Oct 4, 2010

This is one of the most profound speeches ever given in the name of struggle and liberation. This speech given by the great slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass on West India Emancipation in 1857 correlates with many of the struggles going on today, especially of the one in the Ogaden region today. I believe we all as a people Somali or Non-Somali, Ogaden or...

Unfortunately many people assume one must always have a political reason to advocate for a particular issue or cause. However, what we fail to comprehend is that injustice is always injustice and that one does not even need to agree with the oppressed to know that they are being oppressed. Often times people think that the staff writers and Face Book moderators...

As it is known Ogaden is cut off from the rest of the world and unfortunately gross human rights violations that are ongoing in Ogaden committed by the Ethiopian regime is totally contrary to the human rights principles. What is even worse, this crime is being carried out with complete impunity. As researcher Georgette Gagnon, head of Human Rights Watch in...