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Someone must speak up for Kenyans
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KENGO
8 May 2008
Kengo is a coordination of grass roots organizations in Kenya, which the CADTM international network collaborates with. Here is their call for a campaign of solidarity with Kenyans being illegally detained. Comrades, Hundreds of poor, sick Kenyans are being illegally detained after being discharged from government hospitals because they are too poor to afford their medical costs. This is unacceptable. Can you help? Someone must speak up for Kenyans. Despite the various promises by our (...)
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Kenya: well paid MPs vs. starving population…
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Renaud Vivien
31 August 2007
As we get closer to the December 2007 general elections, the regime of the Kenyan President, Mr Kibaki, gets tougher and tougher, resorting to police forces to repress peaceful demonstrations. The latest evidence of this hardening was given on July 31 and August 2 when fifteen people were violently arrested by the police as they were demonstrating against a bill whereby the Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) would grant themselves a payoff for the end of their term. It has to be recalled (...)
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Simple Mathematics of the Kibaki regime in the GNU / NARC-K era
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KENGO
25 April 2007
Introduction To Things You Need To Know To Pass Mathematics In The Kibaki Regime On December 27, 2002, Kenyans were sure that they had made the right calculations as far as their governance was concerned. Assumptions: Assumption 1. Minus Moi Equals A better Kenya Moi and his herdsman politics had been such an imposing figure in Kenyan politics that we can all be forgiven for assuming that simply removing Moi from power was going to change the country. So consumed were we with having Moi (...)
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Report of the People’s Parliament Alternative Social Forum
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People’s Parliament
12 February 2007
On Friday 19th January, 2007 when it became certain that the organizers of the World Social Forum were not going to rescind, in good time, the decision to impose the exorbitant Kshs. 500 registration fee requisite for Kenyans, members of the People's Parliament held an emergency meeting to determine the way forward and it was decided that:
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The World Social Forum 2007: A Kenyan Perspective
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People’s Parliament
12 February 2007
Background: In its Charter of Principles of the World Social Forum is described as” an open meeting place for reflective thinking.... by groups and movements that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism..” Such was the description that created, amongst the members of the People’s Parliament, an unprecedented enthusiasm and excitement, particularly because the WSF was coming, for the first time, to Africa and to their door steps in (...)