Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Kickstarter, Adobe, Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, eBay, AirBnb, Trip Advisor, Lyft, Space X, Automattic, Ancestry.com and Tesla are among some of the world’s most powerful and widely known companies that have filed an amicus brief against the White House’s immigration ban. IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT STATE OFContinue reading “Global Open Letter to Donald Trump!”
Category Archives: Human Rights
#BlackLivesMatter
South African poet Willie Kgositsile posited the necessity of putting aside poetry in the face of looming revolution. “When the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk,” he wrote. “The only poem you will hear will be the spearpoint pivoted in the punctured marrow of the villain….Therefore we are the lastContinue reading “#BlackLivesMatter”
To Grief and BACK…?
… and pondering the deaths of some of my beloved friends in Sierra Leone. Victims of Ebola… or a fate worse than death?
#NoMoreWar
Where does peace start? In Mahatma Gandhi’s book “The Story of My Experiments With Truth.” Gandhi said: “When every hope is gone, ‘when helpers fail and comforts flee,’ I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating,Continue reading “#NoMoreWar”
Weekly Photo Challenge – Room
A classroom in a village school in Hastings, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Sierra Leone is struggling to get back on its feet after a devastating civil war that lasted more than a decade. I took these photographs in May 2014.The civil war ended in 2002.
The A-List
Imagine yourself born with a different skin colour. Which colour(s) would you superimpose onto your DNA? Who’s looking at you now? Do you feel your privileges taken away? Do you feel enlightened? At peace? On top of the world? As rich as can be? Experimental? Full of promise? A ghost? On the A-List?