Pambazuka - Bahati’s bill: A convenient distraction for Uganda's government
Urgent Action Alert: Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill would criminalize writers, artists, theatre-makers, journalistsTuesday, October 20, 2009 7:22 PM From: This sender is DomainKeys verified"Shailja Patel" View contact details To: shailjapatel@gmail.com Friends and colleagues, Please read the action alert below, circulate widely, and act on it. Note that the draconian language of the bill would also criminalize writers, artists, scholars, journalists, performers, of any sexual orientation, whose work might be interpreted as "promoting homosexuality". Such as the Caine Prize-winning story "Jambula Tree" by Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko. It is therefore, a sweeping attack on creativity, imagination, scholarship, journalism, freedom of artistic expression, that we cannot allow to be implemented. In community, -- Shailja Patel www.shailja.com Cell: 510 282-3448 Youtube video of "Eater of Death" at Bioneers http://www.youtube.com/user/Bioneers#p/