Archive for March, 2011
Posted on March 14, 2011 - by Kambale Musavuli
Break The Silence Speakers Tour 2011 in a City Near You
Dear Students and Supporters
Friends of the Congo has embarked upon its third annual Break The Silence Speakers Tour, which runs from February through July 2011. We began the tour in the San Francisco Bay Area with Congolese filmmaker and founder of Yole Africa Petna Ndaliko. He screened Jazz Mama, a film that captures women standing strong in their communities even as they denounce the rape and the violence they experience.
Digital Citizen Indaba Keynote Speech. Photo: Philisiwe Mbongwana
The central purpose of the Speakers tour of Congolese youth, women, scholars and activists is to articulate the challenge of the Congo in our own voices and mobilize support on behalf of our countrymen and women inside Congo.
As the cases of Tunisia and Egypt have clearly demonstrated, irrespective of the enormous challenges faced by the people, it is up to the courageous men and women on the ground to bring about positive and lasting change.
During the Speakers tour we are calling on our supporters to take two actions:
1. Challenge the foreign policy of their leaders to assure that it is not supporting strongmen like we see in Egypt.
2. Provide support to people on the ground fighting day and night to take control of their country and determine their own future
This year the Speakers tour will take us throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
I appeal to you to seize this historic moment and become a part of change in the Congo and Central Africa as Congolese strive to take control of their affairs as North Africans are doing in Tunisia and Egypt.
Join the global movement and sign-up now to invite Friends of the Congo to your university campus, religious institution or local community.
Kambale Musavuli
Student Coordinator and Spokesperson
Friends of the Congo
