I sent invitations to join the Facebook group "We support the African Greens" to Green Party members and others who might, whether members of the Green Party or no.
Here are three good reasons to:
1) African Greens are the only trans-African party which, like the Global Greens, stand for LGBT rights, even amidst the extremes of homophobic hysteria stirred up by the U.S.A.'s de facto Ambassador to Africa, Reverend Rick Warren, who made Rwanda his first "purpose driven nation," in accordance with his best selling manual, "The Purpose Driven Life," then moved on to Uganda. Uganda is now considering the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality."
Diversity, including sexual diversity, is one of the Greens' ten key values everywhere.
2) In December 2007, Africa surpassed the Middle East as a source of U.S. oil imports. Africans have contributed least to global warming, but they're already suffering most.
Sustainable practice is one of the Greens' ten key values everywhere.
3) Africa is wracked by the violence of myriad warring factions and militias as foreign interests import arms and engineer conflicts to displace Africans from their homelands and rob them of their natural resources, including oil and gas, timber, fish, hydropower, cropland, precious minerals, and industrial minerals, including the cobalt and uranium essential to nuclear and other military industrial production.
Nonviolence is one of the Greens' ten key values everywhere.
Those of us, Green or no, from outside Africa, can stop sending our soldiers and arms to the continent, and resist Africom, the expanding U.S. Africa Command, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1552/t/5717/signUp.jsp?key=3094.
And, we can listen and follow the lead of Africans engaged in grassroots democratic organizing on the ground, including the African Greens.
Global Greens are now focusing on the Rwanda Greens struggling for political rights in Rwanda's 2010 election, even after Rwandan police shut down their fourth attempt to convene in Kigali, on 10.30.2009. The Rwanda Greens now plan another attempt to convene, again in Kigali, on 11.20.2009.
BBC Radio-Kigali, 10.30.2009:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2009/10/091030_rwanda_opposition.shtml
KPFA Radio-Berkeley, 11.01.2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoAnoYqbIro
Comments
This is western propaganda.....Our culture is aganist homosexuality, you have no right to impose homosexuality
on Africa... we shall fight you
But Rick Warren's western propaganda is OK? Homosexuality has existed in every culture from the beginning of time. I applaud the Rwanda Greens for supporting human rights. I would think there are bigger fish to fry like hunger, poverty and disease.
I would say to Diaby that homosexuality is found in nearly every mammalian species. It is an evolutionary check against overpopulation. Homosexuality is on every continent and in every ethnicity. I think having 6.7 billion people on this planet makes homosexuality more necessary now than it ever has been in the past.
@DIABY ! : il ne s'agit pas "d'imposer l'homosexuallité mais bien de ne pas PERSECUTER, ni EMPRISONNER voire TUER quelqu'un qui a fait ce choix de vie là.
Petit rappel dans l'Allemagne nazie du IIIème Reich on EXTERMINAIT lES NOIRS LES JUIFS LES HOMOSEXUELS LES COMMUNISTES ETC !! Alors franchement Diaby,parler "propagande occidentale" de "culture" OK mais accorder le droit à la différence, c'est faire preuve de respect et de tolérance.
Il ne s'agit dans ce cas ci bien entendu pas d'IMPOSER L HOMOSEXUALITE. C'est un choix entre adultes consentants. Ce n'est PAS la PEDOPHILIE qui est tout autre chose là par contre je comprendrais que tu réprouve mais enfin bon...
Une femme d'origne africaine ET hétérosexuelle !
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