PRESS RELEASE
American foreign policy in Africa over the past one-half decade has vacillated on a pendulum of confusion and ineptitude. Nowhere has this fact been more magnified than in the Horn of Africa. The irrefutable evidence is that the current U.S. administration has sleepwalked its way through the Darfur catastrophe and botched the job in Somalia through its proxy regime, and is now muddling through the Kenya fiasco. Due to the inept foreign policy of the current administration, more people in Africa today mistrust and fear the United States than at any time in the past several decades.
It is high time for a fundamental change in U.S. foreign policy in Africa, and particularly in Ethiopia. It is time for the U.S. to abandon its support of African dictators, and pursue policies that uplift and advance the people of Africa. It is the right time for America to change its policy of support for a regime in Ethiopia that disregards human rights, disdains freedom, flouts the rule of law and sneers at freedom. It is time for an American president who will stand up for human rights in Ethiopia, and demand of those who violate human righst to stand down!
The Coalition for H.R. 2003 believes Senator Barack Obama is the one man who is uniquely situated to understand the profound suffering of the African people, and empathise with their deepest hopes and yearing for freedom. His vision for America is to to use the great American ideals to conquer the hearts and minds of the people of the world, and not to build up vicious dictators to use American military and economic aid to repress their citizens.
We endorse Senator Obama for president because we believe he is the candidate best able to address the human rights needs of the Ethiopian people. We believe he understands our situation better than any other candidate in the pack. He knows what it means to have the peoples’ voices stolen. Just a few weeks ago, the presidential election in his father’s country was stolen. He understands what it means to be deprived of human and civil rights. His mother was a tireless advocate for civil rights, and he has spent much of his professional life organizing and defending the rights of the poor, the voiceless and the dispossesed. Senator Obama also understands what it means to be weak and powerless in society, because not so long ago, he had experienced firsthand the inequalities of race and class.
Though we believe Senator Obama will pursue a policy mutually beneficial to America and Africa, we are not unmindful of his historic presidential bid. We agree with Seneator Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy that Barack Obama is the only presidential contender since John F. Kennedy who has demonstrated the same combination of vision, charisma, hope and thoughtfulness that will overcome an ugly tradition of bigotry older than the American Republic. In much the same way as John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama today inspires Americans in all walks of life. He reaches the hearts and minds of the young and old, the black, white, brown and yellow, the poor and rich, and the urban, suburban and rural residents.
The Coalition for H.R. 2003 unreservedly endorses Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. The Coalition urges all Ethiopian Americans to support Senator Obama with their votes, time, money and efforts. Senator Obama said it is time for a CHANGE in America. For Ethiopian Americans that change begins with enactment of H.R. 2003.
Let’s join hands and help elect Senator Barack Obama, President of the United States.
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9 thoughts on “Coalition for H.R. 2003 endorses Barack Obama”
That is great assessment! Thanks coalition for HR2003.
Thanks coalition for HR2003. I appreciate your works. I tried to open your website, it can’t be opened. I am in Ethiopia. Is your website working or is it because of the usual weyane blocking?
We are proud of u prof Al Mariam, please keep it up! till our freedom is ensured on our land!!!!
May God Bless u & Our Land!!!
That is a very thoughtful decision.
We have already been with the Husband & Wife team. The duo have done nothing to stop human right abuses in Africa. Remember the 1994 Rwanda massacer. It happened one year after Bill Clinton took office. During his time in office: The Woyane gang were bussy doing their ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia, the war in Congo and the Ethio-Eritrean wars caused so much death and displacement, Somalia was left in tatters, etc.etc. The then President,Clinton, did nothing to stop it. Instead he was the one who coined the phrase ” The New generation of African leaders”. Look at were they have taken us. We know what happened to the continent under the leadership of these tugs. Now he is bussy campaigning for his wife. Are we not going to get more of the same again?
So, pleas go out and help to elect BARACK OBAMA. You can make him the true NEW GENERATION LEADER
I think this strategy may harm our struggle towards the end of dictator’s regime. For me it may be nice not to take any side before the election. Be systematic.
Many thanks to the coalition of HR2003. Ethiopians have been fighting tooth and nail against the current brutal dicatorial and blood thristy regime of the crime family of that Meles Naziawi since the murderers and the looters came into Ethiopia with nothing in their pocket but with a lot of bulets and guns to murder Ethiopians.
It is inevitable victory over the current regime is around the corner. Today, the crime family is drenched in the blood of Ethiopians while sucking in the wealth and resources of Ethiopians and Ethiopia. As a matter of fact, the only powerful people to unseat the current regime is the one and the only mighty Ethiopians.
In 2005, the Nazi regime of the crime family stole the voice of Ethiopians, rigged election, then murdered more than 200 people in just less than two hours and immediately declared curfew on domocratic Ethiopians fearing the heat would engulf the crime family and would turn them into like a burned plastic bottle.
Sooner or later, even very much soon the change would come into Ethiopia, as it woulc come into America. Sentator Barack Obama and democratic forces of Ethiopia and Ethiopians will bring change into their respective country.
Give your support for Senator Barack Obama and see and feel the change. The change is your life and future. Support Senator Barack Obama and see the change in Ethiopia, too.
Senator Obama’s plan is good for Africa:
1. Fight Global Poverty: Obama will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal. He will help the world’s weakest states to build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth.
2.“The time to fix our broken immigration system is now… We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace… But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America… Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should”
3. Obama will make college affordable for all Americans by creating a new American Opportunity Tax Credit. This universal and fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans, and will cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or university and make community college tuition completely free for most students. Obama will also ensure that the tax credit is available to families at the time of enrollment by using prior year’s tax data to deliver the credit when tuition is due.
4. As for countries like Somalia, Sirra Leone, or the Congo, well, they have barely any law whatsoever. There are times when considering the plight of Africa -the millions racked by AIDS, the constant droughts and famines, the dictatorships, the prevasive corruption, the brutality of 12 years old guerrillas who know nothing but war wielding machetes or AK-47s-I find myself plunged into cynicisim and despair. Until I’am reminded that a mosquito net that prevents malaria cost $3; that a voluntary HIV testing program in Uganda has made substantial inroads in the rate of new infections at a cost of $3 or $4 per test; that only modest attention-an internationa show of force or the creation of civilian protection zones-might have stopped the slaughter in Rwanda; and that onetime hard cases like Mozambique have made significant steps toward reform.
5. Please read Obama’s plan and you can visit http://www.barackobama.com He is talented leader and respect Human Right, Democracy and Rule of Law around the world. Please don’t support him by color and should be by his performances.
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Why endorse? Couldn’t we simply wait and see? I mean we should be working with all of them whether they are democrats or republicans. I mean we are not so influential to take sides. Sometimes I don’t understand how we are so unwise.
I’m not sure where this country and world is headed. But I do know it is better off from where we have been. This is an especially proud moment for America and Africa. African people have too long been the second-thought or at the feet others – in part through our own actions. But this presidency would at least be an inspiration for change. Utimately, African people will have to decide from themselves to change the situation. But I’m sure Obama correct the policies that have hendered progress.
I’m African-American. I don’t pretend to know or share experiences of native African people. But I do share the experiences of subjugation and discrimination as a black person. I do share the experiences of self-hatred and black-on-black crime. And I believe this presidency might at least help Africans to be proud of themselves instead of subsconscienously hating themselves.