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Maurice Carney on Change is Now-One Filmmaker's POV

Join us when we host courageous conversation with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of the Friends of Congo will join us on Change is Now-One Filmmaker's POV www.blogtalkradio.com/djdannak at 9am PST

Maurice Carney is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the Congo. He is an independent entrepreneur and human rights activist who has fought with Congolese for fifteen years in their struggle for human dignity and control of their country.

He has worked as a research analyst at the nation's leading Black think tank the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. While at the Joint Center, Mr. Carney worked with civic associations in West Africa providing training on research methodology and survey. He served as the interim Africa working group coordinator for Reverend Jesse Jackson while he was Special Envoy to Africa. Mr. Carney also worked as a research consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation addressing issues such as the socio-politcal condition of African American communities.

In short we are talking about Congo...what I believe is the most important topic of our time and a place that is my home...though I've never visited...

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