#nomore Archives - Toward Freedom

‘U.S.-Africa: How the Peoples’ Struggles Connect’: Second Panel of African People’s Forum

Toward Freedom Editor December 16, 2022 Toward Freedom Editor

Paul Sankara, consultant, activist and brother of assassinated Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara; Eugene Puryear, community organizer and host at BreakThrough News; Erica Caines, a Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee member, co-editor of Hood Communist and founder of Liberation Through Reading; and Nebiyu Asfaw, co-founder of both the Ethiopian American Development Council and the #NoMore Movement discussed connecting African peoples' struggles across the continents at the first-ever African Peoples’ Forum.

More than 15,000 people participated in a November 22, 2021, protest at the White House to express their disappointment with the Biden administration's coercive diplomatic strategy policy towards the democratically elected government of Ethiopia / credit: Twitter/Gennet Negussie

How the Left Can Get Ethiopia Right: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with #NoMore

Filmon Zerai December 17, 2021 Filmon Zerai

In the last few months, the left media outlets from various camps, in their sincere attempts to demonstrate solidarity and spotlight conflict in the Horn of Africa and internal developments in Ethiopia, got it wrong. They have been uncritically centering active ideological players on two opposing camps, writes blogger Filmon Zerai.