Special event in Washington DC
Date/Time: Saturday, July 2nd at 3:00 PM
Place: Washington Ethical Society
Address: 7750 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20012
This year, Ethiopian Review is celebrating its 20th year of service and commitment to the global Ethiopian community by organizing various informational, educational and fund-raising activities. The anniversary events will be launched at a special event to be held on Saturday, July 2, 2011, in Washington DC at 3 PM.
In its first decade of service, Ethiopian Review has been a source of information and critical analysis for all Ethiopians and provided a readily available print outlet for Ethiopian scholars and commentators. Over the past decade, Ethiopian Review has been the global cyber gathering place for all Ethiopians seeking critical analysis and investigative reporting.
Ethiopian Review is grateful for the financial and moral support it has received from all Ethiopians and others as it evolved to become a strong voice for human rights, democracy and accountability in Ethiopia. We are most grateful to our friends and supporters for making Ethiopian Review the foremost information source on Ethiopia for many years running.
Ethiopian Review has clear vision and sense of purpose. First and foremost, we recognize the struggle of the Ethiopian people for freedom is just and sacred. Ethiopian Review will continue to support the struggle in no uncertain terms, as we have done so for the last 20 years. We have come this far through the undying love and support of our readers and our dedicated staff who work day and night.
As we celebrate our 20th anniversary and achievements, we are also deeply mindful of the enormous tasks that face all Ethiopians in bringing about a democratic and just society based on the rule of law. We hope to renew and reaffirm our commitment to the struggle for democracy, freedom and accountability in Ethiopia and provide an open forum for all to join the debate and articulate competing ideas and perspectives towards those ends.
Ethiopian Review continues to believe that its contribution to the causes of political pluralism, civil liberties, fundamental human rights and the rule of law in our country depends on an organic link with the forces of democracy at home and others around the globe. Ethiopian Review will mobilize intellectual, technical, managerial, financial and material resources for this just and right cause.
We ask all friends and supporters of Ethiopian Review to join us at a special event launching our 20th anniversary on July 2, 2011.
Place: Washington Ethical Society
Address: 7750 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20012
Ticket: $50 (tickets can be purchased online. Please click on the button below, or click here.
Or send check or money order to:
ETHIOPIAN REVIEW
Finance Committee
PO Box 2786
Tucker GA 30085
USA
For those who are unable to attend the anniversary event in Washington D.C., we ask for your participation and support by purchasing one or more tickets. Ticket sales will be used to pay the costs of setting the anniversary events and support Ethiopian Review’s 2011 Expansion Plan.
42 thoughts on “Ethiopian Review 20th Anniversary Celebrations – DC”
Dear ER editors and Associates:
Congradulation in your 20th anniversary.
You are among the few who showed consistancy in your report about ethiopia. Speciallly the attempt you made to bridge between ethiopian and eritrean communities will be very memorable. Thanks for your try.
You are doing excellent job for ethiopia and eritrean.
Since you are stationed in USA have ever raised issue about US people who are oprssed, dicriminated or marginal seen as human (blacks and Indians). If not why not; if you did please site me your publications.
Thanks
ER,
Congradulation for the Job well Done.
Congratulations brother Elias! You’ve been an outstanding freedom fighter. By the way, I still have some of your Ethiopian Review magazine from 1994.
Congradulation well done. tnx
i would like to say congra ! i start google out yr web site this yr by mymobile phone .y gave as one chance to get an information thanks .i wish y along life.
congradulations ER, You guys are really the mouth of the ethiopian voiceless people as well as the headache of zenawi and his stupid tplf racist & criminal members.
What a great accomplishments, good job and God bless
Congradulations ER, Happy 20th anniversary!!! Thank You for all your dedications and hard work. We(True Ethiopians)Love you. May God keep you blessed.
this is your last year.
#9, I agree with you, this will be ER’s last celebration in the District of Colombia, because next year ER will celebrate its 21st years in Addis Abeba, because TPLF will be a history by then.
Elias although sometimes I don’t agree with your views, I must say you have worked and continue to work vigorously to expose that blood sucker Wayne and also, I am not sure in the present time but you had tried your best to bring back the Eritrean and Ethiopian friendship to normal.
congratulation on your 20 years of service
20 years of struugle for democracy
great job
keep it up
congradulation,please keepup the good work,we will fight untill we die.
Congratulations Ethiopian Review. Thank you for the invaluable service you are providing.
I suggest you do the celebrations in several major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Orlando
and Boston and Dallas and you make other additional choices. It helps the magazine become productive and even give us good services if you
generate followers and supporters in the above mentioned cities.
I believe you may have already planned it and this is just a reminder.
Your services to natives, all Africans, different Universities and world institution have been marvelous and devotedly benefiting all of us and our families. It is this one medium that kept us abreast about news from the home turfs
I remember early eighties trying to find news from Africa and the rest of the world and had bought a short wave radio with 11 bands and it helped me well but your Magazine came on time and hooked me back to Africa and the empire. I had kept most of the copies The Ethiopian Review in my stock piles of books and Magazines and I sometimes go back and read some articles.
I vividly remember an article written by Bulcha Demeksa and Dr. Fikere Tollosa and others and Dr. Bulcha went ahead did what he articulated in his paper and became one of prominent business men and politicians in the country. Just to name few things that I remember and connect with The Ethiopian review.
I admire your courage and timely switch to the new medium- the internet and kept our magazine survive for the future. Hope you even aspire for more creative things that keep you growing and thriving. In deed The Ethiopian Review has a great place in history of the two decades and I thank the editor with all due respect. Consistency, perseverance, firmness, determination and devotions are what distinguish you from others. You have made history Elias. When our pens and mouths were kept shut you allowed us to speak our minds and aspirations for more freedom. We listened to each other and the world responded.
An organ connects people and The Ethiopian Review did that very effectively for solid 20 years.
Good Luck to all of you friends and The Ethiopian Review.
Geremew Isaatuu
Congradulations for ER team and their excellent journalistic work of over two decades. I was introduced the ER print version by Ethiopian friend while living in Europe in the early ’90s. I think it was the first major Ethiopia publication in the Diaspora at the time. I still remember its beautiful covers like the ones of the News Week,the Times the New African Magazines, etc. After I transplanted in North America, I lost the contact for awhile but I rediscovered its electronic version few years later. I don’t necessarily agree with everything written like any other news media,but it has been a great source of news and events update with respect to the messy politics of Ethiopian and Horn African region as a whole.
Congrads for ER Again!
the eritrean are with you guys. # 1 enemy of eritrean & ethiopian people is weyane/tplf.
Good job ER.
As a reader and admirer of, and an attentive listener to, the universally read magazine, the Ethiopian Review, I would sincerely appreciate the chief editor, Elias Kifle, and his well-organized, dedicated, deeply motivated, and highly educated staffs for entertaining millions of people all over the world by bringing to the forefront news and analysis about current events, present and past history of our beloved country, Ethiopia.
To stay for two decays in one job, agonizing one’s own mind in a sleepless night and deciding whose article or comments to publish is not an easy task even for a veteran journalist like Elias Kifle and others.
Ignoring the absolute right Elias Kifle has, some of us whose articles or comments are not published would, some times, say Elias Kifle is a Shaabia, or he is an Eritrean, or he is an atheist or communist; whatever bad or good name we attribute to Elias Kifle, Elias Kifle, without any grudge toward anybody, continues serving millions of his readers every single day.
If we believe there are true Ethiopians at home and abroad, seasoned journalists in this generation of ours, and people free of bigotry and malice, Elias Kifle is indeed one of them. I have read his bias-free views about the Ethiopian and the Eritrean people for almost four years and come to the conclusion he is for sure a man of peace; he still believes a lasting peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea is achievable because he, as I do, believes Eritreans and Ethiopians are eternal friends, not eternal enemies.
As most Ethiopians have suffered and lived for a long time without adequate food, healthcare, transportation, and good governance, Elias Kifle is the person who goes several extra miles, investigates their poor living conditions and reports them to the whole world. When he does such a risky business called an investigative journalism, he knows the Woyanne agents are going after him to destroy his precious life, not completely satisfied in denigrating his well-known name in modern journalism. The Woyanne agents know very well Elias Kifle has been their worst enemy for the last twenty years. They may have tried to quiet him by using several devious strategies, and one of their strategies is banning his Ethiopian Reviews from reaching the Ethiopian people. By any means, thanks to modern technology, Elias Kifle is able to educate the Ethiopian people at home and abroad through various means at his disposals.
No one of us forgets that famous picture of Meles’ daughter, training herself to shoot to kill, and that picture was obtained, I assume, through Elias’ especial art of investigative journalism, and also one cannot easily forget the detailed interviews Elis Kifle had with the Eritrean President, Isaiah Afeworki, and Elias’ visit to the Ethiopian Freedom Fighters somewhere in the Eritrean jangles is also unforgettable.
If all of us Ethiopians at home and abroad have worked as hard as Elias Kifle has, our country wouldn’t have remained in the hands of the Woyanne criminal family for twenty years. We remember how many times the Woyanne regime jammed the Ethiopian Reviews, but the resilient journalist Elias Kifle is still on his journalism business serving his countries’ men and women with great pleasure and at all costs. The threat from Woyanne and the malicious charges from the extremely wealthy man, Al Amoudi, have not stopped Elias Kifle from disseminating the values of democracy, justice, and the inalienable rights of the Ethiopian people to all Ethiopians wherever they are.
Physically, Elias Kifle lives thousands of miles away from his country, Ethiopia, as most of us do, but his fight for the Ethiopian people’s liberation renders him live closer to the Ethiopian people more than any one of us.
All in all, Elias Kifle, with a limited resource but with a dedicated staff, has been fighting for one main goal to achieve, and that goal is to free 80 million Ethiopians – Christians, Muslims, Jews, and many other Ethiopian ethnic tribes – from their 20-year-bondage under the Meles regime. And for such noble cause of his, he has been regularly ridiculed, disparaged, hunted down, and persecuted by all the enemies of democracy- the Woyanne crime families. Let his graceful father, Ato Kifle, who recently came from Ethiopia and joined his humble and beloved son, witness what happened to him and to many other innocent Ethiopians like him while he was in Ethiopia: their lands, their houses, and their domestic animals were taken away by force by the Meles gang squad without their permissions; their sons and daughters had been sent to jail without any charge of wrong doings, and most of them are still in jail, waiting for justice, but justice never comes quickly unless we have many people like Elias Kifle, who relentlessly fight to bring equality and justice for all Ethiopians throughout the country.
Elias Kifle, in his widely read Ethiopian Reviews, has never stopped accusing Dictator Meles for mismanaging the scarce resources of the Ethiopian people, and through Ethiopian Review, most of us Ethiopians are well informed about the unjustified deaths of many of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters and about the giving away of our lands to the foreigners by the unlawful Ethiopian rulers, Ethiopian destroyers, and Ethiopian killers – Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi), his wife Jezebel (Azeb), and all the Woyanne cadres.
There was not a single day passed by without hearing from the Editor-in-chief, Elias Kifle, the good, the bad, the encouraging, and the discouraging news about our country whenever we logged in and learned more about what is going on in that country of ours.
Therefore, in joining the Ethiopian Review 20th Anniversary Celebration in DC, we must be proud of our Editor-in-Chief, Elias Kifle, creator and founder of the Ethiopian Review.com. Ethiopia is blessed for producing such a brilliant journalist, Elias Kifle, who can accurately and truthfully tell her past glorious history and her present precarious conditions.
May the Almighty God bless you, Elias, for serving your country passionately for two decays, and may He continue using you as his messenger to liberate Ethiopia, and may we one day sing, dance, and clap our hands in celebrating the downfall of Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) and the rise of a democratically elected president of Ethiopia.
Elias, we all Ethiopians and Eritrean congratulate you for what you are doing. Hope you will not be dissapointed by some difficulties in the situation of the Ethipian freedom fighter in Eritrea. You have to anylize and try to get a solution and creat a favorable conditions to let the coopration continue till the end of the mafia group of Meles (we can not even call them Woyane)will be handed over to justice.
Peace and love to the horn of Africa.
Congratulations again.
ethiopian review and weyane is going to celebrate there 20 year service at the same time for sure this battle is continue until brutal dictator of meles is gone for ever!
Congratulation Elias !!! You are the true son of Ethiopa.
Thank you Elias,
Elias Kifle of the Ethiopian Review is the most hard working Ethiopian I had ever seen. His love for Ethiopia and his desire for justice in Ethiopia has no boundary. A lot of people agree that the Weyanie-Tigraians are afraid of Elias and his Ethiopian Review more than any other Ethiopian opposition that I can think of.
The Weyanie Tigraians are so scared of him, ER was the first web site that the woyanies blocked in Ethiopia. Weyanies also tried to create their own mirror image web site with similar name. They tried several times to bombard it with computer virus. They hired the most expensive American and British lawyers and law firms through Weyanie’s richest Arab friend but they all failed because Elias stood his ground firmly.
After the 2005 Ethiopian election that the Weyanie rigged and stole from Ethiopians, Elias and ER were named and accused by the Weyanies as one of the “leaders and instigators” of the uprising.
Ethiopian Review is an Ethiopian instituition and we need to support it financially and we need to contribute articles for publications.
We should see Ethiopian Review as our own journal and we need to pledge each of us to contribute $50 per year so that ER can keep on publishing from diaspora as well as from Ethiopia in the future
congratulation,keepup good work,we love you.we will see meskel square.
congratulation
WELL DONE !!! CONGRATULATION ETHIOPIANREVIEW AND ELIAS !!!!!!!!
Congratulation Elias ……
Thx a million bro you are one of the great Ethiopians to expose the shifta gang Zenawi and Co tirelessly, and hope keep on your precious
contribution for your beloved motherland and mark my word it wont be far that you will have your office in the central Addis and branches acroos the nation the woyanne survival is not its mighty rather some western countries hidden support with advice and material like donation by the name of the poor Ethiopians that suffers in dark since the arrival of the gang,recently one western journalist after a week vist wrote Ethiopia would have become on the line with Asian tiger state had it not been under these occuping force from no where only
with the help of some foreign institution and countries with a long time hidden agenda that they found woyanne to serve as a slave like i tried to put it repeatedly it was the same with Mubarak, and Ben Ali
and the peoples power is always stronger to convince every one on the
planet including the woyanne 20+ years advisors and supporters.
Even if i don`t share the outlook you have for the future of Empire, I really appreciate the way you dig into the secret of woyanes and their evil action.
Keep up to humilate Meles and the saudi sheks.
ER remains to be the main investigative reporter and a nightmare to the TPLF regime.
Keep up the good job.
Congratulations ER!!!!
keep up ur struggle!
Elias,
Congrats for 20 yrs of anti government news that shook the nation for 2 decades. I would have loved to attend this event but I will be in Atlanta for the 2011 Ethiopian Soccer tournament. I will contribute for you anyways. I know you need it. Thank you for Sacrificing your valuable time and your potential to earn real money for the sake of democracy. Only few people can do that. Most people would have given up after 5 yrs. but you lasted for 20yrs. I hope you will continue for the next 20yrs. I am sure by then woyane will be gone.
Dear ER editors
Congratulation for your 20th anniversary. I would like also to congratulate you for your initiative in opening communications between the Eritrean and Ethiopian communities. I have no doubt in my mind that Ethiopians and Eritreans can live in peace and cooperate as good neighbours. Again I wish you thee best in your future plans.
Congratulations Elias and the Ethiopian Review team on your 20 years anniversary.
Thank you for being a voice for the voiceless Ethiopians and for exposing the regime’s appalling human rights violations, corruption, nepotism, tribalism, and the day in and day out gross lies.
Wish you all the best in you future careers and hope the years ahead will bear the fruits of your unflinching dedication and fantastic effort to inform and connect Ethiopians where ever we are.
BO,
Are you trying to say Woyane will be on power for the next 20 years? Come on give me a break. Are you trying to be funny when you said “anti government news that shook the nation for 2 decades”. We are not satisfied to say the news shook the nation when only 1% of Ethiopians have internet. Woyane doesn’t want us to shake the nation and that is why they are not allowing more access to the internet. We are not foolish to believe that Ethiopian Review shook the nation until it shakes Woyane out of power.
Eat your contribution, if you are thinking your contribution is going to help Elias scream from the US for the next 20 years so that Woyane can be eradicated by then. We know woyane has a strong hold for the time being but it is not going to last more than 5 years with the birth of ‘Tinsae’. Elias always gives us hope when we give up. Have you not seen the Beka sign all over the place? (at langano beach seating areas, on residential fences etc.) So don’t discourage people by saying that this is another 20 years journey.
Berta Elias….keep on coming up with these great ideas to fire us up (like the crime minister Meles zenawi, Grand Theft Plan, hodam woyanes) we like that.
The Chief Editor of ER has shown his relentless effort to update us with the daily news of the world with due emphasis about Ethiopia and Eritrea for the last two decades. Hats off to Ato Elias Kifle for the job well done and keep the good job as usual. We will stand besides you in evry aspects. Congratulation !!!!!
Congratulation Ethiopian Review, board members, supporters and its very face Elias Kifle.
Best Wishes
I didn’t know that Elias was sentenced to death! Now it is no more a mystery why he was blindly opposing Woyane. Baffling was his overly irrational, baseless and hate-mongering articles. Is it not insane that a vulgar in a death raw like Elias is wondering on the face of this earth? Elias unlike you, we have a future to see. Do not try to seed on us Justice will weed you out!
congratulation we will see you in meskel square.
Congratulation Ethiopian Review, Elias & the board.
Keep up the good job
Great!Great!Great!Elias the great!Keep up the great work!
I am Italian, which I have a lot of interest in East africa, culture and costum. I lived in Addis long time a ago. every some time I visit Ethiopian review web site, Which I found it more accurate, even more better than the government ones. I will say congra for the editors job well done.
-Mando 50 Euro, in nome mio, per supportare la causa del popolo ethipico. Vai avanti cosi…
Congratulazione Ethiopian review.
Good job!!! bro…..
Congratulations! The pressure for democratization and truth has no better friend than an informative press. But the basic goal shall be to have an ideal audience for you. Who is the ideal audience of ER? Since you cannot have your news and information tailored for all equally, you shall have the goal of informing those who wanted to be informed and winning the hearts and minds of those who cover their ears (and eyes) so that they would continue in arrogance. You are part of this job as the truth is like a knife with blades on its two edges. It would inform the people while at the same time making the corrupt and arrogant bare naked making them defensive and erratic. Keep up with this major responsibility by focusing more one the truth than the sensational and more on rectification than inflammatory. It is the truth and the constructive that would buy the hearts and the minds of your opponents. So target your products to strengthen those who listen to you and to cut through the arrogance of your opponents by targeting them with the truth, which cannot be shoved around. That way the regime would be naked and will certainly lose the hearts and the minds of those that it has coerced by influence or those who support it because they have no better information. Congratulations again.
Congradualtion!!!!!!!!!!!!!