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While I cannot in good conscience watch or support these Olympics or their sponsors, I salute the conscience and human rights activism of the athletes on Team Darfur. You can do so as well by sending them a message of support at the link provided. Only when we stand up to human rights abuses and the genocide in Darfur will we bring peace and hope.

Thanks.
JanforGore

6 responses // Salute Team Darfur

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    Thank YOU. Another great post.
    Stop the Genocide.

    onechance
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    Great idea Jan. I wont be watching this absurdly overhyped, bizzarely hypocritical, corporcratic spectacle, but I do respect the athletes who attend, and I wish them success. Perhaps in my lifetime there will be an olympic games where the noble luminescence of human excellence will not stand in such stark, painful contrast to the depths of human moral depravity surrounding it.

    I think it is especially important to send well wishes to athletes attending from nations that have been ravaged by the very human-rights-abusing, environmentally destructive, death-squad sponsoring, amoral multinationals who stand to make so much profit from their investment in these games. I'm sure the irony of being hosted by the very nation which has done so much to allow the genocide and ethnic cleansing to continue in his homeland is not lost on the Darfurian athlete.

    Ken1138
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    Absolutely. Their presence is a reminder that the spirit of right and justice endures even through the atrocities. And that is what I support.

    JanforGore
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    Ok

    dagos
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    I was pleased to see that the United States team chose Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese refugee, to carry the flag at the opening ceremony.

    Hawkmang
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    http://www.hbo.com/docs/docuseries/chinasstolenchild...
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    You know, I have not been able to bring myself to have anything to do with these Olympic games. It's just not the same for me this time knowing what I know about China.

    When I watched this documentary on HBO about China's missing children, I cried. I could not believe what is happening to children there between the kidnapping and the selling of children; for sex, for marriage, for slave work, even to be the son of a rich childless family. And it's not only kidnappers, very poor families are selling children in order to pay their bills and afford to feed the rest of the family. These are poor families in areas where there is not the strict "one child per couple" rule. This film really breaks your heart.

    This is just one thing that I am pointing to right now, but there are so many other things about China that I find deplorable.

    jubal

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