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The People’s Forum NYC | The Fight For A Free Western Sahara Recored
Yesterday, The Peoples Forum in New York hosted a teach-in event on Western Sahara, with over 50 in attendance, SAUSA president Mohamed Ali and Agaila Abba as speakers, to help everyone better understand the history of the occupation of Western Sahara and...
The Poor People Campaign A National Call for MORAL REVIVAL
On Monday the 17th; Nine Democratic presidential candidates along with hundreds of activists including SAUSA board members from across the country gathered in Washington, DC at the Poor People's Campaign that seeks to place the plight of America's poor at the...
THE FIGHT FOR A FREE WESTERN SAHARA – TEACH IN | The People’s Forum
If you have missed the event, below, you find the recording of the live stream. Formerly controlled by Spain, Western Sahara has endured over 40 years of occupation by the Moroccan state and is known as Africa’s last colony. The conditions of the occupation are...
Four Days In Western Sahara: Film Screening with Amy Goodman | Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley
On April 27th 2019, The Human Rights Center at the University of California Berkeley School of Law hosted a screening of Democracy Now!'s documentary, “Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara, Africa's Last Colony”, followed by a discussion with Amy Goodman,...
SAUSA TO PRESENT AT THE AFRICAN UNION STRATEGY FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN NEW YORK.
The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic took its seat at the Official Presentation of the African Union Strategy for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the African Union Headquarters in New York. The Saharawi’s Writer, Journalist, and SAUSA member Agaila Abba...
SAUSA TO PRESENT AT LUTHER COLLEGE 2019 ETHNIC ARTS.
To celebrate diversity at it's camps, Luther College annually organizes a festival for the surrounding communities to learn more about worldwide cultures presented at it's camps. This year Rabab Mohamed, a freshman at Luther College and a SAUSA member, presented...
The Saharawi Republic is a result of people’s right to self-determination
By Deich Mohamed Saleh The long-standing problem of Western Sahara seems to reach its end as the new Special Envoy of the UNSG, H.E. Hurst Kohler, the Germany’s former president, was able to get back on track the negotiations on self-determination of the people of...
Bachir Dkhili is a human rights defender and cameraman for the Western Sahara-based NGO, Nushatta Foundation for Media and Human Rights, which has been working in the field of media activism and human rights advocacy since it was established in 2013. Bachir Dkhili is...
“We Are Here Because You Were There”: Western Sahara and the Diasporic Hip Hop of Yslem, Hijo Del Desierto”
My encounter with Hip Hop artist Yslem, and his artful, unabashed articulation of the Saharaui experience (specially in the diasporic context) only deepened my believe in the truth-telling power of art, and in artists as the messengers of the nuances, complications and paradoxes of internally-colonized communities found in all corners of the world today. What is poetry, when distilled to its utmost essence, but art with words? And what is Hip Hop, other than poetry over beats?
Global Ethics Weekly: The Situation in Western Sahara, with Ambassador Sidi Omar
Ambassador Sidi Omar, UN representative for Frente POLISARIO, a liberation movement aiming to secure the independence of Western Sahara, discusses the decades-long dispute in Northwest Africa. With negotiations ongoing between Frente POLISARIO and Morocco at the UN,...