Can you explain why the rally today for Dafur was so small? No Jesse Jackson?
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One reason that I think it was so small is because many, many people still don't know about what's going on in Darfur. But I do think the protest has been effective in opening up people's eyes to the cause since the rally was on every news channel last night and in all the papers today.\n\nAlso, even though the rally was smaller than a lot of the protests in D.C., the Washington Post said this is one of the most diverse protests in the city. It was beautiful to see such a mix of ethnicity's, political groups and religious groups standing united for a cause.\n\nEdit: I just noticed what you said about no celebrities or other high-profile leaders were there. Actually, Al Sharpton WAS there as well as George Clooney, Burak Obama, Kweisi Mfume and Minut Bol (the former NBA player from Sudan).
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What is the question?...What areas/parts in Africa where there is still civil war of sometime of genocide?\n\nOf course our attention (U.S) and the UN focus should be now and should have been a long time now in the Darfur area Sudan.  There is a massive genocide taking place and we have overlooked this horrific tragedy.  George Clooney recently televised a special documentary focusing on this area and to expose the great ordeal that is happening now:\n\nThis is just a clip of an article I copied from BBC news\n"More than three million people need food aid or have fled their homes, and some 200,000 are estimated by the United Nations to have died because of the violence."\nBelow is a quota from the same article mentioned above this highlights the genesis of this war:\n"Sudan's government and the pro-government Arab militias are accused of war crimes against the region's black African population, although the UN has stopped short of calling it genocide."
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It would be good if they were liked by a majority of their own people, in order to be liked they need to be in touch with them. In our case we have no leader. He has lost touch with reality and touch with his people. Even those that voted for him are abandoning him.
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Yes.  The UN is ineffective.  Look at Darfur.  They have done nothing to stop the genocide.  And the libs wanted nothing to be done in Iraq either.  I guess gassing the Kurds and torturing innocents is nothing to be concerned about
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Lived to see many presidents come and go . I have never seen the likes of GWB. Wish people would have seen through him earlier, but I believe both elections were fixed.If united we stand is America's moto , where does he fit in???
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The worst things that have happened lately is in the country of Rwanda. A genocide in where 800,000 people, including women and children were viciously tortured, raped, beaten and killed.\n\nRwanda was a Belgium colony before being Rwanda. In order to have more effective control over their dominions they divided all people in two distinct social classes: HUTUS and TUTSIS, they are slightly different.\n\nThey cruelly decided to give TUTSIS all the priviledges, best posts, best housing, best everything, and the price was to be loyal to the Belgian authorities, they even were the Belgian police. \n\nAnd to the HUTUS they treated them like animals, by means of the TUTSIS.\n\nWhen the Belgians left, the country became chaos, ridled with Civil war between this artificially created difference in races.\n\nAfter the assasination of a HUTU president, all hell broke loose, the HUTU government, backed of by the Interhamwe, an illegal militia of killers, began sistematically killing every TUTSI they saw, and very viciously.\n\nBecause Rwanda did not have any important economic interests with no big power, and it did not have any major power country as a friend, no one intervened in helping stop this slaughter, even the UN and our country, the United States, turned their backs on them. NO ONE helped.\nYou can rent the movie Hotel Rwanda. It is very clear there what happened. \n\nThe United States did not want to participate do to the recent memory of what happened to the military personnel we had in Somalia in 1992 (you can see it in the movie BLACK HAWK DOWN), a terrible tragedy for us....\na big tragedy for US soldiers.
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I don't see the sense in preaching at all.  Instead of buying a plane ticket send them the money.  Do you have any idea how far $1000 US would go in most countries in Africa?  Africa doesn't need any more outsiders going in there and creating more division between the people.  The French did it, the Belgians, Germans, British, etc. People need to realize when to stop *trying to* help.\n\n\n*Forcing*
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We sat watching Tv last night. And both of us were glad that the whole thing would be over today. We received many calls...    and one interesting call from Governor Grandholm-Mi.  She stated that 'this is the last time I'll call you',.... then magically, she called AGAIN. Talk about not keeping personal promises!!!\n\nAnother 'funny' one this morning . . .Jesse Jackson called. .  ... . Thank God for 'delete' buttons\n\nEDIT* - Unbelievable... . I just got another call from Grandholm..  .I politely asked why she has her campaign continue to call after she 'promised' that they wouldn't call again.
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Hopefully it will go better than the drilling in Sudan, which led directly to the genocide. Ethiopia also has a recent history of ethnic and political genocide. That part of the world is extremely unstable, and oil wealth into a few hands might just push it over the edge again.
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My opinion is this, 1. He claims the title of Revrand but you never hear him preach a sermon from the Bible. 2. He claims to be a civil rights leader but he is more racist than most of the people he always is fighting against. 3.\nWhat has he personally done for you lately??  He hasn't anything for anybody who isn't enough of a somebody to get him on television, and whats all this guff about trying to get a pardon for that Murderer tookie williams,  misspelled and not capitalized on purpose, (I have no respect for a murderer) even if he wrote a million books.  I just figure Jesse Jackson got involved because it was a quick route to the TV cameras again.  Love and Hate are very big words.  As a child of God I must have love for my fellow man and so in a Christian way I love Jesse and hope he finds his way back to Jesus,  But I have no respect for the junk he's dishing out nowadays.
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I asked that question here and I was castigated for doing so. Apparently they do not have any oil and the US is too busy fighting the Iraqis to intervene in mass genocide of the worst kind, in which Arab Islamic fighters from the North of Sudan are using every despicable tool of warfare, including rape and torture, to wipe out the black population of the South. Usual African brotherhood stuff.
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I have met a number of Yemen people - students! I had some friends as well from there! They seemed for the most part, down to earth! I know its not a very developed country, but I think you'll are making progress now!\nThis was some sad news posted last year:\nYemen is a country in trouble. Recently ranked the twelfth most unstable nation in the world, ahead of Haiti, Afghanistan, and Rwanda by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yemen is teetering on failure.\n\nPresident  Ali Abdallah SALIH right?
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I definitely do know about the genocide in Darfur. In fact, yesterday I went to the Save Darfur Rally in Washington, D.C. to urge the President to take stronger measures in ending the violence and rapes in the Sudanese country. I also have donated money and will continue to donate, which is important since the U.N. is running out of money for the cause and supposedly is cutting half of it's food rations for the country because of lack of funding.\n\nDuring the rally, I also got a t-shirt. I plan to wear the T-shirt, which will hopefully strike up a conversation with someone who doesn't know about what's going on in Darfur because many people don't know about it.\n\nLastly, I pray for the people in Darfur. What better way to help than calling on a higher power.
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Sudan now is go up in the difreent ways .\nand Igive you addreas it can help you more you need and good luck and well come too
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Well... hopefully that was a typo... because I didn't see any hermaphrodite crying for it's father. (Girl... he...). But yeah, I'm just being a jerkwad.\n\nNo, I didn't see it, actually. But It'd be hard to stomache the torment the poor child must be feeling (I assume the father was either dying or dead... as a result of clashes between opposing forces). :-(\n\nThe reason the violence doesn't stop and the reason it doesn't heavily impact outside families (esp. American families, because they can readily see it on the news networks) is because no one attributes themselves to the feelings and thoughts of the afflicted. If you put yourself in that child's shoes, you'd die as a person inside. The pain and instability inside would be so much that you'd literally break down. But I have to give them (the children near Gaza and Israel) a lot of kudos. They can be decaying on the inside, but still keep an "honorable" facade on the outside. Could it be because they're afraid that the rebels *want* to see them cry? If so... fuc*ing sadists, if you ask me.\n\nI want to hug that child now... really badly. :-(
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Because the UN/US isn't interested in the African people other than as slave labour to mine the minerals for the corporations. By the 'peacekeepers' doing what they are doing, it will undermine their position leading to riots/demonstrations/protests. Then when these turn ugly, more 'peacekeepers' with 'bigger guns' will be sent to 'resolve the conflict'.
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THEY TALK ABOUT AFRICA JUST TO WHILE UP TIME ,OTHERWISE THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN DEMOCRACY ANYWHERE BUT THE USA.WITH DEMOCRACY COMES POWER AND WITH POWER COMES ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE MASSES.AND THERE WILL BE NO OIL FOR THE USA.