Gariandpeanuts

Money Trees is the perfect place for shade.

The problem with numbers is that they can be quite dehumanizing. Behind the statistics they are people, these people that end up in cages, the ones that end up dead after mere interactions with the police, the ones that end up dead after mere interaction with their fellow citizens. The ones with the ghetto names, the ones with the foreign names, the ones with names you can’t pronounce those people are the bedrock of the big tent. They have witnessed the impact of the subprime loans, the stop and frisks, the fiscally conservative and the tough on law and order approaches. I don’t think they will keep going for it and if they don’t who will the democrats be? Will the party of the big tent eventually service all its stakeholders or will it continue to maximize return for the shareholders? Time shall tell.

Ban on motorbikes are becoming more common throughout African cities. In Addis Ababa, Lagos and Douala these policies have gone into effect and have begun to change the daily life of the denizens of these major urban metropolitan centers. At the core of the debate there is an argument about urbanization policies in modern African cities. The failure by local authorities to implement viable urbanization plans have left people to fend for themselves. The bikes as a method of transportation are just a manifestation of these failures.

Partisanship will destroy the American Republic

Rules of engagement

Do you believe? In honor among thieves?

Have you ever pondered about the other side.

War and the rumors of War.

Paname et ses banlieues

Freedom and Future trying to pattern them both. See Headie One Both.

Impeach the president: An American saga.

Labour Lost but the new normal cannot be sustained.

How is Mayor Pete still in but Kamala isn't?

vive et mourir sous la Macronnie

Who does tomorrow belong to?

Statement of Gillets Noir about the occupation of Pantheon: Rise up dead people! Today, we, migrants without papers, living in migrant centers, inhabitants of the street, We occupy the Pantheon We are those without papers, without voices, without faces for the French republic. We come here, in the tomb of your great men, to denounce your desecrations. Your violations of the memories of our comrades, of our fathers and our mothers, of our brothers and our sisters in the Mediterranean, in the streets of Paris, in the migrant centers and in prisons. France perpetuates slavery in a different manner. Our fathers died for France. And those who have died are dead. The responsibility falls to the living, to the ones who are in power today. The dead shall rest in peace. The day before yesterday we attacked the borders by occupying the Air France terminal of the Charles de Gaulle airport. It is there, where the French police is throwing us into airplanes towards Algiers, Dakar, Khartoum, Bamako or Kabul. It is there

Centrism is dead, Long live centrism. Today I discuss the notion of representation in an increasingly polarized political landscape.

New East Coast Podcast by Garriandpeanuts

In Wolof firnde is a translation. In today’s episode Huey and I discuss the politics around the translations of blackness. Who gets to speak about and for black people is a highly selective process, how do we create spaces that allow for discussions that broach beyond the surface and the generic to allow black people to connect with each other on a human level?

Kojo ‘Terry’ Oppong provides strategic advice to companies interested in growing within and into African markets based between Accra and Greater New York City. We discuss the possibilities for business on the continent. We also discuss the origin of the term Chale. We speak about the right to return and discuss avenues for ventures in Ghana. We discuss the origins of the Republic of Ghana and the ways in which it has impacted the inclusiveness of the nation.