GENOCIDE STOPS WITH US. CHINA SUPPORTS SUDANESE PRESIDENT BASHIR

CHINA SUPPORTS
SUDANESE PRESIDENT BASHIR, PERPETRATOR OF GENOCIDE

Here in Rhode Island, July 26, 2007, Governor Carcieri put his symbolic signature on the work of many others who did the hard work of getting the RI Sudan Divestment Bill a done deal.

Scott Warren, college student, proves one person does make the difference.
One voice made this all possible here in Rhode Island. And he's from Massachusetts.

The governor actually signed this bill a month ago, but the press conference signing of the bill was last Thursday. This bill removes RI pension money from any accounts that in effect fund the genocide in Darfur. Rhode Island was the nineteenth state to be a on the list of states to take such an action. Personally, I removed my money from the investment company Fidelity months ago because Fidelity refuses to stop investing their investors’ money from two Chinese companies, Sinopec and PetroChina, in Sudan, who provide money for Sudanese Omar al-Bashir’s military who in turn pours this money into perpetrating genocide in Darfur.

RI Rep Joseph Almeida, RI General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio, RI Sen Rhoda Perry, StandNow Executive Director Scott Warren (Brown University student) and Maria Lopes. Seated RI Governor Donald Carcieri. Those standing in the picture all did their part in helping get this bill passed.

Rhode Island General Treasurer Frank T. Caprio

RI Representative Joseph Almeida, Democrat, from Providence sponsored this bill and in the RI Senate Rhoda Perry sponsored the sister bill.

Colin O'Brien, Scott Warren, Sandra Hammel, Frank Caprio and Joseph Almeida

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Below I have included three stories that came in my email today as links.

The first is current news about China in this video:

Darfur Activists Outside Chinese Mission - July 27, 2007

http://uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/8466d7e3f957eb3c65f28754982b6cb9

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Dream for Darfur’s Olympic Torch Relay Kicks Off

Dream for Darfur will launch its symbolic international Olympic Torch Relay in early August in Darfur. The Darfur torch event will be followed by an event in Rwanda. Mia Farrow, NBA player Ira Newble, and Ruth Messinger of American Jewish World Service are accompanying Dream for Darfur’s Jill Savitt to the area surrounding Darfur and to Kigali for the torch lighting ceremonies.

We are using our symbolic torch relay to urge the international community to stop the violence in Darfur, with a special appeal to China as Olympic host. After Africa, the Torch will travel to Armenia, Bosnia, Germany, and Cambodia - all countries that have experienced genocide. Our message: “China Please: Bring the Olympic Dream to Darfur.” www.dreamfordarfur.org

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From www.savedarfur.org:

Dear Communities United Leaders,

You may know by now that the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1769 to authorize a joint U.N.-A.U. peacekeeping force in Darfur. We wanted to send you the Save Darfur Coalition press release responding to the vote...

Thank you for your continued support,

Coby Rudolph

Save Darfur Coalition

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Save Darfur urges ‘determined political will' to enforce Resolution 1769,pushes ‘progressive' force deployment
‘World leaders have associated their prestige with this latest resolution and they will be to blame if it fails'

WASHINGTON - The Save Darfur Coalition today released a statement following passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 authorizing the hybrid AU-UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, or UNAMID. Spokesman for the coalition, Allyn Brooks-LaSure, implored world leaders to muster the "determined political will" to implement the resolution and to surpass the measure's glacial timeline by deploying peacekeepers to Darfur as they are recruited.

"Today's resolution brings us one step closer to providing real protection for Darfuri civilians, protection that they've been denied for far too long. It is not time, however, to pop open the champagne bottles. The true test of this measure is not what happens today in New York, but what happens over the coming weeks in Darfur.

"Even after efforts by Sudan and its allies, notably China and South Africa, to water down the resolution, it includes key measures long advocated by Save Darfur, most importantly reliance on Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, a mandate to protect civilians, and unified U.N. command and control. All of these measures, however, will require U.N. vigilance in implementation. These and other elements make the resolution an adequate basis for effective peacekeeping and protection for Darfur's people - if the U.N. member states match it with strong political will, and if they work hard to recruit and deploy the thousands of troops and police it authorizes.

"America's most urgent priority should be to ensure this resolution does not meet the fate of last year's Security Council Resolution 1706 - consigned to the dustbin of history by President al-Bashir's obstruction in concert with international passivity. There can be no doubt that Khartoum will attempt to obstruct implementation of this resolution as well. World leaders, and especially members of the Security Council, have now associated their prestige with this latest resolution, and they will be to blame if it fails. This time they must stop Sudanese stonewalling and obstruction and make this peacekeeping force succeed.

"And world leaders must surpass the modest deployment timelines set out in this resolution by progressively deploying peacekeepers to Darfur as quickly as they are recruited. According to certain U.N. officials, recruiting the entirety of this force will take a year - time the people of Darfur can not spare. If the U.N. waits for one ‘big bang' deployment, sending nobody until everybody is ready, untold thousands more will die.

"The promise of effective civilian protection and peacekeeping in today's resolution will be realized only if the international community shows determined political will to make it work. The world has failed Darfur on past occasions, condemning millions to a horrific fate. World leaders must do better this time."

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Spielberg Mulls Quitting Olympics To Pressure Chinese On Darfur

Activists Look to Famed Director

From ABC News

Jul. 26, 2007 - Steven Spielberg, under pressure from Darfur activists, may quit his post as artistic adviser to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, unless China takes a harder line against Sudan, a representative of the film director tells ABC News.

China, Sudan's largest oil customer and perennial defender, has come under renewed scrutiny in the lead up to the Olympics, as the country juggles its need for cheap energy with its desire to host a trouble-free games.

As celebrities-cum-activists increasingly link the ongoing genocide with China's patronage, some - most notably and vocally, the actress Mia Farrow  have accused Spielberg of complicity, by not using his prominence and position to pressure the Chinese government to change course.

"Is Mr. Spielberg, who in 1994 founded the Shoah Foundation to record the testimony of survivors of the holocaust, aware that China is bankrolling Darfur's genocide?" Farrow and her son Ronan wrote in a March Wall Street Journal editorial.

In that same piece, "The Genocide Olympics," Farrow compared Spielberg to the Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl whose film "Olympia" was a paean to the 1936 Berlin Games.

"Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games," Farrow wrote.

Days after Farrow's editorial, Spielberg wrote an open letter to Hu Jintao, president of China. "I am writing this letter to you, not as one of the overseas artistic advisors to the Olympic Ceremonies, but as a private citizen who has made a personal commitment to do all I can to oppose genocide. & Accordingly, I add my voice to those who ask that China change its policy toward Sudan and pressure the Sudanese government to accept the entrance of United Nations peacekeepers to protect the victims of genocide in Darfur," Spielberg wrote.

Excluding that letter, Spielberg and his representatives have, until now, been tight-lipped on what additional action the director might take.

"Steven will make a determination in the next few weeks regarding his work with the Chinese. Our main interest is ending the genocide. No one is clear on the best way to do this," Spielberg's spokesman Andy Spahn told ABCNEWS.com.

Spahn said "all options were on the table," including quitting, but much would depend on an anticipated statement on Sudan by the Chinese government expected in the coming days.

"We expect to hear something from the Chinese government sometime soon, very soon. We're pretty far down the road in discussions and then we'll decide if the path is productive or not and then consider other options," Spahn said.

"Steven is one [of] many advisers to the Beijing Games and he is trying to use the games to engage the Chinese on this issue. & We are in the midst of that right now. We're engaged in a little bit of a back-and-forth private dialogue," Spahn said.

Spahn said Spielberg has contributed $1 million to aid groups working in Darfur and was helping to plan the games' opening ceremonies and was not being paid.

Farrow is in France filming a movie and was unavailable for comment.

Recently, however, she told National Public Radio: "From looking so intensely at this it was apparent that there was one thing that China holds more dear than its unfettered access to Sudanese oil and that is its successful staging on the 2008 Olympic Games."

"My intention was never to hurt Steven Spielberg," Farrow told NPR, about her comparing the director of "Schindler's List" with Nazi filmmaker Riefenstahl. "My intention was to move things. Something had to move. He couldn't do that without knowing."

Experts agree that China has put incredible stock in the success of the Olympics and wants nothing to tarnish the games' success.

"It is something of a coming-out party for China as a world power," Nayan Chaya, director of publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, told ABCNEWS.com.

"The Olympics is very important to China. They are spending $30 [billion] to $40 billion on the games. It is a major event, necessary for China to claim its role as a world power. Economic reform has been going on since 1985, but the country has been stained by the Tiananmen massacre since '89," Chaya said. "Since then it was banned from certain contact and activities and it hasn't recovered fully its position in the world. China wants to finally put Tiananmen behind it."

Any Chinese policy, Chaya said, will be dictated by three factors: dependence on cheap energy, desire for a trouble-free games and the need to maintain face in the developing world without looking like it is bowing to Western pressure.

"It is a tough choice for the Chinese. On one hand they want it [the Olympics] to be trouble free and they see trouble on the horizon. On the other hand they see the importance of energy security. Thirdly, they're worried about the impact of abandoning Sudan, affecting China's position in developing world."

Several celebrities-turned-activists have pointed their fingers directly at China. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub are in the process of creating the foundation Not on Our Watch and have donated $5.5 million raised at premieres of their film "Ocean's 13" to several development agencies working in Darfur.

Though little came from the meeting, Clooney, Cheadle and two U.S. Olympians met with Chinese authorities in December to discuss a shift in Chinese policy on Darfur.

Experts say the actions of individual activists, regardless of their celebrity power, will do little to sway the Chinese.

"Celebrities get attention and those who get attention will be listened to, but individual celebrities can do very little," said William Kirby, a China expert and professor of history at Harvard University.

Pointing to the 1980 Moscow Games and the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Kirby said the Olympics often become a flash point for controversy, but host nations rarely change their foreign policies as a result.

Even if China releases a statement as Spielberg predicts, and even if it does not announce a significant shift in policy, Kirby remains optimistic that the country's policy toward Sudan could change.

"Often the Chinese say one thing and do another. They are more likely to be judgeable by their acts rather than their pronouncements. If you look at their handling of North Korea, despite the rhetoric, their actions spoke louder than their words."

OCTOBER 27, SATURDAY, 2007
Providence, Rhode Island State House
Dream for Darfur event
CARRY THE TORCH FOR DARFUR
Followed by Walk the Waterfire for Darfur

FIND A DREAM FOR DARFUR EVENT at:

www.savedarfur.org

www.dreamfordarfur.org

Darfur News:

http://www.dreamfordarfur.org/Media/MediaLinkingDarfurChinaandtheOlympics/tabid/195/Default.aspx

Other great websites:

www.genocideintervention.net

www.sudandivestment.com

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RHODE ISLAND’S BILLY GILMAN ALL GROWN-UP AND BACK SINGING

A fun post for me to do. I am working on my event for the Dream for Darfur campaign to take place in Providence, Rhode Island. www.dreamfordarfur.org CARRY THE TORCH FOR DARFUR will happen October 27, Saturday, 2007 starting near Waterplace Park and marking Fidelity Investment Company, as Mia Farrow put it, the underwriter for the Darfur genocide. Our event will end at the Rhode Island State Capital building. I would love to have music as well as speakers, but I first have to make sure we will have the capacity to have electricity. So I was thinking of musicians from Rhode Island. And tonight I sat down at my piano and pulled out a song that I did years ago with my children’s choir, “One Voice” a song made popular by Rhode Island’s young singer, Billy Gilman from Hope Valley. I changed most of the verses’ lyrics to fit the Darfur genocide’s situation. Then I went to my favorite place on the internet, Youtube and listened to song after song of Billy Gilman, following that with a trip to www.billygilman.com

He is 19 years old now. And to my ear, his voice is better, and he certainly is man-cute now, and not boy-cute. Some comments on youtube wanted him to stay 11 years old forever, but Billy Gilman has decided to grow up and go with that plan, carrying on his passion for a music career. I would love to invite Billy to our Providence event. We’ll see how it goes asking for donated generators and all the necessary equipment.

In the meantime, I’ll work on a plan to do the Darfur lyrics to “One Voice”...I include the videos below of Billy. Seems like we ought to call him Bill, now, but I guess he chooses Billy. Lots of talent and a sweet, genuine, young man.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WinEkiweL4&mode=related&search=

Billy Gilman's Everything And More Music Video, 2005

Submitted by "lovebillygilman" age 17 from China

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UxrCcsu3qk&mode=related&search=

Our First Kiss by the young adult Billy Gilman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9qjTq7jd2I&mode=related&search=

Interview with Billy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3hrp7SXgZw&mode=related&search=

Billy singing Crying at 14 and 17 years old

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SLm8_1tcbM&mode=related&search=

Song: I’m Not Me Anymore with pictures of Billy Gilman as he graduates high school in Rhode Island

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IF OUR LEADERS WON'T LEAD

ON THE ULTIMATE RIGHT TO LIVING A LIFE

THEN It is Our Torch to Carry

STOPPING GENOCIDE IS A RESPONSITILITY FOR ALL OF US

Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.

WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE

WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE

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We each have a voice.

We each have a presence.

We have been called to be human

 in the most basic way

 on this subject.  

Let Us Not Be Silent

Silence Kills  

We are each responsible for our personal silence.

If Peace never begins, Genocide will never end.

Where does Peace begin?

One humanity.

One Human Race.

BE INSPIRED

• http://www.savedarfur.org

Join a Darfur Event.

Events will be starting on August 8, 2007,

which can be found at the SaveDarfur or Dream for Darfur Website

www.dreamfordarfur.org

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FORGET GOD BLESS AMERICA…GOD BLESS THE HUMAN RACE AND THE UNIVERSE

What good is humanity if we don’t practice it?

I think of things that others don’t seem to be interested in. I get that feeling, anyway. Like what’s really important in life? What will matter to me in the end? Why do we claim peace is so important and yet we really don’t act like it is. I mean we have a War College where I live. Our national defense is all about the military and killing “over there” so we don’t have it going on here, the Bush administration claims. ...Which bothers me because it presumes that the people “over there” are less important than we are. When I was in college, until President Richard Nixon took it away, I had a loan for College called a National Defense Student Loan. That to me would be real defense – educating our young adults. Real defense would be having a national health care program for all citizens. Real defense would be a strong country which embraced our humanity by supporting the arts with a national budget to do so. Real defense would be actually caring about the babies born in this country. Real defense would be having a national foster care program that had a sufficient budget to do right by our children that had the audacity to be born into a family-less existence. …National foster care, so that the birth parents couldn’t avoid a state’s mandate by moving across the line.

The Things We Can Measure in Life
I had the thought that I wanted to say that the important things in life are the things that we do the least with and about. That the things that we measure in life versus those things that we can’t or don’t measure have an important difference that cries out metaphorically for our scrutiny. Then I went on basically about War versus Peace. War is where we put our money, lives and resourcefulness and working toward Peace gets barely a footnote of attention. The thing is we can measure how many bodies are dead, but we can’t measure how many hearts and human spirits have been lifted in a day. We can “measure” who is better at tennis, football, boxing, any sport. We can count money, so we know who is rich and who is poor. We can measure bigger and taller as if that makes something better merely by size. We can measure or judge who is pretty. We measure beauty by youthful looks. We can measure how much someone weighs. We measure success by the car that someone drives or the things they buy. We can measure the size of a penis. We can measure how many days we have lived. But in the end, what we can’t count or measure are the things of real human importance. Peace of mind, empathy, kind words, thoughts worthy of our goodness, how we made someone feel, joy, effort to mend a broken spirit, resilience when life has been desolate such as during genocide, how to convince a nation to be honest with its own mistakes and faults. We can’t measure the degree of how racist someone is.

Truth. Justice. Freedom. How much injustice does it take to rob someone of their sense of living in a just situation? How much truth does it take to diffuse lies that have been dished out during someone’s whole life? How many freedoms can be taken away before freedom itself is compromised so much that it can be said that freedom is an illusion or nonexistent? How much joy do you need? How much pain can someone take before he or she breaks? Can you measure these things? I don’t believe you can. And yet to me they are the things worth my time, attention and effort to address in life. Nothing that I can count or measure will comfort me if I should linger waiting for death to suck the breath from my mortal body. But these things can.

How Many Genocides Does It Take
It just seems to me that we have messed up this whole thing called life.

How many genocides does it take to get it right…To be willing to spend the political will to end genocide?

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJDWAMmT8wk&feature=PlayList&p=6F988D8CECBF2843&index=0

Protect Against Genocide by Aegis Trust
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Does one racist remark make you a racist? How many sharp, deliberately hurtful words does it take from a mother or father, how much narcissistic behavior will a mother or father act out to her or his children before it occurs to her or him that maybe she or he has the problem that she or he is reassigning to her or his children’s responsibility? (Okay, sorry for all the she/he inclusions.) How many killings and maimed bodies does it take before the war is deemed over? How many wars can we count? How many wars have brought a period of long, enduring peace or freedom?

We can count our money, our debt. We can count our weapons of war. We can count the burials. We could count the mentally ill soldiers that come back from wars if we wanted to. We can count our children. But can we count or measure our happiness? Can we count the cost of war in regards to the deaths of hopes, dreams and possibilities? The price of peace is not war. The price of peace is obviously harder than going to war. It’s easy to go to war. It’s not so easy to go to peace.

I’m happy. I’ve never known happiness, contentment, excitement or understanding of my family with my eyes and heart so free to see as I am at the present time in my life. Yes, I’m thoroughly disappointed in some things. I am disappointed that my mother has chosen to live her life in a pretend and phony way. I am disappointed that my family is broken and there is little reason to think that it will change. But I am comfortable with my acceptance of the way it is. I know who I am and I really like who I am. I am blessed with the passions that I have been given. I love life in a vibrant way while being creative and excited with my activities. I can’t change my mother. I can’t make others be happy.

I am personally happy and at the same time I am thoroughly upset with my country…President Bush and his unwillingness to see truth even when it is directly facing him. I am thoroughly disappointed with a country that is divided on what is truly important and what we have in common with not only one another, but the rest of the planet’s people. I don’t like the phrase “God Bless America” because I think that is too small of an idea. I prefer God Bless the Human Race. God Bless All Things. Who are we that we go around only asking God to Bless US? Pretty self-important and in denial over that fact that we aren’t “all that”. It bothers me that “We the People” have given over our responsibilities as keepers of our constitutional rights to unbalanced and heartless elected politicians and to the paid lobbyists who operate in Washington, D.C. without the bright light of the press breathing down their necks. Apathy bothers me. But, I can do what I can do. And I do.

The following song’s lyrics came to mind as I was writing:

Rolling Home

Lyrics by Eric Andersen

Truth, with all it’s far out schemes,

Lets time decide what it should mean;

It’s not the time but just the dreams that die.

And sometimes when the room is still,

Time with so much truth to kill,

Leaves you by the window sill so tied

Without a wing, to take you high,

Without a clue to tell you why.

Now, I just want to keep my name, not bother anybody’s game

Without ideas of gold or fame or insane heights.

I don’t want a lot of money, I don’t want a playboy bunny,

Just a love to call me honey late at night,

In my arms, by my side, in my arms late at night.

Well, I see the ones who crawl like moles

Who for a front would trade their souls,

A broken mirror’s the only hole for them;

And for you who’d exchange yourselves,

Just to be somebody else,

Pretending things you never felt or meant;

Hey, you don’t live what you defend,

You can’t give so you just bend.

Now if you care what people think,

Like they supplied some missing link;

They’ll just stand back and watch you sink so slow.

They’ll never help you to decide,

They’ll only take you for a ride,

After which they’ll try and hide the fact that they don’t know

What you should do, where you should go,

There’s nothing big I want to prove,

No mountains that I need to move,

Or even claim what’s right or true for you.

My sights, my songs are slightly charred,

You might think they miss their mark,

But things are only what they are and nothing new

But for me, I think they’ll do,

Well, I can see a king and queen, a beggar falling at my feet;

They all must see the same sad dreams at night;

Futility and senseless war, pit the rich against the poor,

While cause is buried long before the fight

For what was wrong, for what was right,

It’s just the strong, who ever says what’s right.

Chorus:

But I don’t know, I ain’t been told,

Ev’rybody wants a hand to hold.

They’re so afraid of being old,

So scared of dying, so unknown

And so alone, rollin’ home.

The Great Mandala

Sung by Peter Yarrow and Richie Havens

Thanks to prisha91755

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1YxTl1e2I

We say we want peace. We have never really given peace a chance. Peace surely requires and deserves more complex work than war. And we can’t really believe that it’s peace that war renders. Peace is harder than war. And it requires more ability and will than our so-called free nations have illustrated during the race to be human. We get what we work on. I’ll be bold and say that we work at war much harder than we work toward a peaceful planet.

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Truth is truth and it never dies.

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DARFUR, SUDAN

IF OUR LEADERS WON'T LEAD

ON THE ULTIMATE RIGHT TO LIVING A LIFE

THEN It is Our Torch to Carry

STOPPING GENOCIDE IS A RESPONSITILITY FOR ALL OF US

The President's Comment Phone Line is open Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
202 - 456 - 1111

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Call your US Senators & Representatives at

1 - 800 - GENOCIDE

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Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.

WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE

WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE

We each have a voice.

We each have a presence.

We have been called to be human

 in the most basic way

 on this subject.  

 Where there is a will - there is always a way.  

And where there is no will - there is no way. 

Let us not be silent.

Silence is necessary for genocide to go on.  

Our collective silence is a weapon used by the genocidaires.  

Silence kills.  

And we are responsible for our personal silence.

If Peace never begins, Genocide will never end.

Where does Peace begin?

One World.

One humanity.

One Human Race.

One.

BE INSPIRED

• http://www.savedarfur.org

Join a Darfur Event.

Events will be starting on August 8, 2007,

which can be found at the SaveDarfur or Dream for Darfur Website

• www.dreamfordarfur.org
• www.sudandivestment.org/
  • http://www.genocideintervention.net/
  • http://www.standnow.org/

• http://www.ajws.org/
• www.aiusa.org

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ONE IN CHINA AND ONE IN USA…TWO FORGOTTEN GENOCIDES

Someone I know that I had always considered a person who shared my feelings and political views, said something about Native American Indians recently that changed my mind about her.

“All the Indians I know are drunks, don’t have a job, …”. This is a racist statement. And I know she doesn’t consider herself to be racist in any form. But here, you have it. Racism. Ignorance and racism all wrapped up together. I couldn’t believe she would say such a thing when we had always been so in harmony with our political and world views. Here I found she and I parted our thinking. 180 degrees apart.

MY VIEW
This United States government stole this land from the people who were here first and then systematically went about committing genocide on them. They forbid the Native population to stop living by their beliefs and customs, talking their native languages, using their own names, cut their hair, forced their children to leave their families and go off to boarding schools where they would be educated properly in the white man’s ways and beliefs - culturally raped them, in other words.

In 1830, President Andrew signed the Indian Removal Act, which forced over 100,000 Native Americans off of their own lands. In this video the producer, Keith Ryon, states “To celebrate this achievement, Americans put Andrew Jackson on their twenty dollar bill. Today, 25.9% of Native Americans live in poverty. The national average is 11%. 29% of Native Americans are without health care.”

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http://www.youtube.com/user/keithryon

Two genocides are always left off the list of genocides that have happened, I have noticed.

Native Americans
One is the one on the Native Americans by the immigrants that came from Europe and the government that claims to have built a Land of the Free for All.

http://www.aigenom.com/index.html

The American Indian Genocide Museum website
From the AIGM "Stereotypes" page:
From an early age the majority of Americans have imprinted on their brain the image of the "savage" Indian. In any textbook, the Indian is portrayed hostile and ready to take a life. From books,paintings, and Hollywood movies one can easily come across this image. This image was used to dehumanize a group of people in order to justify taking their lives for land.

Unfortunately, this disturbing portrayal of the Native American people has been
accepted and promoted in our educational system and entertainment industry. When one race is portrayed only in the positive, at the same time another race is portrayed only in the negative. It is imperative to recognize these racist and stereotypical portrayals and correct it by teaching the truth.

American Indians are people-not mascots, not savages, not an option for a Halloween costume.

And from this website’s homepage:
The American Indian Genocide Museum has a vision to defeat prejudice and discrimination through education. In the beginning of American History a religious leader who claimed to speak for God gave all the lands west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands to the King of Spain, if it wasn't already in the possession of some other Catholic King. This decree issued by Pope Alexander Vl, effective from Christmas Day 1492 , is on display at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain.

The bigotry and intolerance this decree created for Native Americans was realized when upon seeing the Tarawa Indians of the Bahamas, Columbus wrote, "They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want".

The problem with dehumanizing people in order to take their land is,

that the next step is to take their lives also. Genocide in the Americas

is not an easy subject to address- not for any American.

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Winds – This is an exellent video with a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvh-pelZN-4

by gomauro

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Nanking, China
The other is the one of the Chinese in Nanking, China by the Japanese in 1937.
“This year marks the 64th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre. The Japanese occupation of Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, lead to one of the greatest horrors of the century. Despite its far-reaching implications, much of the world remains unaware of the events which took place in the Chinese city of Nanking in December 1937.

The Nanking Massacre remains one of the most inhuman and horrifying crimes ever committed in the human civilization history. But despite the irrefutable evidence, since the end of the Second World War, especially in the recent years, some Japanese, including a few high-ranking government officers and so-called "historians", have denied the occurrence of the Nanking Massacre in public and tried to whitewash the atrocities that the Japanese army brought to China.” From http://prion.bchs.uh.edu/~zzhang/1/Nanking_Massacre/

An excerpt from http://prion.bchs.uh.edu/~zzhang/1/Nanking_Massacre/preface.html

“In the winter of 1937, an invading Japanese army entered the Chinese city of Nanking and proceeded to obliterate the helpless population. Two hundred thousand were killed, and tens of thousands of Chinese women were raped. In the midst of this mayhem, a small group of expatriate Westerners--missionaries, businessmen, college professors, and doctors--attempted to create an oasis of safety to protect the citizens they could. It is through their eyes, by means of letters, diaries, and other reports of the destruction, that filmmakers Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman reveal the events of that terrible time.

Utilizing actors to read these accounts, including Jürgen Prochnow, Woody Harrelson, and Mariel Hemingway, and interwoven with chilling archival footage, testimony, and interviews with both survivors and perpetrators, Nanking exposes the all-too-familiar horrors of war but also affirms the extraordinary impact that individuals can make. This is a gripping and soul-searching chronicle of a calamity and a tribute to the people who tried to make it better.— Geoffrey Gilmore”

Princeton and Fordham Universities’ online Nanking information:

http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking/html/nanking_gallery.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-pCA5frBRM

about Nanking, the movie at Sundance

http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=4655

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DARFUR, SUDAN

STOPPING GENOCIDE IS A RESPONSITILITY FOR ALL OF US

If our leaders won’t lead on this issue of the

THE ULTIMATE RIGHT TO LIVING LIFE

THEN It is Our Torch to Carry

The President's Comment Phone Line is open Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
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email: president@whitehouse.gov

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Call your US Senators & Representatives at

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Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.

WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE

WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE

We each have a voice.

We each have a presence.

We have been called to be human

 in the most basic way

 on this subject.  

 Where there is a will - there is always a way.  

And where there is no will - there is no way. 

Let us not be silent.

Silence is necessary for genocide to go on.  

Our collective silence is a weapon used by the genocidaires.  

Silence kills.  

And we are responsible for our personal silence.

If Peace never begins, Genocide will never end.

Where does Peace begin?

One World.

One humanity.

One Human Race.

One.

BE INSPIRED

• http://www.Savedarfur.org

• www.dreamfordarfur.org
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  • http://www.genocideintervention.net/
  • http://www.standnow.org/
• http://www.ajws.org/

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