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La Mamounia, Marrakech
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 209 guestrooms
- Restaurant and 4 restaurants
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool and outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- 2 outdoor tennis courts
- Conference center
- Airport shuttle
- Childcare
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in common area
What's around
- In Medina
- Bab El Djedid (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Koutoubia Minaret (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Jamaa el Fna (0.6 mi / 1 km)
- Majorelle Garden (0.8 mi / 1.3 km)
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Children's pool
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
La Mamounia, Marrakech
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $407
- Suite (DUPLEX)
- Riad
- Superior Room (HIVERNAGE)
- Suite (AL MAMOUN )
- Classic Room (HIVERNAGE)
- Suite (HIVERNAGE)
- Deluxe Room (AGDAL Twin)
- Suite (MAJORELLE)
- Deluxe Room (AGDAL)
- Suite (CHURCHILL)
- Suite (MARQUETERIE)
- Suite (PARK)
- Suite (AGDAL)
- Classic Room
- Deluxe Room (KOUTOUBIA Twin)
- Executive Suite (AGDAL)
- Suite (BALDAQUIN)
- Suite (KOUTOUBIA)
- Deluxe Room (PARK Twin)
- Executive Suite (PARK)
- Deluxe Room (PARK)
- Suite (PRESTIGE)
- Deluxe Room (KOUTOUBIA)
- Deluxe Koutoubia Room
- Executive Suite (KOUTOUBIA)
- Park Executive Suite
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 209 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 6 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Restrictions apply *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle *
- Free valet parking
Nearby Five Star Marrakech hotels
In the hotel
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 4 restaurants
- 4 bars/lounges
- Restaurant
- Coffee shop/café
- Snack bar/deli
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in common area
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Tennis lessons on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Tennis on site
- Spa tub
- Pool sun loungers
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Steam room
- Pool umbrellas
- Sauna
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 3
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1923
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Terrace
- Library
- Fireplace in lobby
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- Individually decorated
- Individually furnished
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Bidet
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- IPod docking station
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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"This Riad (once you know how to find it) is close to everything! It's located right in the Medina, not far from the souks, however, it's quiet and cozy. There's a great rooftop…"Jun 13, 2016
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"Maharina and Jerome were great with helping us relax upon arrival. They set up a Hammam, and made sure we were taken care of. Our room was wonderful, and I wish we could have…"Jun 11, 2016
- Dar Limoun Amara
"Perfect place to stay, peaceful and away from the hussle and hussle. The staff were friendly and very helpful. The room I stayed in was clean and cool, and there was a fantastic…"Jun 10, 2016
Special features
Spa de La Mamounia has 9 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages, and massages. The spa is equipped with hot springs/mineral springs, a sauna, a spa tub, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
DiningLe Marocain - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in Moroccan cuisine and serves dinner only.
Le Francais - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Le Pavillon - This poolside restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and lunch. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
L Italien - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
On Site
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Tennis on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
La Mamounia, Marrakech's small print
Also known as
- Mamounia
- Mamounia Hotel
- Mamounia Hotel Marrakech
- Mamounia Marrakech
- La Mamounia Hotel Marrakech
- La Mamounia Marrakech Hotel Marrakech
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: MAD 49.5 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age.
Optional extras
Full breakfast is offered for an extra charge of MAD 380 per person (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of MAD 600 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.4 /5 from 111 reviews
I can resume my comments in one Word " EXCELLET" the staff at our service always ...i will recommend that hotel to all my friends .....
Outstanding hotel and tremendous history. Exceptional gardens, amazing pool. Loved every minute there...
a true sanctuary. Feels like a rural estate in the middle of a bustling city. Not worth spending a minute off of the property for the entire duration of our stay.
Hotel was beautiful and staff very helpful
One of the most extraordinary hotel experiences of my life. Everything was exceptional.
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"Kung Fu Panda" is a story that almost tells itself in its title. It is so hard to imagine a big, fuzzy panda performing martial-arts encounters that you intuit (and you will be right) that the panda stars in an against-all-odds formula, which dooms him to succeed. For the panda's target audience, children and younger teens, that will be just fine, and the film presents his adventures in wonderfully drawn Cinemascope animation. (It will also be showing in some IMAX venues.)
The film stars a panda named Po (voice of Jack Black), who is so fat he can barely get out of bed. He works for his father, Mr. Ping (James Hong) in a noodle shop, which features Ping's legendary Secret Ingredient. How Ping, apparently a stork or other billed member of the avian family, fathered a panda is a mystery, not least to Po, but then the movie is filled with a wide variety of creatures who don't much seem to notice their differences.
They live in the beautiful Valley of Peace with an ancient temple towering overhead, up zillions of steps, which the pudgy Po can barely climb. But climb them he does, dragging a noodle wagon, because all the people of the valley have gathered up there to witness the choosing of the Dragon Warrior, who will engage the dreaded Tai Lung (Ian McShane) in kung-fu combat. Five contenders have been selected, the "Furious Five": Monkey (Jackie Chan), Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross). Tigress looks like she might be able to do some serious damage, but the others are less than impressive. Mantis in particular seems to weigh about an ounce, tops. All five have been trained (for nearly forever, I gather) by the wise Shifu, who with Dustin Hoffman's voice is one of the more dimensional characters in a story that doesn't give the others a lot of depth. Anyway, it's up to the temple master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim), an ancient turtle, to make the final selection, and he chooses -- yes, he chooses the hapless and pudgy Po.
The story then becomes essentially a series of action sequences, somewhat undermined by the fact that the combatants seem unable to be hurt, even if they fall from dizzying heights and crack stones open with their heads. There's an extended combat with Tai Lung on a disintegrating suspension bridge (haven't we seen that before?), hand-to-hand-to-tail combat with Po and Tai Lung, and upstaging everything, an energetic competition over a single dumpling.
"Kung Fu Panda" is not one of the great recent animated films. The story is way too predictable, and truth to tell, Po himself didn't overwhelm me with his charisma. But it's elegantly drawn, the action sequences are packed with energy, and it's short enough that older viewers will be forgiving. For the kids, of course, all this stuff is much of a muchness, and here they go again.
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From The Ramparts
Sunday, June 26, 2016
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
US Prisons The New Slavery
"'Insourcing,' as prison labor is often called, is an even cheaper alternative to outsourcing. Instead of sending labor over to
or Bangladesh, manufacturers
have chosen to forcibly employ the 2.4 million
incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a
product you're holding says it is "American Made," it was made in an American
If you haven't read Michelle Alexander's best selling book The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness please read it soon. She documents the creation and rise of the prison industrial complex's underclass of Black and Brown prisoners who have been stripped of: their citizen rights, the right to vote, the right to serve on a jury, severely minimizes their employment opportunities, eliminates financial aid for education, and their ability to secure public housing. The sad reality is the
US gulag system was ramped up by
President Bill Clinton with major support from his wife Hillary who campaigned hard
for legislation that created a sharp spike in federal and state prison
construction and the rise of Wall Street traded private prisons.
When our people are locked up they are usually forgotten except by their families. Unless they are a celebrity, very little is known about what happens once those steel doors slam behind them and become engulfed into the prison culture. Even if they are not subjected to atrocities, torture or horrid conditions they are for all intents and purposes now slaves.
Slavery in the
was legally outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment but that amendment contains
language that says, "except for punishment of crimes." So what we have is not just a new Jim Crow
(apartheid) in the US
but also slavery. Many of us are familiar with US history following the War
Between the States and the end of so called "Reconstruction" whereby Southern
Blacks were routinely arrested on bogus and trumped up charges sanctioned by
legislation enacted by most of the former Confederate States called the Black Codes. These laws
reinstituted the subservient status of Black people, severely restricted their movement
and activities. Once Blacks were
arrested they were often "hired out" to plantation owners, the railroads, mines or
did forced labor for the county or state. That system still exists today.
Racism and class bias are endemic in the "justice system" and seeking fairness and justice is not easy. The costs of securing a competent legal criminal defense and all that goes with it such as investigators and support staff are prohibitive for most people. Most people are forced to rely on the Public Defenders who are overworked and overwhelmed by the volume of their caseloads. This overload is due to the draconian laws passed at the behest of lobbyists who pushed for anti crime laws that mandated prison time that benefited their clients; the for profit private prison companies.
State and federal prison systems actively collude with corporations to use their inmates to make the corporation's products. These companies only pay inmates a pittance in some cases less than $1 a day. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-insourcing-of-prison-labor-seven-us-corporate-household-names-use-prison-labor-to-produce-their-goods/5492033?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles. More and more corporations are turning to prison labor to increase their profits. Corporations that directly or indirectly use prison labor are: At&T, Walmart, McDonalds, Whole Foods,
Victoria's Secret,
Wendy's Starbucks, Verizon, Sprint to name a few. For an extensive list of
companies involved in prison labor use go to
America imprisons more people than
any country in the world. It's not about reducing crime, it's about profit. Prison
labor the new slavery is one of the reasons.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Something's Fishy In Orlando
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Something's Fishy In
In the aftermath of the shooting in
Orlando it
appears that there are numerous anomalies many critical thinkers and skeptics
are pointing out about the government narrative. Many of these anomalies have
become standard operating procedure in what are becoming increasingly apparent
in these psychological operations/false flag ops. There is something very fishy
about the Orlando
shootings. I am not saying people weren't shot injured or killed in the Pulse
nightclub, what I am saying is the corporate mind control apparatus/government propaganda
machine's "official" narrative do not add up.
What first caught my attention was the media kept replaying the same scenes over and over again: we repeatedly were shown the exterior of the nightclub, police cars with flashing lights that had cordoned off the immediate area and repeated scenes of "civilians" assisting the wounded. Even as time went on, hours passed and the days wore on the scenes didn't change that much except for the various people interviewed. What raised a red flag for me was what we were not shown: the inside of the club (granted the carnage may have been to gruesome to show), we did not see any ambulances on the scene or vans transporting injured people or body bags from the nightclub or scenes outside the medical examiners office.
We saw the FBI, mayor, several local elected officials making statements but no hospital or coroner representatives were ever shown explaining the process of identifying the victims or the types of medical treatment they were getting. To me this was extremely fishy and indicated there is something amiss in this affair, something irregular and even nefarious. Again I am not saying there was no shooting, I am saying the narrative, media accounts and visuals are disingenuous.
When I first heard about the incident I scoured the Internet to get more information. Obviously not everything on the Internet is factual but it is a valuable source of information and a way to cross reference and double check what has been reported. based upon what I saw, immediately I became skeptical. According to the reports an off duty police officer working security at the nightclub engaged the perpetrator Omar Mateen in a gun battle outside the nightclub at which time Mateen ran into the club. Another version stated Mateen went intothe club and a firefight ensued with the security guard. Then three additional police officers responded and they went into the club and engaged in a firefight with Mateen.
But according to several eye witnesses there was more than one shooter and one man even blocked the exit preventing people from escaping! The corporate mind control apparatus has so far ignored that lead or account. Then we get several differing accounts about what happened inside the club. They say people ran into the bathroom. Was it the same bathroom or different bathrooms? Supposedly Mateen came into the bathroom(s) asked if there were any Black people in there? Supposedly one person responded yes. One witness said Mateen stated "he didn't have anything against Black people". Another witness said Mateen started shooting wounding and killing several patrons who were in the stalls several who were Black!?
Then he supposedly barricaded himself in a bathroom with hostages for three hours. Subsequently SWAT teams arrived, the order was given by the Orlando Police Chief and they created a "controlled explosion"; meaning they blow a hole in the outside wall of the nightclub (which supposedly allowed several trapped patrons to escape). Then after that they breeched the bathroom wall and several more hostages ran out. Subsequently Mateen came out shooting and was subsequently killed by police and Sheriff's officers.
Amidst all the focus on Mateen and the accounts by the media talking heads there were no visuals of the inside of the nightclub or bodies being removed in body bags. The initial reports stated Mateen used an AR-15 but when people started saying that weapon was used in other mass shooting, the story changed to he used a Sig Sauer MCX.
Okay I can see that as an honest error, but then again it wasn't changed until a few days later when people like me made the connection with
and other mass shootings and the use of an AR-15! In a piece I initially wrote
about the shootings, I questioned the designation of the Orlando
shooting as the "deadliest mass murder in US history". I pointed out
massacres of Indigenous peoples here in this country and the deadly race riots
as far more deadly. Tulsa Oklahoma
The mainstream propaganda machine countered by saying the Native American killings were military actions while the
shooting was a individual action. No mention about Rosewood or Tulsa
was made in the Washington Post rebuttal https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/16/serious-reporters-address-your-viral-orlando-shooting-hoaxes-theories-and-conspiracies/
to the supposed "conspiracy theories" about the Orlando shootings. The Washington Post gave the modern
definition of "mass shooting" as " more than four people killed in a single
incident by a criminal gunman (or, rarely, gunmen or gunwomen)." Then they
provide a list of US mass shootings and the number killed. Many of these
incidents are also suspected by many as false flag ops.
More and more people are questioning the official narrative and critiquing the photos and visuals. One thing that stands out is that it was civilians who were rescuing and treating the victims not first responders. Where were the first responders other than the police in all this?
There is strong suspicion many of the so called eye witnesses are what are called "crisis actors" people who are paid to act like victims, give prewritten accounts of the happening or act like grieving friends relatives and bystanders. A key way to tell is if they don't shed real tears they just mimic emotion. We saw some of that with the
In one visual some "civilians" carry a "wounded" man and place him in a open ended pick up truck!? This was all for show because the truck doesn't drive off and even if it did who knows where it went?
Who benefits from something like this whether they were directly behind it or not? There are several very obvious agendas at play here. We saw one when it was stated that Mateen (correctly or not) was a radicalized Muslim linked to
ISIS even though no actual proof was supplied, so the
anti-Islam perpetrators win. The deep security state and military industrial
complex win, the US CIA Director just testified before Congress that ISIS is at the gates. The media wins because events like
this generate more viewers, more advertising and they can sow more fear, more
anti-Islam ooga booga, which in turn generates more money for domestic spying
and draconian laws to further the police state!
Homosexual, transgender, alternative lifestyle activists really win. They mobilized so fast it was almost like they were ready in waiting for something exactly like this to happen. They have defined it as a "hate crime" even though no facts have been provided to support such a claim. CNN has been using this angle since Monday, gaining sympathy, empathy and connection with the GLTBQ communities. Now they are saying Mateen was gay himself so where is the hate angle?
Of course the anti-gun crusaders will win there is even talk about repealing the Second Amendment to the
Constitution! Obama and the Democrats will push for more gun control laws and
guns will be demonized rather than the criminogenic, violent culture we live
Who loses? Us in the form of more mind entrainment, more laws that treat ordinary citizens as terrorists and more of our tax money being used to fund the deep security police state as opposed to fixing the infrastructure, the economy and working for global peace. Don't fall for the okey-doke, keep an open mind, question everything and think for yourself!
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Weird Things About The Orlando Shootings
From The Ramparts
Weird Things About The
Shootings Orlando
On June 11, 2016 a supposed lone gunman walked into an
nightclub that was a popular hang out for homosexuals and transgender patrons opened
fire killing over fifty and wounding fifty-three. I've scoured the Internet
looking at corporate and alternative media sources and here is what is being
said: the shooter Omar Mateen who was killed by police was twenty-nine years
old, he was born in New York his parents were from Afghanistan, he lived in Fort
Pierce Florida and had no prior police record, he had been interviewed in 2013 by
the FBI in connection with "terrorist related cases" but he was not
charged or put on a watch list. (There are conflicting reports he was on a list
of potential radicals.) Mateen worked as a security officer with one of the
nation's largest security companies, G4S Secure Solutions. he was trained and
licensed in weapons. Orlando Florida
I confess, I'm skeptical about these types of events. I don't trust the government or the media especially since 9-11. We've been lied to on so many occasions I automatically question the government and corporate media narrative. We're being asked to believe that a man armed with a pistol an AR-15 semi-automatic assault weapon and an undetermined number of rounds allegedly went to Pulse a night club and just started shooting? The lone gunman (another common government theme) was killed during a shootout with police and Sheriff's officers. That's is another common pattern, the perpetrator gets killed thereby eliminating any chance of being interrogated to see if others were involved or why he did it?
There are two differing accounts as to why the
police determined it was a hostage situation. In one the Orlando police stated they treated the circumstance
as a hostage situation when Mateen went into the nightclub after a brief shootout
with police near the nightclub. An alternative
account states he exchanged gun fire with a security officer inside the nightclub
and police who arrived regarded it an hostage situation and SWAT was called in.
Yet we've seen no report on what happened
to the "hostages" or any of the club patrons saying they were personally
held hostage.
The man's father stated his son was not affiliated with a religious or radical terrorist group despite reports in the media that he called 9-11 to pledge allegiance to
ISIS during the shootings. Details about the shooting are
sketchy but there are some things that make you go hmmm? First Mateen fits the "lone gunman",
"lone kook" narrative we have been spoon fed ever since Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth . He followed the usual
government and police script: he acted alone, there were no associates or accomplices
etc. etc.
Another "coincidence" is, he used an AR-15 assault rifle. The AR-15 is the seeming weapon of choice for mass shooters. Several other "lone shooter" mass killers in recent years have used an AR-15 to do their dirty work. An AR-15 was used in the Sandy Hook, San Bernadino,
Umpqua Community College and Colorado "Batman" movie shootings.
Any coincidence there? Makes you wonder., what is he mathematical probability
of those people using the exact same type of weapon?
Mateen was married but the marriage supposedly only lasted a few months. His former wife who refused to identify herself said he was violently abusive and had "anger management issues" (here's more of the emotionally unstable profile). Yet they say he was incensed when he saw two men kissing in front of his son in
Miami earlier. How old is
his son and who is the boy's mother? So
now we have a Muslim who goes off shoots up a gay nightclub who is being touted
as the perpetrator of the "the largest mass killing in the nation's
Really? What about the times the
military killed innocent Native Americans like the Massacre at Wounded Knee South
Dakota where US Army killed over one hundred fifty men women and children! Or what about the massacre at Sand Creek where
700 drunken Colorado Militia attacked 200 Cheyenne, Arapaho tribesmen
killing 170 mostly women and children! What about
and Tulsa Oklahoma Black Wall Street?
I could go on and on but you get my drift.
Any loss of life is a tragedy, we must not allow another government and media rush to judgment or false flag operation to psyche us into falling for a hidden agenda to: promote fear of "Islamic terrorists" like al-Qaeda and ISIS we know were created and funded by the US, domestic gun control, and sexual and gender reorientation. Let's wait to see if there is a serious investigation and collection of all the facts or more questionable narratives by the government and media.
Saturday, June 04, 2016
Muhammad Ali, Champion
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Muhammad Ali, Champion
"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee rumble young man rumble" - Bundini Brown exhorting Muhammad Ali
One of the most charismatic athletes of the twentieth century is a Black man who was born and originally named Cassius Clay but later changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He burst onto the international scene as a boxer during the 1960 Rome Olympics where he distinguished himself in the light heavyweight division because of his fluid style, hand quickness and radiant personality. Prior to going to Rome Ali had won the AAU amateur boxing championship in 1959.
The Rome Olympics catapulted Clay into the national consciousness. Americans love a winner, especially one who wins for the country which Clay did as the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal Champion. Doors opened quicker for him because of his Olympic success. Due to his fame, skills and work ethic he was able to rise up to become a contender in the heavyweight division.
Clay joined the Nation of Islam lead by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and was tutored by Malcolm X. He changed his name while training for his heavyweight championship fight with Sonny Liston. The world was shocked by this young man's brashness and style. Liston was the champion but he was far less charismatic and articulate compared to his younger opponent and the press flocked around Clay (Ali) as he put on a show in and out of the ring. After he successfully dethroned Liston in 1964 he announced to the world he had changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
The impact of Ali's membership in the Nation of Islam was huge. It occurred at a time when the Civil Rights struggle was intensifying and the separatist philosophy of the NOI differed sharply with the assimilationist views of the mainstream Civil Rights leaders. But its message of do for self, Black pride and militancy resonated with large numbers of everyday Black folks. The Vietnam War was escalating and the nation was torn between the imperialist policies of the
US government
and the growing resistance and peace movements. Ali was pressured by the
establishment to support war like champions and celebrities before him had done.
As a young man Ali was bound to register for the military draft. He was drafted into the military in 1966 but refused induction on April 29, 1967 on grounds of being a conscientious objector and a follower of Elijah Muhammad. Ali put a racial and geo-political spin on his very public refusal to be inducted when he said, "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in
while so-called Negro people in Louisville
are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No, I am not going ten
thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to
continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world
over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end..."
By taking that courageous stand Ali's prestige rose even higher among most younger Blacks. But he was vilified and demonized by the white establishment; the same establishment who cheered him when he won the gold medal in
Rome. As punishment they stripped Ali of his
title, took his boxing license and his passport to prevent him from continuing
to speak out against what he felt was a racist and unjust war. He was convicted
of evading the draft and sentenced to five years in prison and fined $ 10,000. At
that time with the exception of Martin Luther King Jr. very few Black leaders
publically opposed the war. Nonetheless Ali stood his ground..
He appealed his conviction, his case went all the way to the US Supreme Court which finally overturned his conviction on religious grounds. His tenacity and his willingness to fight for his beliefs earned him the respect of millions around the world. His next challenge was to try to get his license back so he could box professionally again. Ali was successful and this led to a series of celebrated bouts against the best fighters of his era. To his credit, Ali never ducked an opponent. His fights with Joe Frazier were legendary in their intensity and fiery but he also fought all the greats of his day: Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell, Ken Norton, Ernie Shavers, Ron Lyle, Leon Spinks, George Foreman and Larry Holmes to name a few.
Ali's popularity grew over the years and he eventually overcame the animus many held against him for not going into the US Army and for being a Muslim. Ali was a celebrated figure around the world and remained famous for decades after he retired. To me and most of my peers growing up in the 1960's, Muhammad Ali was a true hero. Ali fought the system and won. He showed us it was possible for a Black man to stand for something and have the courage of your convictions. That is why so many honor him to this day.
In later years, Ali suffered from Parkinson's Disease a debilitating neurological condition which impacted his ability to speak which must have been frustrating for him because he loved to talk and be the center of attention everywhere he went. Despite his illness, Ali was still admired and respected until he made his transition on June 3, 2016. Muhammad Ali is still our champion.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Black Folks Started Memorial (Decoration) Day
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Black Folks Started Memorial (Decoration) Day
"On this date in 1865, former Black slaves started Memorial Day in America." http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/first-american-memorial-day-commemorated
As with almost every aspect of our experiences in this country, our contributions, genius and humanity have been ignored, suppressed and denigrated. Today is Decoration Day renamed Memorial Day in 1971when it was made a federal holiday. Decoration Day is the day Americans honor the sacrifices of fallen heroes and servicemen and women. Today is not to be confused with Veterans Day which is a day set aside on November 11th to honor the living soldiers from America's numerous wars.
What is not known is Africans in bondage were the first to acknowledge the service of Union soldiers who had been held captive in a makeshift prison in
According to Yale Professor David W Blight who is white who came across some
documentation about this when he was doing research for his book Race and Reunion about the War Between
the States and its aftermath. According to Blight, before the war formally
ended Africans in bondage reinterred the remains of 257 fallen Union prisoners
of war who died in captivity and buried in a mass grave inside the prison camp
and gave them a ceremonial burial. They later held a huge parade in their honor
on May 1, 1865. Charleston South Carolina
The back story to this event is that the Confederate Army converted a
race track named the Washington Race
Track and Jockey Club into an open air makeshift prison camp to hold
captured Union soldiers. Conditions there were extremely poor and many of the
captives died from disease and wounds. By the spring of 1865 Charleston South Carolina Charleston had been abandoned by whites
because the city was in ruins. The first shots of the war began on April 12, 1861
when Confederate batteries fired on the Union fortress in Fort
Sumter located in the Charleston's harbor. That bombardment was the
beginning of the War Between the States (there is no such things as a "civil war").
The Africans in bondage and their free compatriots in
viewed the war as a vehicle for their freedom and supported the Union efforts. Another
little known fact is Africans in Charleston South Carolina America fought on both sides of the
war. Over 189,000 African men served in the Union army and navy while about 3,000
- 6,000 Blacks fought for the Confederacy which only allowed Black enlistment
near the end of the war because their cause was failing so miserably.
The Blacks in
knew about the conditions in the prison camp. Even before the formal end of the
conflict, they were determined to give the Union soldiers a proper ceremonial burial.
They dug up the bodies and reinterred them giving them a ritualistic burial. It
took them two weeks to reinter the remains. Later working with the white missionaries and
teachers they planned and executed a parade to honor the Union soldiers. The
event was even covered by Northern newspapers like the New York Tribune. Over
10,000 people attended the parade, they placed flowers on the new graves and
according to eye witnesses the Blacks constructed an enclosure and an entrance
arch that declared "Martyrs of the Race Course".
Professor David W. Blight stated that this was the first Decoration Day May 1, 1865. Keep in mind the activities and this event by Africans had no bearing on the creation of an actual ceremonial holiday to decorate and place flowers on the graves of soldiers who fought in the War Between the States. This was done by Black people to demonstrate their appreciation for the Union soldiers who fought in a war they (the Africans) felt was a vehicle for their liberation, regardless of the reasons and rationale of the whites on the North or the South for the war.
Speaking of rationale for wars, we must free our minds of the propaganda and indoctrination by the ruling classes for all the wars they've created, caused and used the innocent and gullible masses to fight. The fact of the matter is, the only war this country ever fought that was purely in defense of its territory or independence was the War of 1812. Every other war, police action, intervention or covert operation was based upon greed and the desire for territorial expansion, geo-strategic hegemony, control of resources and markets or empire. Remember this when you are placing flowers on the graves of your deceased loved ones, or mindlessly gorging yourselves with food and drink on this "national holiday".
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Rush To Judgement
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Rush To Judgment
Anyone who remembers the events of September 11, 2001 also remembers several hours after the three buildings came down (when inexplicably only two were struck by airplanes!) the US mind control apparatus said Osama bin-Laden and his al-Qaeda organization were responsible for the attacks. Keep in mind the CIA Director had informed President George W Bu$h of an immanent attack weeks prior and Bu$h did nothing to prevent it. Then hours afterwards we were informed who the culprits were. How, since no investigation had been conducted? In fact the
government immediately shipped the debris from all three buildings to China so there
could be no forensic investigation!? The names and identities of the "high-jackers"
the media said did it were incorrect. Most were still alive and not the people
the US
government said they were. In fact a few of them sued the US for
defamation and won.
In reality there was no investigation done whatsoever. The
simply said bin-Laden did it and that was that! If ever there was a rush to judgment that was
it. To augment and solidify the government's preposterous claims about Muslim
fanatics who had no training flying huge airliners bum rushing cockpits,
commandeering planes, maneuvering turns and dives skilled pilots could not do
in those aircraft a 9-11 Commission was finally convened that was severely underfunded
that had no subpoena powers to rubber stamp the government's sham narrative.
September 11th set the precedent for a rush to judgment and set the tone and tenor for subsequent government policy that just coincidentally gave the Neo Cons and the Project for a New American Century cabal the "
Harbor like incident" they coveted to accelerate the nation's
drift towards total fascism, perpetual global warfare and imperialist plunder.
9-11 also set the precedent of using live military and civilian first responder drills as a cover for false flag operations. Since then: the London subway bombings on July 7 2004, Sandy Hook December 14, 2012, the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, the San Bernardino and the Paris Charlie Hebdo shootings all occurred while drills were going on nearby. There is a pattern here we need to take it into consideration especially since these incidents were used to frighten us, curtail "freedoms" "civil rights" and subject us to additional invasions of privacy under the guise of keeping us safe.
Hours after the Egypt Air 804 crash we were told it was a terrorist attack despite no evidence whatsoever to support that claim. The black box had not been recovered, no debris has been examined, no satellite footage, radar or recorded radio messages have been reviewed, nothing. Yet the prevailing message in the corporate media is this was a terrorist attack. How can they be so sure?
Beware another rush to judgment that will be used to boost the military industrial complex war machine, escalate the deep state global surveillance systems and push us further into a war posture. Egypt Air 804 is already being used by the establishment political class to counter Donald Trump and to a limited degree Bernie Sanders, neither of whom are staunch warmongers like Hillary Clinton. Trump takes an almost isolationist position or at least a non-intervention position on foreign policy which is not what the warmongers in
New York,
Washington, London and Brussels want. So whether Egypt Air 804 turns
out to be due to mechanical failure, an accidental military shoot down or a
terrorist attack we are being programmed and brainwashed to think terrorism
whether it actually is or not.
Monday, May 16, 2016
We're Facing a Psycho-Spiritual Crisis
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
We're Facing A Psycho-Spiritual Crisis
"Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well?" John F. Shumaker The Demoralized Mind http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44653.htm
Many Westerners are coming to the inescapable conclusion their culture is creating a psychological malaise that is metastasizing throughout the society, stifling empathy, enthusiasm and any sense of meaning, purpose or real fulfillment in our lives. We find ourselves like laboratory mice or hamsters on the proverbial treadmill going nowhere fast, depleting our energy and finances with nothing to show for it but tons of planned obsolescence stuff and suffocating debt.
There was even a mindset propagated in the 80's and 90's that said the measure of one's worth was the material things one possessed at life's end. They said "greed is good" which fueled consumerism, materialism and a dog eat dog winner take all mindset. The angst many feel today is a direct result of falling for the okey-doke of the "American Dream" which for far too many is really a nightmare.
If the measure of your being, your self-worth and success are based upon the amount of gizmos and gadgets you have, what happens if you lose them, they become obsolete or you can no longer afford them? Many Americans were devastated by the 2007-08 economic downturn. Millions still have not rebounded from the economic implosion brought on by the reckless and fraudulent activities of the big banks, lending institutions, insurance companies in collusion with government. Many folks owe more on their homes than they are presently worth, while millions have lost their homes and fancy cars to foreclosure and repossession.
Wealth inequality, homelessness, depression and despair hang over this country like a thick fog and many are succumbing to alcohol and opiate addiction as a way of numbing their misery and frustration. Opiate prescriptions are at an all time high in
and the suicide rate is the
highest it has been in thirty years! America
Many thinkers, philosophers and reformers have warned that America is heading in the wrong direction, is lost and about to plummet into an abyss of maladaptive, self-destructive responses to culturally and politically induced socio-economic circumstances. Social engineering is real, social programming and mind control are real. The
has been working on them for decades. Do
some research on the CIA's MK ULTRA, Operation MONARCH and other mind control
programs and then look into what is going on at the Pentagon at its Department
of Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It will blow your mind. It's
science fiction mad scientist type stuff on the real! Then ask yourself what is
the impact of six conglomerates controlling almost everything we see on TV, the
movies, streaming, books, magazines and newspapers? Is this representative of
free and open markets or is it more in line with monopoly consolidation? US
But this is nothing new. American history is fraught with moral contradictions, blatant discrepancies between their professed creed and their actual deeds. How do you talk about "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" while aggressively engaged in policies and programs of genocide, extermination, slavery and dehumanization?
These facts about
undeniable and yet the ruling class has never, ever really attempted to remedy
or reconcile those policies. In fact they are still negatively impacting the
lives of people of color, Native Americans, African-Americans and others today!
The only difference between now and back in the day is, the Black Codes, Slave
Codes, and government sanctioned segregation are no longer on the books.
However the consciousness and practices that created them still exist and remain
in effect because the ruling class who created and uphold the cultures' institutions
and systems have not purged themselves of that mindset and values. America
Africans in
America have long attempted to change the
situation by urging 's
leaders to repent, galvanize and organize to alter the trajectory of this
nation's immoral and inhumane policies. The continuing consequences of the sins
of the "founding fathers" are still being visited upon successive
generations as the ruling class attempts to keep their criminogenic culture (a
system, situation or place causing or likely to cause criminal behavior) in
tact and expand its reach on a global level.. America
The European settlers arriving in this hemisphere came not as scientific explorers, seekers of freedom or with a plan to establish a new way of governing but as pillaging soldiers of fortune looking for bounty and booty to expropriate. Their history of genocide, slavery and crimes against humanity have never been reconciled, avenged or punished. A cloud of depravity hangs over
blotting out the sunlight of morality, justice and true civilization. Until
this cloud dissipates America
will never free itself of its consciousness of exploitation, plunder, greed and
war. America
David Walker the son of a slave father and "free" mother was born in 1785 in
. North Carolina 's father died before he was born. Walker was a passionate
foe of the institution of slavery. He eventually
fled Walker North Carolina and moved to . He taught himself
to read and write. In his fiery Appeal
To The Slaves of the United States of America written and published in 1829,
Boston shocked the
world when he denounced the cruelty and barbarity of the whites in his treatise.
Writing about their history and character he said, , "But we will leave
the whites or Europeans as heathens and take a view of them as christians in
which capacity we see them as cruel, if not more so then ever. In fact take
them as a body, they are ten times more cruel, avaricious and unmerciful than
ever they were; for while they were heathens they were bad enough it is true,
but it is positively a fact that there were not so audacious as to go and take
vessel loads of men, women and children and in cold blood and through
devilishness, throw them into the sea, and murder them in all kinds of ways. While
they were heathens, they were too ignorant for such barbarity. But being
christians, enlightened and sensible, they are completely prepared for such
hellish cruelties. Now suppose God were to give them more sense, what would
they do? If it were not possible would they not dethrone Jehovah and seat
themselves upon his throne?" David Walker's Appeal Article 1. Walker
Would that we had men and women like David Walker and Ida B Wells Barnett who spoke truth to power and challenged the evil and wickedness of their day now. Would we be as comatose and apathetic as we are today if we had champions like them fighting on our behalf? What will it take to rouse us from our stupor and stiffen our backs to challenge our oppression?
The ruling class has more weapons at its disposal today than ever before. In 1830 they primarily used fear, the Christian religion with its narration about the bogus curse of Ham, a shame and guilt based theology, violence and torture to get the masses to submit to Catholic and Protestant dogma and control. Today they have a pervasive technological network that manufactures a reality that dumbs us down, disorients and discombobulates us, they poison us with GMO Frankenfoods, pump us with pharmaceutical and illicit drugs to numb our minds and push us towards stultifying addiction.
All this is designed to reduce resistance to their nefarious global agenda. As a result
faces a
psycho-spiritual crisis of enormous proportions. The push back against the
political candidates sponsored by the ruling class is not based upon moral
indignation or a desire to transcend and transform ourselves and society. The current
so called "political revolution" is not based upon spiritual enlightenment.
Rather, it is based upon frustration because the materialistic consumer gravy
train is no longer running and white folks feel betrayed. They are angry and anxious. America
Black people are rudderless and lost. We have no real strategies to save ourselves other than foolishly coupling our hopes to a Democratic Party that has sold us out time and again. Neither political party has our best interests at heart we have to realize this and act accordingly.
What can we do to improve ourselves and our situation? We can come together, unify and develop a survival infrastructure, an information sharing infrastructure and action plans. We have to build values producing institutions: create and support our own schools, develop our own pedagogical theories and practices, expand economic networks and capital formation groups. Most importantly we must formulate a cosmology to substitute for the decadent Western values of selfish alienation, materialism, war and predation.
We can do this. We already have the model, traditional African values and cosmology. http://www.emeka.at/african_cultural_vaules.pdf We already have the concept, model and action of Sankofa, going back to retrieve that which is good, bringing it forward and adapting it to present realities. We were the first humans to do all this. We have done it many times in the past in our history, we can begin now to create a brighter future for ourselves and our children.


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05 Apr 2013
Manon Lescaut, Washington National Opera
Washington National's 2012-2013 season continues this spring with a production of Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera.
In a recent article in BBC Music Magazine tenor James Gilchrist reflected on the reason why early-nineteenth-century England produced no corpus of art song to match the German lieder of Schumann, Schubert and others, despite the great flowering of English Romantic poetry during this period.
With the New York Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the New York City Opera Steps Out of the Shadows of the Past
Opportunities to see Idomeneo are not so frequent as they might be, certainly not so frequent as they should be.
Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera's extraordinary spring season.
The early summer San Francisco Opera season has the feel of a classy festival. There is an introduction of Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited, inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelnička and Malin Bystrom as Janacek's Jenůfa.
Now that the curtain has long fallen on the third and last performance of the Ring cycle at the Washington National Opera (WNO), it is safe to say that the long-anticipated production has been an unqualified success for the company, director Francesca Zambello, and conductor Philippe Auguin.
Most of the attention during this revival of Daniele Abbado's 2013 production of Nabucco has been directed at Plácido Domingo's reprise of the title role, with the critical reception somewhat mixed.
Four years ago, almost to the day (13th to 12th), I saw Melly Still's production of The Cunning Little Vixen during its first Glyndebourne run. I found myself surprised how much more warmly I responded to it this time.
This recital celebrated both the work of the Park Lane Group, which has been supporting the careers of outstanding young artists for 60 years, and the 90th birthday of Joseph Horovitz, who was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England aged 12.
Headed by General Director Luana DeVol, a world-renowned dramatic soprano, Opera Las Vegas is a relatively new company that presents opera with first-rate casts at the University of Las Vegas's Judy Bayley Theater. In 2014 they presented Rossini's The Barber of Seville and in 2015, Puccini's Madama Butterfly. This year they offered a blazing rendition of Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Ever since a friend was reported as having said he would like something in return for modern-dress Shakespeare (how quaint that term seems now, as if anyone would bat an eyelid!), namely an Elizabethan-dress staging of Look Back in Anger, I have been curious about the possibilities of 'down-dating', as I suppose we might call it. Rarely, if ever, do we see it, though.
Leading a very muscular Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Principal Conductor Markus Stenz brilliantly delivered Alban Berg's Wozzeck with a superb Florian Boesch in the lead and a mesmerising Asmik Grigorian as Marie his wife.
There can't be that many operas that start with an extended solo for double bass. At Holland Park, the eerie, angular melody for lone bass player which opens Pietro Mascagni's Iris immediately unsettled the relaxed mood of the summer evening.
George Souglides' set for Will Tuckett's new production of Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri at Garsington would surely have delighted Liberace.
Calixto Bieito is always news, Carmen with a good cast is always news. So here is the news.
Distinguished theatre director Michael Boyd's first operatic outing was his brilliant re-invention of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo for the Royal Opera at the Roundhouse in 2015, so what he did next was always going to rouse interest.
Although Bohuslav Martinů's short operas Ariane and Alexandre bis date from 1958 and 1937 respectively, there was a distinct tint of 1920s Parisian surrealism about director Rodula Gaitanou's double bill, as presented by the postgraduate students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The eyes of the opera world turned recently to Dresden—the city where Wagner premiered his Rienzi, Fliegende Holländer, and Tannhäuser—for an important performance of Lohengrin. For once in Germany it was not about the staging.
Having been privileged already to see in little over two months two great productions of Die Meistersinger, one in Paris (Stefan Herheim) and one in Munich (David Bösch), I was unable to resist the prospect of a third staging, at Glyndebourne.
'Mack does bad things.' The tabloid headline that convinces Rory Kinnear's surly, sharp-suited Macheath that it might be time to take a short holiday epitomizes the cold, understated menace of Rufus Norris's production of Simon Stephens' new adaptation of The Threepenny Opera at the Olivier Theatre.
Washington National's 2012-2013 season continues this spring with a production of Giacomo Puccini's first successful opera.
Dating from 1893, Manon Lescaut is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel about love and loss in late old regime France. Puccini had to compete with Jules Massenet's earlier adaptation, which premiered in 1884, but the young Italian composer felt undaunted by the dramatic possibilities that suffuse the text's rich material. Puccini's version unfolds more episodically, a prefiguring of "scenic" operas that would become so popular among modernist composers and, indeed, lend so much to film montage in the generation that followed. Opening with the rushed scene of passionate youthful romance, Manon Lescaut skips over the deterioration of the title character's relationship with the ardent young Chevalier des Grieux in their Parisian poverty and takes us directly to Manon's submersion in a life of luxury provided by the old roué Geronte. Massenet's more narrative version takes her attempt to return to her poor but ardent lover into a complicated downward spiral; in Puccini she is merely arrested on what used to be called morals charges while wasting too much time gathering up her jewels. Massenet kills her off before she boards the ship that will take her into exile. Puccini allows des Grieux an impassioned plea to join her and she dies in the New World, in the "desert" outside New Orleans that makes for one of opera's more exaggerated indulgences.
Both versions of the Manon story have the power to move their audiences to heights of melodramatic frenzy. Washington's production is a reliable "can-do" approach. This revival of John Pascoe's production dates to 2004, when the company performed temporarily in D.A.R. Constitution Hall while the Kennedy Center's opera house was under renovation. The effort is quite literally a storybook one, with traditional sets and costumes narrating the drama within a stage frame created by giant torn pages from Prévost's book. Traditional approaches to Puccini classics are well and good, but this one seemed peculiarly dark, especially in Act I, when the blossoming romance could easily have been brighter. The only hint of stylization comes in Act IV, when the Louisiana "desert" is suggested by broken statuary and artifacts of Manon's lost life of luxury. It raises the uncomfortable question of whether Manon's lament is for the love she could have had with des Grieux - unambiguously suggested by Puccini's ravishing score - or by the trauma of having sacrificed her life of luxury for mere love.
Washington built its cast around the nationally well known soprano Patricia Racette. A competent singer, Racette has made a tour of most great Puccini heroine roles but is only taking on Manon Lescaut for the first time in this production. While no one can fault her professionalism, her performance came off as perhaps a bit too professional. The notes were delivered, the actions were taken. But she brought little fire or passion to this expansive role. And at times the voice did have to scoop to bring off ascents into what were not always attractive high notes. Bulgarian tenor Kamen Chanev's des Grieux has a robust sound and featured some ringing high notes. But it lacked the elegance that real Italianate singing needs to be savored. Chanev, who makes his Washington National debut in this production, left the impression that his technique has room to grow; real star power may be elusive. A more impressive company debut came from the sturdy Italian baritone Giorgio Caoduro in the suave role of Manon's brother, Lescaut. Jake Gardner, a third debutant, made the old Geronte an entertainingly real rascal. Company music director Philippe Auguin led a fine orchestral performance, one of the better ones in recent years. The chorus delivered fine music as well.
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"Huawei South Africa is committed to contributing towards the reduction of unemployment and the alleviation of poverty, through supporting skills development and training initiatives. Whilst our focus is on improving the resources of schools and education in the rural and semi-rural areas, we also invest in special needs schools which are often marginalized due to limited resources," says Liu Wenjun (Wilson), CEO of Huawei South Africa.
Areas where the mobile ICT Centre will be active in are Meyerton, Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark, Sasolburg and the surrounding low income residential areas and informal settlements in the South of Johannesburg. The five special needs schools that will benefit from the project will be J.N.S school for children with Cerebral palsy, EUREKA school for mentally disabled, Handhawer School, Sebokeng Technical High school and Thabavuyo School.
Wilson adds: "Statistics show that five percent of the South African population lives with disabilities and that various factors such as poverty, unemployment, insufficient training and education are the most common stumbling blocks for them. In order to overcome this barrier Huawei made the decision to launch a pilot project in partnership with Khulisani, an enterprise development company that focuses on the ongoing upliftment of individuals with disabilities. Together with Khulisani, Huawei has invested in constructing a Mobile ICT Training Centre which supports computer skills training and in the process supports employment of individuals with disabilities. We conducted research into their needs and customised the training accordingly, in order to accommodate the different disabilities which the pupils experience, ensuring a positive outcome for the project."
The objectives of the ICT Centre are to provide a firm foundation in terms of computer literacy, focusing specifically on basic desktop training, MS Office Suite and internet access. E-learning initiatives have been introduced and two individuals have been trained and are being developed with the knowledge, skills and experience to provide computer literacy training and e-learning.
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A graduate of Sarah Lawrence University and the University of Edinburgh, American actress Jane Alexander first gained national fame for her Tony-winning performance in the 1965 Broadway play The Great White Hope. She repeated her portrayal of the white mistress of a turn-of-century black heavyweight boxing champ (played by James Earl Jones) for the 1969… More Bio:
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence University and the University of Edinburgh, American actress Jane Alexander first gained national fame for her Tony-winning performance in the 1965 Broadway play The Great White Hope. She repeated her portrayal of the white mistress of a turn-of-century black heavyweight boxing champ (played by James Earl Jones) for the 1969 film version of Hope, which served as her film debut and earned her an Oscar nomination.
The actress' subsequent theatrical-feature appearances have often been short in duration, but long on dramatic impact: most memorable was her single scene as a terrified Republican party bookkeeper ("If you can get Mitchell, that would be great!") in All the President's Men (1976). Alexander made the first of two TV-special appearances as Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin, telecast in two parts on January 11 and 12, 1976; this was followed by Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (March 13,1977). While she surprisingly did not win an Emmy for either of these superlative performances, she finally attained the award for her supporting appearance in 1981's Playing for Time. Her best-remembered television appearance was as the California housewife faced with the enormity of a nearby nuclear attack in Testament (1983), which was slated for PBS' American Playhouse, then redirected for a theatrical premiere -- a move that enabled Alexander to receive her third Oscar nomination (the second was for 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer). On a lighter note, the actress was hilariously outre as Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper in the TV biopic Malice in Wonderland (1989). Well known for her diplomacy and her espousal of liberal causes, Alexander found herself in the position to exercise both of these traits when, in 1993, she was appointed chairperson of the beleaguered National Endowment for the Arts.
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