Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
From the BBC today:
style=”font-style: italic;”>…the United Nations Human Rights Commission adopted a watered down statement on Darfur.
>The United States had pushed for a much harder hitting resolution criticising Sudanese government abuses.
>The more softly-worded compromise expresses concern at
the situation in the Darfur region, welcomes plans to send a high-level
team there to investigate and urges all [...]
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Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
Witness is one of the fundamental categories of experience:
Witness in history. The role of witness in ancient spiritual
communities. Witness and prophets. Witness in crisis. Witness in
everyday life.
Blogs are about witness. We witness and we discuss what we
witness. We point to others who are witnessing to subjects we
think bear wider note.
The complaint that bloggers and [...]
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Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
I just spoke minutes ago by phone to Ken Roth, director of Human Rights Watch. HRW has just posted the first documented information showing that government troops are involved in the genocide in Sudan.
This is very important because it will increase the rationale for the
international community, including the United States, to act.
President Bush has urged [...]
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Posted in Economics and cybenetics on Apr 23rd, 2004 Comments Off
I am writing to invite you to join together to witness to and stop a genocide.
The genocide is happenng right now in Sudan, as we speak, in the area
known as Darfur. Despite the Sudanese government’s trying to
cover it up–by blocking press and NGO access (e.g. an Al Jazeera
reporter was put in prison last week for [...]
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