Di Philadelphia ad tili tmeɣra n Yennayer as wis-sin seg Yennayer (14 Yennayer Amasiḥ). Tameɣra agi ad t-id-theggi tiddukla "Agraw n Imaziɣen n Marikan". Walit afaylu d-yersen swadda.

The Amazigh New Year for 2962 will be celebrated in Philadelphia by the "Berber American Community" association. Please see the flier below. 

An article by Ann Marlowe, published in the World Affairs Journal

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/ann-marlowe/will-us-respond-amazigh-rights-libya

As part of the political and social dynamics faced by Morocco in the same way as the people who rise against tyranny, exclusion and contempt for human dignity, and in response to developments within these dynamics at the national level, the Amazigh coordination, associations and personalities of Central Morocco met in Meknes on June 12, 2011 at the headquarters of the Tafilalet Meknes Region. After reviewing the situation, they publicly declare the following:

1 – Their rejection of any constitution that does not recognize the Amazigh identity of Morocco, an identity that is open to all cultural contributions, which does not assert in its preamble and in a separate article that the Amazigh language is an official language without conditioning its integration in all areas of public life by the passage of an organizational or operational legislation;
2-Their attachment to the promulgation of a democratic constitution that is derived from the people, and that consecrates the separation of powers and guarantees human rights;
3 – Their demand that "azref" (Amazigh Law) be considered one of the sources of national law;
4-Their condemnation of the campaign waged against the Amazigh identity of Morocco by pseudo parties and intellectuals who grew up in the lap of Arab Baathist and Nasserite nationalism;
5-Their preference for a federal system based on the principle of sociocultural and economic complementarity
6-Their request for the repeal of all laws inherited from colonialism and the enactment of national legislation guaranteeing the entitled the right to recover their plundered lands and natural resources;
7 – Their insistence that all prisoners of the Amazigh cause be released with Hamid Aâdouch and Mostapha Oussaya at the head of the list;
8-Their demand that the security services take responsibility for the safety of students in the universities against attacks from groups with no connection to University life;

The Signers:
La Coordination Amyafa des associations du Centre du Maroc 
L’Organisation de la Jeunesse Amazighe 
Option Amazighe 
APMM Morocco Section
L’Association  feminine Tifsa pour la culture et le développement 
L’Association Izrouran 
L’Association Tamunt Tazuta 
L’Association Aman Fès 
L’Association Amghar Khénifra 
L’Association Izriran Midelt
L’Association Tawada 
L’Association Afrough Sidi Elmakhfi 
L’Association  Tamunt Ait Ali Boulmane 
L’Association Tanchri Sefrou 
L’Association  Tamazight Khénifra 
L’Association  Tawada Sefrou 
L’Association Al amal  Timhdit 
L’Association  Tifsa  Méknès 
L’Association    Amjjam  Méknès 
L’Association    Amnay Ain Leuh 
 L’Association   Azriman  Taza 
L’Association    Amnayn  Midelt 
L’Association    Tawnza  Tunfit
L’Association   Amnay  Ifrane 
L’Association   Mounazzeh  Midelt
L’Association   Tizi Ifris
L’Association    Dadess Tinghir 
Amazigh personnalities

Sofiane Bellali is a young Kabyl director who is interested in making action films. RAPT (Kidnapping) is his first of the kind and tells the story of the kidnapping of the son of a wealthy Kabyl. It is not at all surprising that the first Kabyl action film is about kidnapping because the region has recently fallen victim to this sort of crime, unfortunately. Just in the last month two separate such incidents happened: a seventy year old man was kidnapped in Amechras and recently released (without rasom), but another a much younger person named Mourad Bilek, the son of operator of the French car maker Renault dealership in Algeria. The latter has not yet been released.

Sofiane is a very young and energetic video aficionado from Bughni (near Tizi-Wezzu) who put together a team of young actors and video producers who just went ahead and di something they liked. They did not come out of a prestegious film school or anything like that, they simply had a passion. Most of the team members are from the Bughni area. The film RAPT was shown at a film festival in Tunis this year but has not yet been released publicly.

Sofiane and his team of video producers and actors should be encouraged to push even further and bring Kabyl and Amazigh cinema in general in to this unchartered territory and give Amazigh art and artists a chance to develop and excel for the benefit of Imazighen and all humanity.

After many years of Zineddine Zidane who has done very little for the cause of his fellow Imazighen, Ibrahim Afellay who plays for the Netherlands national team and the prestegious FC Bracelona team had the courage to wear his true colors, the colors of all Imazighen. Thank you Afellay. Our best wishes for continued success. Long live Imazighen!

For more information on Ibrahim Afellay click on this Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Afellay

ACAA has upgraded its website to provide more features. Some of these features include a cutomized footer, large file uploads, embedding of documents, and last but not least the addition of video and audio streaming.

Immediately, as a result of this, all old copies of Amazigh Voice will be uploaded. You can already see the Volume 7 N0. 3 issue that appeared in 1998. Others will be uploaded in the coming days and weeks.

If you have a suggestion, a document, an article, a piece of audio or video of interest, please send it to us and we will shapre it with the rest of our readers.

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We, Amazigh (Berber) organizations and associations which work for the protection of human rights in general and for Imazighen's (Berbers) cultural and linguistic rights in particular, are seriously preoccupied by mind-blowing rise of violence and terror of which Libyans keep being the victims. We are outraged by the international community's inertia in front of the tragic situation endured by the Libyan people. A tyrant from a bygone age is turning this country into a butcher's shop, using military weapons against people willing to get rid of a despotic and tyrannical regime which deprives them of any form of freedom.

We call for the international community to take its responsibilities and act to limit the damage and put an end to the group massacres the Gadaffi regime is perpetrating against Libyan populations. An intervention is needed to protect civilians from the army of a regime which threatens them with extermination.

Therefore, a no-fly zone is the least that could be done in the quickest possible manner to prevent Gadaffi's planes from attacking helpless populations.

Nearly a month after the start of the horrors Gadaffi's regime is imposing on the Libyan people, the United Nations Security Council must stop beating around the bush and eventually decide to perform their duty, which is to protect civilians calling for help from the terror and barbarity of a man decided to cling to power whatever its price.

Unless an emergency reaction happens very soon, History will remember that Libyan people were left defenseless to face the cruelty of a tyrant and the world ignored their numerous calls for help. 

March the 15, 2011.

Signatory associations and organizations:

- AFAFA – Roubaix

- Amyaway Imazighen – Rabat

- Association Mohamed Elkamel des Bidonvilles - Tiddas (Khemissat)

- AZETTA – Rabat

- Internationale Touarègue – Bordeaux

- Libyan Working Group - Amsterdam

- OADL - Rabat

- Tamazgha – Paris

- Tamunt n Imazighen n Libya – London

- Tilelli - Goulmima

- ZARI - Marseille

We, Amazigh (Berber) organizations and associations which work for the protection of human rights in general and for Imazighen's (Berbers) cultural and linguistic rights in particular, are seriously preoccupied by mind-blowing rise of violence and terror of which Libyans keep being the victims. We are outraged by the international community's inertia in front of the tragic situation endured by the Libyan people. A tyrant from a bygone age is turning this country into a butcher's shop, using military weapons against people willing to get rid of a despotic and tyrannical regime which deprives them of any form of freedom.

We call for the international community to take its responsibilities and act to limit the damage and put an end to the group massacres the Gadaffi regime is perpetrating against Libyan populations. An intervention is needed to protect civilians from the army of a regime which threatens them with extermination.

Therefore, a no-fly zone is the least that could be done in the quickest possible manner to prevent Gadaffi's planes from attacking helpless populations.

Nearly a month after the start of the horrors Gadaffi's regime is imposing on the Libyan people, the United Nations Security Council must stop beating around the bush and eventually decide to perform their duty, which is to protect civilians calling for help from the terror and barbarity of a man decided to cling to power whatever its price.

Unless an emergency reaction happens very soon, History will remember that Libyan people were left defenseless to face the cruelty of a tyrant and the world ignored their numerous calls for help. 

March the 15, 2011.

Signatory associations and organizations:

- AFAFA – Roubaix

- Amyaway Imazighen – Rabat

- Association Mohamed Elkamel des Bidonvilles - Tiddas (Khemissat)

- AZETTA – Rabat

- Internationale Touarègue – Bordeaux

- Libyan Working Group - Amsterdam

- OADL - Rabat

- Tamazgha – Paris

- Tamunt n Imazighen n Libya – London

- Tilelli - Goulmima

- ZARI - Marseille