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<p>Liebe FoME Kolleg_innen, <br>
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<p>an diesem Donnerstag, den 09.05., sowie am Montag, den 10.06.
laden wir zu zwei kleine Veranstaltungen mit Teilnehmer_innen aus
unserem #defyhatenow Projekt in Kamerun. Der Friendensaktivist
Nduku Louis Tebi, und Africa Fact-checking Fellow (AFFC) Mbuh
Stella, beide aus Bamenda, aus dem kamerunsche Krisenregion des
Nordwestens werden fuer einige Tage um den Termine in Berlin sein.
<br>
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<p>Weil es ja einen Feiertag am Donnerstag ist (Nduku reist schon am
Freitag ab) laden wir nach dem Gespraech zu einem Grill bei uns im
r0g_buero Garten ein. <br>
</p>
<p>Falls Sie kommen koennen, zu ein oder beide Veranstaltungen,
bitte ein kurzes Mail an <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@openculture.agency">info@openculture.agency</a> schicken.</p>
<p>Beste Gruesse, <br>
</p>
<p>Stephen Kovats<br>
</p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><u><span
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">r0g_agency welcomes two special guests, both award winning activist peacebuilders fighting disinformation, youth extremism and online incitement to violence in Cameroon’s conflict-ridden North West Region. Bamenda, once known as Cameroon’s ‘City of the Future’ is the country’s third largest urban area, crippled for close to a decade by a vicious separatist insurgency.
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Please join us in </span><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, a two-part #defyhatenow series featuring youth leader Nduku Louis Tebi and journalist Mbuh Stella. The events will be moderated by Decolonialism Policy Advisor, Valerie Viban, at r0g_agency’s OPEN CULTURE OFFICE in Berlin-Charlottenburg. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Part 1 - </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thursday May 9th, 2024, 6pm: </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Navigating Bamenda with Nduku Louis Tebi</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nduku Louis Tebi, youth leader and community mobilizer</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nduku Louis Tebi, 2024 recipient of the Young Global Changers Recoupling Award, works on rehabilitation and skills training with former youth combatants in Bamenda, Cameroon. A victim of the brutal conflict in Cameroon’s North West region himself, Nduku is currently a PhD Political Sciences candidate and founder of XHUMA Africa, a non-profit organisation working to change the narrative of political and climate induced war, hunger and drought that fuels poverty and the fight over limited resources in his region. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Part 2 - </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Monday, June 10th, 2024, 6pm: </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Navigating Bamenda with Mbuh Stella</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mbuh Stella, conflict journalist and fact checker</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 27pt 0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#313637;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mbuh Stella is an award winning freelance journalist based in Bamenda, in the North West Region of Cameroon where she supports the #defyhatenow initiative through fact-checking, promoting conflict sensitive reporting and producing content for a range of Cameroonian TV stations. Passionate about putting a stop to hate speech and disinformation,Stella is a Cohort 2 Fellow of the African Fact Checking Fellowship Cameroon (#AFFC).</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 27pt 0pt;"><span
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</span><a href="mailto:info@openculture.agency"
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style="line-height:1.38;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:27pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#313637;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The #defyhatenow initiative to counter social media hate speech and online incitement to violence in Cameroon is funded by means of the German Federal Foreign Office.
RSVP via <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@openculture.agency">info@openculture.agency</a>
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