Video Fwd: Sudanese Guests

Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes
Saturday, February 05, 2011
SUDANESE GUESTS




M'y latest public access TV show where I interviewed two leaders from Maine's Sudanese community.'

(* Bruce Gagnon interviews Sudanese community leaders Edward Laboke and Dominic Suru. Harpswell (Maine) Community TV, Feb. 2011: See the link)

Video & Text Fwd: OIL DIVISION INSIDE SUDAN

Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
OIL DIVISION INSIDE SUDAN


On January 9, 2011 the people of Southern Sudan will decide by referendum whether or not to separate from Sudan and form a new, independent nation.

Sudan's North and South have already fought 37 years of civil war that devastated the country and took the lives of 2.5 million Sudanese.

Differences of race, tribe and religion, as well as exploitation of the South's natural resources and unequal development are all major grievances driving Southerners to choose separation from their Northern brothers.

However the Sudanese are also deeply linked by culture, blood and geography, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Filmmaker May Ying Welsh journeyed down the Nile to try and understand the tensions that exist - not only between North and South - but also between the peoples of what may soon be Africa's newest country.

Watch as the Nile current sweeps a nation toward its destiny.

Video Fwd: CONTROLLING AFRICA FOR RESOURCE EXTRACTION 에너지 추출을 위한 에너지 통제

Bruce Gagnon's Organizing Notes blog
Thursday, December 09, 2010
CONTROLLING AFRICA FOR RESOURCE EXTRACTION



'One of the major sticking points in the upcoming referendum on south Sudan's secession from the north is the future of Abeyi, an oil-rich border region which both sides want to control.

Solving the dispute temporarily, a deal has been made to postpone the decision over who controls the nation's oil wealth.

We don't hear enough about how control of resources, like oil, is behind much of the conflict in Africa.

Maine is a major resettlement state for African war refugees and I will never forget listening to one man during a panel discussion a couple years ago say that the weapons that are used to kill so many innocent people on the African continent are not made there. They are supplied by the major powers who have created instability in the region in order to take control of the abundant resources on the African continent.

The Pentagon's creation of the Africa Command (AfriCom) is but one key example of how the U.S. is moving to expand its military control over the continent so that the corporations can control the extraction of resources.

The people? They are just in the way of making big money.'