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What do you/we really know about the history of Congo and the conflict there that has taken many millions of lives since the 1990s? What are the dirty little secrets that the Western Mainstream Corporate Media purposely refuse to tell us about? Why do they refuse to tell us about them? Congo’s mineral resources are worth Trillions of dollars but the vast majority of Congo’s citizens live on less than a dollar a day. Why? Who is robbing Congo and its people? Who are the major players that continue to plunder Congo and fuel rebel groups with weapons and cash for military arms? How can you/we help stop these crimes? All of those questions and more will be discussed on Tuesday’s (June 23, 2009) episode of Your World News! Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo (www.friendsofthecongo.org) will be joining us for an informative conversation surrounding all things relating to Congo. You may catch the show on archive simply by visiting: www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news. Musavuli is a Congolese activist and student coordinator and spokesperson of Friends of the Congo. Pursuing his Civil engineering degree at North Carolina A&T State University, he produces weekly podcast on the situation in the Congo. He has written for the Washington Post, Pambazuka News and numerous other online publications. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio, Democracy Now and myriad radio and television programs throughout the globe. He hopes to contribute to bringing an end to the conflict and exploitation in his country. His ultimate aim is to see fundamental and lasting change in his country whereby the Congolese people control and benefit from the enormous wealth of their country.

This Monday (June 22, 2009) at 11:00 PM EST for part one of our airing of the radio documentary entitled, “The Ravaging of Africa”. The creator of this radio documentary (Asad Ismi) will be appearing on the Your-World-News Radio Program in the very near future. Stay tuned for details on that interview. Remember that you can always catch every episode of Your-World-News on archive if you cannot hear it LIVE. Simply visit: www.blogtalkradio.com/Your-World-News “The Ravaging of Africa” is a brilliant and vastly informative radio documentary that was written by Asad Ismi, and produced by Kristin Schwartz. The Ravaging of Africa is a four-part radio documentary series that details the destructive impact of U.S. imperialism on Africa. The U.S. government has fueled 14 wars in Africa. The methods employed include direct and proxy invasions as well as arms transfers and military training. The U.S. has used the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to systematically demolish African economies and health and education sectors. This military and economic war enables the looting of Africa's resources by Western multinational corporations. Washington's genocidal imperial strategy has killed more than 26 million Africans but failed to suppress popular resistance.

Back by popular demand this Thursday (June 18, 2009 @ 8PM EST), we will be joined in studio again by investigative journalist Keith Harmon Snow. Some of his work can be found on: www.allthingspass.com. Keith will be sharing with us his latest work and research regarding various African Nations. He will be uncovering many of the external and internal factors working against Peace, Prosperity, and Stabilization. This promises to be another episode that you simply will not want to miss. If you cannot catch the show live please make sure you catch it on archive simply by visiting: www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news. Spread the word to all of your friends, family and networks. Knowledge is Power and access to information helps facilitate activism. Please tune in. Keith Harmon Snow is an independent (non-corporate) freelance journalist and human rights investigator, a three time Project Censored award winner, and the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society, for the prestigious Regent's Lectureship at UC Santa Barbara, awarded for more his than 10 years of independent work cahllening establishment narratives on genocide and war crimes. Entirely dependent on individual donations and voluntary contributions, he has lived under the poverty line for over a fifteen years, while also volunteering for several humanitarian organizations. On his missions to Africa, Keith has provided food, medical supplies and basic health necessities to indigent and suffering people, and he currently ships important books to a university in Central Africa where there are almost none. He is a believer in direct action, non-violent social protest, and civil disobedience.

What do you really know about the history and the current affairs regarding the great African Nation of Zimbabwe? Do we know about the current Unity Government and how they are doing despite the history of Western interference? What were the Lancaster House Negotiations and what is their relevance to present day Zimbabwe? How have Western sanctions against Zimbabwe contributed to the current suffering countless Zimbabweans are experiencing? All the questions and more will be answered, within deep context, this week on Your-World-News when we sit down with the US Correspondent to the Zimbabwe Herald, Obi Egbuna. Our show will air LIVE this Saturday Afternoon (June 13, 2009) from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. However, if you cannot catch the show live, it will be available on archive. He is one of the founding members of the Pan-African Liberation Organization (PALO), which was established in Washington DC, in 1990. He is also the technical advisor for the Pan-African Student Youth Movement (PASYM) at Bowie State University and consultant to Cease Fire Don’t Smoke the Brothers Inc. in Washington DC. For the last 18 years Obi has dedicated his life to organizing the communities in Washington DC and the surrounding areas. He has also organized in St Louis Missouri, Seattle Washington, Charlottesville Virginia and Chicago Illinois. Obi has organized the Pan-African Liberation Organization to work with Zimbabwe, Cuba, the Caribbean, Asia and Latin America. He has truly given his life for the struggle of equality for indigent people throughout the world.

Is freedom of speech really free? What are the political parameters in which the whole notion of ‘freedom of speech’ functions within the US? How has government policy, such as the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations, played a role in the repression of political dissent? What is the history of the struggle of Indigenous First Nation People throughout the Western Hemisphere? How has US foreign policy transformed how the world views America? All the questions and more will be answered and discussed this week on the Your World News Radio Program. This week our featured guest will be Professor Ward Churchill. Our show will air LIVE this Thursday night (June 11, 2009) from 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. However, if you cannot catch the show live, it will be available on archive simply by visiting: www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news. Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian scholar/activist, a member of the Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and on the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy, the repression of political dissent, and the FBI's COINTELPRO operations. Five of his more than 20 books have received human rights writing awards. Professor Churchill is the former Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, until July 2007 he was a tenured full Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder, where he received numerous awards for his teaching and service. In April 2009 Professor Churchill won a lawsuit against the University of Colorado for violating his First Amendment rights by firing him in retaliation for his observations on 9/11. He is now asking the judge to order reinstatement. On June 29, HBO will air "Shouting Fire," a documentary about free speech featuring Ward Churchill's case.

Many forms of social justice plague the US as well as the broader world we live in. Police brutality, institutional racism, imperialism, and war mongering are but a few of the prevalent miscarriages of power. Oftentimes it is few, with concentrated power, who create and sustain the unnecessary suffering upon many. However, the true power is within the "sleeping giant" of the critical masses. When well organized we have seen the fall of evil such as the racist white minority ruled South African government in the early 1990s. The examples of the effectiveness of strong mobilization and organization are well documented. How do we build upon the strong work of individuals and organizations, as a means to tear down injustice? This Sunday (June 7, 2009) we have/had the pleasure to interview community activist and organizer Mr. Larry Hales. Larry Hales is a 32 year-old African American activist and writer. He is a national organizer for the anti-imperialist youth group Fight Imperialism Stand Together and a contributing editor to Workers World Newspaper. Hales is a dedicated activist, who has helped organize many mobilizations for a myriad of issues, including against the war, against racism and police brutality and has spoken at conferences on racism, activism, art and culture. He has also been a victim of police brutality, where at least ten police and parole officers burst into his home, assaulted him and arrested him. Through a national campaign, the charges against him were dropped. Larry has traveled throughout the world to stand in solidarity with oppressed peoples and to help them fight injustice.