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‘The truth about Zimbabwe’
Published Aug 20, 2005 8:23 AM
The International Action Center hosted an important meeting in New York on
Aug. 16 about the current situation in the African country of
Zimbabwe—known as Rhodesia during British colonial rule. The guest speaker
was Omowale Clay, a leader of the Brooklyn-based December 12th Movement.
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Omowale Clay and
Kwaaze Jamerias,
Aug. 16.
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Clay was part of a six-member delegation that traveled throughout
Zimbabwe this spring, before and during parliamentary elections there. Clay
showed an illuminating documentary he had produced called “More
Fire,” which showed the mass mobilization of Zimbabwean war veterans,
women and youth, especially in the rural areas, who support President Robert
Mugabe and his political party, ZANU-PF.
Mugabe has been the victim of a
vicious smear campaign by Presi dent George W. Bush and Britain’s Prime
Minister Tony Blair because of the African leader’s support for the right
of the Zimbabwean people to take back the land stolen from them by white
colonial settlers, beginning in the late 1800s.
—Story and photos by Monica Moorehead
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