Welcome to the Ota Benga Alliance!
Sat, 04/07/2007 - 08:35 |In honoring Ota Benga, we focus our efforts on the need to treat each other with dignity, with respect for cultural diversity as a source of strength, and with truth as a foundation for genuine reconciliation to end the cycles of violence, vengeance, and militarism. We believe that peace and dignity cannot be achieved while the injustices of the past and present are buried in silence, and while the struggles of the present go unheard.
(c) Mumia Abu Jamal
Find out more about Ota Benga
Welcome! We are the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing and Dignity in the D.R. Congo and beyond, located in Berkeley, California and Kinshasa, D.R. Congo.
Who was Ota Benga? A Congolese man, brought to the United States to be exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. He was an Mbuti (a pygmy), about 4 feet 8 inches tall, put on display at the Fair’s Hall of Man along with an exotic collection of indigenous peoples from all over the world. Ota Benga was exhibited next to a group of Native Americans that included Geronimo. read more »
Latest from the DRC
La Problematique de La Paix Durable en Republique Democratique Du Congo
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 16:38 |Recent Posts at Ota Benga Alliance
MAINTENIR LE CAPITAL OU L’HUMANITÉ ?
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 13:32 |Appel pour la création d’un espace planétaire
pour la défense sans compromis de l’humanité read more »
FOR FLORIBERT CHEBEYA BAHIZIRE AND FIDELE BAZANA: 50 years after Independence
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 13:12 |It is still lethally dangerous to be seen fighting for what was not achieved
50 years ago. The assassinations of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire (FCB), President of the the Voix des Sans Voix (Voice of the Voiceless), and his
driver, Fidele Bazana, on june 1st in Kinshasa show that, for 50 years, the
political leadership has continued to act in the same manner which led to
the overthrow, torture and killing of Patrice Emery Lumumba and his two
companions, Okito and Mpolo (January 17, 1961). In a world built through read more »
Mercenaries Circling Haiti
Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:16 |Wednesday 03 March 2010
by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
http://www.truthout.org/mercenaries-circling-haiti57337
On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake-devastated country. read more »
Movimento Negro brasileiro pede expulsão do Cônsul Geral do Haiti
Mon, 01/25/2010 - 20:26 |PRESS RELEASE,
Monday, 18 January 2010, 19:10
The United Black Movement in Brazil is requesting that their government expel the Consul General of Haiti, George Samuel Antoine, from Brazil for his racist statements and attack against Voodoo. The statements of the Consul General were recorded by a journalist in São Paulo on 13-January 2010. The recording can be seen online by searching "Haiti Consul General Brasil".
Para: midialivre@yahoo.com.br
Data: Segunda-feira, 18 de Janeiro de 2010, 19:32
Movimento Negro brasileiro pede expulsão do Cônsul Geral do Haiti read more »
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