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Reaching out from the Global South
Activism - Page 46
SA National Health Assembly and PHA3 march to parliament, video footage
South African National Health Assembly 5 + 6 July 2012
Extraordinary opportunity for South African patient advocates to participate in the South African National Health Assembly (NHA) in alliance with the National Health Insurance Coalition. The People’s Health Movement (PHM) is hosting the event. The importance is linked to the National Department o...
Letter to New York times concerning racism in Cape Town
Dear Ed, “In a Divided City, Many Blacks See Echoes of White Superiority” article published March 22, 2012 refers. One can certainly answer Polgreens' question in the affirmative: “Does this nation’s celebrated rainbow end where the mountain meets the sea?” Yes, as the experience with the Robbie...
Statement from the Indigenous Forum at the World Intellectual Property Organization
International: Final Statement Of The International Indigenous Forum At WIPO – IGC 20 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Twentieth Session Geneva, February 14 to 22, 2012 We, the I...
Everything is under control, you have nothing to fear from my truncheon.
IN 2007 I was arrested and thrown into jail for suggesting to a Heart 104.9 news anchor that she should go on air with a story about the rejection of a news item about the late Robbie Jansen. Cape Town isn't a racist city according to DA leader Helen Zille, but it certainly feels this […]
