Conflict Minerals: The Truth Underlying the Systemic Looting of Congo » Ask the Africans http://conflictminerals.org The Truth Behind the Conflict Mineral Approach Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Congolese Woman Speaks Out http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/10/congolese-woman-speaks-out/ http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/10/congolese-woman-speaks-out/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:56:50 +0000 Congo Kin http://conflictminerals.org/?p=95 In this four video series, Congolese activist and Women Coordinator for Friends of the Congo, Bibiane Tshefu, articulates how there is a complicity in the international community when it comes to ending the conflict in the Congo.

Part I

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqBFPEZf5E

Part II

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDsI8k1Q_5M

Part III

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4VOOPRJ7qU

Part IV

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5PpUeEKm-M

]]> http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/10/congolese-woman-speaks-out/feed/ 1 Adam Hochschild of King Leopold’s Ghost Chimes in on Conflict Minerals Debate http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/01/adam-hochschild-of-king-leopolds-ghost-chimes-in-on-conflict-minerals-debate/ http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/01/adam-hochschild-of-king-leopolds-ghost-chimes-in-on-conflict-minerals-debate/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:21:34 +0000 Congo Kin http://conflictminerals.org/?p=88 In the April edition of Mother Jones, Adam Hochschild notes “The real problem is not conflict minerals, but the fact that Congo’s long-suffering people reap only a tiny share of their country’s vast wealth.” Read the entire article here: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/congo-gold-adam-hochschild

]]> http://conflictminerals.org/2010/04/01/adam-hochschild-of-king-leopolds-ghost-chimes-in-on-conflict-minerals-debate/feed/ 0 Congolese filmmaker urges us to stop breeding dependency through NGOs http://conflictminerals.org/2010/02/08/congolese-filmmaker-urges-us-to-stop-breeding-dependency-through-ngos/ http://conflictminerals.org/2010/02/08/congolese-filmmaker-urges-us-to-stop-breeding-dependency-through-ngos/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:14:37 +0000 Congo Kin http://conflictminerals.org/?p=71

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugVU-ncIcGc

Congolese filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo speaks about the non-profit industrial complex at the 2009 “Congo in Harlem” film festival.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekVpx8aqfFk

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Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo stopped by the GRITtv studio to remind us of the situation in Congo and our responsibilities there.

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Over a series of blogs we will demystify the Conflict Mineral approach and provide concrete alternatives for an approach that is in all intents and purposes an expression of United States government soft power in an attempt to continue its control and domination of Congo, which began in its role in the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba (assassinated on January 17, 1961) and the subsequent installation and maintenance of the dictator Joseph Mobutu for over three decades.

Conflict Minerals: Ask the Africans

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDcWdI76-o

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