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Please Distribute: February 2009
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. Had they been called “gated communities”—the softest possible semi-accurate name, more people might have questioned their acceptability or the impact that they might have on a peace process and reconciliation. If they were called “networked, militarized, communal fortresses”, there might at least be more interesting photos taken of the imposing unapproachability that they broadcast. Is a different issue that I have not experienced first hand.) This private, top-of-the-lin...
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Please Distribute: March 2009
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Friday, March 6, 2009. This is the most up close image I captured of a newly created settlement. In the background are the preliminary dwellings, low to the ground beneath their budding infrastructure. In the foreground are structures that served as storage for military vehicles. In front of this proto-settlement, I saw approximately 15 identical military troop moving trucks, parked in their garages. There were storage facilities for five times that amount of equipment. Up close, these walls tower above ...
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Please Distribute: Update
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. Vote against this option! Or I had almost eliminated some typhoid I didn't know I had, which rebounded with remarkable speed to become strong typhoid. In either case, I feel like I haven't surfed since 1993, like all food is gross and filling and like everything makes me tired. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Monrovia and Robertsport, Cape Mount, Liberia. View my complete profile. Anonymous Country (Elie in Liberia). Robertsport Community Works (Our Liberian NGO).
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Please Distribute: August 2009
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Friday, August 21, 2009. Now and then Robertsport Community Works is approached by international journalists who seek a better understanding of our mission and our projects. In a recent interchange with a journalist who has considerable experience with surf publications and sub-Saharan travel, we were asked a question that gets to the heart of surf tourism:. This journalist's question probably splits surf communities apart more often than it knits them together. My original thinking was definitely pr...
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Please Distribute: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Robertsport Community Works has taken a few significant steps towards existing in the last couple of days. News of its formation and evolution can be found at the organization's blog. Which will hopefully feature posts and entries from a wide variety of stakeholders. . I'll try to limit the spill-over of NGO stuff into this blog, but the fact that it is poised to supplant most of my other hobbies and pastimes, means it will be visible in the background of many posts. Before this w...
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Please Distribute: Catching up: Here's the lowdown on our Surf Competition.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Catching up: Here's the lowdown on our Surf Competition. The competitors and judges of the First Annual Surf Liberia Contest pose along with a representative of Liberia's Ministry of Youth and Sports. All photos courtesy of Myles Estey. Peter Swen floats his way to a fourth place finish. You can read about his experiences on his blog The Liberian Surfer. Contestants and local spectators in the foreground, judges and cameraman in the background.). Keith Chapman also finished fir...
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Please Distribute: No Land for You!
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. No Land for You! It should go without saying that they are measuring development and growth in the traditional, simplistic, short-sighted way that has already just about ruined the world: more spending and more money moving around is good, regardless of who accumulates the money, what they produce and how it impacts anything other than ledgers. Of course, the problem is still that Americo-Liberians (themselves just a slightly older version of land hungry foreign nationals) can...
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Please Distribute: Pedestrian Friendly Cities
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Monday, November 9, 2009. I have a strong bias against any part of the world that is not pedestrian-friendly. This bias extends to Amman, a city designed for the automobile (designed, more specifically, for about half as many automobiles as it currently hosts). The bias also extends to any place where walking around in shorts and flip flops is turned into a life-threatening endeavor by hostile weather. Following my well-honed city navigating instincts towards precisely nothing. Probably a good idea you d...
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Please Distribute: May 2009
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Friday, May 29, 2009. A handful of impressions on the last couple of months to close out the portion of this blog that pertained to my life as someone who did not live in Liberia:. A couple of weeks in Africa:. Perhaps I’ll have something to say about leaving the United States in my next post; more likely I’ll just get down to the business of talking through the fact of being in Liberia. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Monrovia and Robertsport, Cape Mount, Liberia. View my complete profile.
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Please Distribute: Malaria, Once Again
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Malaria, Once Again. Why is there still such disagreement about what constitutes the best and most effective course of treatment against malaria? As long as I've lived in malarial belts, I've sat through hours of debate about what drugs are necessary and what drugs are harmful or ineffective. Why so little harmony and accord? How hard would it be to develop a coherent national policy and messaging system? And why am I starting to feel sick again? Is artesunate no longer enough?
