Côte d'Ivoire Time Line

Last updated 1 June 2007

A chronology of key events:

Sources: http://www.acig.org/, http://www.irinnews.org/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/

1637 French international workers landed at the inhospitable coastline near Assignee.
1843-1844 Admiral Bouet-Williaumez signed treaties with the kings of the Grand Bassam and Assinie regions, placing their territories under a French protectorate.
1893 Côte d'Ivoire made into a colony.
1904 Côte d'Ivoire becomes part of the French Federation of West Africa.

Independence

1944 Brazzaville Conference granted French citizenship to all African "subjects," the right to organize politically was recognized, and various forms of forced labor were abolished.

Felix Houphouet-Boigny
first president
from 07 Aug 1960
to 07 Dec 1993

1945: Elected deputy to French National Assembly
1946: Founds Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Party
1960: Elected as president
1990: Won first contested presidential election

1944 Felix Houphouet-Boigny, later to become Côte d'Ivoire's first president, founds a union of African farmers (Syndicat Agricole Africain), which develops into the inter-territorial African Democratic Rally (RDR) and its Ivorian section, the Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Party, known in French as the Partie Democratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI).
1946-1959 Felix Houphouet-Boigny was elected to the first Constituent Assembly, and represented Côte d'Ivoire in the French National Assembly.
1947 The colony of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) was separated off from Côte d'Ivoire.
1956 The French Overseas Reform Act (Loi Cadre) transferred a number of powers from Paris to elected territorial governments in French West Africa and removed some voting inequalities.
1958 Côte d'Ivoire becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community. This was a result of a referendum that brought community status to all members of the old Federation of French West Africa except Guinea.
1960 Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent. Houphouet-Boigny, who was elected the first President of the republic.

Ban on parties lifted

1990 Opposition parties legalized; Houphouet-Boigny wins Côte d'Ivoire's first multiparty presidential election.

Henri Konan Bedie (HKB) Dec. 1999
President
from 07 Dec 1993
to 24 Dec 1999

1993 Henri Konan Bedie becomes president following the death of Houphouet-Boigny.
1995 October Bedie re-elected in a ballot that is boycotted by opposition parties in protest at restrictions imposed on their candidates.
1995 December Bedie's Democratic Party wins parliamentary elections by a landslide.
23 December 1999 23 December Mutiny by soldiers demanding payment of allowances owed to them for peacekeeping duty in Central African Republic.
24-25 December 1999 A former army chief of staff, Gen Robert Guei (1990-1995), announces the destitution of the government of President Henri Konan Bedie, the dissolution of parliament and other state organs, and the formation of the National Public Salvation Committee (CNSP Comite National de Salut Publique). Leaders of the opposition Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR), detained since October, are freed. Bedie is evacuated by the French military to Lome, Togo, before continuing on to Paris.

Popular Uprising

27 May 2000 The Higher Council of Imams (Conseil Superieur des Imams) complains that security forces have been abusively withdrawing ID cards from Muslims and sometimes destroying them.
31 May 2000 Ouattara calls on his supporters to vote “Yes” at the constitutional referendum, while deploring the fact that the draft contains certain “ambiguities and incoherence” relating to the eligibility issue.
3 June 2000 Côte d’Ivoire’s bishops warn at their plenary assembly that the specter of civil war looms over the country.

General Robert Guei
President
from 25 Dec 1999
to 25 Oct 2000

4-5 Jul 2000 Mutiny by soldiers demanding payment for their participation in the December 1999 coup d’etat. Guei hints that the RDR was behind the mutiny which, he claims, was really a coup d’etat.
17 Jul 2000 The government announces that both parents of a presidential candidate need to be born Ivorians.
24 Jul 2000 Referendum on the constitution. ‘Yes’ votes: 86.53%; participation: 56%
4 Sep 2000 Six presidential guards detained since 1 September are charged with endangering the security of the state. The six are reportedly close to Master Sergeant Ibrahim Coulibaly, known as I.B, a former bodyguard of Ouattara’s children.
18 Sep 2000 A group of soldiers attack Guei’s residence in Abidjan. Two loyalist soldiers are killed. The minister of communication indirectly accuses the RDR, which denies the accusation. About 20 members of the presidential guard are arrested.
October 2000 Guei proclaims himself president after announcing he has won presidential elections, but is forced to flee in the wake of a popular uprising against his perceived rigging of the election result.

Laurent Gbagbo
President
from 26 Oct 2000
to present

October 2000 Laurent Gbagbo, believed to be the real winner in the presidential election, is proclaimed president. Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, who had been excluded from running for president, calls for a fresh election.
October 2000 Fighting erupts between Gbagbo's mainly southern Christian supporters and followers of Ouattara, who are mostly Muslims from the north.
December 2000 President Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) emerges as the biggest single party in parliamentary elections though on a low turn-out of 33%.
January 2001 Attempted coup fails.
February 6 2001 Two generals Lassana Palenfo and Aboulaye Coulibaly accused of trying to assassinate the former military ruler, General Robert Guei, appear in court to face an additional charge embezzling more than three million dollars belonging to the country's national lottery and the port of Abidjan.
14 February 2001 A key opposition leader, Henriette Diabate with the Rally of the Republicans party, is charged with a number of crimes, including illegal arms possession and destabilizing the country.
27 February 2001 US ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire accuses the security forces of arresting citizens arbitrarily, torturing detainees and acting with impunity.
10 March 2001 Ivorian government says it has obtained massive price cuts from international pharmaceutical firms for Aids therapy drugs. The cuts would reduce the monthly cost of treating a patient by over 80%.
19 March 2001 President Gbagbo and opposition leader Ouattara meet for the first time since violence erupted between their supporters in October 2000 and agree to work towards reconciliation.
2001 Child slavery under the spotlight following reports of a child slave ship off the west coast of Africa. Growing allegations of child slavery in cocoa plantations strain relations with international community. Government moves to tackle the issue, US House of Representatives passes funding bill providing for voluntary "no child slave labor" labels on cocoa products.
March 2001 Calls for fresh presidential and legislative elections after Alassane Dramane Ouattara's party gains majority at local polls.
June 2001 Amnesty International criticizes government's human rights record over the alleged extra-judicial, revenge killing of 57 northerners during presidential election campaign in October 2000. Eight gendarmes accused of the killings are cleared in August.
Ouattara accuses government of manipulating ethnic problems, especially between the several million Burkinabe immigrants and locals, to retain power.
July 2001 Former foreign minister Amara Essy is appointed as Secretary General of the newly formed African Union.
July 2001 Pascal Affi N'Guessan elected to replace President Gbagbo as head of the ruling Ivorian Popular Front to rejuvenate the leadership of the party.
October 2001 Gbagbo sets up a National Reconciliation Forum. General Guei refuses to attend in protest against the arrest of his close aide Captain Fabien Coulibaly. UN insists on reconciliation before it will resume aid.

Alassane Dramane Ouattara
Prime Minister
from 07 Nov 1990
to 11 Dec 1993

November 2001 Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara returns to Côte d'Ivoire, ending a year-long exile in France and Gabon.
January 2002 The "big four" President Gbagbo, opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, former military ruler General Guei and deposed president Bedie meet for long-awaited talks on resolving their differences.
June 2002 Opposition leader Alassane Ouattara a non-native is granted nationality papers. Supporters celebrate in the streets and say the move will allow him to contest future presidential elections.
August 2002 Ouattara's RDR opposition party is given four ministerial posts in new government.

Rebellion

19 September 2002 Rebellious exiled military personnel and co-conspirators in Abidjan simultaneously attacked government ministers as well as military and security facilities in Abidjan, Bouake, and Korhogo. In Abidjan, government forces stopped the coup attempt within hours, but the attacks resulted in the deaths of Emile Boga Doudou, Minister of Interior, and several high-ranking military officers, including General Guei and his family. The failed coup attempt quickly evolved into a rebellion, splitting the country in two. The rebels, calling themselves the "Patriotic Movement of Côte d'Ivoire" (MPCI), retained control in Bouake and Korhogo, and within two weeks moved to take the remainder of the northern half of the country. Soon, they were advancing towards Abidjan. The presence of French soldiers between Bouake and Yamoussoukro stopped the rebel advance to Abidjan.
October-December 2002 Paris forced the MPCI to sign a ceasefire with them in October, as well as an agreement for French forces to monitor the ceasefire line. Later there were clashes and a battle for the key cocoa-industry town of Daloa. Previously unknown rebel groups, the Ivorian Popular Movement for the Great West (MPIGO) and the Movement for Justice and Peace (MJP), seize towns in west. MPIGO and MJP were allied with the MPCI, and The three groups began calling themselves the "New Forces."

Linas-Marcoussis Agreement

January 2003 The ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) placed 1,500 peacekeepers in Côte d'Ivoire, including units from Benin, Ghana, Niger, Senegal and Togo. These troops and political pressure from Paris resulted in the French-brokered Linas-Marcoussis Agreement. All the major political parties agreed to a power-sharing national reconciliation government, which was to include New Forces as well. The parties agreed to work together on modifying national identity, eligibility for citizenship, and land tenure laws, which many observers see as some of the root causes of the conflict. The Linas-Marcoussis Agreement also stipulated a UN Monitoring Committee to report on implementation of the Agreement.

Power-sharing

Seydou Elimane Diarra
Prime Minister
from 10 Feb 2003
to 04 Dec 2005 and
from 8 May 2000
to 27 Oct 2000

March 2003 Political parties, rebels agree on new government to include nine members from rebel ranks. "Consensus" prime minister, Seydou Diarra, tasked with forming cabinet. President Gbagbo formed a government of national reconciliation with 41 ministers, but this did not meet until mid- April, when international peacekeeping force was finally in place to provide security for New Forces ministers. President Gbagbo accepts peace deal at talks in Paris. Deal proposes power-sharing government.
May 2003 Armed forces sign "full" ceasefire with rebel groups to end almost eight months of rebellion.

UPRISING

July 2003 At a presidential palace ceremony, military chiefs and rebels declare war is over.
August 2003 Group of suspected mercenaries and their backers detained in France; said to have planned to assassinate President Gbagbo.
2003 September Rebels accuse President Gbagbo of failing to honor peace agreement and pull out of unity government.
30 November 2003 a group of "young patriots" supported by some 100 government troops (FANCI) attempt to forcibly cross the ceasefire line in the area of Mbahiakro, east of Bouake. Their goal is to launch an attack against the New Forces in Bouake. The group is stopped by the French Licorne forces. A FANCI armored personnel carrier is destroyed during the ensuing exchange of gunfire. This incident constituted a grave violation of the ceasefire agreement.
11 December 2003 Nineteen are killed in armed attack on state TV building in Abidjan. It is between Government forces and a militia group calling itself "the Ninjas". This aggravates concerns regarding the safety of the New Forces cabinet ministers and prompts a decision by the New Forces to delay their return to the Government.

Rebels rejoin government of national unity.

March 2004 The government says 37+ people were killed on Thursday when police and the army prevented a march to call for the full implementation of the Linas-Marcoussis peace Accord. Opposition leaders say the death toll had risen to 162. They claim many had died in reprisal killings after the aborted rally. They accuse the military of rounding up dozens of their supporters. The violence was the most severe in a series of setbacks to the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire. An international committee supervising the peace process said it was concerned about reports of abuses and raids carried out by security forces in Abidjan.
A 2004 A United Nations force begins deployment.

Jules Yao Yao

Spokesman of the
armed forces

June 2004 Ivorian Mi-24s flew their first strike against rebel positions near the village of Mamimigui, in the centre of the country, some 370km NW from Abidjan. Five government soldiers and 15 rebels were killed. Spokesman of the armed forces of Côte d'Ivoire, Col. Jules Yao Yao, specified that Mi-24s were sent to attack several rebel positions. This was confirmed by rebel spokesman, Sidki Konate, who stressed that this was a violation of a ceasefire from 3 May 2003, and that an outbreak of a new civil war was now imminent.
31 July 2004 Accra III peace summit in Ghana. Reforms agreed upon include the adoption of laws foreseen under a tattered Linas-Marcoussis Agreement signed in January 2003 to end the civil war and the amendment of a constitutional provision dictating who is eligible to stand for president. A timetable for disarming the paramilitary and militia forces on all sides of the conflict, including the rebels who retain control of the north, was also hammered out during the marathon summit.
29 September 2004 Ivorian parliament fails to agree citizenship laws, which were a key requirement of the January 2003 peace deal.
13 October 2004 Ivorian rebels say they will not disarm, as planned, until immigration laws are changed.
28 October 2004 Vendors selling newspapers accused of supporting the opposition are attacked by pro-government militants in Abidjan and southern towns. The New Forces order eight rebel ministers to return to the rebel-held north, saying it had discovered the government smuggling arms across its territory.

Government launches air strikes

4 November 2004 The air strikes are on New Forces camps in Bouake and Korhogo in the rebel-held territory in north.
5 November 2004 Government continues air strikes and clashes on the ground in north.
6 November 2004 An Ivorian air strike, delivered around 1:30 PM, hit a French position near Bouake. The bombing kills nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker. In less than one hour, French peacekeepers destroy almost all the country's air force. This caused an outburst of anti-French feelings in Côte d'Ivoire. Within 48 hours no less than five French schools are burned in Abidjan and Yamoussoukro. Homes are looted and dozens of French shops destroyed.

Charles Ble Goude

November 2004

9,000 traumatized foreigners including 8,000 French and 200 Britons, as well as Lebanese, Moroccans, Spaniards, Italians, Canadians, Americans and Belgians are evacuated after Ble Goude, the leader of the "Young Patriots," called on Ivorians to take to the streets to confront French troops. The "Young Patriots" loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo are blamed for much of the violence.
9 November 2004 French soldiers fired to disperse protesters after days of rioting in the main city Abidjan. French troops deployed in Abidjan, said their only aim was to protect French citizens and property. Ivorian militants accused them of planning to topple President Laurent Gbagbo. Demonstrators ransacked the Hotel Ivoire after French troops pulled out and smoke rose into the sky.
December 2004 Parliament passes key reforms envisaged under the 2003 Linas-Marcoussis Agreement, including abolishing need for the president to have both Ivorian mother and father.

The Pretoria Agreement

6 April 2005 Government and New Forces declare an "immediate and final end" to hostilities. The move follows talks in Pretoria, South Africa.
June 2005 Massacres in western town of Duekoue: President Gbagbo says more than 100 people were killed, but contradicts widely-held view that ethnic rifts lay behind violence.
October 2005 Planned elections are shelved as President Gbagbo invokes a law which he says allows him to stay in power.

Charles Konan Banny
Prime Minister
December 2005

December 6, 2005 The head of West Africa's Central bank(BCEAO), Charles Konan Banny named as transitional prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire until October 2006.
January 2006 Young people, who support President Gbagbo, closed the streets in Abidjan for five days. They were protesting against what they see as UN interference in internal affairs. Ruling party (FPi) temporarily pulled out of transitional government and peace process. United Nations vehicles, bases, and buildings were attacked in Abidjan, Daloa, and Guiglo.
February 2006 The UN secretary general sent a $3.5 million bill to Ivory Coast's president, Laurent Gbagbo, for damage caused to UN property and equipment during last month's anti-UN riots.
Main political rivals meet on Ivorian soil for the first time since the 2002 rebellion. They agree to meet again to iron out differences.
June 2006 Militias loyal to President Gbagbo miss disarmament deadlines.
September 2006 Political, rebel leaders say they've failed to make any breakthrough on the main issues standing in the way of elections - principally voter registration and disarmament.
The government resigns over a scandal involving the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan. Fumes from the waste kill three people and make many more ill.
November 2006 UN Security Council resolution extends the transitional government's mandate for another year until October 2007.
March 2007 After multiple peace accords and postponed national elections, Ivorian President Gbagbo and the New Forces rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, signed a peace agreement that established a new transitional government with Gbagbo as President and Soro as Prime Minister.
UN and French peacekeepers remain in the country. The new government is tasked with disarmament, demobilization, reintegration of former combatants, creating a national identification system, and organizing elections by early 2008.

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Sources: http://www.acig.org/, http://www.irinnews.org and http://news.bbc.co.uk

Côte d'Ivoire news and Côte d'Ivoire demographics

Carol Payne Flavell and Andre Nkouaga Criminal Alert: Community Crisis: Check Bouncing Ring in Olympia! Petition the government for a redress of grievances

News reporting, teaching, scholarship, research and much more.
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Dear friends,
Every four months we take on a new injustice that someone in the Cascadia region is facing that is making a mess of their life.  We titled this: Love and Kind Mess.
This Month, the ‘Love and Kind Mess’ investigative article is about a severely disabled, minority and long time community organizer in Olympia (who chooses to use the name Johnathan).  Johnathan has volunteered with many not-for-profit groups including A World Beyond Capitalism Conference all five years, and many more groups for many years. In addition he has organized fundraiser events for non-profit groups starring Kimya Dawson and he has helped to set up websites and social networking sites for non-profit student groups and helped to advertise events for groups such as the Evergreen Women of color Coalition and helped them to set up their twitter account.
He was recently illegally evicted from his home in the middle of winter.
By clicking on this link you will find the entire, extremely criminal lease that Carol Flavell Payne (owner of the home)  had her lawyers create and send to Johnathan.  Carol P Flavell goes by several names including Carol Payne, Carol Flavell  If the entire lease takes too long to open, you can click here to just see page three of the lease which mentions the $2,000.00 per month rent increase requiring an advance payment of $3,224.81.  Only Johnathan’s name has been changed in the lease for privacy and his email address have been removed.
Johnathan had occupied the home Since August 2008 (almost a year and a half) on a work trade agreement in which he received free rent.  He recently helped Carol to organize a show at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts on Dec 22 and Dec 23.  Directly afterwards Carol took a trip to Port Townsend and rented the Penthouse Suite at the Swan hotel, bought a new two seater Red European Sports Car, a van, booked a month long trip for countries around Europe for her adult son, Micah Jones and her boyfriend Andre Nkouaga (to start in February 2010) and then told Johnathan that she is poor and that Johnathan should continue to work for free… in addition to paying rent.  When Johnathan informed her that it was illegal to raise the rent without advance notice, Carol contacted a lawyer.   On January 15th, 2010 using a crafty legal trick, Carol used her law firm to send Johnathan a criminal lease attempting to raise his rent by $2,000.00 per month, for a tiny room in her basement, with less than one day’s notice.
You will see that the $2,000.00 per month rent simply covers the rent for the smallest room (about the size of a walk in closet with two ground level windows) in the house in the basement that Johnathan occupied…and you will see on ‘Section Eight – Utilities’ in the lease that the $2,000.00 per month does not cover utilities.
Johnathan contacted several volunteer lawyers to ask questions and all the lawyers stated it was completely illegal on many levels and that Johnathan should contact the police if evicted as an ‘Ejectment’ order would be needed to legally evict someone.
When Johnathan got home at 113 18th Avenue SE he found that he was locked out.  Not only were the doors locked but the screen doors were locked as well.  He called 911 to notify the police as he had been advised and Officer Brown informed Johnathan that it was a Civil Case and the police could not help because they would be held liable.  The phone call was police 911 case number 100150440.
All of Johnathan’s food, clothes, medicine and life’s belongings are in the his small room in the home.
on January 15th, 2010, Johnathan called Carol’s law firm to ask them why Carol had done this illegal action of locking him out and evicting him.  Jay Goldstein of Jay A Goldstein law office laughed a little and then informed Johnathan “…She wants you out of her home…”
So the action of raising the rent to over $2,000.00 with less than one day’s notice and less than one day given to urn the form in was simply a legal trick to illegally evict Johnathan.
This is the Love and Kind Mess investigative report.  If you want to report an injustice that has happened to you and made a mess of your life to be featured on the WeAReCascadia.org website, please send it to us with as much details as possible.   If selected, we will feature it on this website for four months.
Please send email for information about this case to the following address:

Excerpts of Self-incriminating emails from Carol are below:
from    cp flavell
to    [Jonathan]
cc    andre.nkouaga,
Micah Jones
date    Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:40 PM
“I’ve reviewed your two messages with Micah and Andre, the
other two directors of Thunderbolt,”
-Crime – Andre is on a temporaryVisa from overseas and Carol has been illegally employing him in the Thunderbolt business not only as an employee but as a Director of the business.
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Quote From Carol
“You were brought on as an unsalaried
caretaker and agreed to cover the utilities in exchange for the use of the house.  This does not constitute a
tenant arrangement (at least according to my lawyer).  It did, in fact, constitute a work agreement”
-Crime – Carol has illegally evicted Jonathan from her home.  Jonathan in fact is a Tenant-At-Will.  To read the Wikipedia definition of Tenant-at-will please click here.
Quote from Carol:
From: clflavell
Sent: Jan 7, 2010 11:40:23 PM
Subject: Fw: Forwarded Contact:Phone call
Dear Amazon,
I have just reviewed the message that you sent to [Johnathan]
and I want to clarify the situation and see how we can resolve it.
[Jonathan] manages my house and parts of my business when I
am out of the country (I was working in Ivory Coast for most of 2009.  [Jonathan] is authorized to use both my credit card and checking account in my absence.) … [Jonathan's] purchases were
not fraudulent, he had authorization to use my credit card
-Crime – Carol has sent emails to Johnathan stating that she will falsify a police report if Johnathan will not work for free and do 20-40 hours of inventory work for her on the thousands of dollars of Amazon.com purchases that Carol authorized.
from    cp flavell
to    [Johnathan, member of MALU]
date    Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:24 PM
subject    Re: Proposal
signed-by    yahoo.com
Dear     [Johnathan, member of MALU],
Don’t worry about me, as I said in the first para, we might be using the same word in a different way.
[The neighbor across the street] is supposed to water every other day at a minimum and that means a real good soak, not a quick spray.  He is paid through mid September (I paid him $10 a week for 10 weeks in early July).
Here’s what I’d like to suggest… You can have 25% of any rent for any additional tenants you screen and invite to live in the house.  The rest of the rent would go to my funds…    Micah is not coming back for at least a year, so his room is also available.  Also, just a fine point, if you decide to do things like insulate windows with plastic for window or purchase household use cleaning supplies once the initial clean up is over, those costs should be at your (or household member shared) expense.  I agree it is important to put things in writing, and that was my expectation and understanding when we discussed your management.  I think we agree on this but just want to make sure.
One note on tenants:  fine to put your expectations in writing but please do not execute an official lease.  The terms of my house and furnishings insurance do not permit me to operate the house as a rental, it will put me at great liability and also since the insurance on the furnishings there is linked to the insurance on my stuff being shipped, I would have a big problem. So you can’t write anything that resembles or could be construed as a rental agreement or contract, even if you don’t sign it.  Make sense?  If you want me to review it in advance I know a lot of real estate law and can provide insights.
If you can look in the box in the front upstairs bedroom and find a gas/electric bill, let me know the billing cycle and then I’ll look up my bank account to figure what is being debited and when.  For water, sewer, garbage, the bill is consistently $180 to $190 every two months so just use half of that for monthly budget balancing.
[Johnathan, member of MALU], I know you are doing a top-notch job and appreciate that you are not in transition, I feel like I can depend on you for as long as I need a caretaker, and just so you know that could well be a substantial amount of time.  So settle in and enjoy yourself.  If we move back to the house, assuming Andre agrees (and I’m sure he would) you are welcome to stay on with us.  it is wonderful to have such positive energy in the house.
Things are really, really moving forward quickly on the music scene so once Andre gets here next week you will probably hear from us within a month or so about web site development needs.
best,
Carol
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-Crime – Carol has sent emails to Johnathan asking him to participate in her home owners insurance fraud.  When Johnathan informed her he did not want to participate she evicted him.
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from    cp flavell
to    [MALU]
cc    Andre.Nkouaga,
Micah Jones
date    Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:40 PM
“I’ve reviewed your two messages with Micah [Jones] and Andre [ Nkouaga], the
other two directors of Thunderbolt,”
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from    cp flavell
to    [Member of MALU]
date    Thu, Oct 29, 2009
subject    Re: Christmas
Hey [Member of MALU],
“I haven’t mentioned this, but Micah got himself in deep shit back east that has cost about $10K a month [in legal fees] for the past few months, and he is probably also coming here.”


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Carol has stated that she paid $10K a month in legal fees for Micah because Micah was reported for fraudulent checks on the East Coast.
The Checks numbers of the checks that were illegally bounced in Olympia are below:
#1472 the names printed on the Checks were Carol Flavell and Andre Nkouaga
#1475, the names on the Checks were from Carol Flavell and Andre Nkouaga.
#1478, the names on the Checks were from Carol Flavell and Andre Nkouaga.
#1486, the names on the Checks were from Carol Flavell and Andre Nkouaga.

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Is Carol Payne Flavell using her position for corruption?
When you google the name Carol Payne Flavell this is what comes up: “United States Agency for International Development” (USAID)” and “

Deputy Director at United States Agency for International Development, Washington,  DC –

The following names appear beside Carol’s name on this page.  United States Agency for International Development.

• Jay Knott
  Mission Director
• Mauricio Vera
  Director, OSDBU
• John Tsagronis
  Policy Implementation and Execution Senior Director
• Randy Smith
  Managing Director
• Theodore Grolimund
  Information Technology and Special Audits Division Director

• Jenny Pascua
  Technical
• Li-Ping Lin
  computer Specialist
• Oscar Pereira
  Computer Specialist
• Jeff Markovitz
  SRA Contractor
• Dewey Perks
  DART Operations Leader

Is Carol Payne Flavell using her current or past position with the United States Agency for International Development” (USAID) to pay for private trips and private expenses?

This page lists her as retired in the following list:

RetiredMaribess Armstrong
Wanda R. Dixon
Carol Payne Flavell
Donald M. Harrison
Ronald D. Harvey
Joseph F. Lombardo Jr.
Carol A. Peasley
Paulette M. Prestwood
Gerald C. Render
Christine M. Wegman

More importantly, is Carol Payne Flavell using her position to pay for music videos for Andre, her boyrfriend?
This is what the United States Agency for International Development” (USAID) website states:

In broad terms, USAID focuses on corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain. It encompasses abuses by government officials such as embezzlement and nepotism, as well as abuses linking public and private actors such as bribery, extortion, influence peddling, and fraud. Corruption arises in both political and bureaucratic offices and can be petty or grand, organized or unorganized. Though corruption often facilitates criminal activities such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and prostitution, it is not restricted to these activities. For purposes of understanding the problem and devising remedies, it is important to think of crime and corruption as two separate problems.
Corruption poses a serious development challenge. In the political realm, it can seriously undermine democracy and good governance. Corruption in elections and in legislative bodies reduces accountability and representation in policymaking; corruption in the judiciary suspends the rule of law; and corruption in public administration results in the unequal provision of services. More generally, corruption weakens government institutions by disregarding official procedures, siphoning off the resources needed for development, and selecting or promoting officials without regard to performance. At the same time, corruption undermines the legitimacy of government and such democratic values as trust and tolerance.
Corruption also undermines economic development. In the private sector, corruption increases the cost of business through the price of bribes themselves, the management cost of negotiating with officials, and the risk of breached agreements or detection. Although some claim corruption reduces costs by cutting red tape, an emerging consensus holds that the availability of bribes induces officials to contrive new rules and delays. Corruption can also shield companies with connections from fair competition, thus allowing inefficient firms to survive.
Corruption also generates economic distortions in the public sector by pulling public investment away from education and into projects where bribes and kickbacks are more plentiful. Corruption also lowers compliance with construction, environmental, or other regulations; reduces the quality of government services; and increases budgetary pressures on government.

To read a list of Carol’s emails in which she specifically takes money and raises money for the music video projects of her boyrfriend, Andre Nkouaga please click here.

The First Amendment consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances is our first Amendment right and we are entitled to use it for government employees!

Please send emails about Carol Flavell and Andre Nkouaga in this ongoing investigation to the following address:

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The Penal Code states that “no warrant shall issue for any items”, which protects information obtained in protection of a news organization.  The Court of Appeal has previously found that these protections apply to online journalists (O’Grady v. Superior Court).

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First amendment: an overview
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. See U.S. Const. amend. I. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The First Amendment has been interpreted by the Court as applying to the entire federal government even though it is only expressly applicable to Congress. Furthermore, the Court has interpreted, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV.

Two clauses in the First Amendment guarantee freedom of religion. The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. It enforces the “separation of church and state.” Some governmental activity related to religion has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court. For example, providing bus transportation for parochial school students and the enforcement of “blue laws” is not prohibited. The free exercise clause prohibits the government, in most instances, from interfering with a person’s practice of their religion.

The most basic component of freedom of expression is the right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of speech allows individuals to express themselves without interference or constraint by the government. The Supreme Court requires the government to provide substantial justification for the interference with the right of free speech where it attempts to regulate the content of the speech. A less stringent test is applied for content-neutral legislation. The Supreme Court has also recognized that the government may prohibit some speech that may cause a breach of the peace or cause violence. For more on unprotected and less protected categories of speech see advocacy of illegal action, fighting words, commercial speech and obscenity. The right to free speech includes other mediums of expression that communicate a message.  The level of protection speech receives also depends on the forum in which it takes place.

Despite popular misunderstanding the right to freedom of the press guaranteed by the first amendment is not very different from the right to freedom of speech. It allows an individual to express themselves through publication and dissemination. It is part of the constitutional protection of freedom of expression. It does not afford members of the media any special rights or privileges not afforded to citizens in general.

The right to assemble allows people to gather for peaceful and lawful purposes. Implicit within this right is the right to association and belief. The Supreme Court has expressly recognized that a right to freedom of association and belief is implicit in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. This implicit right is limited to the right to associate for First Amendment purposes. It does not include a right of social association.  The right to associate also prohibits the government from requiring a group to register or disclose its members or from denying government benefits on the basis of an individual’s current or past membership in a particular group. There are exceptions to this rule where the Court finds that governmental interests in disclosure/registration outweigh interference with first amendment rights. The government may also, generally, not compel individuals to express themselves, hold certain beliefs, or belong to particular associations or groups.

The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances guarantees people the right to ask the government to provide relief for a wrong through the courts (litigation) or other governmental action. It works with the right of assembly by allowing people to join together and seek change from the government.

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The Awesome ARUNDHATI ROY at Town Hall Seattle Tonight, along with ARUNDHATI ROY videos

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As many of you know, I quote one of Arundhati Roy's quotes all the times at the end of my blog and podcast posts which is:

"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy

So it goes without saying that I encourage you to see her tonight...or forward this to your friends who may be in the Pacific Northwest!

The below Excerpt is from elliottbaybookwebsite:

Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital, arresting writers at work in the world today, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, and the author, since, of a series of compelling, political non-fiction books, it is with the most recent of these, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books), that she visits Seattle this evening. "After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." - Naomi Klein. "Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today." - John Berger. Tickets and information are available via Seattle Arts Lectures at www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).

Location:

The Elliott Bay Book Company

101 S. Main St.

Seattle, Washington 98104

End of Excerpt.

Videos

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One of my personal favorites ---> video Public Power in the Age of Empire: War, Resistance and the Presidency (Democracy Now! / August 23rd 2004)

video Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent

(Democracy Now! / May 23rd 2006)

video Baby Bush Go Home: Arundhati Roy on Massive Protests Against Bush's Visit to India

(Democracy Now! / March 3rd 2006)

video Crashing the Party: Famed Indian Writer Arundhati Roy Goes Inside the RNC (Democracy Now! / September 2nd 2004)

video Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian at Seattle Town Hall (August 2004)

video Arundhati Roy, Hans Von Sponeck Respond to Bush's State of the Union on Iraq (August 2004)

video Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War (Democracy Now! / January 21st 2004)

video Arundhati Roy Addresses Tens of Thousands At World Social Forum in Bombay (Democracy Now! / January 20th 2004)

video

Speech: “Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free” (Democracy Now! / October 24th 2003)

audio Come September: Arundhati Roy Speaks Out On Iraq, U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine & Corporate Globalization

(Democracy Now! / October 15th 2002)

Arundhati Roy, Author of the God of Small Things, Faces Prison for Speaking Out Against the Privatization of Rivers, Energy, and Other Essential Resources in India (Democracy Now! / March 4th 2002)

audio Arundhati Roy Speaks On War, Terror and the Logic of Empire (Democracy Now! / October 19th 2001)

The direct web address for the discussion forums is here: http://tinyurl.com/mutualistproject

As always, to Leave a Comment about this blog post, please place it on my Peace Community Profile page found by clicking here (where you'll see my huge smile and I'd love to see your smile too! *happy laughter*).

Love for the people,
-T

"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy, Quoted from her speech: '2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture' (The entire speech is available online, search for the title)

Highly Recommended: Search For Missing Women Website

www.SearchForMissingWomen.org

Highly recommended. Enough Said.

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Actually, lets give an excerpt from a recent post:

Eleanor Salotto, Update: Among List/Map of Many Recent Missing Women In Virginia

Two different posters on the Find Morgan [Morgan Dana Harrington] forum, give detailed information on some recent unsolved murders and missing persons in Virginia. One gives a map and another gives a list of names.

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Important Side Note: Zorina Rose Williams also should be on the map and on the list but is not. Her name and photo are listed on the Virginia Police Department missing persons page, as seen here.

Age: 41
Sex: Female
Race: Black
Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
Height: 5′4″
Weight: 154lbs
Missing From: Newport News, Virginia
Missing Since: 02/04/2010

Details: Zorina was last seen on February 4, 2010.
She has a birthmark on the left side of her face.

Contact:
Newport News Police Department
Officer Pointer
757-247-2500

Zorina is included in our Film, The Search For Missing Women Film Series, Eleanor Salotto, Film 1, but we have been unable to locate a single newspaper article about her despite very extensive searches. Zorina is Black, and her social class and racial background may have something to do with the unfortunate lack of media coverage that her disappearance is unfortunately receiving, as explained in vivid detail on the Black and Missing But Not Forgotten Website at BlackAndMissing.org in regards to Cassandra Morton, also Black, who also had great difficulty getting media coverage when she disappeared from Lynchburg, Virginia. For a map that includes Zorina Rose Williams please click here.

Eleanor Elizabeth Salotto, 47, was last seen in Lynchburg around 4 p.m. Thursday, [Feb 11th, 2010] officials said in a press release. Salotto was described as 5’7” and approximately 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a lavender baseball cap, a lavender sweater with a red shirt underneath, black pants, and tennis shoes.

Police ask anyone with information to call the Lynchburg Emergency Communications Center at (434) 847-1602 or (434) 847-1603 or the police department at (434) 455-6041.

Important: Only after you contact the police with research and tips, please also email your research and tips to us about Eleanor Salotta, Zorina Rose Williams and other missing women in the Virginia area for this film series.

The map and list below was not created by anyone affiliated with this Film Series and website.

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This map, found by clicking here, was created by a poster on the find morgan forum.

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Below is an excerpt from a different post originally Posted on 2-18-2010, 04:56 PM

Sent the following email to local television stations and newspapers today. I can find no updates or no additional information on any of the missing women at this time.

Copy of Email…..

Good afternoon,

Just inquiring if there are any updates or anyone following any of the current missing people in our area? The ones highlighted in [bold] below are the ones I’m referring to. I just can’t understand that there doesn’t seem to be much interest in them. Probably the police are not releasing much information but are there reporters assigned actively to get any stories on these women?

Thanks for your time
Deborah _____________
Resident of Bedford County Virginia
Employed in Roanoke County Virginia

Looking back into some Va missing person/murder history – we had issues during the 29 stalker and the Parkway Murders. Now, we have a rash of missing people. Here is a VERY rough draft of recent murders/missing.

August 28 2009 Body of Heidi Childs and David Metzler found murdered in Montgomery County
VA. Heidi was 18 and a VT student. Both Heidi and David were from Lynchburg and both were VT students

Oct 10, 2009 Cassandra Morton of Lynchburg VA is missing. 23 years old. 5′6″ and 125lb
Her remains were discovered on Candlers Mtn / Liberty University Property on
11/29 Her death ruled a homicide

Oct 17, 2009 Morgan Dana Harrington went missing from Charlottesville VA 20 years old
5′ 6″ 120lbs VT college student. Her remains were discovered on Anchorage Farm, Albemarle County on 1/26/10 Her death ruled a homicide

Dec 9 2009 Laticia “Tish” Faust of Patrick County VA 5′4 155lbs missing from Floyd Co VA
(she lived in Patrick County) 50 years old
Car found in Franklin County Va – on the Blue Ridge Parkway. LE has searched a nearby pond and wooded areas. One of her sandals was found by a cadaver dog.
Dec 30 2009 Kristan Fox Louisa County VA 26 years old. College Student. Suspicious death
Taken to a hospital in Charlottesville the night she died.

Jan 15 2010 Kelly Catalano of Chesterfield Co VA Missing 40 yrs old 5′9 145lbs
active on companys softball team

Jan 24 2010 Joan Renee Cook of Roanoke Co VA Missing 45 yrs old 5′6 120lbs
no info yet of her activities – has a seven year old daughter.

Jan 25 2010 Jill Edmonds 40 disappeared from Richmond. Her vehicle was found abandoned on the shoulder of the northbound lanes of the Powhite Parkway as it crosses the James River. described as a black female, 40 years old, 5’4” tall, 1 57 pounds with straight, shoulder-length black hair.

Feb 11 2010 Eleanor Salotta of Campbell Co (Lynchburg) VA Missing [47] yrs old
5′7″ 130 lbs Professor at Sweet Briar College located off rt 29 between Lynchburg and Charlottesville.

Very Special thanks, 90+ photos and slideshow, upcoming East Coast meet-up event coming up

Brought to you by BlackManFluff at www.BlackManFluff.org

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Dear friends, compañeras, allies, and friends who I will come to know soon who are working for a better world,

Special thanks to everyone who came out to the Radical Media Convergence event (either in person or by spirit *happy laughter*) organized by the Freeschool, the Radical road trip and folks at PeaceCommunities.org! You rock!

You will find over 90+ photos of the event here:
http://radicalevents.slide.com

A direct link is here:
http://www.slide.com/r/WPVXXTJ3sj_r1wQnQ3xAMZEjgModzl1Q

Special thanks to everyone who helped take photos. :)

Make sure you have your computer speakers on because there is music in the slide show (though very corny I must admit, the other selections I had to choose from were far worse I assure you!) *happy laughter*.

There will probably be more photos added later. John has some more photos and will send me a disc plus Pamela had a bunch of photos and I'll add a few of those too. :)

On another note...

I invite everyone to the Reuniting, Recreating and Relocalizing 2009 (East Coast Meet-up) taking place June 12-14th, 2009 in West Virginia. There will be workshops on creating multicultural communities, workshops on various systems used on the conference site such as rainwater collection, mini-solar power: small scale gardening; food preservation techniques; wild edibles; heating with wood; water conservation techniques and much more.

I will be giving the following workshop:

Workshop: Beyond Reporting the News. Is the second stage of the progressive movement to help create independent, self-sustainable activist communities rather than to simply criticize our oppressors?

Lauren, Bonnie, Fraanc, my friend Charles and many more wonderful folks, activists and couchsurfers will be coming from around the country to be there! We will leave the Baltimore area on the morning of June 12th to head to West Virginia by car and we invite everyone to caravan down with us. We would definitely like more drivers with cars to help out with the Rideshare if possible. :)

The new website is here: http://www.eventsforfree.blogspot.com

Free food, camping, workshops music and more! :)
Bring your instruments!

WooOOoooo HOOoooooooooooeyy!

Love ya'all!

Love for the people,
-T

For updates on our other events, please subscribe to our radical road trip couchsurfing group found here:
http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=5982

Or better yet, join the Peace Communities, online community with discussion forums about these events found here:
http://www.PeaceCommunities.org

Keep working for a better world everyone. :)


As always, to Leave a Comment about this blog post, please place it on my Peace Community Profile page found by clicking here (where you'll currently see another photo of Emily's huge smile! *happy laughter*).

Love for the people,
-T
You can also search for the short version of this episode in Itunes under the podcast title: 'Volunteers for Three Groups: A World Beyond Capitalism Conference, The Freeschool Community and The Peace Communities' or click here: http://tinyurl.com/link2itunes

Dare to dream of a better world!


"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy, Quoted from her speech: '2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture' (The entire speech is available online, search for the title)

2009 Radical Media Convergence Schedule! Join me!

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2009 Radical Media Convergence Schedule:
All workshops and meals are free.

Breakfast- [Seattle]
8am-9am - Free Breakfast
Time and Date: 8am-9:00am on Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Title: [Seattle] Radical Healthcare Justice and Media Empowerment. Presented by Dr. Pamela Wible, radical activist doctor from Eugene, Oregon
Time and Date: 9am-11:30am on Thursday, May 28th, 2009














Photo: Pamela and Angel inside the AstroDome shortly after Hurricane Katrina


Pamela Wible, a practicing radical doctor from Eugene, Oregon, will give a remarkable presentation. She has merged health care empowerment with radical media in every manner including videos, itunes, website publishing, social bookmarking, search engines and soon a nationwide book tour. She has given workshops around the country including at the Gesundheit Institute (as featured in the movie Patch Adams) and at Andrew Weil's Center for Integrative Medicine: "Burnout to Bliss: How Patients are Healing Physicians and Changing the Face of Medicine." She has also volunteered during the Hurricane Katrina at the AstroDome among other places and later given presentations on "Googling My Way to Katrina: Breaking Rank When Necessary" and "Community-Designed Ideal Medical Care: The Grassroots Health Care Revolution." She was also in the middle of the 1999 protests that successfully shut down the 1999 WTO in Seattle and found herself surrounded by police shooting people at point black range with rubber bullets while the police threw concussion grenades at people

and she decided, in her words "to engage in my own form of protest." Her love-centered work combined with her radical experience and workshops have resulted in inspired audiences throughout America. She has helped to give people the tools and the resources they need to start their own grassroots community medical practice. She continues her medical practice in Eugene, Oregon at the Ideal Medical Practice. http://www.idealmedicalpractice.org

Lunchtime- [Seattle]
11:30am-1pm Free Pizza

Title: [Seattle, WA] Networking and Participatory Society Open Forum
11:30am-1pm on Thursday, May 28th, 2009.
Presented by Joel Isaacs, Z Media Institute Alumni from Los Angeles, California

Title: [Seattle] Tour of the Emma Goldman Finishing School
2pm-3:30pm on Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Title: [Olympia, WA] Informal Schedule and Various workshops on Media, Solidarity and Creating Participatory Societies at the The Latin American Solidarity Conference held at Evergreen College
[Olympia], Friday -Sunday, May 29th-31st, 2009

What started out as the Z Media Institute Reunion has now grown into the Radical Media Convergence! Everyone is welcome and This is a free event.

For more detailed information please visit the Radical Media Convergence at

go here: http://www.peacecommunities.org/5001.html

The direct web address for the discussion forums is here: http://tinyurl.com/mutualistproject

As always, to Leave a Comment about this blog post, please place it on my Peace Community Profile page found by clicking here (where you'll currently see another photo of Emily's huge smile! *happy laughter*).

Love for the people,
-T
You can also search for the short version of this episode in Itunes under the podcast title: 'Volunteers for Three Groups: A World Beyond Capitalism Conference, The Freeschool Community and The Peace Communities' or click here: http://tinyurl.com/link2itunes

Dare to dream of a better world!







"....a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it and within it is no struggle at all.”

-Arundhati Roy, Quoted from her speech: '2004 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture' (The entire speech is available online, search for the title)

My friend Emily graduated from Medical School (this week) and she is now officially 'Dr. Emily.'

My friend Emily graduated from Medical School (this week) and she is now officially 'Dr. Emily.'
Check out her blog here: http://emilyblockgeib.blogspot.com

Cool. She also got officially engaged to another doctor within the last couple months. Above is Emily with the 'Congratulations on Graduating/Happy Engagement/Happy marriage' *happy laughter* flowers and dog I sent! :)


Below is her Graduation Photos.

happy days. :)

As always, to Leave a Comment about this blog post, please place it on my Peace Community Profile page found by clicking here (where you'll currently see another photo of Emily's huge smile! *happy laughter*).

Love for the people,
-T