PRESS RELEASE, September 29 2010
(Brussels) MEP Ana GOMES (S&D, PT) asked President Jacob Zuma of South Africa today, during a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, to help liberate Birtukan Mideksa, a young woman leader of the main opposition party in her country, Ethiopia, who has been jailed for life and whom Amnesty International considers to be a “prisoner of conscience”. Read more…
After the dust settled following Meles Zenawi’s speech at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum, a dark shadow and glowing light were visible on stage to behold. Read more…
Gebru Tarek, once a professor of history at Haile Selassie I University, wrote: “…by supporting a social hierarchy that was markedly extractive and exploitative, Ethiopian peasants lived for very many years in a terrible state of ignorance and gruesome conditions of deprivation and poverty”1. Read more…
The Committee that honor’s Ethiopia’s heroes held its annual dinner in Washington, DC, honoring four Ethiopians who preformed selfless acts of sacrifice beyond the call of duty for their motherland. Read more…
In his June 8, 2010 budgetary speech to the parliament, Minister Sufian Ahmed indicated that the 2010/11 budget is prepared under the assumption that Birr will depreciate by 5% during the 2010/11 budget year. Read more…
“He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.” Proverbs 22:16 Read more…
Bravo, the heroic Anti–Meles demonstration! Read more…
On Wednesday Sep 22, several hundred Ethiopians came from Washington, New York, Boston, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut to protest against the invitation of Tyrant Meles Zenawi to speak at Columbia University. Read more…
Following the successful demonstration staged against the visit of the Ethiopian dictator to Columbia University, the organizers of the protest from New York, D.C. area, and other north-eastern states issued the attached Manifesto. Read more…
WHEREAS, On September 22, 2010, Ethiopians in the Diaspora staged an extraordinarily successful demonstration against the invitation of Meles Zenawi to Columbia University in the City of New York; and Read more…
First, I take off my hat to a brilliant week in which people power prevailed over the trappings of power. The heros of this saga: Ethiopian websites; DC Amharic talk radios; and Freedom Riders from DC and Boston. Read more…
In 47 B.C., the Roman Emperor Julius Ceasar sent his senators news of his military victory in a simple declaration: “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” (I came, I saw, I conquered.) “Emperor” Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s dictator-in-chief, would have loved to send the same message to his “senators” in Addis Ababa following his speech at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum (WLF) on September 22, 2010. Read more…
TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan – Softly singing along to the wistful strains of Ethiopian music, Haymanot Tesgaye and his friends are transported back to their homeland in Africa, far from this Central Asian nation where they have been stranded for two decades. Read more…
Zenawi’s Supporters are overwhelmed by the Opposition protestors. Protestors chant “Death to Meles” Please watch the video. Read more…
Over at the Huffington Post, Political Science professor Alemayehu G. Mariam argues that Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi’s upcoming talk at Columbia University is in fact a free speech issue, a notion that I tried to debunk last week. Read more…
Birtukan Mideksa is a young Ethiopian woman judge and leader of a political party, who is in prison, serving a life sentence, since December 2008. Read more…
Muse Abebe
The next five years will be Meles Zenawi’s last term as Prime Minister unless this promise is not broken once again. For that matter, as far as TPLF/EPRDF is in power, it is irrelevant whether he is at the front seat riding the country or behind the scene like Vladimir Putin Read more…
Zenawi’s Charm Offensive in America? Read more…
Letter from Ethiopia to Columbia University – Serkalem Fasil and Eskinder Nega Read more…
Open Letter to Columbia University Community Read more…
