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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Jericho Parms | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Women, Tribeca Film Festival, Women's Issues, Liberian Women, Africa, Liberia, Documentaries, Film, Media News
Jericho Parms

While founded by former slaves from the United States, under the premise of freedom, Liberia's history has been marked by chaos and unrest.

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USW Helps Empower Workers on Firestone Plantation in Liberia

Fred Redmond | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Liberian Supreme Court, Child Labor, Firestone Synthetic Rubber and Latex Co. The Save My Future Foundation, Fortune 500, Africa, General Agricultural and Alliled Workers Union of Liberia, Bridgestone/Firestone, Economy, Latex, United Nations, Bridgestone Corp, “Firestone: The Mark of Modern Slavery”; United Steelworkers, Wildcat Strike, John Sweeney, Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia, Liberia, Samuel Kofi Woods, Leo W. Gerard, Peace Corps, USW; AFL-CIO Solidarity Center; AFL-CIO, Harmon Lisnow, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, New York Times, Harvey Firestone, Terry J. Renninger, Fawul, Monrovia, Business News
Fred Redmond

This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.

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Traveling Through West Africa With President Clinton

Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Foundation, Malaria, Clinton Foundation, West Africa, Liberia, Bill Clinton Africa, Politics News
Mark Leon Goldberg

At a public ceremony with President Clinton that included a number of Liberian politicians, the President announced a new Clinton Foundation sponsored anti-Malaria program for the country.

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Liberia's Peace Women: Tribeca 2008 Remembers What the World Overlooked in 2003

Abigail E. Disney | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Civil War, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Africa, Liberia, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Harvard, Women Directors, Women in Africa, Politics News
Abigail E. Disney

How was it possible that these Liberian women had accomplished such an enormous feat without having been noticed and reported on by the news outlets I had come to know and trust?

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A New Hope For Africa: Liberian Activist Kimmie Weeks

Gimundo.com | Kathryn Hawkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Kimmie Weeks, The Giving Life, Liberia, Living News

26-year-old Liberian activist Kimmie Weeks vowed to help his country at a very young age. When the First Liberian Civil War began in 1989, the countr...

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Bush Dances To Mark End Of Africa Trip While Ted Kennedy Sings For Obama

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Dances Liberia, Bush Africa Tour, Bush Africa Trip, Liberia, George Bush, Bush Dancing Africa, Bush Liberia, Ted Kennedy Singing, Obama, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

President Bush wrapped up his tour of Africa with a final stop in Liberia, providing one the funniest moments of the day. The other great moment was T...

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Liberia Ships First Diamonds Since Lifting Of U.N. Sanctions

AP | JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Blood Diamonds, Liberia, Charles Taylor, Business News

Liberia has shipped its first consignment of diamonds since the lifting of U.N. sanctions that blocked the export of so-called "blood diamonds" used t...

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