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It's a very ambitious goal but we believe it can be achieved with political will.
And this is a really emancipatory and political contribution to peace and reconciliation.
There was political commitment, some financial commitment, and everybody joined in the fight.
But it has to have political leadership.
That's what makes the difference between political talking like this and really going for the important thing, a better life for people.
Our political leaders feel disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people.
It includes movements like Y'en a Marre in Senegal, Le Balai Citoyen in Burkina Faso, Tajamuka in Zimbabwe, LUCHA and Filimbi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, movements that work outside of more conventional nongovernmental organizations and political parties to challenge the economic and political system itself, often at great risk.
As a result, inequality is skyrocketing, and political leaders are increasingly disconnected from their much younger populations.
For those of us from outside of Africa, we're familiar with parts of this story: a massive spike in inequality, the product of a decline in good jobs for good wages that were once considered the hallmark of an advanced society; the capture of our political parties by elites accompanied by the hollowing out of civil society that once provided a voice to ordinary people; that sinking feeling that no matter what you do, external factors related to the global economy can disrupt our lives for the worse.
Our political leaders seem helpless, insisting on austerity, even as public goods diminish to levels unseen in decades.
These dynamics are what makes it easy to dismiss protests as riots or to assume they are of limited political utility.
Third, as I already hinted, protest is the space from which new political imaginations may emerge.
Like Linda and other young African activists, we all must work to redefine democracy as something more than just elections and political parties.
Democracy is a creative process, and protest has always been the vehicle for expanding our political imaginations beyond what we are told is possible.
But they came up with a book, looking back at 13 years of political crisis in Ivory Coast.
It requires the political willingness to shift budgets and policies towards prevention and health education to design a new set of financial and non-financial incentives.
Moore goes to great lengths to twist historical events to fit his political agenda in this film of pure propaganda.
All with a slow, slow pace, that has nothing to do with either the political plot of the movie, the X-files plot of the movie, or the comedy plot of the movie.
Zombie films work if they have a moral point or even a political point .
Generally political messages are done on television, so if you are a big fan of environmental correctness, watch to your hearts content.
Most people go to the movies to be entertained, not sold some poppycock political nonsense.
It is nothing more than a non documentary, rambling political expose on illegal immigration, pollution, and any number of other causes that do not belong anywhere except on the small screen.
I hated this film - mostly for political reasons, but also for moral and aesthetic reasons.
He did two films for one-time Bond director Peter Hunt too - the first being the decent 1981 actioner Death Hunt, the second being this indifferent political chase thriller.
The Beeb hit a new low with this gutless act of political correctness, A mixed race family living in Birmingham with a disabled kid thrown in for good measure.
Violence and political intrigue are themes throughout both Shogun's Samurai and Battles Without Honor and Humanity, and both feature a lead character who finds his loyalties challenged by betrayals.
Unfortunately, though, it slowly descended into a boring political satire that I didn't need to see (I can just watch some good old Aussie comedy for that!).
There are some hilarious things in it, such as the mysterious device the bad guy is seen working on for the whole movie, that turns out to be this tiny helicopter that flutters around carrying and firing a machine gun without so much as a wobble, but is brought down by a bag of balloons (the kind they release at political conventions).
The movie is powerful as a political statement about extraordinary rendition, torture and the politics of the war on terror.
It is really just another film about some beautiful, rich people trying to decide who they should bed next; the peasants and naxalites and the political struggles of the era merely serve as a picturesque backdrop.
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