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This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Run for Congo Women is a grassroots movement benefiting Women for Women International‘s Congo program. Last month we announced the run in San Francisco; this week, the first official Run for Congo Women UK (and only run in Europe) will be taking place at the Regents Park Race on July 3rd 2010.  You can get all the information you need on this page. If you will participate to the race and if you want to share your run experience with us just like ...

Louis is directed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, starring Jackie Earle Haley, Shanti Lowry and Anthony Coleman. The film is “an homage to Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, beautiful women and the birth of American music”. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad. About Louis, A Silent Film (more here): Louis, a silent film directed by Dan Pritzker and starring Jackie Earle ...

One of our goal at the Sama Gazette (if not our goal number one) is to raise awareness of the plights facing many people around the world: human rights issues, social, hunger and environmental issues, starvation and poverty. We hope our support is contributing to mobilize people, as we have already seen positive results among our readers who are actively supporting campaigns and joined several meetings, in France and in the United States. From RAISE ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Ante Up For Africa is a non-profit organization founded by Don Cheadle, Annie Duke and Norman Epstein dedicated to raising money and awareness for Africans in need. The 2010 Ante Up For Africa Celebrity-Charity Poker Tournamenton Saturday, July 3 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas offers a special opportunity as the only event of its kind where the general public can participate. About the event (read more): Ante Up For Africa, a ...

You may have never heard of Leon Botha before. We didn’t either until we read Max Dana‘s last blog post she published a few days ago on her blog. With simple words, Max gets to the heart of the matter and tell us who is South African artist Leon Botha, his work and why he is so inspirational to her. You are going to meet with a true artist. Photo credit: Gordon Clark ‘Unity is Strength’ From The Who Am I? Transgressions photo ...

The Run for Congo Women has been working to raise awareness and funds in the U.S. and abroad to support Congolese women. As you already know if you read the Sama Gazette, we support the Women for Women campaign and we posted about the Run for Congo Women in San Francisco. Among the runners in San Francisco on June 12, 2010 was Carissa Weir from Oakland, California. A former actress and now a ‘filmmaker in the making’ according to her short ...

Father’s Day is an annual holiday that recognizes fathers and fatherhood. And unlike Mother’s Day which is celebrated on the second Sunday in May (May 8 this year) in the United States, in February in Norway, on May 30 in France and in Indonesia in December, Father’s Day is more widely celebrated the third Sunday of June. So we decided to celebrate Father’s Day and replace our weekly rendezvous Twitter Sunday with an article ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...