Black Jesus

What is torture? What is it like? What is it for? What does it do? It is not an easy thing to understand or explain. Joe Sacco’s story in pictures, called “Trauma on Loan”, seems to catch the horrid nature of torture very well. Use this link if you have software that can open .pdf files, such as Adobe Acrobat. The file is much too big to send as an attachment. Another link to the same document is here. In Swaziland right now there is torture. See Amnesty International’s linked statement. The director of a new Xhosa-language film “Son of Man” says: “Christ was born in an occupied state and preached equality at a time when that wasn’t very acceptable.” See the linked review. The Communist University 2006 programme is included here again. It starts of Friday, January 27th (see the left-hand column). At least one person turned up at the venue a week early! It’s nice to know that people are keen. Links Swaziland - failure to call police to account, Amnesty (1083 words) Black Jesus film preaches politics over religion, Zim Chronicle (494 words) 2006 Study Group Draft Programme (627 words)