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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

STAND UP & STAND OUT TO STOP the DARFUR GENOCIDE



Freedom Has No Meaning When We Don’t Stand Up

When One is Born
One Has A Reason
To Become Human

And Serve Others

And

IF


One Has Freedom
One Has THE Responsibility
To Use THAT Freedom
To Speak For Those That Don’t
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Ziggy Marley & Gipsy Kings One love
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There Is A Genocide Going On

And the Whole World Isn’t Even Watching

Isn’t Even Reporting

The Leaders of Our Countries Don’t Care Enough

To Give It Their Attention and Concern

. . . Good Thing It Isn’t Us

“We don’t have to wait for some great politician to be our champion.

We ARE the Champion we’ve been waiting for.

Let us Stop Waiting for Someone Else to Make the Difference

Let us STOP “Waiting for the World to Change”.

Get Inspired

By

BEING the INSPIRED
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Global Days for Darfur
April 23 – 30, 2007
http://www.savedarfur.org/page/content/globaldays/
Plan an Event in your City

If Our Leaders Won't Lead...
Then You & I Must Lead

We Must
Take a Stand
That Counts

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“
…It’s freedom of speech – as long as you don’t say too much

You can’t stop running water
You can’t kill the fire that burns inside
Don’t deny our flesh and blood
And don’t forsake our sons and daughters

You cant’ stop running water
You can’t kill the fire that burns inside
Don’t deny our flesh and blood
And don’t forsake our sons and daughters

I THINK WE’RE ALL RUNNIN’ THINKIN’ THAT WE CAN HIDE
I THINK WE’RE RUNNIN’ TO GET AWAY
BUT SOONER OR LATER
WE’RE GONNA REALIZE
WE GONNA MEET UP WITH THE TRUTH
FACE TO FACE.”
From the song “Sons and Daughters”
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Sade sings "Why Can't We Live Together"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjnExp5s70

Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Dachau Concentration Camp

By Philip Greenspun


"Arbeit Macht Frei" on gate into Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was Germany's first concentration camp, started in March 22, 1933, 74 years ago because the prisons were overflowing with people the government didn't like. Twelve years passed before the holocaust was stopped by civilized governments.


Inmates in Dachau line up. This photograph was on the cover of the Munchen Illustierte Press edition on July 16, 1933.

Photo credit: USHMM Photo Arhives

They didn't have enough money to just build more prisons, so the Nazis built work camps like Dachau. Dachau is distinctive because it was here that SS personnel (Eichmann, Hess) trained for work in newer camps such as Auschwitz. Pastor Martin Niemöller, who initially supported the Nazis, ended up here in 1938, whereupon he famously noted that:

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,

habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,

habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,

habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,

habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr,

der protestieren konnte.

-- Der Weg ins Freie, Martin Niemöller (F.M. Hellbach, Stuttgart, 1946)

A prisoner in Dachau forced to stand without moving for hours as a punishment.

Translation of above:

When the Nazis arrested the Communists,

I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.

When they locked up the Social Democrats,

I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.

When they arrested the trade unionists,

I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.

When they arrested the Jews,

I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.

When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.

Chart of prisoner markings from Dachau concentration camp.

Photo credit: KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives

If you're so inclined, it is possible to live in a brand-new condo built just a few meters from the walls and barbed wire of the Dachau Concentration Camp.

The camp would literally be your back yard. You could tell visitors "Keep an eye on the enormously tall sign for the McDonald's restaurant. Turn left at the Arbeit Macht Frei gate. If you come to the Krematorium or the blood trench where the Soviet POWs were shot, you've gone too far."

A prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments. For the benefit of the Luftwaffe, conditions simulating those found at 15,000 meters in altitude were created in an effort to determine if German pilots might survive at that height.

Photo credit: German National Archives

The medieval town of Dachau is now a suburb of Munich and the S-Bahn will whisk you there in a few minutes. At 170 kph, a cab driver can simply follow the signs to Stuttgart and then turned off at the Dachau exit. As one approaches the town of Dachau, there are signs directing to the camp (a huge McDonald's sign is also a good landmark).

Dachau inmates gathered outside and on the roof tops of a camp building to hear a speech by Hitler.

Photo credit: KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau

“Dachau, 1933 - 1945, will stand for all time as one of history's most gruesome symbols of inhumanity. There U.S. troops found sights, sounds and stenches beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind. Dachau and death were synonymous.” William W. Quinn, 7th US Army.

More pictures at

http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/resource/gallery/Dachau.htm

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We are all Nazis
We are all killers of Tutsis


We are all killers of Darfuri

Because we are all tools used by the genocidaires

We all speak so strongly with our silence

It is time to be human

as we are called to be
by virtue of being born

Save yourself by saving others,

Save the human race from the crime against itself

Genocide is not only a word,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .it is crying of the whole human race.

There is nothing redeeming about being silent.
when another brother or sister is killed
while silence is our choice.

Sandra Hammel, aka ilovemylife
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Dachau's Two Ovens for Humans to Die In
I walked in this room, November 22, 2005

Never Again
Is
Happening

In Darfur
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IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING
SHAME ON YOU.
LEADERS OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD -
SHAME ON YOU
AS WE STAND IDLY BY

WILL WE CLAIM THAT “WE DIDN’T KNOW”
WHEN IT’S OVER?

THAT - WILL BE NOTHING MORE THAN WORDS
TO WAYLAY
OUR GUILT
AND
IGNORE THE BLOOD ON OUR HEADS

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is

for

good

men

to do



nothing."

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THANK YOU

for YOUR CONSCIENCE
and YOUR ACTION.
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