http://www.anngarrison.com/bayview/rss.xml This is a list of the stories that Ann Garrison has written for the San Francisco Bayview. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:46:21 -0700 en-us http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwandan-president-paul-kagame-on-the-night-of-troy-davis%e2%80%99-execution/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwandan-president-paul-kagame-on-the-night-of-troy-davis%e2%80%99-execution/ Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Tomorrow Kagame will appear as one of Bill Clinton’s featured speakers in a plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual gathering of the global elite. At the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton presented Kagame with a Global Citizenship Award. http://sfbayview.com/2011/free-african-political-prisoner-victoire-ingabire/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/free-african-political-prisoner-victoire-ingabire/ Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 We need an international movement to free Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. Her case is important to African people all over the continent and in the Diaspora and to all of us, all people. The weight on Victoire’s shoulders is that of resource war, the ongoing wars for the world’s natural resources that threaten to destroy the whole planet. http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-colonizing-eastern-congo-with-u-s-support/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-colonizing-eastern-congo-with-u-s-support/ Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 KPFA Weekend News Anchor Cameron Jones: The secession of South Sudan rekindled calls for secession around the world, including those of the Rwandan lobby for redrawing the map to make the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North and South Kivu provinces on Congo’s eastern border with Rwanda part of Rwanda. http://sfbayview.com/2011/western-funded-genocide-ethiopia-and-the-ogaden/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/western-funded-genocide-ethiopia-and-the-ogaden/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Ethiopian troops are in the oil rich, contested Sudanese Abyei region in accordance with a new U.N. Security Council resolution invoking sovereign nations’ “responsibility to protect” vulnerable populations from genocide and mass atrocities if their own governments aren’t protecting them. But what about Ethiopia’s own genocide in the Ogaden Basin that the West is funding? http://sfbayview.com/2011/banned-on-facebook-voice-of-the-cape-south-africa-islamic-community-radio/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/banned-on-facebook-voice-of-the-cape-south-africa-islamic-community-radio/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Why would Voice of the Cape, the Islamic community radio station of rural South Africa, be blocked on Facebook? The feature story that day was about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, but there were stories all over my friends’ Facebook pages about the Gaza Flotilla that day. When Voice of the Cape was still banned two days later on July 6, I scanned the featured stories on its home page. http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-is-no-excuse-for-the-u-s-to-intervene-in-sudan/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-is-no-excuse-for-the-u-s-to-intervene-in-sudan/ Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Advocates of intervention in Southern Sudan argue that the U.S. can’t be bystanders to what could become another Rwanda and must become instead “upstanders” preventing genocide. Was the U.S. a bystander to the Rwanda Genocide? Professors Peter Erlinder and Edward Herman both say no. http://sfbayview.com/2011/who-benefits-from-sexual-violence-in-eastern-congo-cui-bono/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/who-benefits-from-sexual-violence-in-eastern-congo-cui-bono/ Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Are the so-called rebels furthering the aims of heads of state by shattering communities in eastern Congo, driving people into refugee camps and thus separating them from the vast resources that corporations and the major world powers are so determined to control? http://sfbayview.com/2011/kagame-stop-killing-rwandan-and-congolese-protest-rwandas-president-in-chicago/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/kagame-stop-killing-rwandan-and-congolese-protest-rwandas-president-in-chicago/ Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Rwandan, Congolese and American activists rallied in Chicago Saturday to protest the appearance of Rwandan President Paul Kagame at “Rwanda Day,” http://sfbayview.com/2011/selective-african-justice-at-the-international-criminal-court/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/selective-african-justice-at-the-international-criminal-court/ Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Law professor and international criminal defense attorney Peter Erlinder and Uganda People’s Congress activist and publicist George Okello discuss the selective African justice of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in response to the court’s decision not to leave the prosecution of Kenyans to Kenyan institutions. http://sfbayview.com/2011/uganda-hang-the-gays-or-hang-the-demonstrators/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/uganda-hang-the-gays-or-hang-the-demonstrators/ Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 It doesn’t look as though Uganda is going to “hang the gays,” at least not now. But they may hang some pro-democracy activists for organizing peaceful protests against Uganda’s soaring food and fuel prices. They’ve been charged with terrorism and could get the death penalty. http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-on-trial/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-on-trial/ Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Kagame refers to the former Rwandan soldiers who took refuge in Congo as “genocidaires.” He says he is going after them every time he invades the Congo and he has used them as his excuse to occupy and plunder Congo’s resources, with the blessing of the international community. http://sfbayview.com/2011/respect-the-rights-of-all-ugandans-including-lgbti-ugandans/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/respect-the-rights-of-all-ugandans-including-lgbti-ugandans/ Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 This is time for the gay movement around the world to make common cause with the average citizen of Uganda to decry the abuse of human rights of ALL Ugandans. Do not separate the two issues. http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-genocide-excuse-for-predator-drones-over-africa/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-genocide-excuse-for-predator-drones-over-africa/ Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Law professor and legal scholar Charles Kambanda and Rwanda Genocide survivor, writer and activist Aimable Mugara spoke about the truth of the Rwanda Genocide story, as more and more lobbying groups push for Pentagon campaigns to stop genocide, even with Predator drones. http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-genocide-erlinder-v-kagame-in-the-court-of-public-opinion/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-genocide-erlinder-v-kagame-in-the-court-of-public-opinion/ Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Law professor Peter Erlinder’s case against Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his official history of the Rwanda Genocide continues in the court of public opinion. Erlinder has published an 80-page analysis of documents he says prove Kagame’s culpability for the genocide and ensuing Congo Wars. http://sfbayview.com/2011/can-barney-out-legislate-bahati-on-lgbt-rights/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/can-barney-out-legislate-bahati-on-lgbt-rights/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 Congressman Barney Frank has amended the financial services bill to discourage development banks supported by the U.S. not to assist nations engaging in gross human rights violations. http://sfbayview.com/2011/white-mans-burden-affleck-and-prendergast-in-congress-for-congo/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/white-mans-burden-affleck-and-prendergast-in-congress-for-congo/ Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 On Tuesday the House Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the Democratic Republic of Congo, the most lethal conflict in the world since World War II, killing over 6 million. No one from the Congo or anywhere in Africa was called to testify. http://sfbayview.com/2011/african-refugees-trapped-in-libya/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/african-refugees-trapped-in-libya/ Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 A Somali blogger writes, “Many angry mobs are targeting Black Africans after reports that the government was using ‘African mercenaries’ to repress the revolt was transmitted by Western media.” “Just being a Black face in Libya is very dangerous at the moment,” said a UNHCR spokeswoman. http://sfbayview.com/2011/no-funds-for-tasers-or-war-criminals-stop-state-violence-in-san-francisco-and-congo/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/no-funds-for-tasers-or-war-criminals-stop-state-violence-in-san-francisco-and-congo/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 On Feb. 23, I attended a San Francisco Police Commission hearing to oppose arming the San Francisco Police with tasers as well as handguns and said, “I’m here … because the culture that we impose on other parts of the world is something we create right here.” http://sfbayview.com/2011/museveni%e2%80%99s-casino-anne-mugisha-on-uganda%e2%80%99s-2011-election/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/museveni%e2%80%99s-casino-anne-mugisha-on-uganda%e2%80%99s-2011-election/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 “So this time around I lost. A few of our opposition people did scrape through, but the casino is owned by the ruling party and President Museveni and they would definitely be looking to make a profit. So that’s how I see this election – like a trip to the casino.” – Anne Mugisha http://sfbayview.com/2011/kpfa-weekend-news-on-uganda-rwanda-and-uganda%e2%80%99s-feb-18-election/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/kpfa-weekend-news-on-uganda-rwanda-and-uganda%e2%80%99s-feb-18-election/ Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 One of Uganda’s three leading opposition presidential candidates and others predict that Uganda could become the next Egypt or Tunisia after Friday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, which few expect to be free or fair. http://sfbayview.com/2011/museveni-regime-denies-katos-murder-was-homophobic/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/museveni-regime-denies-katos-murder-was-homophobic/ Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 How can Ugandan Deputy Police Spokesperson Vincent Sekate, before doing an investigation, be so sure that David Kato’s murder had nothing to do with his being openly gay or with his work as advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda? And why does the U.S. keep throwing money and weaponry behind the regime that Sekate speaks for? http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion-of-eastern-congo-on-obamas-inauguration-day/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/u-s-backed-the-invasion-of-eastern-congo-on-obamas-inauguration-day/ Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Instead of the racist story about Hutus killing Tusis with machetes in 100 days of genocide, the truth is that the U.S., British and Israeli military and their Ugandan and Rwandan proxy forces are responsible for genocide against both Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda, Congo and Burundi. http://sfbayview.com/2011/pentagon-burns-bio-fuels-to-secure-fossil-fuels-more-of-both-come-from-africa/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/pentagon-burns-bio-fuels-to-secure-fossil-fuels-more-of-both-come-from-africa/ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Opponents of biofuels planting projects, in Africa and other parts of the global South, argue that cropland should be used to grow food to feed people, not to grow more combustible fuel, especially not fuel for the U.S. military. http://sfbayview.com/2011/children-in-armed-conflict-olara-otunnu-speaks-to-kpfa-and-afrobeat-radio/ http://sfbayview.com/2011/children-in-armed-conflict-olara-otunnu-speaks-to-kpfa-and-afrobeat-radio/ Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Much of the world focuses on family and creating safe and loving environments for children during the holidays, but many of the world’s children suffer extreme deprivation and abuse of their human rights. Acholi children living in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kitgum, Northern Uganda, “think that a refugee camp is home.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-leaders-christmas-behind-bars/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-leaders-christmas-behind-bars/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 The Kagame regime arrested opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza 15 days after the release of the U.N. report documenting the regime’s war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal massacres of Hutu civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and she has remained behind bars ever since. http://sfbayview.com/2010/radioactive-spill-in-arlit-niger-home-to-%e2%80%98significant-quantities-of-uranium-from-africa%e2%80%99/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/radioactive-spill-in-arlit-niger-home-to-%e2%80%98significant-quantities-of-uranium-from-africa%e2%80%99/ Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Arlit, Niger, in the Sahara Desert surfaced in international news in January 2003, when George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address, said what came to be known as “the 16 words” that became a central pretext for the Iraq War: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/obama-take-heed-french-judge-files-charges-against-kagame-allies/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/obama-take-heed-french-judge-files-charges-against-kagame-allies/ Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 On Dec. 15, a French judge filed preliminary charges against six people close to Rwandan President Paul Kagame for the 1994 assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents that triggered the Rwanda Genocide. When will Obama take heed of these new French charges? How much longer will the U.S. back the regime sued on two continents and in three countries? http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagames-prisons-courts-and-killing-spots-ingabire-the-netherlands-and-the-west/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagames-prisons-courts-and-killing-spots-ingabire-the-netherlands-and-the-west/ Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 The argument over who has been most to blame for the bloodshed in recent East Central African history intensified even further this month with testimony by Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s former bodyguard, Aloys Ruyenzi, testified at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda about “killing spots,” where Kagame’s enemies are systematically executed. http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagame-regime-demands-professor-peter-erlinder-return-to-kigali-to-stand-trial/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagame-regime-demands-professor-peter-erlinder-return-to-kigali-to-stand-trial/ Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwandan President Kagame denied the accusations in the new U.N. report, most of all the accusations of genocide, and then responded by arresting Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, the second of three opposition presidential candidates to be jailed since attempting to contest this year’s presidential election against Kagame. http://sfbayview.com/2010/ingabire-supporters-fear-for-her-health-and-her-life/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/ingabire-supporters-fear-for-her-health-and-her-life/ Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The health of the incarcerated chair of FDU-Inkingi, Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, is causing real fears after leaks from police sources confirmed that the opposition leader is ailing with unknown conditions due to ill treatment. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-leader-victoire-ingabire-arrested/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-leader-victoire-ingabire-arrested/ Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza has been arrested in Rwanda, according to members of her FDU-Inkingi Coalition of Rwandan political parties, who also report that authorities have taken her to an undisclosed location. http://sfbayview.com/2010/ictr-lawyers-no-justice-for-congo-from-courts/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/ictr-lawyers-no-justice-for-congo-from-courts/ Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Human rights activists around the world have called for international justice and an end to impunity in the wake of the “U.N. Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” But many don’t expect justice from an international criminal tribunal. http://sfbayview.com/2010/obamas-congo-moment-genocide-the-u-n-report-and-senate-bill-2125/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/obamas-congo-moment-genocide-the-u-n-report-and-senate-bill-2125/ Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The official Oct. 1 release of the U.N. report documenting the Rwandan and Ugandan armies’ massacres of Hutus in the Congo, should be a defining moment for President Barack Obama. The Congo bill he authored as a senator, passed in 2006, forecast much of the explosive information in the report. http://sfbayview.com/2010/barbara-boxer-and-the-militarization-of-africa/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/barbara-boxer-and-the-militarization-of-africa/ Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Sen. Barbara Boxer co-sponsored the LRA Disarmament Act, even though it strengthens the hand of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose human rights record includes not only war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, but also the criminalization of homosexuality, with a penalty of 14 years to life. http://sfbayview.com/2010/congo-genocide-kagame-threatens-to-withdraw-peacekeepers-over-u-n-report/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/congo-genocide-kagame-threatens-to-withdraw-peacekeepers-over-u-n-report/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 An explosive 545-page U.N. report leaked by the French newspaper Le Monde accuses the Rwandan Patriotic Army of Rwandan President and General Paul Kagame of the massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus in what some are already calling “the Congo Genocide.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagame-sworn-in-after-u-n-report-of-guilt-in-congo-genocide/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/kagame-sworn-in-after-u-n-report-of-guilt-in-congo-genocide/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwandan President Paul Kagame was sworn in to serve another seven-year term on Sept. 6, 2010, 11 days after the explosive Aug. 26 leak of a U.N. report documenting genocide committed by his army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://sfbayview.com/2010/political-cost-of-standing-with-kagame-mounts-by-the-hour/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/political-cost-of-standing-with-kagame-mounts-by-the-hour/ Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 The leaked report from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) mapping atrocities committed in D.R. Congo points to crimes which might be labeled genocide against Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus committed by Kagame’s Rwandan army between 1996 and 2003. http://sfbayview.com/2010/outsourcing-a-u-s-war-ugandans-in-iraq/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/outsourcing-a-u-s-war-ugandans-in-iraq/ Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Last week the Pentagon proclaimed that the last U.S. combat forces had left Iraq. The U.S. has long outsourced the Iraq occupation to troops from some of the world’s poor nations, and many of the mercenaries due to replace other U.S. troops will also come from those countries, especially from Uganda. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandas-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-speaks-to-womens-international-news-gathering-service/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandas-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-speaks-to-womens-international-news-gathering-service/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 In January this year, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza returned to her native Rwanda to run against incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Many observers believe that she would have been the leading candidate had she been able to officially enter the race. http://sfbayview.com/2010/immigration-and-new-media%e2%80%99s-impact-on-democracy-milton-allimadi-and-the-black-star-news/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/immigration-and-new-media%e2%80%99s-impact-on-democracy-milton-allimadi-and-the-black-star-news/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Milton Allimadi, in his investigative news journal, the Black Star News, offers an unusual forum for reporting on Africa, which is so little known to most Americans, including even African Americans, because there’s so little coverage of Africa in the dominant American press, and what little there is superficial or misleading. http://sfbayview.com/2010/africa-advocates-to-obama-dont-recognize-kagames-election/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/africa-advocates-to-obama-dont-recognize-kagames-election/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 President Obama said, in his 2009 speech in Accra, Ghana, that America should support strong institutions and not strong men. But Obama has expanded AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command, and now he remains silent as Rwanda’s strongman, President Paul Kagame, prepares a sham presidential election to retain his brutal grip on power. http://sfbayview.com/2010/defense-lawyers-condemn-assassination-of-ictr-lawyer-mwaikusa/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/defense-lawyers-condemn-assassination-of-ictr-lawyer-mwaikusa/ Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 No one knows for sure whether Professor Mwaikusa was assassinated by Rwandan Patriotic Front operatives, but we do know that the RPF target lawyers who defend people whom they have identified as their enemies. Now the lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda have legitimate reason to be fearful of being in Africa. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-green-party-leader-beheaded/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-green-party-leader-beheaded/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 First Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda was found dead, his head almost completely severed from his body, near Butare, Rwanda, on the morning of July 14. All three viable opposition parties, including the Greens, have been excluded from the country’s 2010 presidential election, with polls now scheduled for Aug. 9. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-fdu-blames-police-torture-after-muhirwa-faints-in-court/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-fdu-blames-police-torture-after-muhirwa-faints-in-court/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire reported that her party’s treasurer, Alice Muhirwa, mother of two, fainted in a Rwandan courtroom due to untreated torture wounds inflicted by the Rwandan police. The FDU reported that Rwandan police refused to take Ms. Muhirwa to a hospital to be treated for bleeding caused by boot kicks to the stomach. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-kagame-tortures-opposition-arrests-ingabires-new-lawyer/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-kagame-tortures-opposition-arrests-ingabires-new-lawyer/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwandan opposition leaders Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and Frank Habineza report ongoing torture of opposition party members arrested in Kigali on June 24, 2010, as they attempted to protest exclusion from this year’s presidential election. Ingabire also reports that her Rwandan lawyer, Mr. Theogene Muhayeyezu, has been arrested, tortured and detained incommunicado. http://sfbayview.com/2010/erlinder-released-as-rwanda-cracks-down-on-its-own/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/erlinder-released-as-rwanda-cracks-down-on-its-own/ Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 U.S. law professor Peter Erlinder returned from three weeks imprisonment, from May 28 to June 17, in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, where he had traveled to act as defense counsel for embattled presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. Ingabire remains under house arrest, unable to leave the country, and faces a possible 20-year prison sentence. http://sfbayview.com/2010/ugandas-bishop-christopher-on-gay-suicide-gay-genocide-and-article-13/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/ugandas-bishop-christopher-on-gay-suicide-gay-genocide-and-article-13/ Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 On Monday, May 26, Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, fondly known as Bishop Christopher, spoke to a circle gathered round him at San Francisco’s African American Art and Culture Complex. He explained his counseling work with LGBT youth, his advocacy for LGBT rights and his opposition to Uganda’s infamous proposed Anti Homosexuality Act. http://sfbayview.com/2010/ingabires-appeal-stand-with-rwanda-as-with-prof-erlinder/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/ingabires-appeal-stand-with-rwanda-as-with-prof-erlinder/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 “We are appealing to the voices that have spoken out for Professor Peter Erlinder to continue to be on the side of Rwandans that Peter Erlinder has been standing and fighting for in order to get to the root causes of the Rwandan crisis.” – Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza http://sfbayview.com/2010/fox-news-confuses-rwandas-presidential-election-with-the-international-criminal-tribunal-on-rwanda/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/fox-news-confuses-rwandas-presidential-election-with-the-international-criminal-tribunal-on-rwanda/ Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Fox News reached new extremes of irresponsibility today by reporting that Professor Peter Erlinder is in Kigali, Rwanda, to defend “the alleged perpetrators of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.” Peter Erlinder is in Rwanda to defend opposition presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. He was arrested within days after arriving. http://sfbayview.com/2010/questions-about-congolese-human-rights-defenders-murder/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/questions-about-congolese-human-rights-defenders-murder/ Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s leading human rights defender, was found murdered on Wednesday, June 2. On the evening of June 1, Chebeya was en route to a meeting with John Numbi, inspector general of the Congolese National Police, in response to a summons. The next day his body was found in his car. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-arrests-victoire-ingabires-american-lawyer-peter-erlinder-in-kigali/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwanda-arrests-victoire-ingabires-american-lawyer-peter-erlinder-in-kigali/ Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwandan police have arrested Peter Erlinder, the American lawyer who traveled to Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, on Monday, May 23, to join the defense team of Rwandan presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. He is charged with “genocide ideology,” a crime unique to Rwanda which Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and even the U.S. State Department have denounced as a tool of political repression. http://sfbayview.com/2010/election-violence-in-rwanda-and-burundi-refugees-in-uganda/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/election-violence-in-rwanda-and-burundi-refugees-in-uganda/ Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Violence, repression and human rights abuse continues to increase as 2010 elections approach in the East African neighbor nations of Rwanda and Burundi, whose ethnicity, politics and conflicts are closely intertwined. This week Burundi ordered Human Rights Watch’s researcher out of the country by June 5, after she published her report on political violence, “We’ll Tie You Up and Shoot You.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/criminal-defense-lawyers-dispute-rwandas-genocide-history/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/criminal-defense-lawyers-dispute-rwandas-genocide-history/ Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwanda Chief Prosecutor Martin Ngoga warned leading opposition presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire that she might be jailed once again if she continues speaking to the press. He also said that “some defense lawyers at the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda) have badly deviated from their professional duties and turned into activists and advocates of genocide denial.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/africas-female-mandela-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-on-trial/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/africas-female-mandela-victoire-ingabire-umuhoza-on-trial/ Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Opposition presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza stood before a judge in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 22 after the Kagame government arrested and charged her with “associating with terrorists” and “genocide ideology,” a crime unique to Rwanda which includes “divisionism” and “revisionism,” meaning politics and/or attempting to revise the received history of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. http://sfbayview.com/2010/lawsuit-alleges-rwandan-president%e2%80%99s-guilt-in-rwanda-genocide-and-congo-war/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/lawsuit-alleges-rwandan-president%e2%80%99s-guilt-in-rwanda-genocide-and-congo-war/ Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 On April 30, in Edmond, Oklahoma, a team of lawyers and process servers attempted to personally serve Rwandan President Paul Kagame with an eight count lawsuit, which includes racketeering to acquire and control the resources of eastern D.R. Congo. http://sfbayview.com/2010/umuseso-newspaper-editor-didas-gasana-grilled-by-rwandan-police/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/umuseso-newspaper-editor-didas-gasana-grilled-by-rwandan-police/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 On Monday, April 26, police detectives in Kigali, Rwanda, interrogated Didas Gasana, editor of the weekly African language newspaper Umuseso for eight hours. Gasana now fears extrajudicial abduction or a prison sentence of up to 25 years. http://sfbayview.com/2010/call-press-and-human-rights-defenders-if-frank-habineza-is-arrested/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/call-press-and-human-rights-defenders-if-frank-habineza-is-arrested/ Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Rwanda arrested presidential candidate Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza on Wednesday, April 21, at her home in Kigali, and her Rwandan support team thank pressure from the international community for her surprise release on bail the next day. Supporters should be ready, should Rwanda Greens candidate Frank Habineza be arrested, to post the news and call for his release. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandas-packed-prisons-and-genocide-ideology-law/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandas-packed-prisons-and-genocide-ideology-law/ Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Today, 62 percent of the people packed into Rwanda’s prisons have been charged or convicted of genocide-related crimes and some of the country’s most admired leaders are being accused of the “genocide ideology” thought crime. Most prominent are Victoire Ingabire, Kagame’s strongest competitor for the presidency, and Paul Rusesabagina, the hero portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda,” who is charged with “Double Genocide Theory.” http://sfbayview.com/2010/just-what-haiti-needs-rwandan-police/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/just-what-haiti-needs-rwandan-police/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the Pentagon’s proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times, because, according to Rwandan Police Chief Edmund Kayiranga, “Rwanda wants to be involved in promoting peace in other countries” and, if need be, they would send more peacekeepers to other countries. http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-parties-condemn-grenade-attacks-in-kigali/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/rwandan-opposition-parties-condemn-grenade-attacks-in-kigali/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 If Rwanda’s three viable opposition parties are allowed to register and participate in free and fair elections, they have a good chance, in coalition, of defeating Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Party. Those three parties condemned the Feb. 19 deadly grenade attacks in Kigali, calling them “an attempt to instill fear in the population” prior to Rwanda’s August presidential election. http://sfbayview.com/2010/lennar%e2%80%99s-trickle-up-%e2%80%98profits%e2%80%99/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/lennar%e2%80%99s-trickle-up-%e2%80%98profits%e2%80%99/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 1) Lennar paid federal lobbyists $240,000 to win them a $320 million cash bailout characterized as a retroactive tax refund. 2) In the accounting for its fourth quarter report, announced on Jan. 7, 2010, Lennar used $284.9 million of the $320 million to offset its quarter losses. 3) Lennar then reported the remaining $35.6 million as profit, earned income. 4) Taxpayers, yet again, footed the bill. http://sfbayview.com/2010/this-bailout%e2%80%99s-for-lennar/ http://sfbayview.com/2010/this-bailout%e2%80%99s-for-lennar/ Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 At the close of 2008 and throughout 2009, Americans watched our federal government reward the reckless multinational financial sector with trillions of dollars for causing the worst hardship since the Great Depression. San Franciscans and Californians joined in the agony but few understood that both San Francisco and California have come up with their own bailout for one of the major players in the meltdown, the South Florida based Lennar Corp. http://sfbayview.com/2009/depleted-uranium-weapons-in-iraq-drastic-birth-defects-in-fallujah/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/depleted-uranium-weapons-in-iraq-drastic-birth-defects-in-fallujah/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 On Friday, Nov. 13, the London Guardian reported a “Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah,” Iraq. I sent the news to KPFA Radio 94.1FM Weekend News anchor Anthony Fest, along with contact info for Bob Nichols, San Francisco Bay View newspaper correspondent and winner of a 2004 Project Censored Award for his reporting on the U.S. military’s use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq and consequent radiation poisoning. http://sfbayview.com/2009/privatizing-california-senate-bill-792/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/privatizing-california-senate-bill-792/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 In their fight against the push to privatize their state park, Bayview Hunters Point activists are fighting the privatization of California as hard as anyone I know. They’re fighting for all of us, so I hope that other Californians who don’t want to see the whole state on the auction block will contact their Assembly representatives and ask them to vote against Senate Bill 792. http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-california-foreclosure-prevention-fraud-of-2009/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-california-foreclosure-prevention-fraud-of-2009/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 The California Legislature is now actively collaborating in the bankers’ coup d’état led by Government Sachs. Here are the details: http://sfbayview.com/2009/cynthia-mckinney-the-israeli-navy-and-4-billion-worth-of-natural-gas-off-gaza/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/cynthia-mckinney-the-israeli-navy-and-4-billion-worth-of-natural-gas-off-gaza/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Upon her release and return, Cynthia McKinney spoke to WBAIX-New York from New York’s JFK Airport, where she reported that the Israeli Navy had towed the “Spirit of Humanity,” not directly to Port Ashdod but on a circuitous route, bypassing the Gaza Coast. This, she said, suggested that the Israeli Navy is engaged in activity that they do not want observed off the Gaza Strip, known to be the site of billions of dollars worth of natural gas reserves. http://sfbayview.com/2009/taxing-fossils-to-educate-for-renewables/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/taxing-fossils-to-educate-for-renewables/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 In response to the California state budget crisis and to global warming urgencies, California’s 20th District Assemblymember Alberto Torrico has proposed Assembly Bill 656, a tax “for the privilege of severing oil or gas from the earth or water in this state,” to fund higher education, especially renewable energy education, to train a generation capable of helping California make a transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy. http://sfbayview.com/2009/bus-riders-at-the-back-of-the-stimulus-bus/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/bus-riders-at-the-back-of-the-stimulus-bus/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 San Francisco bus fares will go up and service will go down – impacting Blacks more than any other group – as the struggle over who gets stimulus funds continues. Transit authorities around the country are in line for token stimulus funds, but only for new building projects; no immediate operating support to stave off fare hikes, service cuts and layoffs. http://sfbayview.com/2009/digging-the-dirt-on-lennar/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/digging-the-dirt-on-lennar/ Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Lennar, when will you stop stirring up all that radioactive asbestos in the Hunters Point Shipyard into the air that all the fine people of color in Bayview Hunters Point are obliged to breathe in order to live? http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-african-holocaust-in-dr-congo-war-for-the-sake-of-war-itself/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/the-african-holocaust-in-dr-congo-war-for-the-sake-of-war-itself/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Cobalt is essential to our military industries’ ability to manufacture the modern weapons of war. So, the Congo War, a.k.a. the African holocaust, is a war for the sake of war itself. http://sfbayview.com/2009/will-%e2%80%98san-francisco-mayor-gavin-newsom-face-of-israel%e2%80%99-be-the-next-governor-of-california/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/will-%e2%80%98san-francisco-mayor-gavin-newsom-face-of-israel%e2%80%99-be-the-next-governor-of-california/ Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 In March 2008, the Jewish Community Federation arranged San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s all-expense paid junket to Israel, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. http://sfbayview.com/2009/on-the-48th-anniversary-of-the-assassination-of-patrice-emery-lumumba/ http://sfbayview.com/2009/on-the-48th-anniversary-of-the-assassination-of-patrice-emery-lumumba/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 The Congolese people continue to suffer staggering casualties in the ongoing African holocaust, which has cost between 5 and 6 million Congolese lives since 1996, and which continues to cost 45,000 lives a month. http://sfbayview.com/2008/all-out-war-the-deadliest-war-on-the-planet-in-congo/ http://sfbayview.com/2008/all-out-war-the-deadliest-war-on-the-planet-in-congo/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 The war in Congo is a U.S. proxy war; the U.S. uses Kagame, the Rwandan army and terrorist Gen. Laurent Nkunda as their African proxy force in Congo, but this is war. It has been the deadliest, though barely reported, war on the planet for years. http://sfbayview.com/2008/us-and-rwanda-to-blame-for-congo%e2%80%99s-human-catastrophe/ http://sfbayview.com/2008/us-and-rwanda-to-blame-for-congo%e2%80%99s-human-catastrophe/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 I know no honest, informed Congo watchers who doubt that Gen. Laurent Nkunda and his ruthless militia are tools of the U.S. and its African proxy, Rwanda, in the imperial resource war now raging in Eastern Congo. http://sfbayview.com/2008/%e2%80%98if-we-can-imagine-the-injustice-then-we-can-have-justice%e2%80%99/ http://sfbayview.com/2008/%e2%80%98if-we-can-imagine-the-injustice-then-we-can-have-justice%e2%80%99/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 I was sitting in San Francisco, something like halfway between England and its former convict colony, Australia, when I stumbled on news that the Queen of England had placed former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of President George Bush’s closest allies, very near the top of her list of 458 Australian birthday honors on June 9, just eight days after Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd finally pulled the last of the Australian troops that John Howard had, in 2003, committed to our Iraq War. http://sfbayview.com/2008/no-blood-for-oil-no-blood-for-natural-gas/ http://sfbayview.com/2008/no-blood-for-oil-no-blood-for-natural-gas/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 The current plan to launch yet another environmental assault on Bayview Hunters Point, with three natural gas turbine combustion power plants, and yet another at the San Francisco International Airport, was tabled for two weeks by the Board of Supervisors. http://sfbayview.com/2007/no-more-gas-fired-power-plants/ http://sfbayview.com/2007/no-more-gas-fired-power-plants/ Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 This is to let you know how thoroughly disgusted I was by the Board of Supervisors’ vote today to plant three more fossil fuel power plants – natural gas turbine combustion power plants – in Bayview Hunters Point. http://sfbayview.com/2006/carrie-dann-louise-benally-and-rosalie-little-thunder-native-american-elders-and-environmental-activists-coming-to-the-bay-area/ http://sfbayview.com/2006/carrie-dann-louise-benally-and-rosalie-little-thunder-native-american-elders-and-environmental-activists-coming-to-the-bay-area/ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 “There is nothing divine about something built to destroy life,” said lifelong war resister and Western Shoshone elder Carrie Dann, as she was arrested, yet again, protesting “Divine Strake.” http://sfbayview.com/2006/in-the-war-of-the-super-rich-on-the-rest-of-us-in-san-francisco-as-in-new-orleans/ http://sfbayview.com/2006/in-the-war-of-the-super-rich-on-the-rest-of-us-in-san-francisco-as-in-new-orleans/ Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 Many of us see, within the Bayview Hunters Point district and without, strategic similarities in the wars being waged in Iraq, in New Orleans and here in our own home town.