{"id":32,"date":"2010-02-17T23:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php\/2010\/02\/17\/eitrean-youth-in-seattle-hold-mekete-to-denounce-unjust-un-resolution-1907\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T23:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:43:45","slug":"eitrean-youth-in-seattle-hold-mekete-to-denounce-unjust-un-resolution-1907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Eitrean Youth in Seattle Hold Mekete to Denounce UNjust UN Resolution 1907"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"inline inline-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/peaceforeritrea\/SeattleMekete?feat=directlink#\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eritrean-smart.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Seattle_Mekete_Youth.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle\" title=\"Seattle\"  class=\"image image-_original \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><span class=\"caption\" style=\"width: 638px;\"><i>Seattle YPFDJ<\/i><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nSaturday, February 13, 2010 <\/p>\n<p>In response to Resolution 1907, calling for the imposing of sanctions on<br \/>\nEritrea by the United Nations Security Council on December 23rd, 2009,<br \/>\nEritrean youth in the Greater Seattle area held a mekete to denounce the actions by the international body as unjust and unfair. The event took place as part of the larger global E-SMART campaign, which has been working ceaselessly to annul and repeal the sanctions immediately. <\/p>\n<p>The mekete* *began with a talk* *by the esteemed guest speaker, Dr. Ghidewon Abay Asmerom, who walked the young audience through an engaging presentation filled with hard-hitting facts. Using history as a reference and presenting a picture of young, defiant Eritreans protesting in the 1970&#8217;s, Dr. Ghidewon explained that Eritrea remains in a continuing struggle. He went on to elaborate on the leading role of the United State&#8217;s in passing the blatantly unjust Resolution 1907 and the obvious double-standards inherent to the resolution&#8217;s text. <\/p>\n<p>Important facts that might have otherwise been lost, obscured, and<br \/>\nglossed-over by the mass media, were brought to light for further<br \/>\ninvestigation using primary sources. Perhaps the greatest strength of the presentation, according to the participants, lied in Dr. Ghidewon&#8217;s<br \/>\npersistence to challenge the youth in going beyond his own analysis and<br \/>\ninvestigating the facts for themselves. Indeed this is now the case, as the youth have committed themselves to holding a second youth-led mekete on March 10th at 7 P.M. at the Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle to further raise their consciousness of national issues and take whatever actions deemed necessary to defend Eritrea. In addition, almost all participants present signed-up to attend a globally-coordinated, multi-city demonstration to be held in San Francisco, CA, USA, on February 22nd. <\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the intended purpose of the sanctions&#8211;to impede the Eritrean nation-building process&#8211;the unjust measure has only served to awaken the dormant fire in Eritrean youth that has burned continuously in the hearts of Eritreans for generation after generation since Eritrea&#8217;s illegal annexation 1951. Thus, Resolution 1907 has only hieghtened the consciousness of Eritrean youth the Greater Seattle environs, giving the ever-continuing Eritrean struggle for total liberation and national development added impetus to meets its goals. <\/p>\n<p>More information at: http:\/\/www.eritrean-smart.org <\/p>\n<p>YPFDJ-Seattle <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"inline inline-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/peaceforeritrea\/SeattleMekete?feat=directlink#\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eritrean-smart.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Seattle_Mekete_Youth.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle\" title=\"Seattle\"  class=\"image image-_original \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><span class=\"caption\" style=\"width: 638px;\"><i>Seattle YPFDJ<\/i><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nSaturday, February 13, 2010 <\/p>\n<p>In response to Resolution 1907, calling for the imposing of sanctions on<br \/>\nEritrea by the United Nations Security Council on December 23rd, 2009, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dehai.org\/esmart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}