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  Last week, we posted an article: Haiti: International Aid Mobilization On The Way. Like everyone, we wanted to react about the earthquake that devastated Haiti and express our compassion and our solidarity with the Haitians. There is not one day we do not talk about it and yesterday, Max Dana published on her Blog titled: ‘Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education?’.   This article is worth to read if you want to go ...

  A day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, cities and villages have been swept away and destroyed like a house of cards. Everyone has seen the videos and the photos of the devastated nation, with the flattened buildings and the stunned people wandering the streets of Port-au-Prince, seeking for help. We can’t look away and it’s impossible to remain indifferent. A whole country needs help and lives are currently at stake; ...

  Many events will take place on January 9th to support Sudan365: A Beat For Peace. If you don’t know what this special day is about, here is more information coming from the Save Darfur Website:   A global day of action on Sudan will take place on January 9th, 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan and one year out from the referendum that will determine whether the Southern ...

2009 marks the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s an important event and last year, we had the chance to live the events related to the 60th anniversary; in December 08, Max Dana launched the “60 Signers for the 60th Anniversary” Initiative to support the Every Human Has Rights Campaign (The Elders) on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Neither of us ever heard of ...

In September we posted: Buy (RED) Save Lives – JoinRED Fight AIDS, then in November: Twitter Sunday: Favorites Tweets @joinred. Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day and today, more than ever, we have to work together because ‘AIDS is preventable and treatable’. We will not give you numbers, you can find them everywhere on the Internet. We will not tell you what you have to do. But today is a special day, so at least once in a year, maybe ...

Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the night the ‘Wall of Shame’ came down. The border that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 until 1989 is no more,  and a massive crowd celebrated anniversary of Berlin Wall’s fall yesterday. Angela Merkel, Germany’s first chancellor, former Polish president Lech Walesa, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and many others crossed a former fortified ...

Yesterday, Max Dana posted on her blog a long article titled: Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? All the Sama Team felt very concerned by the subject, we discussed a lot about it since yesturday so we decided to post this entire article on the Sama Gazette. If you are a regular reader of the Gazette, you know we usually don’t post anything directly connected to Max Dana (it’s an internal policy, we stay independent ...

  Tonight, from 9pm to 10pm, Human Rights Watch, Info Birmanie, FIDH, Amnesty International, SOS pour Aung San Suu Kyi and La Ligue des Droits de L’homme call for a meeting at the Hotel de Ville of Paris. This initiative was launched by Jane Birkin in July, and most of the signers of the initiative will be there: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling, Marion Cotillard, Arielle Dombasle, Charles Berling, Vincent Delerme, Marie ...

Many Sama Gazette staff members got (RED) Products: Max Dana has a Dell Mini netbook,  Uncle_Louis got the Chuck Taylor ALL STAR x Africa Converse, Caramel bought a Special Edition iPod nano and I modestly signed up to the (RED) Newsletter. The Sama Gazette has been (RED) contaminated, that’s why we wanted to post a news about (RED). If you still wonder ‘What is (RED)’, here is the official answer (read the (RED) Faqs): (RED) is a ...

A month ago, we posted an article titled: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… and we received many emails about it. The situation in Congo is dangerous and we think it’s important to raise awareness about it. John Prendergast is co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress, and his article: The new blood diamonds was published on the Boston Globe. It was a month ago and we are still talking about the situation ...