[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Zim land

[Susan]

thumbs up from me too!  my recommendation would be to be a little less 
obtuse with the titles .... remember, these will be the link headers on the 
global newswire once we've posted the story as a feature to our site.  I 
think the article might draw more global readership attention if the titles 
specifically reference Zimbabwe.  The subtitle looks a little long to me at 
first glance ... how about

subtitle: U.S. RELATIONS WITH ZIMBABWE
title:  Corporate Media View: "Mad despotic rulers and poor
black peasants"

way to go, Lance!   - Susan

At 09:59 AM 8/16/02, jonathan lawson wrote:
>approve.
>
>the way I've been posting photos recently is to go into administration, 
>pick a relatively old hidden article (Bobby Israel's blanks are good) and 
>upload a photo as a comment to it. The photo appears after a few minutes 
>and then you can get the address by right-clicking it.
>
>At 12:23 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, Lance Larkin wrote:
>>subtitle: RELATIONS WITH AFRICA OR THE NEW WHITE MAN'S
>>BURDEN
>>title: Corporate Media: "Mad despotic rulers and poor
>>black peasants."
>>
>>The small landlocked country of Zimbabwe is in the
>>news again. The current crisis is one of drought, yet
>>the international press vilifies the government for
>>intentionally <a
>>href="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1060287,00.html">starving
>>Zimbabwean citizens</a>. This natural disaster is
>>being used to focus attention on a regime the West
>>would rather see gone. But why?
>>
>>The aging President Mugabe recently rejected food aid
>>from the United States, so Western observers
>>criticized him for irrationally subjecting his people
>>to further suffering. Astute journalists have linked
>>this rejection of food aid to a thread of thought that
>>is often invoked when discussing globalization: <a
>>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16676&group=webcast">
>>national sovereignty</a>.
>>
>>International criticism of Mugabe was focused during
>>the Zimbabwean Parliamentary elections of 2000. The
>>government promised that war veterans would get land
>>after Independence in 1980. The vets finally started
>>reclaiming white farms on their own prior to the
>>parliamentary elections. The Zimbabwean government
>>quickly implemented a fast track land reform program
>>to reclaim land and grant it to those who apply for
>>agricultural land.
>>
>>The white landowners vehemently oppose the
>>reclamation, with violence occurring on both sides.
>>Their appeals to the international community emphasize
>>the brutality of the Mugabe regime and inexperience of
>>black farmers. The Zimbabwean government has <a
>>href="http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,48914.jsp">publicly
>>declared</a> white farm owners can retain their farms
>>if they go through the land application process like
>>everyone else. Additionally the government has
>>legislated a process for making sure that the
>>commercial farms remain <a
>>href="http://www.herald.co.zw/index.php?id=12916&pubdate=2002-08-06">productive</a>.
>>
>>
>>Without looking at the divisive politics within the
>>country, the question of land resettlement has grabbed
>>international attention. The rhetoric of the
>>controversy surrounds democracy and economic
>>stability, but the reality of the situation is the <a
>>href="http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0813-02.htm">livelihood
>></a>of displaced Africans. This reality - both black
>>and white - has been captured in a <a
>>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16707">documentary</a>
>>by Tsitsi Dangarembga showing at the Seattle IMC on
>>Friday, August 23rd..
>>
>>
>>Image: How do I post this?
>>
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