Marian's Blog

• Coping with public fear: "Bailouts only add to sense of panic," O'Grady, The Independent (London)

  Posted: September 30, 2008, 12:00 pm by Marian

  We're reading Sean O'Grady's article in today's Independent: "... no amount of taxpayer money, no vote in Congress or the Commons and no speech by a president or prime minister can now fully restore the confidence that has been drained...

• Brazil: Afrodescendant Land Claims go to ILO

  Posted: September 26, 2008, 3:28 pm by Marian

  With assistance from Australia-based COHRE, Afrobrazilians being evicted from their ancestral lands are taking their case to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). More later...

• One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)

  Posted: September 25, 2008, 3:09 pm by Marian

  Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...

• Global crisis: Congress was warned in 2000 of predatory loans

  Posted: September 22, 2008, 2:52 am by Marian

  Thanks to my sister for sharing news of veteran U.S. legal aid attorney William Brennan and his testimony in Congress on 24 May 2000. So Congress had first-hand knowledge of what was going on from an attorney helping elderly, often...

• India's Shame: Anti-minority atrocities in Orissa

  Posted: September 20, 2008, 1:34 am by Marian

  All of Indian society, India's diaspora (particularly in the West), the national government and its diplomats in Washington and elsewhere, and anyone anywhere in the world who professes to admire or emulate India really must take action to stop the...

• Black America Needs Political GPS; and Kevin Gray, on Obama, in Italian press

  Posted: September 4, 2008, 12:54 am by Marian

  Some weeks back during one of her national workshops, L.A.-based communications, public and 'authentic voice' speaking guru Norma Hollis asked me, "How should Black Americans relate to the rest of the African diaspora?" That's a heck of a good, hundred-dollar...

• Seeking Our Families in White folks' wills & slavery records

  Posted: September 3, 2008, 6:18 am by Marian

  Below, in sharp relief, are details of the constant, intimate and deeply disturbing interaction of U.S. "business" and "commerce" with Black American genealogy and history, and our ongoing attempts to save, locate, help and protect ourselves and each other (including...

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