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[New Dawn] -Cyril Allen
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
When the commander-in-chief calls crimes committed by his friends a \"hoax...\" When he spreads bogus fears about voter fraud... When he lies about something as banal as golfing... When his deception about the path of a hurricane sparks an I.G. probe... When a single WH statement contains 12 lies and falsehoods...
Well, then we're clearly in the middle of a truth emergency.
My monologue on Sunday's CNN program contained four minutes of examples, and it could have been twice the length. Here's another sign: When a former member of the president's inner circle is blocked from writing a book...
A tale of two books
Michael Cohen's sudden return to prison is under scrutiny because his lawyers say the dispute centered on \"restrictions in paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book about the president.\"
\"No standard probation forms include language related to media contacts,\" CNN's David Shortell and Mark Morales report. But the form presented to Cohen seemed to be tailored specifically to him. CNN has obtained a copy. This has all the appearances of an attempt to stifle Cohen's right to speak freely about his work for President Trump.
This is all the more noteworthy because another Trump tell-all, by the president's niece Mary, is coming out on Tuesday. And it is a doozy. Ted Boutrous, who is representing Mary in court, is sounding the alarm about the Cohen situation now:
\"This is deeply, deeply troubling,\" Boutrous tweeted, \"from a First Amendment perspective and from a rule of law perspective, even more so as Roger Stone goes free and Michael Flynn is about to.\"
Are Michael Cohen's First Amendment rights being violated?
Obviously you don't have to like Cohen -- plenty of people don't -- to stand up for his right to speak. Just Security's Ryan Goodman reached out to many of America's top First Amendment law experts for their reactions to the Cohen case, and they were \"almost uniform in decrying the condition placed on Cohen by the Bureau of Prisons, an agency under William Barr's Justice Department.\" The word \"unconstitutional\" came up half a dozen times. Read on...
Now, back to the other book...
Will Mary Trump be allowed to speak?
Her book \"Too Much and Never Enough\" has now surpassed \"The Room Where It Happened\" to be the No. 1 nonfiction seller of the year on Amazon's list.
But right now she is barred from giving any interviews or otherwise speaking publicly, since the restraining order sought by President Trump's brother Robert is still in place. The judge overseeing the case is expected to issue a ruling sometime on Monday. Maybe she will be able to speak on publication day.
Back to the truth emergency now...
In Mary Trump's telling, \"truth\" is a concept to be conquered. She writes that Donald \"easily sacrificed\" the truth, \"especially if a lie made the story sound better.\" Later on, writing of the coronavirus crisis, she asserts that he feared the reality of the virus, but \"his failure to face the truth
Joe Biden should recognize that the results of the election do not confer a mandate to veer too far from the political center.
In the article below historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall recounts her role as a founder of the New Orleans Youth Congress and the early years of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. This account is part of her soon to be published memoirs.
Few of us know what we should know about the continuity of the movements for full racial equality in the Deep South. Amnesia about black history cuts us off from the past and undermines our self-image and our confidence that we can bring about important, constructive change in the world. I write as a historian whose life and work was inspired by the movements for racial equality in the South during the 1940s. The long civil rights movement in the south was powerful during the 1930s and 1940s. It was an interracial struggle with strong ties to the movements of sharecroppers, small farmers and industrial workers, university professors, students, business people, professionals and intellectuals. I share here some of my memories as a founder and participant in the New Orleans Youth Congress which became closely tied to the Southern Negro Youth Congress. One of SNYC’s greatest achievements after World War II was organizing the Southern Youth Legislature held in Columbia, South Carolina in October, 1946. By 1947 SNYC was destroyed by racist and political terror, the cold war and the Red Scare and largely erased from historical and popular memory. Professional historians have begun to study the massive amount of previously unknown documents about these forgotten movements. I present here what I remember about the Southern Negro Youth Congress during its brief time of triumph after World War II and its sudden collapse in 1947 although it was not formally dissolved until 1949.
In the early fall of 1945, shortly after World War II ended, I read an announcement in the New Orleans Times Picayune informing the public that an international youth delegation was returning from the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco and stopping in various cities across the United States
As Joe Biden edged ahead of President Donald Trump in Georgia, mentions of Stacey Abrams lit up Twitter and trended nationally as politicians, activists and celebrities credited the Democrat for helping put Georgia into play in 2020.
