TweetChances are, you’ve not heard the Ushahidi story if you think any of the following is true: (a) one person cannot trigger a revolution (b) most people are selfish and uncaring. (c) most people are not interested in issues outside their immediate communities. in 2007, one person, Ory Okolloh, a prominent Kenyan lawyer and blogger…
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THE MANTRA – CONSCIOUSNESS SHIFTING
Tweet At the petrol station with its attractive, beckoning red and yellow icon, a diverse group gathers to witness. We recite the narrative of the Niger Delta. Like supplicants before a mystical altar, we chant one by one—giving evidence of what we have learned. Like a mantra, like a prayer committed to memory and spoken…
DREAMS OF MY ANCESTORS
Tweet Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred and the same sorrows were undergone. ~ Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. In recurring – often mystical – dreams, all my presumptions are encapsulated. What, after all, is more presumptuous than a dream? OMID – HOPE (PERSIAN) I sent my Soul through the…
Witness – Taft, California – Dec 30 2008
TweetJustice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens – Plato Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice…