - Oladapo O. Ajayi

11:50 Reading literature to bring about social change; Are we just complying with a system of fashionable neoliberal activism? - Clarissa Vierke

18:22 African literature as intrinsically activist - Dikko Muhammad

20:19 Research inspires and serves young activists - Jacky Kosgei

21:19 Seeking impartiality in the footsteps of Marx and Engels - Emiliano Minerba

23:13 Activism as a means to broaden the reach of research - Emmanuella Bih

26:04 Research as a problem-solver and means for social change - Christopher Odhiambo Joseph

28:05 Writers as activists - Manta G. Yadok

30:07 End Credits; “free Sénégal” by Fazaho

EPISODE 7 CONTRIBUTORS:

Monika C. Rohmer - University of Bayreuth
Kole Odutola - University of Florida
Janna Perbix - University of Cologne
Oladapo O. Ajayi - University of Bayreuth
Clarissa Vierke - University of Bayreuth
Dikko Muhammad - University of Bayreuth
Jacky Kosgei - University of the Witswatersrand
Emiliano Minerba - University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ / University of Bayreuth
Emmanuella Bih - University of Cologne
Christopher Odhiambo Joseph - Moi University
Manta G. Yadok - University of Wukari

EPISODE 7 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT:

Production & Editing: Brady Blackburn & Berenike Eichhorn
Design: Kaitlyn Blackburn
Intro Animation: G3 Designs, Nigeria
Sound Effects: ZapSplat.com
Music: “free Sénégal”; Written and performed by Fazaho; Courtesy of Fazaho

BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR:
Want to share your thoughts on the podcast as well? Contact us at afrikanists.assemble@gmail.com and tell us why you want to become a contributor!

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We feature a song from a different independent African artist every episode. If you’d like your song to be featured, email us at afrikanists.assemble@gmail.com. Note that you must own the rights to your song and be able to license it to us for use in an episode.

ABOUT AFRIKANISTS ASSEMBLE:
Afrikanists Assemble is produced by Recalibrating Afrikanistik, a collaborative research project of six partnering universities in Europe and Africa funded by the VW Foundation. Afrikanistik as the study of African languages, literatures, and texts is in a privileged position to mediate heterotopic and heterogeneous knowledge practices. Through joint forums, summer schools, workshops, a fellowship program, and more, we invite young scholars to recalibrate Afrikanistik with their innovative ideas in dialogue with African Studies. Visit our website at https://www.recaf.de/

This panel, part of the 'Racial Inequality in a Time of Crisis' conference (9-12 March), will explore the nature of racial inequalities and the politics of ‘race’ in the cultural industries. It will explore the impact of barriers and obstacles (and at times ‘opportunities’) facing racialised peoples in the creative sector, and how movements around access and representation fare in a time of crisis.

Nike Jonah, Creative Producer, Counterpoint Arts
Anamik Saha, University of Goldsmiths, CoDE
Alex Wheatle, Writer
K Biswas, Writer and Director of Resonance FM and Racebeat (Chair)

Hosted by Stuart Hall Foundation, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Runnymede Trust.

In 2022 the Clooney Foundation for Justice honoured Albie Sachs with a lifetime achievement award. Albie Sachs is a South African activist, author and retired judge who served under Nelson Mandela and helped prepare the Bill of Rights in South Africa. He appeared in an episode of After Dark in 2003. Take a look…

Episode: Terrorism: Who Wins?

Host:
Ian Kennedy

Participants:
Albie Sachs
Mohammed al-Massari
Jim Swire
Silke Maier-Witt
Michael Swetnam
David Shayler

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First shown: 8 March 2003

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A joint town hall with our sister foundation Focus for Health, recorded live on June 2, 2021.

Business as usual in social impact funding is a story of ‘the tail wagging the dog.’ To work long-term on massive systemic injustices, many doers have been forced by the hand of wealth to fit their activism into paternalistic requirements dictated by philanthropists. For many movements, these unwieldy structures have not aligned with ways of working that keep collectives agile and accountable to their communities. This traditional paradigm is being disrupted—destroyed even—by visionary changemakers who no longer accept it. They build movements, not organizations. They build resource strategies, not grantwriting strategies.

Featuring Humphrey Nabimanya of Reach A Hand Uganda, Iara Peng of JustFund, Mina Turabi of Voice of the People, and moderator Dedo Baranshamaje.

www.segalfamilyfoundation.org

ShesMyHero Ebele Okobi, Public Policy Director EMEA @ Facebook + Lawyer + Civil Society Activist

The 'Outnumbered' panel discusses a California task force's approval of an $800 billion reparations plan to help atone for slavery. #FoxNews

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Phillip Atiba Goff, Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Psychology Co-Founder & CEO Center for Policing Equity in discussion with Nikki Jones,  Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair of African American Studies department at UC-Berkley, Pastor Michael McBride, The Executive Director of LIVE FREE USA, Patrick Sharkey, William S Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public & International Affairs and Brandon Terry, Presidential Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University and Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard University on February 17, 2022.

www.kolisifoundation.org

Communities play a critical role within the gender-based violence (GBV) space:

- Are your community creating safe spaces for men not to exude toxic masculinity?
- Are you engaging and supporting organisations on the ground?
- Are you actively doing something to address GBV in your community?
- Are you leading actions to educate your community on GBV?
- Do you give the time and assistance to a survivor saying they had experienced a form of GBV?

Media by Carli-Ann Smith

Kenya's current leaders must be replaced before the East African country can cure the violence that plagues it or fully realize its economic potential, Mwangi Mukami, the founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Africa Foundation, told GlobalAtlanta.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvgKQx8wKEA

Full story on GlobalAtlanta:
http://stories.globalatlanta.c....om/2008stories/01604

Lao Tzu said that “great acts are made up of small deeds”. MacDella Cooper has achieved greatness through the many works and deeds, large and small, that she has done and continues to be engaged in.

MacDella Mackie Cooper – also known to many as “Liberia’s Angel” – was born in Monrovia, Liberia, in the mid-1970s. She had a happy childhood until her life was deeply affected by the Liberian Civil War in the 1990s. After enduring, first-hand, some unthinkable and unspeakable atrocities during the war, she sought refuge in Côte d’Ivoire as one of thousands who fled the conflict that killed more than 200,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.

In 1993, MacDella migrated to the United States and was reunited with her family in Newark, New Jersey. She attended Barringer High School in Newark, New Jersey, where she ranked third in her class of 1,200 students and was awarded a full academic scholarship to the College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey, where she subsequently earned a degree in Electronic Communications.

Following her graduation from college, Cooper moved to New York City to pursue a career in fashion marketing and public relations. She later branched out into corporate planning, consulting for organizations like Citi Group, Duca Sartoria and Starwood amongst others. In the midst of this successful career in fashion and corporate planning, MacDella began the admirable work of donating funds and resources to women’s and children’s causes in Liberia and internationally. That small act of charity, supporting worthy causes, was the cornerstone of the founding of the MacDella Cooper Foundation (MCF), whose mission is to EDUCATE, TRAIN and MOTIVATE Africa’s most vulnerable children, disadvantaged youth and marginalized women to become productive contributors to their nations’ economic, social and political development.

To read more about Madam Cooper, please visit us at www.macdellacooper.org

A award-winning civil rights attorney gives her personal account of receiving help from nonprofits as a child to developing one for children with special needs based on her personal experience with her son. Why do we call them non profits when we all profit? An award-winning civil rights attorney, a recurring cohost on The Emmy award winning daytime syndicated talk show "The Doctors" and a CNN legal commentator. She is also the founder and president of the Special Needs Network. Her latest book, Make It Rain, hits bookshelves in March 2018 This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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