**Your email came through and wasn't ignored. This situation is more
than disturbing (and personal).
**When (significantly) younger, learning about the Holocaust, made some
deliberate attempts to query my parents, tried to hold them accountable
for not protesting sufficiently, not halting the genocide.
**Now, many years later, having been a activist, failed protester of the
war in Vietnam -- this despicable state of murder has resurfaced
(though there are, of course, numerous other incidents -- even in the
past ten years) -- can I truly do anything about the current genocide in
Darfur (could my parents end the Holocaust -- or even help to end it??).
**Four members of my family made the long trek to Washington, DC last
weekend to participate in the Darfur protests. Will it have any effect??
Can individuals, even gatherings similar to last weekend's, bring
about change -- cause appropriate actions?? Is raising awareness
adequate or even satisfactory?? I DON'T KNOW. What options or
alternative courses of action do we as citizens possess??
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
Related rumination. I sent two posts about Darfur to this list this past week. Nobody commented or acknowledged them. Should I assume my posts don't always post, or should I take this silence as a personal slight, in keeping with the general tone around here lately?
aw,
Carol
----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Evans <mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Darfur
Yes, the situation in Darfur has been - and I think still is
terrible. But last Friday a peace deal was reached; and as I write,
the UN Security Council is meeting to discuss sending a larger,
better equipped and "more robust" UN peacekeeping force than is
currently there. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4753421.stm
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4751751.stm
on the general situation there see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3496731.stm (updated May 7)
http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=darfur
<http://hrw.org/doc?t=africa&c=darfur> (Human Rights Watch)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/africa/2004/sudan/default.stm (updated
May 8)
http://www.protectdarfur.org/ (campaign)
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/ (campaign)
http://www.savedarfur.org/ (petition here -- is this George
Clooney's group?)
http://www.uk2.msf.org/UKNews/Letters/MerielRosser.htm (MSF worker's
account)
I cut Lawrence's post because of the nasty stuff about Irene, Mike
and Simon.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
