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1.	Media, black out members of parliament
	Author: Betty Caplan	Date Written: 5 January 2009
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Sukuma Kenya
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: Kenya, media bill, black out, MPs,
	Summary & Comment: The author calls for a media black out of MPs and asks them to learn a lesson from "what the humble school teacher suffers year after year". DN
2.	Bunge la Mwananchi wish list for 2009
	Author: George Nyongesa	Date Written: 30 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL:
	Key Words: Kenya, Bunge la Mwananchi,
	Summary & Comment: In 2009 Bunge la Mwananchi urges Kenyans to keep up their growing awareness of their rights and freedoms, continue to resist social injustices, and demand responsive, accountable, people-sensitive leadership. DN
3.	Twenty Bunge la Mwananchi members arrested
	Author: George Nyongesa	Date Written: 29 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.bulamwa.co.ke
	Key Words: Kenya, Bunge la Mwananchi, arrest,
	Summary & Comment: Ever since Jamhuri Day, there has been a contingent of armed policemen in a lorry parked in the heart of Jeevanjee Gardens. These uniformed and under cover policemen have had the park and its occupants under strict surveillance. They have arrested anyone suspected of being a member of Bunge la Mwananchi, a social movement that is a member of the K . . . [expand]
4.	Mwananchi letter to former activists now legislators
	Author: Mwananchi	Date Written: 28 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.bulamwa.co.ke
	Key Words: Mwananchi, activists, legislators,
	Summary & Comment: Here in an open letter from the Mwananchi movement that is addressed to former activists and civil society leaders who are now in the legislature is a challenge and a call for quick, responsive, and appropriate action to ensure accountable leadership at all levels. DN
5.	Party shenanigans - not yet democracy!
	Author: Charles Lumi, Oby	Date Written: 24 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Mabidiliko Kenya , via Sukuma Kenya
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: African Culture	Source URL: http://badilishakenya.blogspot.com/
	Key Words: Kenya, party politics, ethnicity, economic control, popular particpation
	Summary & Comment: Opinions on this blog (Mibidiliko Kenya: Building A New And Just Kenya) by Charles Lumi with a response by `Oby’. Political parties (ethnic coalitions) are still dominated by ethnicity factors (even if one sees beyond ethnic factors) because resources get distributed by political parties directly and indirectly; so one’s income can depend on it. Ob . . . [expand]
6.	Mzalendo - The Patriot - an eye on Kenya’s Parliament
	Author: Mzalendo	Date Written: 20 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: www.mzalendo.com - a Blog
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.mzalendo.com
	Key Words: Kenya, Parliament, blog, watchdog, MP’s, taxes
	Summary & Comment: Mzalendo is a volunteer run project whose mission is to “keep an eye on the Kenyan Parliament.” Currently it has a list of MP’s who have started to pay taxes, of those who have agreed but not started, and of those who oppose. Readers are given MP’s phone numbers and urged to lobby their MP’s. For the action see Arrested for wearing a tshirt! http . . . [expand]
7.	Can we? No, we can’t! - Bunge la Mwananchi year end press statement
	Author: George Nyongesa	Date Written: 19 December 2008
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi - Peoples’ movement
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Kenya, protest, MP’s, flour, prices, taxes
	Summary & Comment: "We have convened as Bunge la Mwananchi leaders to reflect on the past one year of creating awareness on governance issues and generating effective demand for responsive, responsible and accountable leadership in Kenya at all levels." Many public forums were held in Nairobi townships and other cities -Kisumu, Siaya, Eldoret, Nakuru, Naiv . . . [expand]