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</td><td align="left" VALIGN="top" width=350><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Town Beat</b></font><br><br>

<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Election News: Ethiopia</b></font><br><font face="Arial" size="1">May 2005 marked a historic

turning point in Ethiopian politics as

newsgroups reported twenty-six million

Ethiopians registered to vote in the May

15th election. The BBC announced a large

and successful turnout with preliminary

results reporting a gain of approximately

200 seats for the opposition coalition – a

signiﬁcant increase from their previous 12

seats in parliament, and the ruling party

claiming 320 seats in the 547-member

parliament. Less than a month after the

voter turnout, and prior to the release of

ﬁnal counts, the relatively peaceful election

process was marred by violence as

BBC reported at least 22 civilians were

shot dead by police and scores injured

on June 8, 2005. The violent crackdown

was followed by a city wide taxi strike and

closure of business offices as more than

3000 were arrested including students,

civilians, and human rights workers. The

clashes ignited demonstrations in various

cities worldwide with some of the largest

rallies held in Washington D.C., San Jose,

London, Berlin, and Brussels. On June

9th Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ),

Chairman of the House Subcommittee on

Africa, Global Human Rights and International

Operations, called on Ethiopian

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to call off

security forces, and BBC’s June 14th news

report included a statement by U.S. State

Department spokesman Sean McCormack

urging the government to “respect

the rule of law, international principles of

human rights, and due process with regard

to those arrested or detained.” An EU-brokered

agreement has been signed by both

the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary

Democratic Front (EPRDF) and the

two main opposition coalitions, and both

sides have been urged to cooperate as the

National Election Board continues to

investigate allegations of election fraud.</font><br><br>


<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Soccer at Georgia Dome</b></font><br>

<font face="Arial" size="1"> This year’s Annual North American

Ethiopian Soccer Tournament will

be held from Sunday, July 3rd to Saturday

July 9th. “The tremendous success 

we experienced in Seattle, WA have

aided us in securing the Georgia Dome

stadium as our event venue,” says Zecharias

Getachew, ESFNA Public Officer.

“Those who celebrated with us in Seattle,

are in for an even more festive atmosphere

with the legendary Haile Gebresellassie

being our special guest of honor.”

More information can be found at the

organization’s website: <a href="http://www.esfna.org" target="_new">www.esfna.org</a>. </font>


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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Ababa Tesfaye Storytelling Awards</b></font><br>

<font face="Arial" size="1">

Ethiopian Books for Children

and Educational Foundation (EBCEF),

a non-proﬁt organization based in California,

recently announced the creation

of the Ababa Tesfaye Storytelling Award.

“Ababa Tesfaye will be honored with the

presentation of a certiﬁcate and a small

monetary award recognizing his great talent

and contribution to the storytelling

tradition in Ethiopia,” said a statement

sent to TADIAS. Ababa Tesfaye has entertained,

educated, and amused Ethiopian

children with his stories for the last

forty years. This year the Ababa Tesfaye

Storytelling Award is sponsored by Dr.

Asqual Getaneh (a regular contributor to the Health Section of Tadias Magazine)

in honor of her father Ato Getaneh

Kebede. Dr. Asqual is an Ethiopian medical

doctor who resides in New York, and a

staunch supporter of the work of EBCEF.</font><br><br>


<font face="Arial" size="2"><b>NEC Summer School Workshops

</b></font><br>

<font face="Arial" size="1">The New England Conservatory

is offering a special program at the

Memory and Society Institute entitled

“Ethiopian Theaters of Memory.” Workshops

in the program include sessions

with Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, Tsegaye

Gabre-Medhin, and Cornell Professor

Ayele Bekerie. The workshop focuses

on internal and external representations

of Ethiopian culture and civilization as

well as on ethnomusicology, authenticity

and paradox between the “traditional

and modern,” identity, and memory.</font><br><br>


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