If these Uighurs were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world's poor and oppressed would have held "Free Xinxiang" concerts already.
Innocent civilians are being murdered daily because of ethnic, religious or political affiliation and killings are being directed by the leaders, or they are in some way complacent to the murders.
Abeche isn't all bad, says Lauren: "I love that I don't have stand in the grocery store line and stare at the Enquirer and read those terrible, pointless headlines. It's liberating: No cell phone contracts, cable TV, car insurance."
Former Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, criticizing Obama's approach to Sudan, is akin to Rumsfeld coming out of retirement complaining that the administration is handling Iraq poorly.
Darfuris, who named babies after Obama and waited hopefully for him to take office, feel understandably abandoned.
Where is the massive outrage, the worldwide focus, the grainy images, the Twitter-mania, the color-coded avatars? Where is the urgency to alleviate hunger and protect women's rights?
Hundreds of people have joined Mia Farrow in the fast to stand in solidarity with the people of Darfur. My friend passed the baton to me, so here I am. Fasting.
My father expressed the hope that my daughter would not have to go through as terrible times as he. Unfortunately the world continues its crazy ways.
Americans come across as know-it-alls, believing we have the solutions to everybody else's problems and turning a blind eye to issues, like poverty and racism, in our own country.
Reducing displacement in Muslim countries and elsewhere is an important step toward creating a more peaceful, prosperous and stable world. The benefits will reach far beyond the Islamic world.
Many were women with wanted pregnancies who learned that their baby had no brain, or kidneys growing on the outside of their bodies.
Climate change has been called "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." The clean energy bill that is moving through the House right now is just what the doctor ordered.
Darfur is lost in the wilderness of the law behind genocide. Whoever emerges the strongest will dictate, for the books, what happened in the region.
Saviors and Survivors argues against those who substitute moral certainty for knowledge, and who feel virtuous even when acting on the basis of total ignorance.
This week sees the release of Waxploitation Presents Causes 2, the second album in our ongoing Darfur benefit series.
The online auction will raise funds supporting the RFK Center's vital work around the globe.
Nameless trends, faceless economic forces -- these are the true villains in today's most pressing dramas, yet they are almost completely unrepresentable on screen.
We got arrested to shake up the status quo, to demonstrate that peace is possible, and to affirm that Americans all over this country want to achieve peace in Sudan as soon as humanly possible.
Typically, talking about a crime by an Arab leader in the Middle East, one will almost always end up talking about other concerned parties. It seems to be a special built-in ability to auto-dodge accountability.
Obama has had a remarkably productive first 100 days on the foreign policy front. It's hard not to like what I see. But let me try.
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It seems to me that people have effectively shifted their ire from the source of the problem (the Darfur parties) to someone they see as "enablers" (i.e., China).
I'd remind folks to focus on the primary agents of the conflict and not get distracted and diffuse.
Am I the only person who notices that nobody mentions the obvious: That NBC, the employers of Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, etc. are the people financing the telecasts world-wide and bringing the Beijing Olympics into our homes.........Come on Keith, why isn't NBC the 'worst persons in the world' !
I'm not sure who you are finding fault with here. I think your attack on Ms Farrow is misguided. For one, she has been trying to shine a light on what is going on in Darfur longer than the build-up to the Olympics from what I understand. The fact that we only pay attention to these terrible human rights crimes during global events such as the Olympics is really our own fault, whether we are talking about the people, or the media that we put up with. As a society, we are responsible for demanding better of the media to inform us, and better of our governments to help. This is in our lap, not Mia Farrow's.
Sir;
Whilst based in theory on the efforts of some honorable athletes, The Olympics are show biz, nothing more. Their original purpose(s) were sacrificed long ago on the altars of many greedy gods. They are now, in essence, WWF writ large.
I don't understand the obvious disapproval of Farrow, as if she were somehow responsible for the fact that people need celebrities to get them to take moral issues seriously. Similarly, it seems obtuse to wonder why First Nations folk are going to "wait" and stage their protest events at the Vancouver Olympics. You have the chicken and the egg confused, I think. Farrow and Fontaine are linking their protests to a major media event because where people are looking. The fact that they have to do this to be seen is a sad commentary on our culture, but I don't see why they shouldn't do it.
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