By Alemayehu G. Mariam Cry Me a River, Cry Me a Lake Amina was crying her eyes out. You could see the tear tracks on her tormented face. She is…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam From Discontent to Renewal In the Winter of our discontent, we complained about the wasted years of antagonism, discord and strife among pro-democracy elements of the…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam How Sweet It is! “Justice is like a train that is nearly always late”, but it did arrive just in the nick of time for Omar…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Free Birtukan and All Political Prisoners in Ethiopia! On March 2, 2009, Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia throughout the world will be taking to the streets…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Seeking Paths to Ethiopian Diaspora Dialogue and Consultations (wu-yi-yit and me me-ka-ker) At the beginning of the year, we pledged to help initiate and sustain an…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam Zimbabwe Saved From the “Brink of a Dark Abyss” A year ago, Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of presidential elections in Zimbabwe. He refused to…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam What Is Ethiopian Unity? There are some who are working double overtime to make sure Ethiopia is strewn across the African continent like shards of broken…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam History has two sides. A right and a wrong side. Barack Obama is on the right side of history. He is on the right side of…
By Alemayehu G. Mariam It is time to close ranks against an arrogant and abusive dictatorship in Ethiopia! It is time for all Ethiopians in the Diaspora to come together…
By Alemayehu Gebremariam If you can’t beat up the big boys in Mogadishu, beat on the woman and the old man in Addis Ababa! That happened last week in Ethiopia….