A bright Ethiopian woman, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, has come up with the idea of making shoes from old car tires and selling them up on the Internet.  Even when the idea of making shoes from tires is far from new, making very fashionable shoes out of them it is. SoleRebels doesn’t make ugly cheap [...]

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Dylan’s and Feromsa’s birthdays are just 4 days apart. We tried to celebrate both birthdays on the same day last year and it was a big, big failure. So in 2010, we split the parties and so far it has been a success. No fighting for presents, no jealousy between [...]

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Before it’s too late, I wanted to remind all of you who live in the Portland area (Oregon, USA) that between February and March 2010, the 20th Cascade Festival of African Films will take place in our city. This year the Festival will show 23 films and the opening night is [...]

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I guess it’s a coincidence, but I was reading the book A crime so monstrous by E. Benjamin Skinner when I just learned that January 2010 was declared National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month by president Obama. The book deals with modern slavery and the many forms, places and people that make this [...]

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