Green | November 02, 2007 | 5 comments

Darfur Now

source: http://www.participate.net/darfurnow

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JanforGore
Participant Productions opens a movie in theatres today that seeks to inform us and inspire us to demand an end to the genocide in Darfur, with the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to make a difference. And this tragedy is a turning point of humanity. For if we fail these people in this time and place, it will be evident that the human race has failed and has not learned from its mistakes. So failure is not an option. And as this started as an environmental disaster, we must also look at this tragedy to see the other Darfurs we are making around the world in response to our slowness in responding to the climate crisis and our rapacious use of oil that is also part of this genocide.// Over 200,000 dead. 2.5 million displaced. How can the collective human soul ever carry the weight of this and not be outraged?
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5 comments // Darfur Now

  • somefamilylove
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      somefamilylove  

    • that is the hope we CANNOT let die. small segments of society have shown it to be possible even for extended period's of time. but that change.. real change cannot happen over night and cannot happen without backsliding. learning and re-learning. the real key i feel is not becoming despondent when we see how tall that mountain is in front of us and how little progress we have really made. if we just keeping acting, locally or globally, as we are able. even when it seems that all around us must surely think us fools or worse.. one foot in front of the other......

    • 4 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • http://www.myspace.com/darfurnow

      Another informative site about this movie and this genocide. We must save Darfur. It is our moral imperative. And so true, when I look at my daily life nothing I could ever go through in a routine day could compare to the atrocities visited upon these people. Just when does the human race start to evolve? We think we have because of our modern conveniences, but we haven't really gone that far. At heart we are still the same barbarians we always were, and that in and of itself is a very sad revelation... but we can change all of that if we truly want to, and that is the hope in all of this.

    • 4 years ago
  • somefamilylove
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      somefamilylove  

    • if you dont know of the horrors yet take the time to do a little research. this one is a real issue with real implications. GENOCIDE is not too strong of a word nothing short of hitlers gas camps and bush's wars could compare to the atrocity's these poor people are suffering. all your worst case imaginings are their reality right now. when any of us suffer we all suffer. get involved. tell others,vote your conscience.

    • 4 years ago
  • phukna
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      phukna  

    • my hat goes off to Darfur!!
      and a tear of anger and sadness i shed.
      it humbels me to know that when i think i have it bad,
      i really don't have it bad at all.
      when i saw the lord of wars i realized one of the major ways how we contribute to this atrocity.
      in a way it's like Reagan telling us to say no to drugs,
      when he was pedaling coke w/the cia in the 80's.
      it's a real catch 22.
      phukn- a

    • 4 years ago
  • joshuaheller
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