Hello everybody welcome back to Rev Left Radio. Today we have a very important

episode on today that we really wanted to to share with people and it's an issue that has been

going on for quite some time doesn't get as much coverage as it should and that is

the issue of what's going on in the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,

specifically in the Eastern Congo, around the COBOLBOLT mines and other natural

resources and mineral mines, the role that U.S. imperialism plays with the

comprador regimes in Rwanda and Uganda and how they work together to

destabilize and brutalize the Congolese people and the Congo in general.

This is a really important conversation and I really hope people listen to it.

We have two wonderful guests from the organization, Friends of the Congo. We have Maurice from that

organization and we also have Passy who has actually grew up and is in as we

speak to him in this interview is in Kinshasa the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

So we get pass these sort of on the ground organizer perspective of the issue.

And we get Marisa's deep knowledge of the history of the area and the role that

U.S. imperialism and Western neo-colonialism plays and so throughout this

conversation it's just a really wonderful patchwork of

perspectives that help us understand what's going on and importantly the most

important thing is of course how we can help and at the very end I asked that

question they both answer it but one of the

main answers is going to free Congo.org there you can donate money to the cause to

help the people who are being brutalized by these rebel groups by M23 etc.

You can sign a petition that they ask you to sign and you can even connect and join up

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