Posted by ecadforum Ethiopia-news Thursday, March 31st, 2011 President Sidney A. Ribeau Office of the President Howard University 2400 Sixth Street, NW Washington, DC 20059-3402 Re: Cancel the Ethiopian Dictatorial Regime’s Event Planned to be Held at Cramton Auditorium on April 9, 2011 Dear President Sidney A. Ribeau: It came to our attention that Howard University is going to the provide its Cramton [...]
Posted by ecadforum News Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 By Zekarias Ezra ‘It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.’ — Chester Barnard ‘Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.’ — Winston Churchill ‘If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes; [...]
Posted by ecadforum Articles Monday, March 28th, 2011 By Zekarias Ezra Over the last 20 or so years, dictatorships around the globe have collapsed due to the predominantly nonviolent defiance of people. Examples are abounding from the former Soviet blocks to Asia to Africa. It did happen in Ethiopia too when in 1991 the EPRDF guerrilla forces finally overthrew the Mengistu regime. We [...]
Posted by ecadforum Ethiopia-news Saturday, March 26th, 2011 CLICK HERE FOR AMHARIC FLYER BEKA! GEYE! YAEKEL! ALONI! WETANDEM! GIDES! BASS! DIITEH! This is a call to all Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopians in the State of Colorado. We are urging you to say no to the TPLF/EPRDF officials’ who are planning to be in our city on April 10, 2011. We are not [...]
Posted by ecadforum News Thursday, March 24th, 2011 Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa VOA News Ethiopia has detained dozens of political activists as part of what opposition groups say is a crackdown aimed at preventing a North African or Middle Eastern style popular uprising. Our correspondent in Addis Ababa says the crackdown is focused on the politically sensitive Oromia region, home to more [...]
Posted by ecadforum Ethiopia-news Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 By Teshome Debalke A major transformation is underway in the Woyane/EPRDF illicit family. It is not only the make-believe five year ‘Growth and Transformation Plan’ and others selectively reviled for public consumption like corruption fighting but, it is about the whole ‘Image Transformation Plan’ in remaking Woyane as a legitimate regime just enough to sustain [...]
Posted by ecadforum News Monday, March 21st, 2011 By Shimekit Debalke Different sources tell us that the Ethiopian towns will soon be inundated by adamant Ethiopians who take to the streets in unison – irrespective of religion, ethnic origin, and political ideology – to firmly stand against this decaying regime. I have been happy to see the US, France, UK, and others striking [...]
Posted by ecadforum News Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners (SOCEPP) Ever since it quarreled with its transitional government ally, the Oromo Liberation Front, the regime of Meles Zenawi has, as it has done with Amharas, Somalis, etc, consistently been repressing the Oromo people. Recently, the regime has accompanied the purge of its satellite Oromo organization (OPDO) with wide [...]
Posted by ecadforum News Friday, March 18th, 2011 By Teodros Kiros Tyrants as Plato observed in his famous Republic are hallucinatory. They shut off their five senses from reality. Their senses, when they are intact mislead them, as Descartes, the modern philosopher may add. They hide behind abstractions. They are melancholic, ruthless, inconsistent and prone to lie. This is the case with our [...]
Posted by ecadforum Articles Thursday, March 17th, 2011 By Tess Debalke ‘Game Over Kaddafi!’ reads one sign in Libya and Tunisia. Another sign in Egypt read ‘Mubarak Out’. When freedom loving Ethiopians read these slogans it reminds us of our own mini tyrant’s Game has been over since he slaughtered 100s of Ethiopians in June of 2005 when he is told Game is [...]