the brother from another planet
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'' the brother from another planet'' opens today at the embassy 72d street theater .
the brother from another planet. 1984. usa. written and directed by john sayles. courtesy of photofest
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sayles is no storyteller; despite the verve of its language ,
the brother from another planet
eventually sags of its own weight .
featuring director john sayles trademark humanity and an expressive performance from joe morton, the brother from another planet is an observant, dryly comic sci - fi gem .
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'' the brother from another planet,'' written, directed and edited by john sayles, is an extremely low - key comedy about the adventures of a black extraterrestrial - the'' brother'' of the title - come to earth to escape slavery on planet x .
the brother from another planet. 1984. usa. written and directed by john sayles. with joe morton, daryl edwards, david strathairn. 35mm preservation print from ucla film & television archive; courtesy of ifc films. 108 min .
the brother from another planet places writer / director john sayles’ commentary on race relations in the 1980s up to bat in this science - fiction flick that evidences the dangers of mixing classical themes with bad writing and half - baked ontology and sociology .
still john sayles' s most provocative work, the brother from another planet blends a stock satirical premise - - a look at the world through the eyes of an alien - - with a runaway slave narrative, rendering a loosely constructed but keenly observed allegory of race and class in america. the brother (joe morton) is an escaped slave from an unnamed planet who crash - lands... read more
the brother from another planet wasn’t diminished by age in the slightest, in fact the opposite, my admiration for it has grown. i highly recommend you catch it on u. s. netflix while it’s still available. i don’t think you’ll regret it .
however it is the end of the brother from another planet that holds sayles’ punchline to his sociocultural joke, his little tale of the damned. when the ‘brother’ finds ‘the man’ deemed responsible for the cocaine epidemic that ravaged harlem in the 1980s, ‘the man’ is scared, dismissive and naive. in encountering this lone, silent ‘brother’, who he openly disrespects and fears, he bargains; reinforcing a violent intent that has not been issued .
joe morton is marvelous as the brother, using only his face and gestures to communicate a variety of emotions. in the end, he must call upon fellow blacks in harlem to fend off slave dealers from his home planet. his new friends risk their lives helping him, even as he served them by getting rid of the heroin chief. the brother from another planet ends by affirming the triumph of conscience and community over death dealers of all stripes .
it is at these turns where the brother from another planet becomes irksome in its linear, romantic and ill - conceived interpretation of not the ills but the people of the community and then seeks to infect its audience with the very same ignorances all under the guise of satire and soft comedy .
in order to direct'' the brother from another planet,'' mr. sayles was forced to resign from the directors guild of america. the directors guild requires that any member working on a movie hire other guild members as assistant directors and production managers, something mr. sayles said he could not afford to do .
four months later, on may 15, 2009, the usda approved another grant: $ 24. 6 million for planet aid projects in malawi .
one of the many revelations in the brother from another planet is its presentation of how most people in the story are so wrapped up in themselves that they don' t really need the brother to talk to them at all. the most blatant narcissist is the wall street dope dealer (edward baran) whom the brother eventually confronts about the death of the boy in harlem. for the dealer, dealing in heroin is simply a means of coping with
some cash flow problems .
as for the trees supposedly planted with funding from the u. s. department of agriculture and funneled through planet aid, most had been there long before planet aid took credit for them .
brother from another planet
is not an important film or one that should even be sought out. but it' s clever, well - made, and well - written, and if you have the time to watch a good movie, you' ve got my recommendation .
a few years before the usda began funding planet aid, another branch of the u. s. government was raising alarms about this practice of siphoning off salaries .
two examples of the sci - fi slave' s silence come to mind. in planet of the apes (1968) the apes refuse to believe that humans they have captured can use language, the silence of the slave being one of their main rationalizations for keeping humans in slavery. in enemy mine (1985), alien being lou gosset, yet another
brother from another planet
who has also experienced slavery, cannot speak to the audience because of the barrier of his exotic language .
the film is about a
brother
who escapes slavery on another, more technologically advanced, planet and takes refuge in harlem with the active support of its black, latino and welfare white inhabitants. while the brother (who cannot speak but has miraculous and psychic powers) goes through a series of adventures and interactions with various people in harlem and the surrounding city, slave catchers, sent from his planet, track him, interrogate his friends and attempt to recapture him .
the brother from another planet charts the experiences of a mute alien slave on the run, played by joe morton (terminator 2). when the alien, referred to only as ‘brother’ crashes to earth in the new york borough of harlem in the form of an african - american, he seeks refuge while being tracked down by two intergalactic bounty hunters, played by sayles and good night, and good luck’s david strathairn .
the discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. yet many theologians are already open to the existence of extraterrestrials, argues the writer brandon ambrosino .
by the end of september 2012, the money was flowing again: the usda had signed another agreement with planet aid, allocating $ 21. 4 million for programs in mozambique .
the first invoice is from planet aid’s massachusetts headquarters, dated jan. 28, 2014. the invoice billed dapp’s malawi office for $ 4, 725. 40. the following day, jan. 29, there is another invoice from planet aid to dapp malawi. this one was for $ 32, 095. 75 and requested that checks be made payable to planet aid. the total of the two bills was $ 36, 821. 15 .
the brother from another planet, directed, written and edited by john sayles; director of photography, ernest dickerson; score by mason daring; produced by peggy rajski and maggie renzi; released by cinecom internatonal films. at embassy 72d street, at broadway. running time: 110 minutes. this film has no rating .
usda money was transferred from one teachers group charity to another, they said, in exchange for goods and services that may or may not have been provided .
kicking off with some unforgettably cheap spaceship interiors, the brother from another planet finds a nameless alien (human - looking in form, except for huge feet that look like a cross between mickey mouse and a chicken) crash landing between ellis island and the statue of liberty. standing in the then - neglected main hall of the ellis island immigrant processing facility the brother hears the murmurs of the generations of tired, poor huddled masses that also found entry way to a new world there .
. ” it gets worse. west is losing touch with black youth. “west can’t mention black kids, ” brother lott tells us from the grassy ‘hood at the university of virginia, “without disclosing his sense of distance from them. ”
police were last night also quizzing his brother ismail, 23, on suspicion of involvement in the bombing .
'' the brother from another planet'' is mr. sayles' s fourth movie. he followed'' the return of the secaucus seven'' with'' lianna,'' a $ 340, 000 movie about a lesbian, and'' baby, it' s you,'' a $ 3 million film about high school lovers from different social milieus who are parted by the inexorable demands of the class system .
the brother
( joe morton) is an alien and escaped slave on the run from his home planet. after he lands in new york city, he tries to adapt to life on the streets of harlem. although the brother is mute, he does have great abilities at fixing machines, and he gets a job. as the brother tries to blend in with his new culture, he finds an apartment and gradually makes friends. meanwhile, he is pursued by two agents from his home world who are intent on returning there with him .
it was not the first time croushorn had been alerted to troubling information about planet aid .
another $ 100, 000 is spent on a “dapp malawi membership fee. ” dapp malawi is a member of the federation. and $ 53, 131. 78 was transferred to a hong kong - registered trading company run out of the shanghai offices of simon lichtenberg, the brother of chief planet aid fundraiser marie lichtenberg .
salman and his brother ismail worshipped at didsbury mosque, where their father is a well - known figure .
while considering the range of possible manifestations of this concept, i will focus on two recent films, brother from another planet (1984) and the color purple (1985), which are important not only for their sedimentations of the slavery motif, but also because they are popular commercial productions that attempt to articulate black story lines acted by black casts for consumption by a general mass media audience .
the brother from another planet is a slyly endearing and moral story. it touches upon such diverse themes as extra - terrestrial life, narcissism, drugs, slavery, technology, conscience, and community. in the opening scene, a spaceship crashes and a black man (joe morton) struggles out of new york harbor onto ellis island. he possesses some psychic gifts; when he touches the walls in the famous entry hall, he can hear the voices of immigrants from years gone by .
mr. sayles described the theme of'' the brother from another planet'' as'' forcing people to look at racial and power relations they take for granted.'''' brother is an escaped slave from outer space who serves as a pair of eyes,'' he said. mr. sayles has spent his own money to make his film about a mute alien because'' it' s the only way i can get creative control.'''' i' m not somebody who' s good at compromising the movie,'' he added .
s it continues to pursue grants from the u. s. government, planet aid is outspoken about promoting its work in africa. its livelihood depends on it .
as it continues to pursue grants from the u. s. government, planet aid is outspoken about promoting its work in africa. its livelihood depends on it .
i remember catching john sayles' the brother from another planet back in the 80’s, and being thoroughly charmed by it’s silent, three toed, protagonist, it’s blacksplotation trappings, and rather obvious allusion to immigration and overtones of the christ story. when we stumbled across it on netflix the other night (my wife, who hadn’t seen it, made the suggestion), i was a bit worried about tarnishing a sweet memory .
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final thoughts: a personal favorite and a stand - out in sayles' impressive filmography, the brother from another planet has long deserved the treatment it gets here. this cheap dvd doesn' t overload on extra features but it does offer a quality commentary and, most importantly, a beautiful print of this important and unique film. hopefully this quiet, soulful movie can gain a new audience on dvd .
when the movies started to talk, they began to lose the open - eyed simplicity with which they saw the world .
the brother from another planet
tells the story of a man who cannot talk, but who can read minds, listen carefully, look deep into eyes, and provide a sort of mirror for our society. that makes it sound serious, but like all the most serious movies, it' s a comedy .
the brother is an alien who has crash - landed on earth, in new york city. while mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a black man with strange feet. his attempt to make a place for himself in harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the united states. meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the brother' s home planet arrive and try to capture him .
it would be easy to dismiss the brother from another planet as a tragic and ill - conceived b - movie or as a valiant fictionalised insight into race relations and identity in 1980s america. that would be a mistake, as sayles’ creation is near affirmation of edward said’s orientialism hypothesis, that ‘european culture gained in strength in setting itself off against the orient as a sort of surrogate and even underground self. ’
the usda’s foreign agricultural service allocates funds – with the mission to improve the lives of southern africans – to benefit its relief partner in the group, planet aid. records show that planet aid then uses a subcontractor, development aid from people to people in malawi, widely known as dapp .
still, the brother from another planet came together in a matter of months, while sayles regrouped after initial investments in matewan fell through. most helpful in realizing this goal was the macarthur grant  the so - called
genius
grant  that sayles received in 1982. the award of $ 33, 000 a year  tax - free  for five years was what enabled him to make as seemingly noncommercial a film this one .
a black extra - terrestrial, escaping from his galaxy, is pursued to earth by two bounty hunters, who track him down to harlem where he is accepted as just another black man in the street .
the brother is an alien who has crash - landed on earth, in new york city. while mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a black man with strange feet. his attempt to make a place for himself in harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the united states. meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the brother' s home planet arrive and try to capture him. written by reid gagle
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alonge did not give up. over the next three years, she continued to research planet aid and repeatedly sent documents and information to usda officials, among them the fbi report from 2001 .
mr. sayles works best in the quietly realistic, comic style of'' baby it' s you,'''' lianna'' and'' the return of the secaucus seven.'''' the brother from another planet,'' set in major part in harlem, means to be fantastic as well as funny and satiric, and from time to time, it is each of these things. mostly, though, it' s a nice, unsurprising shaggy - dog story that goes on far too long .
another set of spreadsheets that reveal obtained show quarterly transfers totaling nearly $ 2. 7 million from the teachers group charity dapp malawi to the zimbabwe humana federation, the teachers group’s headquarters in zimbabwe that charges fees as a subcontractor to dapp .
do you have experience with the teachers group or affiliated organizations such as planet aid? are you a current or former u. s. government employee who has come into contact with planet aid fundraising efforts ?
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the brother from another planet alludes to making many socio - political commentaries but then has chosen to perpetuate the same imagery so prevalent in media. it finds no place for insight into a harlem of homes, love, light, schools and families living out their lives, raising their children despite the scourge of crime and poverty around them. even in world - renowned, bad ol’ harlem the people living that life exist and did so before jamba juice and starbucks ever arrived .
because the film' s narrative unfolds outside the south (slavery and the south being displaced to
another planet
) the film focuses its attention on the trials and adventures of a
runaway
in the north, and his resistance to slavery and slave catchers. because few films articulate the perspective of the runaway slave facing an uncertain and problematic future in the north, brother broadens the filmic mediation of slavery into significant new political dimensions and narrative terrain .
'' lianna,'' which was released by ua classics, and'' secaucus seven'' earned about $ 2 million each, excellent results for low - budget, independent films. because approximately half of each movie' s ticket sales were at theaters in new york, maggie renzi, co - producer of'' the brother from another planet,'' is considering making a direct distribution deal with a manhattan theater owner for the new movie .
darsbo was listed as a 1998 director of planet aid and was a controlling officer of the humana federation. according to knud haargaard, the danish investigator, the federation provided about $ 500, 000 to fund the launch of planet aid in 1997 .
farmers who were promised help from planet aid say they have been shortchanged yet were told to put a happy face on their projects. interviews in africa show a planet aid subcontractor controlled by teachers group members would steer visiting auditors to potemkin village farms that looked prosperous but were merely for show .
cg: you financed brother yourself. how does it feel to make films without anybody looking over your shoulder giving you unwanted input ?
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the brother from another planet was partially filmed in hoboken, nj at
mister bigs super heroes
( a sandwich shop .) john sayles likes to film around there since it is near his home. i happened to be at mr. bigs, and asked around to see if i could be an extra. i waited around & they shot me in two scenes (i appear - for maybe 25 seconds - in the scene where the brother is repairing / souping up the video games for ace .) i forgot about it until i saw the movie 2 years later. of course, i think it is a good movie ...
js: yeah, and the statue of liberty is pretty impressive. you know, if you landed on another planet and there was a statue that big you' d be worried ,
oh my god, i hope the people aren' t that big !
while our gentle ‘brother’ (he has no other name) from another planet (which also has no other name) is completely endearing in his telepathic and empathetic way, and his one particularly remarkable gift, it’s the characters that populate 80’s harlem are the real stars of the show. each character completely realized, and darkly funny in their diatribes. the real scene stealers, though, are sayles himself and david strathairn as the mysterious and lizardry men in black, hot in pursuit of the brother. a worthy entry in the annals of mibdom, their awkwardly fluid movements, and attempts at linguistic intimidation in a language they obviously don’t fully comprehend is a special kind of funny .
after little earl takes off his band - aid, and the brother heals his knee, the band - aid reappears where his cut was. see more »
jackson mtimbuka, a former usda planet aid farmers program manager in southern malawi, left his job in 2009 after a dispute over expenses. like many others, he now is disillusioned with the usda program that funded planet aid .
victim mr atkinson, from radcliffe, was leaving the concert at the venue when it was targeted by the suicide bomber .
the upshot is that the more we’re able to peer into space, the more certain we become that our planet isn’t the only one suitable for life .
'' although the other two films did very well in new york for the distributor, we didn' t get any of the money,'' said miss renzi, who co - starred in'' return of the secaucus seven'' and who shares mr. sayles' s hoboken house. she plays a role in'' the brother from another planet,'' as does mr. sayles. the approximately 35 actors in the film, most of them unknown members of the screen actors guild, are the movie' s single biggest expense, she said .
ris alonge began looking closely at planet aid while helping her daughter with a homework assignment on charities. they had seen planet aid clothing donation boxes popping up in their hometown of lawrence, kansas. their curiosity was piqued .
kris alonge began looking closely at planet aid while helping her daughter with a homework assignment on charities. they had seen planet aid clothing donation boxes popping up in their hometown of lawrence, kansas. their curiosity was piqued .
“they will take people from the usda to africa, and when they visit, they will be taken around by people from the teachers group, ” she said. “and they will find nothing wrong. ”
' the joint terrorist analysis centre has concluded that the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical .
“when i came back, they said to submit all my papers and they would take it from there, ” she said of her bosses at planet aid. “none of them know anything about agriculture. none of them know anything from the field. they just need the materials, and they will cook it up. ”
the threat level for the uk from international terrorism is set by the joint terrorism analysis centre (jtac). mi5 is responsible for setting the threat levels from irish and other domestic terrorism both in northern ireland and in great britain .
nternal financial documents from the teachers group and sources who worked in key financial positions within charities associated with planet aid and dapp said the charities also did business in ways that are highly unusual. and they resemble the operation described by danish investigators .
internal financial documents from the teachers group and sources who worked in key financial positions within charities associated with planet aid and dapp said the charities also did business in ways that are highly unusual. and they resemble the operation described by danish investigators .
an intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished .
it wasn’t quite as romantic as when ilsa left rick alone on the tarmac in casablanca, but the parting of president trump from the paris climate accord prompted a fast and furious response from america’s major tech companies on twitter .
in another video from 2010, a narrator extols the group’s farmers’ clubs in malawi: “eight thousand farmers are now growing more than four different types of crops, ” she says. “two hundred forty farmers’ clubs have been established with 12, 000 members. ”
has gorgeous cinematography. yes, the movie is a character piece, but the camera takes in faces, places, and the bustle of the city with equal eye for the striking and the esthetically pleasing. the visual sense of the film is another of the subtle ways that sayles deals with
the race issue .
near the middle of the film, there' s a lovely vignette with the brother on a subway, and a white kid is showing him some card tricks. as the train makes its last stop before harlem, the kid tells the brother that the last trick will be to make all the white folks disappear. and so they do .
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: children witherin' away up here, brother, worshippin' the idol of capital, lustin' after the false salvation of here and now. black brother and sister perishin' up here, mon, waiting for scrap from oppressor table. oppressor got us for * house pet *; do him tricks to get reward. oppressor need a slave; him find it here. oppressor need a harlot; him find it here. oppressor don' t need here at all; him wipe it away from the map .
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as a film, it is not without its charm. joe morton and tom wright give plucky performances, but the brother from another planet is undeniably an insidious mess and not really worth your time unless you’re incredibly bored, have access to no other film, write for an awesome movie review blog (go on, subscribe! 🙂), or study the social sciences. if you do choose to make sayles’ flick indication of your aimless life or the subject of a critical analysis, why not start with the trailer, as it alone is sardonic and sickening proof of the pudding .
megan died in last night' s attack after watching singer ariana grande at the men arena, while her brother bradley was injured, a fundraising page has revealed .
the email outlined the links between petersen and a global network of charities that includes planet aid, and it highlighted allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud in a case brought by the danish government. it cited lichtenberg’s association with the teachers group, noting her parents joined when she and her brother, simon, were children. (the lichtenbergs’ household records from the 1980s, obtained by reveal, show the family’s finances were managed by petersen lieutenant poul jørgensen. )
one video on the charity’s youtube site features jackson mtimbuka, the former program manager in malawi. released in 2009, the video promotes planet aid’s partnership with the usda .
police also raided a house where abedi' s brother ismail, lived and the 23 - year - old was arrested outside a morrison' s in the chorlton area of manchester .
to this day, usda officials say they see nothing wrong with planet aid. reveal sent the foreign agricultural service a letter describing these investigative findings in detail and followed up with a list of detailed questions asking why the agency continued funding planet aid despite the warnings of possible fraud .
brother, then is an amalgam of displacements and sedimentations of slavery thematics figured into a unified allegory expressed in the
second cinema
style. and in a number of ways, brother goes beyond merely reversing the older hollywood hegemonic perspective on slavery as do the films of the
blacksploitation
70s, which tend to depict revolt, reversal and revenge in the relations between slave and master. brother is timely and politically relevant because its sedimented slavery motif is set in contemporary new york, thus connecting the oppression of the antebellum past with the contemporary inner - city ghetto .
internal planet aid files and former staff portray the clinton foundation as a linchpin of lichtenberg’s fundraising efforts with private and government donors. an oct. 25, 2012, fundraising “ master plan ” from planet aid documents cites the clintons’ nonprofit 20 times in as many pages, stating: “clinton global initiative will contribute by providing access to selected private partners and wealthy individuals. ”
“i know that marie; her brother, simon; and jonas lichtenberg, their father, as well as their mother – they have a great relationship with mogens amdi petersen. they have known each other maybe 40 years, ” he said. “where would marie get money to make this big operation work? it’s tvind money, from the teachers group account. that’s how planet aid started. ”
miss renzi said she would like the'' luxury'' of making a million - dollar movie with'' livable salaries,'' of not having'' to race all over new york in an insanely short four weeks with everybody catching cold.'' when'' the brother from another planet'' was shooting on 148th street, another independent movie, cannon' s $ 8 million'' ultimate solution of grace quigley,'' with katharine hepburn and nick nolte, was shooting on 151st street.'' they had winnebagos,'' she said enviously.'' our biggest truck was the size of a bread - delivery van.'' and she wondered,'' nineteen years from now, when i' m 50, will i still be able to enlist people for $ 250 a week?''
the agency’s internal report named five charities as part of petersen’s fraud network. they included humana people to people, development aid from people to people and planet aid – the trio that a few years later would become humanitarian partners with the u. s. government .
yet the usda continued to allocate humanitarian relief funds to planet aid – tens of millions of dollars’ worth. less than six months ago, the foreign agricultural service posted a web page announcing aid programs, including $ 31. 6 million allocated to planet aid for programs in mozambique .
harrison longwe in 2014 and 2015 was the financial controller of dapp malawi, the charity carrying out usda - funded programs for planet aid. he says he became suspicious of his employer’s financial activities after seeing unusual payments flowing from malawi relief projects to accounts outside the country .
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ms brewster died as a result of injuries suffered when she' shielded' her young niece from the deadly blast .
but also, the film presents the audience with a complex, double message on black solidarity. in the main, the film definitely speaks of pan african unity and struggle against oppression, as signified in the name the protagonist is given
brother ,
and the support of the blacks who so eagerly take him in. however, brother is also different from the earthlings who shelter him. the eradication of his voice denies him the solidarity and identification of learning or communicating in the afro - american or west indian idiom. brother' s psychic powers and feet with three toes, as well as his talent for fixing electrical appliances are interesting expressions of the science fiction genre, but they also symbolize the
human capital
that allows him to succeed as a model minority .
armed officers guard a second property raided by the police today in carlton road, manchester. police were last night also quizzing his brother ismail, 23, on suspicion of involvement in the bombing
“unless sufficient evidence of fraud or criminal activity is produced, ” he wrote, “the (office of inspector general) won’t make a referral to another agency regarding initiating an investigation. ”
the brother gathers a number of friends around him on his picaresque journey through harlem. some of these are stereotypes, like the men in the bar - - smokey, the man who drinks too much, for example. he also encounters a singer, with whom he falls in love. she is in the middle of a struggle with her manager, or some such scum, and the brother' s sensitivity is very appealing to her. she hardly knows anything about him, another part of the commentary of the film. it might not be a long term relationship, but she is attracted to him because of his apparent willingness to listen (and do so all the time). the brother does not seem to mind the inequality either, the joke being that the man who doesn' t say anything is the right kind of man .
' we again discussed the callous and cowardly terrorist attack in manchester last night and the operational response from the security service, the police and other emergency services .
reveal visited the farms in malawi because, in march 2015, planet aid had reported to the usda that those programs had produced dramatic long - term improvements .
on christmas eve 2008, alonge’s phone rang. it was ron croushorn, a senior usda official. she recalls him telling her that the usda was “very interested in learning anything i could tell them about planet aid. ” on dec. 26 and 27, she sent croushorn at least 11 emails with multiple attachments about planet aid and teachers group operations, including documents from the danish criminal case .
we all live on a small planet and every nation needs to work with others to protect it. we’ve been a steadfast supporter of the paris agreement, from encouraging nations to come to an agreement in 2015 to urging the u. s. to ratify the agreement in 2016. ”
documents supplied by planet aid to the usda list chiradzulu as one of six malawi districts targeted for aid. in its 2015 report to the agency, planet aid said it installed 576 water pumps throughout malawi. mtimbuka, the farmers’ club manager, said he had thought 25 of those pumps were targeted for njuli .
another character in the 2010 video was njuli’s village chief, identified as chief mfunu mbwana. “my wife and i grew tomatoes and raised about $ 1, 000, ” he boasts on camera .
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welcome to a world of crude beauty... of danger and excitement... of wonders, legend, and imagination... welcome to harlem, brother .
two women support each other as they walk away from the concert venue. the pink balloon being carried is a reminder of the huge number of children who attended the performance
certain early lessons that the brother learns (about money, about violence) are a bit simplistic and blatantly symbolic, but that' s the level he' s at. the more time he spends in harlem the more complex his world gets. by the time a well - meaning white rookie cop tries to chat him up the brother' s world - view has been sufficiently affected by his surroundings that can only shrug him off .
one question – about whether the u. s. would continue to support planet aid – was answered toward the end of last year, when the usda announced on its website that it had allocated a new grant: $ 31. 6 million to help planet aid support education, child development and hunger reduction in mozambique .
“a lot of the money comes from external foundations, ” he said. “the profit in the related companies would in the end go to the teachers group and not to the project in malawi. ”
harrison longwe in 2014 and 2015 was the financial controller of dapp malawi, the charity carrying out usda - funded programs for planet aid. he says he became suspicious of his employer’s financial activities after seeing unusual payments flowing from malawi relief projects to accounts outside the country. credit: eldson chagara for reveal
is therefore subversive and radical, but it' s yet another way that film pleased me, with its insistence of story and substance over gloss and big buildings blowing up. and despite the low budget ,
in may 2011, ahmed was hired in maryland by planet aid as the manager of strategic partnerships, agriculture and food security, according to her online résumé. soon afterward, she was sent to africa on a monthlong fact - finding tour of planet aid’s usda - funded projects in mozambique and malawi .
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mr hall said abedi lived in a housing association owned home about two miles from the scene of monday night' s terror attack .
“am departing presidential councils. climate change is real. leaving paris is not good for america or the world, ” tesla and spacex founder elon musk tweeted. disney ceo bob iger quickly followed: “as a matter of principle, i’ve resigned from the president’s council over the # parisagreement withdrawal. ” a more detailed statement followed shortly: “protecting our planet and driving economic growth are critical to our future, and they aren’t mutually exclusive. i deeply disagree with the decision to withdraw from the paris agreement and, as a matter of principle, i’ve resigned from the president’s advisory council. ”
this plan – that is definitely from the level of amdi (petersen) – (was) to generate more income to the teachers group. ”
' it has now concluded, on the basis of today' s investigations, that the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical .
in an economically devastated alaskan town, a fisherman with a troublesome past dates a woman whose young daughter does not approve of him. when he witnesses the murder of his shady brother, he, the woman and the kid run to the wilderness .
in denmark, ongoing support for planet aid and its linked organization, humana people to people, is baffling to officials involved in the government investigation of the teachers group and petersen .
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it took more digging to find out that last april, the usda’s brian dutoi traveled from washington to malawi to check on the dapp projects planet aid had funded six years earlier. at the time of his visit, dutoi had been employed by the usda for nine months after serving as an intern at the u. s. embassy in nairobi .
cg: but i think the brother senses the magnitude of what he' s looking at. i mean, he hears the voices of all the past immigrants at ellis island. on some level he understands that it' s a place of importance .
certainly one of the brother' s most peculiar experiences is with several white, middle - class men from indiana who get lost in harlem while on their way to a
self - actualization
conference. in the bar, they blab to the bemused alien, ending their monologue with the quip :
communication, that' s what it' s all about !
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in a 1966 new jersey high school, jill and new student sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance .
in a statement, lichtenberg’s pr spokesman, andrew rice, wrote: “planet aid has a long and successful track record managing u. s. government projects in africa. government agencies continue contracting with planet aid precisely because they have seen the positive results in the field, and they have conducted extensive financial reviews of these programs. ”
marie lichtenberg is a fundraiser for two africa - focused charities, planet aid and humana people to people, and has been the main contact between the charities and the u. s. department of agriculture. she also has close ties to mogens amdi petersen, an international fugitive from denmark wanted for embezzlement and tax evasion .
lichtenberg’s strategy involves presenting herself to african leaders as a longtime partner of the u. s. government. the resulting african alliances then become leverage to push for more u. s. funds, allowing her to pitch herself as the person with a finger on the pulse of african political leaders, according to internal memos from planet aid .
“we hired local planes to transport the local currency every week, ” she said of her time in angola. “i had to organize transport for local currency in two, three suitcases from huambo to luanda, from the airport to the exchange house, to transfer local currency to hard currency. ”
writer - director john sayles plays with gentle irony on conventions of the american slave narrative in chronicling the adventures of “the brother, ” a mute alien who comes to harlem by way of ellis island (and outer space). the brother’s seriocomic encounters with barflies and junkies, racist cops and street preachers—as well as ordinary folks just trying to get by—offer a timeless tale of two cities, segregated as always by race and class yet pulsating with immigrant life .
edward monster, the u. s. embassy spokesman in malawi’s capital, referred questions about planet aid to kate snipes with the usda office in nairobi, kenya, over 1, 000 miles away. snipes, in turn, said the usda has no monitoring and evaluation staff in malawi. she said it is washington’s responsibility to monitor planet aid projects there .
records show that $ 100, 000 was taken from total control of the epidemic, an anti - aids program in africa also run by the teachers group .
ms brewster, an office worker from sheffield, was said to have shielded her niece, hollie, 11, when the bomb went off .
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eighteen months later, the usda’s foreign agricultural service received an email from a u. s. freight agent working with the usda, warning about a court case in denmark against petersen and his associates. the subject line in the email chain, shared with multiple officials within the foreign agricultural service, contained a clear warning: “troubling news – planet aid – usda. ”
the film' s closure builds when the slave catchers trap brother at odell' s bar, and the black patrons are able to resist long enough to allow brother to make his break. later, he is apprehended but manages to escape down an alley with slave catchers in pursuit. here brother encounters the underground of runaways, and they make a stand, surrounding the slave catchers. shocked into immobility by the sight of dozens of ex - slaves gathered in collective resistance, the slave catchers pause in bewildered contemplation of their situation and then self - destruct by vaporizing themselves. this resolution clearly privileges the value of collective organization and resistance to oppression and has an allusive validity to the collective resistance of afro - americans, abolitionists and others to historical slavery .
amid the craggy rolling hills of chiradzulu district in southern malawi lies one such planet aid “demonstration plot, ” where the u. s. - based nonprofit promised villagers would learn advanced farming techniques .
in 2012, malwaian vice president khumbo kachali (right) cuts a ribbon during the opening ceremony for a dapp teachers training college in malawi. standing alongside him are longtime teachers group member marie lichtenberg (second from left) and kate snipes (third from left) of the usda office in kenya .
junge said that when she belonged to the teachers group in the early ’90s, the group was piling up so much money from used clothing and donations that cash became difficult to transport .
the prime minister is understood to be reviewing a wider intelligence assessment from officers at the joint terrorist analysis cell, before making any decision on the deployment of armed soldiers on mainland britain .
an alien in the guise of a mute african - american man lands in harlem and tries to fit into the neighborhood, but also discovers how difficult people of his color have it on this planet .
a year and a half later, planet aid posted a celebratory video featuring a usda official. it’s croushorn, with a trim salt - and - pepper beard in blue shirtsleeves, surrounded by noisy mozambican children happily eating. he praises planet aid as a trusted partner who “makes sure u. s. resources are used well. ”
marie lichtenberg is a fundraiser for two africa - focused charities, planet aid and humana people to people, and has been the main contact between the charities and the u. s. department of agriculture. she also has close ties to mogens amdi petersen, an international fugitive from denmark wanted for embezzlement and tax evasion. credit: matt smith / reveal
that case implicated the teachers group in fraud, but it did not stop the usda’s foreign agricultural service from funding total control of the epidemic programs. records show a 2004 usda grant, which involved the allocation of $ 8. 5 million to planet aid, includes money to “educate 200, 000 people in hiv / aids - affected communities about the disease and prevention methods” using total control of the epidemic .
for more than a decade, the u. s. government has been warned repeatedly about planet aid and its ties to petersen; again and again, those warnings have been overlooked .
1. ed guerrero ,
from birth to mandingo: hollywood' s inscription of slavery 1915 to 1975 ,
ethnic studies occasional papers series, 1: 1 (s. f. state university, fall 1986). here, i discuss the overt inscription of slavery as divided into three phases: 1. the hegemonic phase running from 1915 to ww ii and exemplified by birth of a nation (1915), 2. the revised phase running from ww ii to the 60s and exemplified by the foxes of harrow (1947), and 3. the reversed phase running from the late 60s to the early 80s and exemplified by mandingo (1975). the present article continues this discussion.
the brother from another planet is a 1984 science fiction film written , directed and edited by john sayles . it stars joe morton as " the brother " , an alien and escaped slave who , while fleeing " another planet " , has crash-landed and hides in harlem . it has been also described as a film in the afrofuturism genre . 
the brother from another planet is a 1984 science fiction film written, directed and edited by john sayles. it stars joe morton as " the brother ", an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing " another planet ", has crash-landed and hides in harlem. it has been also described as a film in the afrofuturism genre.
the brother from another planet is a 1984 science fiction film written, directed and edited by john sayles. it stars joe morton as " the brother ", an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing " another planet ", has crash-landed and hides in harlem. it has been also described as a film in the afrofuturism genre.