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Génial !
La France, tu l’aimes ou tu la quittes
Marine, va t’en, va t’en, va t’en
Marion, va t’en, va t’en, va t’enLe disque en entier :
▻https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/des-promesses-2On y trouve aussi une reprise de Mandjou, de Salif Keita
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R3hPoYzI1EJ’aime aussi beaucoup Décalement
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYuRi4WGinIChronique ici :
Voilaaa – Des Promesses
Les Oreilles Curieuses, le 4 avril 2017
▻https://lesoreillescurieuses.com/2017/04/04/voilaaa-des-promesses#Voilaaa #Musique #Musique_et_politique #France #Afro-Disco #Afro-funk
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Sur ces cinq titres, on ne s’éloigne pas du tout de l’univers musical de Voilaaa vu que c’est le lyonnais qui produit l’EP, ceci explique cela. Dès lors, on retrouve l’interprétation charismatique et mordante du chanteur d’origine camerounaise sur des morceaux afro-disco résolument vintage avec un soupçon de high-life, de makossa et de musique angolaise à l’image de « Lady Angola », « African Disco » mais aussi « Ballade de Nuit ». Patchworks en profite même pour donner une version résolument décoiffante de « Madiba » avant que #Pat_Kalla & Le Super Mojo boucle la boucle avec le terrible « Ancien combattant » . Aussi bien spirituel qu’ensorcelant, Combattant continue de prolonger l’expérience que nous a offert le touche-à-tout lyonnais pour notre plus grand plaisir.
à écouter sous une boule à facettes dans la capitale des gaules mais pas que ...
merci @sinehebdo j’avais zappé ce billet, j’écoute pas assez de disco ! -
Tu avais zappé ton propre billet ?! Afro-disco s’il te plaît !
Pat Kalla & Le Super Mojo - Ancien Combattant (reprise de Zao)
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFOkq1eZxMEt, tant qu’on y est, le premier album de Voilaaa, On te l’avait dit (2015) :
▻https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/on-te-lavait-ditEt la chronique :
Voilaaa – On te l’avait dit
Les Oreilles Curieuses, le 1 novembre 2015
▻https://lesoreillescurieuses.com/2015/11/01/voilaaa-on-te-lavait-dit -
pas vraiment zappé, non ! mais je ne sais même plus comment j’suis tombé la-dessus, ensuite je classe bandcamp et disco en pensant y revenir plus tard. Ce qui est presque improbable sinon la réaction d’un·e autre. Et bingo, tu es passé par là et plus j’écoute Pat Kalla & Le Super Mojo plus ça me plait. J’y retrouve même quelques accents de feu Rachid Taha. Mieux que disco - afro_disco et là rien de mieux pour un empoté comme moi d’avoir envie de danser. Dommage que se soit le seul billet sur seenthis.
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The Rough Guide To African Disco (2013)
▻https://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1296Disco done African style can mean a whole throng of divergent sounds and this Rough Guide serves you up a hand-picked platter of the continent’s most sensational party vibes old and new.
A strong South African contingent appears on the album. Yvonne Chaka Chaka’s sound on ‘Kwedini’ is firmly bubblegum – a strand of saccharine disco-pop that employs electronic keyboards, synthesizers and crazily catchy call-and-response vocals. The eleven-piece South African party band Mango Groove makes an appearance on the track ‘Tsa-oo’. Teaspoon & The Waves provide a gem of a track with ‘Oh Yeh Soweto’ – a disco-fied cover of the classic track ‘Going Back To My Roots’, by Detroit-based Motown maestro Lamont Dozier. Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens are heard on the bright number ‘Kazet’, a rare disco flavoured track that encapsulates the band’s positive lively sound – a style they termed mgqashiyo – literally ‘to bounce’.
Pat Thomas is a highlife musician from Ghana who can be heard on the irresistible funky track ‘Yesu San Bra’. Legendary Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player Manu Dibango is heard on the driving track ‘Yekey Tenge’. ‘A Brand New Wayo’ by Nigerian ensemble Mixed Grill is a thick, brassy number that bristles with cool. Identical twin duo The Lijadu Sisters are also heard on ‘Come On Home’.
Heading up the modern movers, Bibi Tanga’s music bridges the gap between France, where he now lives, and the suburbs of the Central African Republic, where he grew up. Sofrito producers Frankie Francis and DJ Simbad remix Victor Uwaifo’s classic sounds on ‘Ohue’.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2laU08Ca5U&list=PLv267cZC0DjgRkGVvzFyen-FVy3wOJ8bt
Mixed Grill : A Brand New Wayo (5:01)
Pat Thomas: Yesu San Bra (3:51)
The Lijadu Sisters: Come On Home (5:16)
Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens: Kazet (3:46)
Yvonne Chaka Chaka: Kwedini (4:36)
Sir Victor Uwaifo / Frankie Francis & Simbad Edit: Ohue (5:37)
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites: Be Africa (4:15)
Manu Dibango: Yekey Tenge (5:57)
Osibisa: Dance The Body Music (3:48)
Mango Groove: Tsa-oo (4:15)
Teaspoon & the Waves: Oh Yeh Soweto (4:14)
Tony Allen & The Afro Messengers : Love Is A Natural Thing (9:08)
Marumo: ToiToi (3:38)
Vincent Nguini And Maloko - Soul On Fire
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Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens - Kazet
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0NHScOnD2wVous vous souvenez ? Lizzy Mercier Descloux en avait fait Mais ou sont passées les gazelles ?
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▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlaqYct8_-s
KOKOLO - “The Magnificent Seven”
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Accelerated remittances growth to low- and middle-income countries in 2018
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries grew rapidly and are projected to reach a new record in 2018, says the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, released today.
The Bank estimates that officially recorded remittances to developing countries will increase by 10.8 percent to reach $528 billion in 2018. This new record level follows robust growth of 7.8 percent in 2017. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countries, are projected to grow by 10.3 percent to $689 billion.
Remittance flows rose in all regions, most notably in Europe and Central Asia (20 percent) and South Asia (13.5 percent), followed by Sub-Saharan Africa (9.8 percent), Latin America and the Caribbean (9.3 percent), the Middle East and North Africa (9.1 percent), and East Asia and the Pacific (6.6 percent). Growth was driven by a stronger economy and employment situation in the United States and a rebound in outward flows from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the Russian Federation.
Among major remittance recipients, India retains its top spot, with remittances expected to total $80 billion this year, followed by China ($67 billion), Mexico and the Philippines ($34 billion each), and Egypt ($26 billion).
As global growth is projected to moderate, future remittances to low- and middle-income countries are expected to grow moderately by 4 percent to reach $549 billion in 2019. Global remittances are expected to grow 3.7 percent to $715 billion in 2019.
The Brief notes that the global average cost of sending $200 remains high at 6.9 percent in the third quarter of 2018. Reducing remittance costs to 3 percent by 2030 is a global target under #Sustainable_Development_Goals (SDG) 10.7. Increasing the volume of remittances is also a global goal under the proposals for raising financing for the SDGs.
▻https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/12/08/accelerated-remittances-growth-to-low-and-middle-income-countries-in-2018
#remittances #migrations #statistiques #chiffres #2018 #coût #SDGs
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#Rapport : Migration and Remittances
This Migration and Development Brief reports global trends in migration and remittance flows. It highlights developments connected to migration-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators for which the World Bank is a custodian: increasing the volume of remittances as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) (SDG indicator 17.3.2), reducing remittance costs (SDG indicator 10.c.1), and reducing recruitment costs for migrant workers (SDG indicator 10.7.1). This Brief also presents recent developments on the Global Compact on Migration (GCM) and proposes an implementation and review mechanism.
▻https://www.knomad.org/publication/migration-and-development-brief-30Pour télécharger le rapport :
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International Remittances Headline ACP-EU-IOM Discussions in #Ghana
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the flow of remittances is on the rise, but the cost to transfer these funds is far higher than the global average, making the region the most expensive place in the world to send money.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners focused on improving the use of migrant remittances, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa at a three-day regional thematic meeting starting today (19/02) in Accra, Ghana.
International remittances have been taking on increasing weight in the global policy agenda in recent years according to Jeffrey Labovitz, IOM Regional Director for East and Horn of Africa, who is speaking at the event.
“This in part reflects the growing understanding that improving and harnessing the flow of remittances can have a substantial impact on development,” he said.
Remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa grew from USD 34 billion in 2016 to USD 38 billion in 2017, an increase of over 11 per cent. Despite this increase – a trend which is expected to continue through 2019 – Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most expensive place in the world to send money with an average cost of 9.4 per cent of the transfer amount, a figure that was 29 per cent above the world average in 2017. This is far short of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target 10.C.3 to reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances to less than 3 per cent by 2030.
“Almost 75 per cent of remittances are spent on consumption which greatly benefit the receiving households and communities,” said Claudia Natali, Regional Specialist on Labour Mobility and Development at the IOM Regional Office for West and Central Africa.
“But more could be done to maximize the remaining 25 per cent. Fostering financial inclusion and promoting initiatives that help people manage the funds can go a long way to harness development impacts of remittances,” she added.
The meeting, which runs through Thursday (21/02), is providing a platform for communication, exchange and learning for 80 participants involved in IOM’s “ACP-EU Migration Action", including migration experts and representatives from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) governments, regional organizations, the European Union (EU), UN agencies and NGOs working in remittances and diaspora mobilization.
Given that remittances are at the heart of the joint ACP Group of States and European Union Dialogue’s recommendations on migration, discussions also aim to generate thematic recommendations for the Sub-Saharan region and establish links between the outcomes of the ACP-EU Migration Action programme, and processes relevant to the ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration and Development at the regional and global levels.
The meeting is organized by IOM’s country office for Ghana and the IOM Regional Office in Brussels in partnership with the African Institute for Remittances (AIR) and Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership (MFW4A).
IOM’s ACP-EU Migration Action, launched in June 2014, provides tailored technical support on migration to ACP countries and regional organizations. To date it has received 74 technical assistance requests from 67 ACP governments and 7 regional organizations, a third of which directly concern remittances.
The programme is financed by the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) and supported by the ACP Secretariat and the EU. For more information on the ACP-EU Migration Action, go to: www.acpeumigrationaction.iom.int.
▻https://www.iom.int/news/international-remittances-headline-acp-eu-iom-discussions-ghana
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The cost of cross-border payments needs to drop
FOR MOST of human history, sending money across borders has cost the earth. Thankfully for globetrotters and e-shoppers in the rich world, that has changed in the past decade. A shift from cash and travellers’ cheques towards digital payments has cut the cost of moving funds around. And a new generation of fintech firms has broken the stranglehold that big banks used to have on money transfers (see article). As a result, fees have fallen. The cost of a transfer between consumers or small firms who are both in G7 countries can now cost 2% or less. This year some $10trn will pass across borders. As prices fall further, the sums will grow.
▻https://amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/04/13/the-cost-of-cross-border-payments-needs-to-drop
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Central America Encourages Migrants to Leave—And Then Rakes in U.S. Dollars
#USA #Etats-Unis #Guatemala #Honduras #El_Salvador #2017
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The weakness of democracy in Ghana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/12/the-weakness-of-democracy-in-ghanaOn the morning of October 22, 2018, students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (known more
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Le soutien du Ghana rapproche Israël du siège convoité à l’Union africaine
Middle East Eye | Azad Essa | 22 novembre 2018
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinions/le-soutien-du-ghana-rapproche-isra-l-du-si-ge-convoit-l-union-africaiLors d’une récente visite en Israël, la ministre des Affaires étrangères du Ghana a confirmé que son gouvernement aiderait Israël à obtenir le statut d’observateur auprès de l’Union africaine (UA).
Accra devient la dernière nation africaine à soutenir publiquement la demande d’Israël de siéger à cette instance continentale. Le Kenya et l’Éthiopie ont déjà approuvé la candidature d’Israël en qualité de membre observateur, lorsque le vote aura lieu en février.
Les membres observateurs auprès de l’UA ont la possibilité d’accéder à tous les États membres et de s’adresser à eux collectivement. C’est l’occasion de renforcer les liens politiques avec le continent. Voici l’une des raisons pour lesquelles le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou a fait pression pour obtenir le statut d’observateur : contrer l’influence de la Palestine auprès de l’UA, qui a toujours adopté une position plutôt pro-palestinienne.
La Palestine a obtenu le statut d’observateur en 2013, comme la Turquie en 2005. (...)
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Déforestation, plantations, ZAD - Agnès Stienne - Visionscarto
▻https://visionscarto.net/deforestation-plantations-zadDans le prolongement de la Petite géographie du #palmier_à_huile j’ai réalisé une série de peintures symbolisant la forte emprise des #plantations et de la #déforestation sur les espaces naturels et ruraux tributaires de cultures vivrières. Les quatre premières images, carrées, de la série montrent « l’encerclement » de ces zones par les plantations ou par la déforestation — qui a lieu au préalable— tout en suggérant une certaine résistance de ces espaces à préserver, les fameuses #ZAD défendues courageusement par les peuples autochtones, les communautés paysannes ou les organisations militantes, au péril parfois de leur vie. Chaque phase est représentée par un motif spécifique transposable d’une aquarelle à l’autre : déforestation par le feu, défiguration du paysage par les engins de chantier, mise à nu des sols, plantations.
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@odilon Et du coup je sais enfin à quoi correspond désormais ton icône, tu n’imagines pas toutes les choses que j’ai pu imaginer.
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hi hi @philippe_de_jonckheere je ne sais pas si j’ai envie de savoir ?
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@odilon Rien de honteux, juste pléthore d’interrogations à propos de la symbolique des couleurs, j’étais loin de me douter.
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Et si je peux me permettre @odilon, ces véritables œuvres sont aussi en vente ! Profitez-en pour vous offrir un Odilon :)
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Merci @touti de le rappeler :)
Catalogue visible et téléchargeable avec toutes les infos ici
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Merci beaucoup @mad_meg vos encouragements me font du bien.
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Tiens, ça donne envie de monter une pinacothèque sur seenthis ! On participerait en commun à l’achat et on ferait tourner les œuvres chez chacun·e de nous un temps donné. Qu’est-ce que vous en dites ?
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Merci à @severo pour la traduction en espagnol
Deforestación, plantaciones, ZAD
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Biens culturels africains : le rapport Savoy-Sarr évoque des restitutions définitives - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20181121-biens-culturels-rapport-savoy-sarr-restitutions-definitivesD’après Bénédicte Savoy et Felwine Sarr, 90 000 objets provenant d’Afrique subsaharienne se trouvent actuellement dans les collections publiques françaises, dont 70 000 au musée du Quai Branly à Paris. Les 20 000 autres sont réparties dans d’autres musées ou villes portuaires françaises (Cherbourg, Le Havre, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Nantes, Marseille).
Les objets qui pourraient être restitués
Evidemment, il est encore trop tôt pour déterminer combien d’œuvres seront rendues à leurs pays d’origine. Néanmoins, pour les auteurs du rapport, ces restitutions pourraient concerner quatre types d’objets. Les objets saisis dans le cadre d’agressions militaires, à condition que leur acquisition soit antérieure à l’adoption en 1899 des premières conventions de la Haye codifiant les lois de la guerre, les objets réquisitionnés durant la période coloniale (1885-1960) par des militaires, des administrateurs ou leurs descendants, les objets pris ou achetés de force lors des grandes expéditions scientifiques françaises en Afrique au 20e siècle et les objets acquis illégalement après les indépendances, notamment par le biais de trafics.
La majorité des objets africains se trouvant actuellement dans les collections publiques françaises ont été acquis durant la période coloniale. Le rapport mentionne aussi des objets provenant de pays n’ayant pas été colonisés par la France : le Ghana, le Nigeria ou encore l’Ethiopie. « Nous sommes d’avis que ce patrimoine culturel recoive la même attention et bénéficie de la même importance dans le processus de restitution que les objets provenant des anciennes colonies françaises », expliquent Bénédicte Savoy et Felwine Sarr. -
Investment platforms vie to capture a share of global #remittances
Investment platforms are vying to capture a share of global remittances
IN 2016 AYO ADEWUNMI, a Nigerian-born agricultural trader living in London, bought a five-hectare farm in
his homeland. It has produced little since. “I am not in the country, so I have to rely on third parties. It’s just
not good enough,” he says.
Mr Adewunmi has since discovered another, potentially more satisfactory way to make such investments:
through #FarmCrowdy (▻https://www.farmcrowdy.com), a crowdfunding platform that lends to Nigerian farms and provides technical
assistance to their owners. The two-year-old startup, which is considering expanding into Ghana, places high
hopes in the African diaspora as a source of funds.
The case for such platforms goes beyond agriculture. Global remittances are expected to soar from $468bn
in 2010 to $667bn in 2019. They are among the top two foreign-currency sources in several countries,
including Kenya and the Philippines. Yet hardly any of the money is invested.
In part, this is because recipients use three-quarters of the money for basics such as food and housing. But it
is also because emigrants who want to invest back home have few options. New investment channels could
attract lots of extra cash—about $73bn a year in Commonwealth countries alone, according to research by
the 53-country grouping.Crowdfunding platforms would enable investors to put modest sums directly into smaller businesses in
developing countries, which are often cash-starved. Yet of the emerging world’s 85 debt- and
equity-crowdfunding ventures, only a handful raise money abroad. Several platforms set up in rich countries
over the past decade to invest in developing countries, including Emerging Crowd, Homestrings and Enable
Impact, quickly folded.
A big problem is that few developing countries have rules about crowdfunding. Many have allowed activity
so far chiefly because the industry is so small, says Anton Root of Allied Crowds, a consultancy. Cross-border
transfers using such platforms easily fall foul of rich countries’ rules intended to stop money-laundering and
the financing of terrorism.
Some developing countries have realised that they need to act. Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
have all recently passed regulations on equity crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending. But from a
cross-border perspective, Africa seems most inventive, owing to active entrepreneurs and Western help.Last month the British government approved a grant of £230,000 ($300,000) to the African Crowdfunding
Association to help it craft model accreditation and investor-protection rules. Elizabeth Howard of
LelapaFund, a platform focused on east Africa, is part of an effort to see such rules adopted across the
continent. That would help reassure sending countries that transfers do not end up in the wrong hands, she
says. She hopes to enlist the support of the Central Bank of West African States, which oversees eight
Francophone countries, at a gathering of crowdfunders and regulators sponsored by the French
government in Dakar, in Senegal, this month.
Thameur Hemdane of Afrikwity, a platform targeting Francophone Africa, says the industry will also study
whether prospective laws could be expanded to the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, a
grouping of six countries. Harmonised rules will not guarantee crowdfunders’ success, but would be a useful
step towards raising the amount of diaspora capital that is put to productive use.
▻https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/11/08/investment-platforms-vie-to-capture-a-share-of-global-remittances?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/investmentplatformsvietocaptureashareofglobalremittancesitscominghome
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Je découvre le mag récent Pan African Music par l’intermédiaire d’un lien de Rocé disant qu’il a participé au dernier album du malien Pédro Kouyaté :
▻http://pan-african-music.com/pedro-kouyate-vis-ta-vie
dans lequel il y a aussi Oxmo ou Mamani Keita.
▻https://www.deezer.com/fr/album/75582082Du coup, je découvre plein de choses en suivant les suggestions et menus… Beaucoup trop de choses à écouter, ça va encore me prendre la journée voire le week-end entier, cloitré dans ma chambre à écouter de la musique… Je suis tombé dans un nouveau puits sans fond.
Sachant que je suis du genre à avoir les larmes aux yeux quand j’entends de la kora :
Il est temps que tout le monde connaisse Ablaye Cissoko
▻http://pan-african-music.com/ablaye-cissoko
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xGupCsHjbgEt comme ce dernier travaillait avec Habib Faye, le bassiste et arrangeur de Youssou N’dour notamment, qui est mort récemment (je ne connais pas du tout tout ce monde hein, je découvre) :
Habib Faye s’est retiré en laissant un grand vide, et beaucoup d’héritiers
▻http://pan-african-music.com/habib-faye-sest-retire-en-laissant-un-grand-vide-et-beaucoup-dherSans rapport mais dans le menu des trucs récents :
Clip du jour : Fuse ODG – Bra Fie (Come Home) feat. Damian Marley (ping @sinehebdo, pour le clip violence policière un peu, même si le thème principal est le retour en Afrique)
▻http://pan-african-music.com/clip-du-jour-fuse-odg-bra-fie-come-home-feat-damian-marley
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nwS0Lb0kEc#musique #Afrique #Pédro_Kouyaté #Ablaye_Cissoko #griot #kora #panafricanisme
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Oui, super porte d’entrée :)
Anthony Joseph : « J’espère créer un pont entre Trinidad et l’Europe »
▻http://pan-african-music.com/anthony-joseph-interview‘Quebra Cabeça’ : l’afrobeat toujours plus urbain des Brésiliens de Bixiga 70
►http://pan-african-music.com/bixiga-70-quebra-cabecaCriolo, l’enfant conscient de la Zona Sul
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Brother Resistance, l’un des héros musicaux d’Anthony Joseph
▻http://pan-african-music.com/brother-resistance-anthony-josephQui est Roy Lewis alias Lutalo Masimba, plus connu sous le patronyme très « Black pantherien » de Brother Resistance ? Depuis la fin des années 70 ce spoken artist barbu toaste de sa voix grave « rapso, la voix du peuple, le cœur de la lutte ! », sur fond de steel pan, cet idiophone au son cristallin si typique de son Trinidad-et-Tobago natal.
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Kwame Nkrumah - Independence Speech (Colour) - Accra, 6th March 1957
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf5CPacHt4QFull text: First independence speech by Kwame Nkrumah - MyJoyOnline.com
▻http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2017/march-6th/full-text-first-independence-speech-by-kwame-nkrumah.phpWe have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now one, there is a new African in the world!
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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Speech on 6th march 1957 at the independence square
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTdi8AjZg8discours intégral jusqu’à 7’25" (pas dans le même ordre que dans le texte ci-dessus) suivi de Kwame Nkrumah, par Blakk Rasta (Ghanéen, faut-il le préciser, puis à 13’45", ?)
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Please don’t shoot me, we are one
Donc je le rajoute à la compilation de chansons consacrées aux flics, keufs, condés, poulets, cognes, porcs, cafards et argousins :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/576637Bra Fie (Come Home, 2018)
Fuse ODG featuring Damian Marley
▻https://genius.com/Fuse-odg-bra-fie-come-home-lyrics(Fuse ODG)
Take the shackles off my feet
Make a go, make a go
It’s a battle with the beast
Take your shield, help me go
Come we go and takeover
New Africa, makeover
Let power, has and pray ya lord
Our father help us fight the war(Chorus)
Bra fie ooo, bra fie
Bra fie na y3 tw3n woo
Bra fie ooo, bra fie
Bra fie na y3 tw3n wooOh yes, thank you
I’m a human being in Africa
But a black man in America
African in England
Don’t forget where you are from
Ghana down to Suriname
Taken from our motherland
Don’t forget your mother tongue
Please don’t shoot me, we are one(Chorus) x2
Bra fie ooo, bra fie
Bra fie na y3 tw3n woo
Bra fie ooo, bra fie
Bra fie na y3 tw3n woo(Damian)
Don’t overlook true wishes, binoculars
And please don’t tell me you’ve forgotten us
Your last children living anonymous
In a very strange land where dem carried us
And it must be a natural phenomenon
How we say can remember where we’re coming from
Even tru the brainwashing curriculum
Up through the ages and milleniums
Last 400 years has been fabulous
We been working as slaves, living ravenous
But to overdo ya stay can be hazardous
Now what I am, figure, thanks for having us
Please make a ya promise o promised land
And welcome me home any time I land
And make I feel like I belong with us
Until that day, no giving up#Musique #Musique_et_politique #rap #Fuse_ODG #Damian_Marley #Ghana #Jamaique #UK #brutalité_policière #violence_policière
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Pedro Kouyaté ne joue pas de la kora mais du #ngoni ! Une interview où il explique la différence :
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lol je sais, c’est Ablaye Cissoko qui joue de la kora :) (deuxième lien)
Mais bon c’est la même famille. Super l’interview merci ! (même s’il n’explique pas la différence, menteur, il dit que c’est différent, mais il n’explique pas en quoi précisément :D)
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L’article sur Pedro Kouyaté dit qu’il joue de la kora !
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Ah ok pardon, je pensais que tu disais ça par rapport à ce que j’écrivais au départ, avec la phrase en dessous. :)
Bon, pour la peine, là une page où ça explique mieux la différence :
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Haha ouais, comme si je n’avais pas déjà plein de choses en retard de partout… J’y ai effectivement passé tout le week-end le mois dernier, mais pas trop eu le temps d’y retourner depuis.
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Nigeria : mystère autour du parcours du leader indépendantiste Nnamdi Kanu
RFI - Publié le 24-10-2018
▻http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20181024-nigeria-nnamdi-kanu-biafra-ipob-biafra-polemique
▻http://scd.rfi.fr/sites/filesrfi/imagecache/rfi_16x9_1024_578/sites/images.rfi.fr/files/aef_image/2016-01-20T133426Z_1877731751_GF20000100857_RTRMADP_3_NIGERIA-POLITICS_0.JPGAu Nigeria, la réapparition du leader du mouvement indépendantiste biafrais soulève quelques interrogations. En fin de semaine dernière, une vidéo devenue virale montrait un homme lui ressemblant fortement, priant au pied du mur des Lamentations. Beaucoup se demandent comment Nnamdi Kanu a pu échapper aux autorités nigérianes.
La dernière fois que Nnamdi Kanu a été vu en public au Nigeria, c’était le 14 septembre 2017. Jour où les forces de l’ordre ont mené un raid contre sa maison dans le sud-est. Depuis, plus de trace du leader indépendantiste biafrais. Etait-il mort où bien en vie ? En mars dernier, la presse nigériane annonçait l’avoir vu en compagnie de sa femme à Accra, la capitale ghanéenne. Démenti des militants qui affirmaient alors que Nnamdi Kanu était détenu au secret voire qu’il avait été tué par les forces de sécurité, ce qu’elles ont toujours réfuté.
Nnamdi Kanu a finalement levé le doute ce dimanche. Dans une intervention radiophonique, il a déclaré être en Israël, en chair et en os. Il a également appelé à boycotter des prochaines élections sans référendum d’autodétermination sur la région. Mais au-delà du message politique, il n’a pas précisé comment il avait pu se rendre à Jérusalem. De plus, il était sous le coup d’un procès et donc interdit de sortie du territoire. A-t-il bénéficié de complicités ? Certains sites d’information pointent du doigt les services secrets nigérians. Des sources anonymes internes affirment que cinq agents ont aidé le chef de file du mouvement à fuir vers le Ghana - via la Guinée équatoriale - et qu’il aurait ensuite disparu de la circulation. « Intox » ont aussitôt répondu les services nigérians. (...)
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Je ne comprends pas très bien ce que ça implique, mais je rajoute ça à la compile #Israfrique :
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Moi, de même, je l’ai mis en pensant que je comprendrais peut-être plus tard à la lueur d’autres infos.
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15 personnes poursuivies pour avoir tenté d’empêcher le décollage d’un charter de 57 expulsés (Ghana et Nigeria) en se couchant sur le tarmac (voir End Deportation latest newsletter : ▻https://us16.campaign-archive.com/?u=ae35278d38818677379a2546a&id=6be6b043c3)
–-> reçu via la mailing-list Migreurop par Claire Rodier.#Stansted_15 : Amnesty to observe trial amid concerns for anti-deportation activists
Amnesty considers the 15 to be human rights defenders
‘We’re concerned the authorities are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut with this case’ - Kate Allen
Amnesty International will be observing the trial of 15 human rights defenders set to go on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court next week (Monday 1 October) relating to their attempt to prevent what they believed was the unlawful deportation of a group of people at Stansted airport.
The protesters - known as the “#Stansted 15” - are facing lengthy jail sentences for their non-violent intervention in March last year.
Amnesty is concerned that the serious charge of “endangering safety at aerodromes” may have been brought to discourage other activists from taking non-violent direct action in defence of human rights. The organisation has written to the Director of the Crown Prosecution Service and the Attorney General calling for this disproportionate charge to be dropped.
The trial is currently expected to last for approximately six weeks.
Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director, said:
“We’re concerned the authorities are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut with this case.
“Public protest and non-violent direct action can often be a key means of defending human rights, particularly when victims have no way to make their voices heard and have been denied access to justice.
“Human rights defenders are currently coming under attack in many countries around the world, with those in power doing all they can to discourage people from taking injustice personally. The UK must not go down that path.”
▻https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/stansted-15-amnesty-observe-trial-amid-concerns-anti-deportation-activis
#avion #déportation #renvois #expulsions #UK #Angleterre #résistance #procès #migrations #asile #réfugiés #frontières
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voir aussi la métaliste sur la #résistance de #passagers (mais aussi de #pilotes) aux #renvois_forcés :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/725457-
The Stansted protesters saved me from wrongful deportation. They are heroes
The ‘Stansted 15’ face jail for stopping my flight from taking off. They helped me see justice – and the birth of my daughter
I’ll never forget the moment I found out that a group of people had blocked a charter deportation flight leaving Stansted airport on 28 March 2017, because I was one of the people that had a seat on the plane and was about to be removed from Britain against my will. While most of those sitting with me were whooping with joy when they heard the news, I was angry. After months in detention, the thought of facing even just one more day in that purgatory filled me with terror. And, crucially, I had no idea then of what I know now: that the actions of those activists, who became known as the Stansted 15, would help me see justice, and save my life in Britain.
Stansted 15 convictions a ‘crushing blow for human rights in UK’
Read moreI first arrived in Britain in 2004 and, like so many people who come here from abroad, built a life here. As I sat in that plane in Stansted last year I was set to be taken “back” to a country that I had no links to. Indeed there is no doubt in my mind that had I been deported I would have been destitute and homeless in Nigeria – I was terrified.
Imagine it. You’ve lived somewhere for 13 years. Your mum, suffering with mobility issues, lives there. Your partner lives there. Two of your children already live there, and the memory of your first-born, who died at just seven years old, resides there too. Your next child is about to be born there. That was my situation as we waited on the asphalt – imagining my daughter being born in a country where I’d built a life, while I was exiled to Nigeria and destined to meeting my newborn for the first time through a screen on a phone.
My story was harsh, but it’s no anomaly. Like many people facing deportation from the United Kingdom, my experience with the immigration authorities had lasted many years – and for the last seven years of living here I had been in a constant state of mental detention. A cycle of Home Office appeals and its refusal to accept my claims or make a fair decision based on the facts of my case saw me in and out of detention and permanently waiting for my status to be settled. Though the threat of deportation haunted me, it was the utter instability and racial discrimination that made me feel like I was going mad. That’s why the actions of the Stansted 15 first caused me to be angry. I simply didn’t believe that their actions would be anything more than a postponement of further pain.
My view isn’t just shaped by my own experience. My life in Britain has seen me rub along with countless people who find themselves the victims of the government’s “hostile environment” for migrants and families who aren’t white. Migration and deportation targets suck humanity from a system whose currency is the lives of people who happen to be born outside the UK. Such is the determination to look “tough” on the issue that people are rounded up in the night and put on to brutal, secretive and barely legal charter flights. Most take off away from the public eye – 60 human beings shackled and violently restrained on each flight, with barely a thought about the life they are dragged away from, nor the one they face upon arrival.
Stansted 15 activists vow to overcome ‘dark, dark day for the right to protest’
Read moreI was one of the lucky few. My removal from the plane gave me two life-changing gifts. The first was a chance to appeal to the authorities over my deportation – a case that I won on two separate occasions, following a Home Office counter-appeal. But more importantly the brave actions of the Stansted 15 gave me something even more special: the chance to be by my partner’s side as she gave birth to our daughter, and to be there for them as they both needed extensive treatment after a complicated and premature birth. Without the Stansted 15 I wouldn’t have been playing football with my three-year-old in the park this week. It’s that simple. We now have a chance to live together as a family in Britain – and that is thanks to the people who lay down in front of the plane.
On Monday the Stansted 15 were found guilty of breaching a barely used terror law. Though the jury were convinced that their actions breached this legislation, there’s no doubt in my mind that these 15 brave people are heroes, not criminals. For me a crime is doing something that is evil, shameful or just wrong – and it’s clear that it is the actions of the Home Office that tick all of these boxes; the Stansted 15 were trying to stop the real crime being committed. As the Stansted 15 face their own purgatory – awaiting sentences in the following weeks – I will be praying that they are shown leniency. Without their actions I would have missed my daughter’s birth, and faced the utter injustice of being deported from this country without having my (now successful) appeal heard. My message to them today is to fight on. Your cause is just, and history will absolve you of the guilt that the system has marked you with.
►https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/10/stansted-15-protesters-deportation
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Regno Unito, quindici attivisti rischiano l’ergastolo per aver bloccato la deportazione di migranti
La criminalizzazione della solidarietà non riguarda solo l’Italia, con la martellante campagna contro le Ong che salvano vite nel Mediterraneo. In Francia sette attivisti rischiano 10 anni di carcere e 750mila euro di multa per “associazione a delinquere finalizzata all’immigrazione clandestina”. Nel Regno Unito altri quindici rischiano addirittura l’ergastolo per aver bloccato nella notte del 28 marzo 2017 nell’aeroporto di Stansted la deportazione di un gruppo di migranti caricati in segreto su un aereo diretto in Nigeria.
Attivisti appartenenti ai gruppi End Deportations, Plane Stupid e Lesbian and Gays Support the Migrants hanno circondato l’aereo, impedendone il decollo. Come risultato della loro azione undici persone sono rimaste nel Regno Unito mentre la loro domanda di asilo veniva esaminata e due hanno potuto restare nel paese. Nonostante il carattere nonviolento dell’azione, il gruppo che ha bloccato l’aereo è finito sotto processo con accuse basate sulla legge anti-terrorismo e se giudicato colpevole rischia addirittura l’ergastolo. Il verdetto è atteso la settimana prossima.
Membri dei movimenti pacifisti, antirazzisti e ambientalisti si sono uniti per protestare contro l’iniquità delle accuse. Amnesty International ha espresso la preoccupazione che siano state formulate per scoraggiare altri attivisti dall’intraprendere azioni dirette nonviolente in difesa dei diritti umani. Il vescovo di Chelmsford, la cittadina dove si tiene il processo, si è presentato in tribunale per esprimere il suo appoggio agli imputati. La primavera scorsa oltre 50 personalità, tra cui la leader dei Verdi Caroline Lucas, la scrittrice e giornalista Naomi Klein, il regista Ken Loach e l’attrice Emma Thompson hanno firmato una lettera in cui chiedono il ritiro delle accuse contro i “Quindici di Stansted” e la fine dei voli segreti di deportazione.
Nel Regno Unito questa pratica è iniziata nel 2001. Molte delle persone deportate hanno vissuto per anni nel paese; vengono portate via dai posti di lavoro, in strada o dalle loro case, rinchiuse in centri di detenzione, caricate in segreto su voli charter notturni e inviate in paesi che spesso non conoscono e dove rischiano persecuzioni e morte. Alcuni non vengono preavvisati in tempo per ricorrere in appello contro la deportazione. “Il nostro è stato un atto di solidarietà umana, di difesa e resistenza contro un regime sempre più brutale” ha dichiarato un’attivista.
▻https://www.pressenza.com/it/2018/12/regno-unito-quindici-attivisti-rischiano-lergastolo-per-aver-bloccato-la-
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Activists convicted of terrorism offence for blocking Stansted deportation flight
Fifteen activists who blocked the takeoff of an immigration removal charter flight have been convicted of endangering the safety of Stansted airport, a terrorism offence for which they could be jailed for life.
After nearly three days of deliberations, following a nine-week trial, a jury at Chelmsford crown court found the defendants guilty of intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome under the 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act, a law passed in response to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
The court had heard how members of the campaign group End Deportations used lock-on devices to secure themselves around a Titan Airways Boeing 767 chartered by the Home Office, as the aircraft waited on the asphalt at the airport in Essex to remove undocumented immigrants to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.
The prosecution argued that their actions, which led to a temporary shutdown of Stansted, had posed a grave risk to the safety of the airport and its passengers.
The verdict came after the judge Christopher Morgan told the jury to disregard all evidence put forward by the defendants to support the defence that they acted to stop human rights abuses, instructing jurors to only consider whether there was a “real and material” risk to the airport.
In legal arguments made without the jury present, which can now be reported, defence barristers had called for the jury to be discharged after Morgan gave a summing up which they said amounted to a direction to convict. The judge had suggested the defendants’ entry to a restricted area could be considered inherently risky.
Human rights organisations and observers had already expressed concerns over the choice of charge, which Kate Allen, the UK director of Amnesty International, likened to “using a sledgehammer to crack a nut”. Responding to the verdict on Monday, Gracie Bradley, policy and campaigns manager at Liberty, called the verdict a “grave injustice” and a “malicious attack” on the right to peaceful protest.
Dr Graeme Hayes, reader in political sociology at Aston University, was one of a team of academics who observed the trial throughout. The only previous use of the 1990 law he and colleagues were able to find was in 2002 when a pilot was jailed for three years after flying his helicopter straight at a control tower.
“This is a law that’s been brought in concerning international terrorism,” he said. “But for the last 10 weeks [of the trial], we’ve heard what amounts to an extended discussion of health and safety, in which the prosecution has not said at any point what the consequences of their actions might have been.”
In a statement released by End Deportations after the verdict, the defendants said: “We are guilty of nothing more than intervening to prevent harm. The real crime is the government’s cowardly, inhumane and barely legal deportation flights and the unprecedented use of terror law to crack down on peaceful protest.
The protest took place on the night of 28 March 2017. The activists cut a hole in the airport’s perimeter fence, the court heard. Jurors were shown footage from CCTV cameras and a police helicopter of four protesters arranging themselves around the front landing gear of the aircraft and locking their arms together inside double-layered pipes filled with expanding foam.
Further back, a second group of protesters erected a two-metre tripod from scaffolding poles behind the engine on the left wing on which one of them perched while others locked themselves to the base to prevent it from being moved, the videos showed. In the moments before police arrived, they were able to display their banners, one of which said: “No one is illegal.”
Helen Brewer, Lyndsay Burtonshaw, Nathan Clack, Laura Clayson, Mel Evans, Joseph McGahan, Benjamin Smoke, Jyotsna Ram, Nicholas Sigsworth, Alistair Temlit, Edward Thacker, Emma Hughes, May McKeith, Ruth Potts and Melanie Stickland, aged 27 to 44, had all pleaded not guilty.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/10/activists-convicted-of-terror-offence-for-blocking-stansted-deportation -
Stansted 15: no jail for activists convicted of terror-related offences
Judge says group ‘didn’t have a grievous intent as some may who commit this type of crime’.
Fifteen activists convicted of a terrorism-related offence for chaining themselves around an immigration removal flight at Stansted airport have received suspended sentences or community orders.
The judge decided not to imprison them after he accepted they were motivated by “genuine reasons”.
Amid an outcry over what human rights defenders branded a heavy-handed prosecution, the group, who have become known as the Stansted 15, were convicted last December of endangering the safety of an aerodrome.
They had broken into Stansted airport’s “airside” area in March 2017 and chained themselves together around a Boeing 767 chartered by the Home Office to deport 60 people to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. After a 10-week trial a jury found them guilty of the charge – an offence that carries a potential life sentence.
We in the Stansted 15 have been treated like terrorists
Emma Hughes
Read moreAt Chelmsford crown court on Wednesday, Judge Christopher Morgan QC, dismissed submissions in mitigation that the group should receive conditional discharges for the direct action protest, which briefly paralysed the airport, saying they did not reflect the danger that had been presented by their actions.
He said such action would “ordinarily result in custodial sentences”, but that they “didn’t have a grievous intent as some may do who commit this type of crime”. The mood in the court had lightened considerably at the start of the hearing when Morgan said that he did not consider the culpability of any of the defendants passed the threshold of an immediate custodial sentence.
The heaviest sentences were reserved for three of the group who had been previously convicted of aggravated trespass at Heathrow airport in 2016.
Alistair Tamlit and Edward Thacker were sentenced on Wednesday to nine months in jail suspended for 18 months, along with 250 hours of unpaid work. Melanie Strickland was sentenced to nine months suspended for 18 months, with 100 hours of unpaid work.
Benjamin Smoke, Helen Brewer, Lyndsay Burtonshaw, Nathan Clack, Laura Clayson, Mel Evans, Joseph McGahan, Jyotsna Ram, Nicholas Sigsworth, Emma Hughes and Ruth Potts were each given 12-month community orders with 100 hours of unpaid work, while May McKeith received a 12-month community order with 20 days of rehabilitation.
In mitigation, Dexter Dias QC said it should be taken into account that all acted to try to help individuals they perceived to be in danger. “The reason they wanted to prevent [the flight’s] departure is that they believed the welfare and safety of some of the people on that flight was at risk,” he said.
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Read more“In those circumstances the court historically in this country have considered that conscientious motivations offer quite significant mitigation.”
Dias pointed out that 11 of those who had been due to be deported to west Africa that night remain in the country, including two of whom there were reasons to believe were victims of human trafficking, and two who were subsequently found to have been victims of human trafficking. “One of them had been raped and forced into sex work in several European cities,” he said.
Kirsty Brimelow QC, who appeared to have been specially recruited for the mitigation after not acting for any defendant during the trial, told Morgan he must balance the defendants’ rights to protest and free association against the harm their actions caused the airport.
Brimelow last year acted for three fracking protesters whose sentences were overturned by the court of appeal as “manifestly excessive”. She continually referred to that case as she told Morgan that he must consider the “proportionality” of the sentences.
The defendants emerged from the court to a rousing reception from hundreds of supporters who had spent the day protesting outside. Tamlit said he was “relieved that’s over”.
“It’s been a gruelling process,” he said. “The flight that went this morning [to Jamaica] put things in perspective. We might have been in jail tonight but people could have visited us and we would have eventually been released.
“Not going to jail is a partial victory but we are going to keep campaigning to end charter flights, immigration detention and the hostile environment.”
McKeith’s mother, Ag, said she was pleased at the relatively lenient sentence. But, she said she felt they ought not to have been convicted at all. “Despite the judge’s stern account, it’s simply not true that they endangered anybody at the airport,” she said. “The only people who were in danger were the people on the plane. I watched the trial all the way through and watched the prosecution trying to spin straw into gold, and they didn’t convince me.”
Graeme Hayes, reader in political sociology at Aston University, who observed the entire trial, said: “Although the defendants have not got the custodial sentence, the bringing of a terrorism-related charge against non-violent protesters is a very worrying phenomenon. It’s so far the only case [of its type] in the UK, and points to a chilling of legitimate public dissent.”
The defendants have already filed an appeal against their convictions. Raj Chada, of Hodge, Jones & Allen, represented most of them. “We will be studying the judgment carefully to review whether there are any issues that need to be brought up in the appeal,” he said.
“It’s striking that nowhere was there any endangerment of individuals identified.”
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/feb/06/stansted-15-rights-campaigners-urge-judge-to-show-leniency?CMP=Share_An
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Stansted deportation flight protesters have convictions quashed
Group of 15 activists were prosecuted under anti-terror laws for blocking immigration removal flight in 2017
Fifteen anti-deportation activists who were prosecuted under counter-terror legislation for blocking the takeoff of an immigration removal flight from Stansted airport have had their convictions quashed.
In a judgment handed down by the court of appeal on Friday afternoon, the lord chief justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, said: “The appellants should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence under section 1(2)(b) of the 1990 Act because their conduct did not satisfy the various elements of the offence.
“There was, in truth, no case to answer.”
The ruling came more than two years after the 15 protesters were convicted following a nine-week trial of endangering the safety of an aerodrome, an offence under the 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
It was the first time the terror-related offence, passed in 1990 in response to the Lockerbie bombing, had been used against peaceful protesters.
The defendants said they were relieved by the decision. May MacKeith, 35, said that the time from their arrest in 2017 to Friday’s ruling put into perspective the experiences of people caught in the UK’s hostile environment immigration system.
“It was frightening,” she said. “But all along, despite the draconian charge, we knew that our actions were justified. We’ve never doubted that the people on that plane should never have been treated that way by our government.” Of those due to be deported on the flight, 11 were still in the UK, with three granted leave to remain.
In their appeal, lawyers for the defence argued the legislation used to convict the group was not only rarely used but also was not intended for the kinds of peaceful actions undertaken by their clients. They said the prosecution stretched the meaning of the law by characterising the lock-on equipment they used to blockade the runway as devices used to endanger life.
Weighing the argument, Burnett said in his judgment: “The closure of the runway was undoubtedly disruptive and expensive, but there was no evidence that it resulted in likely endangerment to the safety of the aerodrome or of persons there.
“The [deployment] of an unspecified number of police officers when the terrorist threat was severe may have increased the risks within the terminal, but there was no evidence to enable an inference to be drawn that endangerment was likely.
“There may have been a slightly enhanced risk of a police officer slipping en route to the aircraft, but it would stretch both language and common sense to say that there was likely endangerment, both in terms of the probability of this happening and the seriousness of the consequences if it did happen.”
Burnett added: “Both the crown’s case and the summing-up collapsed the distinction between risk and likely danger and treated the offence as if it were akin to a health and safety provision.”
The defendants, all members of the group Stop Deportations, had taken part in a peaceful action that stopped a chartered deportation flight to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone from taking off on 28 March 2017. Members of the group cut a hole in the airport’s perimeter fence before rushing on to the apron at Stansted.
Four protesters arranged themselves around the front landing gear of the aircraft, locking their arms together inside double-layered pipes filled with expanding foam. Further back, a second group of protesters erected a 2-metre tripod from scaffolding poles behind the engine on the left wing. One of them perched on top of the makeshift structure, while others locked themselves to the base to prevent it from being moved.
In the moments before police arrived they were able to display banners, including one that said: “No one is illegal.”
Although members of the group received suspended sentences or community orders, UN human rights experts wrote to the UK government expressing concern over the application of “security and terrorism-related legislation to prosecute peaceful political protesters and critics of state policy”.
On Friday, rights groups including Amnesty International and Liberty welcomed the ruling. But Raj Chada of Hodge Jones & Allen, who represented the defendants, said questions remained as to why the then attorney general, Jeremy Wright, had authorised the use of the charge in the first place.
He said: “It does make me uncomfortable that a British cabinet minister has authorised a terror charge against political opponents, that the lord chief justice has decided is completely inappropriate. The appellants should be told, why was this charge used in this way? What information did the attorney general have?”
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/29/stansted-deportation-flight-protesters-have-convictions-quashed
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Stansted 15: Activists who stopped migrant deportation flight have convictions overturned
Lord Chief Justice says demonstrators have ‘no case to answer’ for offences they were charged with
A group of activists who stopped a deportation flight leaving Stansted airport have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.
They had been prosecuted following a protest in March 2017, where they ultimately prevented a charter flight that was due to deport 60 individuals to Africa.
The group, known as the Stansted 15, were initially charged with aggravated trespass but the charge was changed to endangering safety at a public airport.
All defendants denied the offence at trial, and said they were “guilty of nothing more than intervening to prevent harm” to migrants on board the plane.
On Friday, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, sitting with Mr Justice Jay and Ms Justice Whipple, overturned all 15 demonstrators’ convictions.
Lord Burnett said the protesters “should not have been prosecuted for the extremely serious offence ... because their conduct did not satisfy the various elements of the offence. There was, in truth, no case to answer.”
The judgment said the offence they were charged with was intended for “conduct of a different nature” after the campaigners’ lawyers told the Court of Appeal the offence used was related to terrorism and had been created in the wake of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
May MacKeith, a member of the Stansted 15, said almost four years of legal proceedings “should never have happened”.
“But for many people caught up in the UK immigration system the ordeal lasts much, much longer,” she added.
“The nightmare of this bogus charge, a 10 week trial and the threat of prison has dominated our lives for four years. Despite the draconian response we know our actions were justified.”
Raj Chada of Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors, who represented the Stansted 15, said the case should be a matter of “great shame” to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and attorney general.
“Both have questions to answer as to why they authorised such an unprecedented charge,” he added.
“Amnesty International adopted the 15 as human rights defenders, Liberty intervened in the case and even the UN, through their special rapporteurs, expressed concern, yet the case went forward.”
In March 2017, the defendants cut through the perimeter fence of Stansted airport in Essex and used pipes to lock themselves together around a plane.
The Boeing 767 had been chartered by the Home Office to remove 60 people to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, and was stationary on the airport’s apron.
The trial heard the defendants believed the deportees were at risk of death, persecution and torture if they were removed from Britain, and many were asylum seekers.
Campaigners said that 11 of the 60 passengers remain in the UK, and included victims of human trafficking.
The protesters, who all pleaded not guilty, were convicted in December 2018 of the intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990.
A judge at Chelmsford Crown Court handed three defendants, who had previous convictions for aggravated trespass at airports, suspended prison terms and gave 12 defendants community sentences.
Judge Christopher Morgan said alleged human rights abuses, immigration policy and proportionality did not have “any relevance” to whether a criminal offence had been committed.
“In normal circumstances only a custodial sentence would have been justified in this case, but I accept that your intentions were to demonstrate.”
United Nations human rights experts raised concern over the case and warned the British government against using security-related laws against protesters and critics.
“We are concerned about the application of disproportional charges for what appears to be the exercise of the rights to peaceful and non-violent protest and freedom of expression,” a statement said in February 2019.
“It appears that such charges were brought to deter others from taking similar peaceful direct action to defend human rights, and in particular the protection of asylum seekers.”
The group received high-profile support from MPs and public figures, including the Bishop of Chelmsford.
An open letter signed by dozens of politicians and academics in September condemned the practice of “secret deportation flights”, which came into renewed focus following the Windrush scandal.
Amnesty International said the case was part of a Europe-wide trend of volunteers and activists being criminalised for helping migrants.
Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s director, said the Court of Appeal ruling was a “good day for justice”.
“The Stansted 15 will take their place in the history books as human rights defenders who bravely brought injustices perpetrated by the state into the light,” she added.
“This case should never have been brought and there must be lessons learnt for how we treat human rights defenders in this country.”
Lana Adamou, a lawyer for the Liberty human rights group, called the charges “an attack on our right to express dissent”.
“All too often it is the most marginalised in society, and those acting in solidarity with them, who bear the brunt of over-zealous policing and crackdowns on protest, making it even more important for the government to take steps to facilitate protest and ensure these voices are heard, rather than find ways to suppress them,” she added.
At November’s Court of Appeal hearing, lawyers for the activists told the court the legislation used to convict the 15 is rarely used and not intended for a protest case.
In documents before the court, the Stansted 15’s barristers argued it was intended to deal with violence of the “utmost seriousness”, such as terrorism, rather than risks of “a health and safety-type nature” posed by those who have trespassed at an airport.
Lawyers for the group also argued that the attorney general – who is required to sign off on the use of the legislation – should not have granted consent for the law to be used in this case, that the crown court judge made errors in summing up the case and in directions given to the jury.
Barristers representing the CPS had said the convictions are safe and that the trial judge was correct.
Tony Badenoch QC told the court: “We don’t accept that the act is constrained to terrorism and nothing else.”
A CPS spokesperson said: “We will consider the judgment carefully in the next 28 days.”
The 15 are: #Helen_Brewer, 31; #Lyndsay_Burtonshaw, 30; #Nathan_Clack, 32; #Laura_Clayson, 30; #Melanie_Evans, 37; #Joseph_McGahan, 37; #Benjamin_Smoke, 21; #Jyotsna_Ram, 35; #Nicholas_Sigsworth, 31; #Melanie_Strickland, 37; #Alistair_Tamlit, 32; #Edward_Thacker, 31; #Emma_Hughes, 40; #May_McKeith, 35; and #Ruth_Potts, 46.
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/stansted-15-deportation-flight-convictions-appeal-b1794757.html
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Le président burkinabé en visite de travail au Ghana
▻https://www.emouaten.com/Le-president-burkinabe-en-visite-de-travail-au-Ghana_a127954.htmlL...
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L’OCP fournira de l’engrais phosphatés au Ghana
▻https://www.emouaten.com/L-OCP-fournira-de-l-engrais-phosphates-au-Ghana_a127626.html
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Sur #Arte, documentaire « L’#Afrique, terre promise du numérique »
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/071435-000-A/l-afrique-terre-promise-du-numerique
Une catastrophe presque complète que ce documentaire, ou plutôt cette publicité pour une consultante omniprésente à l’écran. C’est très lénifiant (plus besoin de se préoccuper de l’Afrique, tous leurs problèmes sont en voie de solution grâce à l’innovation technologique), très solutionniste (tous les problèmes vont être résolus par le numérique), pro-capitaliste (on ne voit aucun service public, aucune université, aucune ONG, uniquement des entreprises à but lucratif, mais avec une « démarche sociale », attention), Uber est cité comme exemple et modèle à suivre. Un des patrons interviewés résume bien l’idéologie du film « malheureusement, 90 % des fonds vont encore aux ONG ».
Bien sûr, il n’y a aucune réflexion sur les problèmes : la technologie est un but en soi. Par exemple, on nous dit que « Paygo permet de se passer d’espèces ». Mais pourquoi ? quel est l’intérêt de s’en passer ?
Alors qu’on nous montre plein de solutions technologiques qui collectent énormément de données personnelles (comme ce Paygo, qui connait tous nos paiements), la seule référence aux dangers de la surveillance (une phrase en passant) concerne les risques dûs à l’État : zéro mention des risques dûs aux entreprises privées.
À 45:12 arrive l’inévitable #blockchain, arme favorite des consultants pipeauteurs (on se souvient de la légende du cadastre blockchainisé au Ghana, souvent reprise mais jamais sourcée). Aucune explication, juste des promesses magiques (« c’est chiffré et infalsifiable »).
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Pour information, quelques-unes des entreprises citées : ▻https://ihub.co.ke ▻https://klab.rw ▻http://www.safemotos.com
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Un article intéressant sur ce sujet...
▻https://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/is-digital-transformation-in-nigerian-agriculture-a-myth-or-rea
“Is Digital Transformation in Nigerian Agriculture a Myth or Reality?”
There is a lot of hype about digital agriculture as the ‘next big thing’ after crude oil in Nigeria. Currently, there is hardly any debate on agricultural development in the Nigerian news and on social media platforms without the use of buzz words such as ‘digital disruption’ or ‘digital transformation’ in describing the future of Nigerian agriculture. But what are these digital innovations causing all the hype? They are digital platforms, developed over the past five years by start-ups, established by young Nigerian entrepreneurs. While some start-ups are self-funded, most have benefited from international funding and incubation programmes provided by the growing number of tech-hubs across Nigeria -
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Ironie : le documentaire d’Arte ne peut pas être regardé depuis le Cameroun « n’est pas accessible pour votre pays ». Faudrait pas que les africains puissent fact-checker.
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How My Time in a Mud Hut in Ghana Taught Me About Decentralized Systems
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-my-time-in-a-mud-hut-in-ghana-taught-me-about-decentralized-systems-EIFL Ho Mobile Library ServiceIn the summer of 2000 I found myself along with more than a dozen others in the remote village of Zahavi Leumi in the eastern Volta region of Ghana. We had travelled there on behalf of the Jewish World Service to build a mud brick school in a small village that lacked running water, official electricity, or modern bathrooms.We lived in mud huts and used buckets to shower ourselves. At night, with the endless sky of stars above I would see villagers hunt with 100 year old rifles for oversized rats.Leaving aside my malaria driven fever hallucinations or the vacancy of time as I spent listening to a village elder humming the tunes of his people’s past, I noticed that this village we had given four weeks of our lives to help, triumphed in the utilization of a (...)
#decentralized-system #mud-hut-in-ghana #blockchain #africa #decentralization
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The Pan-Africanist roots of football in Ghana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/the-pan-africanist-roots-of-football-in-ghanaWith the disappointing showing by African sides at the 2018 World Cup, many soccer fans are
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Unemployment and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Ghana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/unemployment-and-the-rise-of-neoliberalism-in-ghanaSince the early 2000s, more and more graduates in Ghana can’t find work. That’s according to
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BaGhana BaGhana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/baghana-baghanaThe scene was a World Cup quarter-final between Ghana and Uruguay. It turned out to be
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Ghana didn’t qualify for the World Cup, so which African team do I support?
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/ghana-didnt-qualify-for-the-world-cup-so-which-african-team-do-i-suI remember the one moment I cried during a football game. July 2010. Ghana was ready to become
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Drums, Lies, and Audiotape - Issue 60: Searches
▻http://nautil.us/issue/60/searches/drums-lies-and-audiotape-rpMy wife Ingrid and I had been in Aburi, Ghana for just over a week when our host, Kwame Obeng, informed me that I’d be joining the royal drummers for a performance at the chief’s palace the following afternoon, in celebration of an important holy day. It’s not as if I was unprepared. I’d first met Obeng three years earlier, when he came to Toronto to coach a drumming troupe made up of Ghanaian immigrants and a lone Westerner (myself). We became close: Obeng called me mi nua, or “my brother,” in Twi, the language of his ethnic group, the Akan. And when his visa expired after a year, he invited me to continue studying with him back home in Aburi, a small town nestled in the verdant Akuapem Hills. Two years later, I took him up on his invitation. And now it was time to show him what I could (...)
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Ghana’s evolving relationship with Israel
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/05/ghanas-evolving-relationship-with-israelThe day before the 61st anniversary of Ghana’s independence, President Nana Akufo-Addo was scheduled to speak at the annual conference
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Au Ghana, les moustiques résistent aux insecticides, et compliquent...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7154472Au Ghana, les moustiques résistent aux insecticides, et compliquent la lutte contre le paludisme
▻https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/nature-environnement/au-ghana-les-moustiques-resistent-aux-insecticides-et-compliquent-l #nature&environnement
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The Economic Fighters League is reigniting Ghana’s anti-colonial legacy
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/the-economic-fighters-league-seeks-to-reignite-ghanas-anti-colonialWhen news of a secret military agreement between Ghana and the United States leaked in late March this year (to give the
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Liberté de la presse : quatre pays africains mieux classés que la France
▻http://geopolis.francetvinfo.fr/liberte-de-la-presse-quatre-pays-africains-mieux-classes-que-l
« La libération de la haine contre les journalistes est l’une des pires menaces pour les démocraties », constate le secrétaire général de Reporters sans frontières, Christophe Deloire. La carte du monde dressée par RSF à partir de son classement mondial de la liberté de la presse s’est encore assombrie : 21 pays sont désormais placés en situation « très grave », un niveau record, l’Irak ayant rejoint cette année cette catégorie où figurent des régimes autoritaires comme l’Egypte (161e), la Chine (176e) ou la Corée du Nord, toujours en 180e et dernière position.
▻http://geopolis.francetvinfo.fr/sites/default/files/styles/asset_image_full/public/assets/images/2018/04/La-libert-presse-en-Afrique-selon-RSF.jpg?itok=P2iPGV1U
Au niveau des grandes régions du monde, RSF classe l’Afrique en troisième position derrière l’Europe, l’Amérique mais devant l’Asie-Pacifique.Norvège, Suède, Pays-Bas, Finlande ou Suisse… Voilà les pays les mieux notés par RSF en matière de liberté de la presse. Pays européens à fort pouvoir d’achat et à vie politique stable. Au niveau du continent africain, le premier pays à apparaître est le Ghana (23e position), suivi de la Namibie (26e), de l’Afrique du Sud (28e) ou du Cap Vert (29e). Quatre pays africains qui sont donc mieux classés que la France (33e).
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Liberté de la presse : quatre pays africains mieux classés que la France...
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/actualites-france/14814-liberte-de-la-presse-quatre-pays-africains-mieux-classes-que-la-fraA 27.000 € par mois on comprends que les journalistes ne dénoncent pas un système dans lequel ils sont si bien, et pour ceux qui seraient encore courageux et voudrais faire leur métier avec éthique, la lois sur le secret des affaires d’Emmanuel Macron, auras vite fait de les mettre au pas...
Le classement mondial 2018 de la liberté de la presse, qui évalue chaque année la situation du journalisme dans 180 pays, révèle un climat de haine de plus en plus marqué, affirme Reporters sans Frontières. Au niveau de l’Afrique, le Ghana (23e position), la Namibie, l’Afrique du Sud ou le Cap Vert (29e) se placent en haut du tableau. Quatre pays africains mieux classés que la France (33e).
« La libération de la haine contre les journalistes est l’une des pires menaces pour les démocraties », constate le (...)
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Au #Sahel, #sécheresse et #jihad créent une « #crise_pastorale » explosive
Au Sahel, la sécheresse chasse les troupeaux et leurs bergers vers des contrées plus accueillantes, déclenchant une « crise pastorale » qui risque d’aggraver l’insécurité alimentaire dans une région déjà fragilisée par la présence de groupes jihadistes, alertent les spécialistes.
Traditionnelles, les migrations transfrontalières de troupeaux en #Afrique_de_l'ouest ont été cette semaine au centre d’une réunion de trois jours des membres du Réseau de prévention des crises alimentaires (RPCA), au siège de l’OCDE à Paris.
Dans plusieurs pays, « il n’y a pas assez de fourrage, et les troupeaux sont partis plus tôt que prévu, en octobre au lieu de janvier, car ils n’avaient plus rien à manger », explique à l’AFP Maty Ba Dio, coordinatrice régionale du projet régional d’appui au pastoralisme au Sahel, basée à Ouagadougou.
« La difficulté, c’est qu’ils sont arrivés alors que les populations agricoles du sud n’avaient pas complètement fini les récoltes, les animaux ont envahi et détruit les parcelles de culture (...), cela a créé des conflits énormes », regrette-t-elle. Les investissements en semences et engrais ont été anéantis.
Dans les pays côtiers qui reçoivent les migrations de troupeaux, « comme le #Nigeria, le #Ghana, ou le #Togo », les conflits « ont abouti à des morts d’hommes, avec des images difficiles à regarder », souligne aussi Mme Ba Dio.
▻https://afrique.tv5monde.com/information/au-sahel-secheresse-et-jihad-creent-une-crise-pastorale-explosive
#pastoralisme #élevage #EI #Etat_islamique #ISIS #djihadisme
