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Africa’s Right to Health Campaign NewsletterIssue 1 - October 2003
As move towards the end of the year, the Africa’s Right to Health Campaign is really heating up! This week we have three exciting events to kick off an autumn of activism building toward a week of action focused on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2003. In cities and on campuses across the U.S. people are spreading the word on ‘Bush’s Broken Promises’ to Africa and demanding U.S. responsibility and leadership in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Read on to find more information about our National Teach-In Tour, 1st Annual Baraza, and 50th Anniversary celebration! 1. National Teach-In Tour
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September 30, 2003Washington, DC Oakland, CA Houston, TX |
October 1, 2003Detroit, MI Atlanta, GA |
Ending Global Apartheid: Uniting to Change U.S. Policy Toward Africa
On October 3-4, 2003, Africa Action will hold its first annual Baraza (Kiswahili for “Assembly’) in Washington, DC. The Baraza will bring together more than 50 activists from the U.S. and Africa for a day of groundbreaking discussion and strategizing on U.S.-Africa relations. By building partnerships between activists and civil society organizations in the U.S. and Africa, the forum will create a space to learn from one another's experiences and identify priorities and opportunities for coordinated action in the year ahead. The Baraza will focus specifically on mobilizing support for Africa's Right to Health and addressing the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, debt cancellation, and World Bank/IMF policies.
Civil society leaders joining us from Africa will be:
Bishop Mvume Dandala, General Secretary of the continent-wide
network All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), based in Kenya.
Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, Executive Director of the African Women's
Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), a Pan-African membership
organization
based in Kenya.
Oludare Ogunlana, Ambassador and Secretary-General of the All-
Africa Students Union (AASU), a continent-wide association of students
based
in Ghana.
Michael Angaga, Regional coordinator of the Network of African
People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+) based in Kenya.
Thabo Cele, Regional organizer for the Treatment Action Campaign
(TAC) in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.
Zondi Baloyi, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for National Programs
at the National Association of People Living With AIDS (NAPWA)
South Africa.
Demba Dembele, Director of the Forum for African Alternatives (FAA),
based in Senegal.
Limota Goroso Giwa, Executive Director of the International Women
Communication Center (IWCC), which is the coordinating office of
BAOBAB for Women's
Human Rights in Kware, Nigeria.
Beginning in 1953, our parent organizations, the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), The Africa Fund, and the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC), provided key support for independence movements throughout Africa, particularly the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
On the evening of Friday, October 3rd, Africa Action will hold a gala anniversary event to celebrate 50 Years of Activism for Africa at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel. The theme of the evening’s festivities will be ‘Sankofa’, allowing us to recognize that ‘as the forward march proceeds, the gems must be picked from behind and carried forward on the march’.
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