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Katie-Jay, Gabriel and James are at Darfuri refugee, Camp Djabal in Chad. This is their 9th trip.
On Sunday, they are going to make available to us a Live Town Hall Meeting with the Darfuris there, who are living in exile during the genocide supported by Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. Sunday, December 12th, 2010. Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am USA, Eastern Time. 4:00 pm in Camp Djabal. Watch here on Sunday ~ iactivism.org
.................................................. Getting to a Darfuri refugee camp on the Chad and Sudan border is not easy.
President Omar al Bashir denies the stories these pictures express. The children draw what has happened to them.
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How long is too long for the world to tolerate genocide, and tolerate not only forced child labor, but forcing children to be child soldiers?
President Obama grants waivers to Chad, the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen, which use child soldiers but are strategically important to the US. The waivers mean military aid will continue.
As a senator, Barack Obama supported legislation requiring the United States to cut off military aid to countries recruiting and deploying child soldiers.
This week as president, Mr. Obama acted to ensure that four countries found to use child soldiers – but which are also considered key national security interests – do not lose their US military assistance. Obama heeded the recommendation of a State Department review and waived application of a year-old law on child soldiers in the case of Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen.
In a Oct. 25 presidential memorandum, Obama said he had “determined that it is in the national interest of the United States” to waive application of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act for the four countries.
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) speaks as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (L) and senior adviser David Axelrod (2nd L) look on during a news conference at the White House briefing room December 7, 2010 in Washington, DC. Obama held a news conference after he had announced a deal with Republicans to temporarily extend Bush-era tax cuts to all tax brackets. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images North America
I am on the email list that receives frequent messages from the Obama administration. Today, I got one about the tax breaks issue with a video from President Obama and a form to write a comment. I took the opportunity to say some things off the cuff. I used to spend a lot of time, editing my letters to him. But this one is a quick message.
I am concerned about the division in this country, notably the racism that is rampant since people feared Barack Obama would possibly be President. And now, there are transparently many who feel they have constituent support to cause President Obama a failure, even at the cost of the "health" of the country. This is not the United States of America that Barack inspiringly said was not a country of blue or red states. It is a country that is facing loosed racism at the cost of saving any integrity as a country.
President Obama is in a tough position. Being the first African American President carries weight that no white person could imagine.
When I was in New Hampshire working for Obama for America, Barack Obama said that he couldn't do what needs to be done alone, that we as citizens needed to be part of the solution. And he also said, that when he was off track, he welcomed hearing from us. Well, he is hearing from us, today, I suspect. Especially those of us, who were with him, now we feel he is not with us.
December 7, 2010
To President Obama,
If I wasn't so frustrated with President Obama, I would be more outraged.The Republicans want to make President Obama's Presidency something that they can spin to their advantage and President Obama is playing on their team.
I am a 61 year old white woman - not in the demographic that voted him into office.And yet, I not only voted for him, I went way outside my comfort zone and knocked door-to-door for him in my state of RI and incurred the personal expense to work for his campaign for one week leading up to the New Hampshire primary.It was an economical hardship for me to do so.And I donated to his campaign repeatedly, though I shouldn't have, as I am in a financial situation that may cause me to lose my house this coming year when my pension gets slashed when I turn 62 years old.
I say all this, because I did all of this because I believed Barack Obama would be the President that he said he would be.But he hasn't been.To start with, I am a world citizen who is an activist to end genocide and he has been thoroughly disappointing regarding Darfur.General Gration has been a disaster of a Special Envoy and he still has that job.
I will not, not - go door-to-door or do phone banking (which I did in 3 states) for him next campaign.This time I will not vote “for” him, but “against” his opponent. And I believe he needs people like me to be excited about his Presidency.We were the backbone of his winning candidacy.
President Obama needs to "spin" better than the Republicans.And not only has he not done this, he hasn't even "sold" his "victories" that he has done.Unlike me, most citizens don't watch his every move, as well as members of Congress.So he needs to become a better salesman of what his administration has done and what needs to be done.Fire us up again or the fire we have building inside will be in opposition to a man we once voted for.
And the racism that has come boldly out of the closet needs to be addressed directly.It is not healthy for this country.
Respectfully,
Sandra Hammel
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2009 incomes of leading Republicans who are fighting for millionaires over middle class taxpayers
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) Average $19,929,018 Rep John Boehner (R-Ohio) Average $3,570,547 Rep Eric Cantor (R-Va) Average $4,854,578
*This is unacceptable from any man with principle:
"President Obama grants waivers to Chad, the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen, which use child soldiers but are strategically important to the US. The waivers mean military aid will continue."
As a senator, Barack Obama supported legislation requiring the United States to cut off military aid to countries recruiting and deploying child soldiers.
This week as president, Mr. Obama acted to ensure that four countries found to use child soldiers – but which are also considered key national security interests – do not lose their US military assistance. Obama heeded the recommendation of a State Department review and waived application of a year-old law on child soldiers in the case of Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen.
In a Oct. 25 presidential memorandum, Obama said he had “determined that it is in the national interest of the United States” to waive application of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act for the four countries.
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Obama White House pressured Spain to drop Bush torture prosecution, leaked cable shows
The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows.
The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republican lawmakers -- including a former Republican Party chairman -- to put pressure on Spanish officials to drop a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."
In the spring of 2009, Spanish Judge Balthasar Garzon launched an inquiry into six Bush officials linked to the torture policy. They were then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Cheney adviser David Addington; Pentagon lawyer William Haynes; Pentagon official Douglas Feith; and Jay Bybee and John Yoo from the Office of Legal Counsel.
According toMother Jones' David Corn, US officials began to put pressure on Spain almost as soon as the probe was announced.
Soon after the request was made, the US embassy in Madrid began tracking the matter. On April 1, embassy officials spoke with chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza, who indicated that he was not pleased to have been handed this case, but he believed that the complaint appeared to be well-documented and he'd have to pursue it. Around that time, the acting deputy chief of the US embassy talked to the chief of staff for Spain's foreign minister and a senior official in the Spanish Ministry of Justice to convey, as the cable says, "that this was a very serious matter for the [US government]." The two Spaniards "expressed their concern at the case but stressed the independence of the Spanish judiciary." Read more at the link above.
It was nice to see Yuen-Lin (YL) and Eric (E) live on our computers last night. We tested the three way communication using the equipment we’ll be using out in the refugee camps. It was quick and pretty simple. Out here, there’s no high speed internet. There’s no medium speed internet. There’s slow and slower. To be able get on a video conference with someone halfway across the world is, in reality, no simple task. Except that our tech team makes it easy for out here, even if we don’t exactly understand how they do it.
I remember when I first spoke with YL, using basic technology - a phone. He called me from Malaysia, where he was spending some time with his family. I told him how we wanted to come out to Eastern Chad, spend time in the camps with the refugees, and, oh by the way, we wanted to upload video from the middle of the desert, where there is no infrastructure at all. After hearing me, YL said, “Hmm…I see. It is not my area of expertise, but I will find a way to do it. I’m in.”
Back then, technology was not close to what we have right now, and it’s still quite a challenge to do what we do. We’re just lucky to have YL and E and our team.
Oh, I also have to thank VSee Lab, who provides the video conferencing software. It’s amazing that we can stream video through such low bandwidth! Thanks also to Eric Talman at SatellitePhoneStore.com, who has been great to work with for our satellite service. And, since I’m in thanking mode, thanks to the great team at the Darfur Dream Team office in DC! We are involved in a complex program, and they are managing so many parts of it, but it’s nothing but a pleasure to work together with them on this very basic concept, connecting people to people.
John R. Bolton, George W Bush's United Nations Ambassador hopefully will glaringly prove his flawed thinking on this show. A reminder: The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag in the USA ends with the following words: "...and liberty and justice for all."
The United States needs to support the ICC. Below the information for the RALLY AT WHITE HOUSE IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE FOR BASHIR is more information on THE RECKONING.
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JULY 22, 2009
DARFURIS TO RALLY AT WHITE HOUSE IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE FOR BASHIR
Protesters to call on Obama administration to act immediately to help bring justice AND peace to Darfur
WASHINGTON – Darfuris, other Sudanese and Americans who share a common concern about the Obama Administration’s lack of response to the ongoing crimes against humanity in Sudan and Darfur will gather on Wednesday in front of the White House. Participants will deliver a letter to President Obama. From there, participants will walk to the State Department with a letter to the Secretary of State.
The rally is sponsored by the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy in cooperation with American Darfur activist organizations from across the country. Americans from across the country will also be participating in a National Call-in Day in support of the Darfuri rally. These events are timed to coincide with Special Envoy Gration’s trip to the Sudan and the announcement of the much-anticipated decision on the boundaries of the contested Abyei region. It also falls on the same day as President Obama’s prime time press conference to encourage discussion of Darfur and the ICC case against Bashir at the news conference.
Spokespeople will be available for interviews before, during and after the protest.
WHO: Mohamed Yahya, Executive Director of Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy, of Washington, DC, originally from West Darfur
WHEN: 1:00PM ET Wednesday, July 22, 2009
WHERE: Start at Lafayette Square for White House Rally then march to the State Department
WHY: To issue a plea to President Obama and Secretary Clinton for an unequivocal statement from the United States government in support of the following:
1. International cooperation with the ICC and its indictments of Omar al-Bashir 2. The immediate deployment of the 26,000 UNAMID Peace Forces to Darfur with a full Chapter VII mandate, and all necessary support and supplies; 3. Pressure on the Government of Sudan to allow all expelled humanitarian organizations back into Darfur without any delays or conditions; 4. Strict trade sanctions against Chinese oil companies, and all other companies investing in Sudanese oil or exporting weapons to Sudan; 5. The end of attacks on Refugee Camps in Chad and Darfur and the return of all confiscated land to its rightful owners.
REQUESTING HELP The rally organized by the Damanga Coalition in support of justice and peace in Darfur is planned for this Wednesday - JULY 22, 2009. There are many Darfuris on the East Coast who would liketo travel to DC for the day but lack funding for the ground transportation expenses. Susan Morgan of theMassachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur is working with Damanga and other Darfuri groups to raise enough money to fund vanpools from key locations like NYC, Philadelphia and Virginia. She estimates that with $1000 we would be able to help 30 – 40 Darfuris attend the rally.
If you or your organization is able to contribute (any small amount will help) please respond to her at Susan@paxommunications.org and let her know your pledge amount. Susan will then send you her address to for the check. Checks should be make payable to the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur so that they will be tax deductible. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
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THE RECKONING - about the ICC
Film Description
Former child soldiers of the Thomas Lubanga UPC militia, Ituri, eastern Congo
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is an epic, nail-biting account of the new International Criminal Court's struggle to prosecute perpetrators — however powerful or concealed they may be — of crimes against humanity as the Court fights to establish its own credibility on the world stage. The film shows the lead-up to the court's most recent and sensational action, the indictment of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on March 4, 2009, for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Established by treaty in 2002 in response to the mass atrocities that stained the late 20th century, the International Criminal Court (known as the ICC) is the first permanent international criminal court created to seek justice for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the Court, given a historic mandate by its founding 100-plus nations, was not given a police force or other enforcement arm. Moreover, the ICC faces major obstacles in pursuing its mission from nations that did not join the treaty.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands
The Reckoning's history of the ICC's founding will be as valuable to those familiar with the story as to those new to it. But the film's central drama concerns events that occurred after 2002. For three years, the filmmakers followed chief ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and his team of investigators and prosecutors across four continents as they issued arrest warrants for Lord's Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, put an infamous Congolese warlord on trial, shook up the Colombian justice system and charged Sudan's al-Bashir with crimes against humanity. At every turn, Moreno-Ocampo and crew faced danger, hostility and resistance. The larger drama in The Reckoning is the fate of the ICC itself. Will this tiny court in The Hague succeed against the odds in forging a new paradigm for human rights and justice in the world?
The Reckoning has a mythological opening. A man holding a human skull in a lonely field offers perhaps the most eloquent argument for the ICC. "Without justice," he says, "people have no respect for each other. If this is left unpunished, it will be repeated." He is speaking of the more than 5 million people killed in the wars that have torn eastern Congo apart since 1998. But he might as well have been speaking for the victims of mass murder in Guatemala (200,000), Cambodia (1.7 million), East Timor (200,000), Sierra Leone (50,000), Bosnia (200,000) and Rwanda (800,000), to name only the most notorious cases. It was the horror of these events — and the prospect of more occurring — that brought the world's nations together at the 1998 Rome Conference and set in motion the negotiations that would lead to the ICC's establishment in 2002.
The Reckoning shows that the idea for the Court goes back further, to the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi leaders following World War II, which the United States was the leader in establishing. This connection is uniquely expressed in the film by Ben Ferencz, who, as a 27-year-old lawyer, prosecuted 22 German officers at Nuremberg for murdering over a million people; all were convicted and 13 were sentenced to death. Ferencz never forgot the horror of the Nazi death camps and became a writer on world peace and a tireless campaigner for a permanent tribunal to prosecute crimes against humanity. He recalls the significance of Nuremberg: that the Allies sought justice through rule of law, establishing that no one was above the law and that not only was the killing of civilians a war crime, but the murder of people on the basis of their race, creed or class — genocide — was a crime of the greatest magnitude. Ferencz was there at The Hague on June 16, 2003, when Moreno-Ocampo was sworn in as the first Prosecutor of the new International Criminal Court.
Moreno-Ocampo himself brings unique experience and moral authority to the ICC — and an acute awareness of its historical roots. In 1985, a younger Moreno-Ocampo successfully prosecuted members of the Argentine military junta that, from 1976 to 1983, conducted a "dirty war" of murder, "disappearances" and torture against its political opponents. "It was the first trial of generals since Nuremberg," Moreno-Ocampo notes. Later, as district attorney for the Federal Circuit of the City of Buenos Aires from 1987 to 1992, he prosecuted the military commanders responsible for the Falklands War, the leaders of two military rebellions and dozens of high-profile corruption cases.
Moreno-Ocampo's team includes such savvy lawyers and investigators as former U.S. federal prosecutor Christine Chung, the ICC's first senior trial attorney, who has been a visiting lecturer and senior fellow at the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. She is now a partner at the law firm Quinn Emanuel. Well aware of the obstacles facing the ICC, she describes the Court as a "justice start-up."
Three great powers — China, Russia and the United States — are not members of the Court. The United States actively opposed the Court during the George W. Bush administration. In The Reckoning, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton explains his rationale for the American campaign against it. He doesn't ever want to contemplate U.S. leaders in an international dock. For Bolton, national sovereignty cannot be compromised. For its part, China opposes the ICC arrest warrant indicting Sudanese President al-Bashir, and Russia remains skeptical about it.
The ICC's job, as a court of "last resort," is to support and push national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute alleged crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide. Only when a country's justice system proves completely incapable of dealing with such crimes, and only when asked, does the ICC step in directly — and then gingerly. Where international justice conflicts with national sovereignty, the ICC must employ both clarity of purpose and political diplomacy.
Thus, in Colombia, where officials "at the highest levels" have been implicated in the political violence ravaging the country, the Court throws its prestige and resources behind Colombian prosecutors who are fighting to investigate the allegations in the face of political opposition. In Congo, by contrast, the Congolese government has asked the ICC to intervene because chaos prevents any credible judicial process. So the ICC investigates and issues its own arrest warrant for Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a notorious militia leader, for abducting children to serve as his child soldiers. To serve its warrant in Congo, the ICC must rely on local allies, in this case the government — making Dyilo the first war criminal brought to trial at the ICC's headquarters in The Hague.
The Sudan/Darfur case was referred to the ICC by the U.N. Security Council. Since many around the world see Darfur as a clear case of genocide by the Sudanese government against indigenous Darfurians, the government's open defiance of the ICC's warrant for al-Bashir forces the ICC to return to the U.N. Security Council itself to get the international community to bring pressure to arrest al-Bashir. At that point, the clarity provided by law and the U.N. is caught up in murky realpolitik.
In the case of Uganda, an even more difficult contradiction threatens to derail the ICC's work. The government of Uganda asked the ICC to investigate and bring the leaders of a rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to justice. After 50 investigative missions documenting some 2,200 murders, the ICC prepares to bring warrants when the LRA leaders, clearly worried, try to turn the situation on its head. They come in from the bush, offering negotiations and a new era of peace and stability — but only if the ICC warrants are lifted. After so many years of war and death, even surviving victims of the LRA's worst atrocities find it all but impossible not to take the bait.
ICC prosecutors go on a campaign to convince Ugandans that, in the long run, there will be no peace or stability if the LRA leaders are allowed to get away with their crimes. Ultimately, whether speaking to the august ambassadors of state at the U.N. or to maimed villagers in Uganda, the ICC holds fast to the simple principle spoken by that Congolese man in the field: "Without justice, people have no respect for each other."
Nothing less than a real-life thriller, The Reckoning keeps you on the edge of your seat with two riveting dramas — the prosecution of three cases of unspeakable crimes against humanity and the ICC's fight for its own survival and effectiveness. Senior Trial Attorney Chung reveals the stakes that still hang in the balance when she wonders if the ICC will emerge as an effective institution for justice or simply a symbolic one, a "shadow" of what it was meant to be.
"I started out thinking that The Reckoning would be about the ICC's cases and trials, like any good crime thriller," says director Pamela Yates. "I quickly realized I had to expand the film's vision to include the far-reaching effects the ICC was having at the local level, with the tremendous amount of controversy as well as hope that its investigations were causing. The Court itself became the protagonist of The Reckoning, and all the cinematic elements were developed in realizing this idea."
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is a production of Skylight Pictures. Visit the filmmakers' site, IJCentral if you want to support the international justice movement and join in their action campaigns.
Posted on June 8, 2009
Updated on July 17, 2009
ICC Timeline Put the ICC in historical perspective with this multimedia timeline.
Filmmaker Interview Filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís talk about the challenges of making a film about the ICC.
Q&A with Christine Chung Former ICC attorney Christine Chung answers questions about the court, the Obama administration’s policy towards the ICC and more
Here I am teaching music with our African concept instruments of Carl Orff's philosophy of teaching elementary music.
Music In Ugandan Schools Including the Patongo Primary School in a Northern Ugandan Refugee Camp
I saw a movie tonight in a little seaside New England town called Newport, Rhode Island, USA. I adore where I live.It’s small, it’s beautiful and we have opportunities that most small towns don’t have. We have this Newport International Film Festival every year in June and this is where I saw this movie called War Dance.It is shot in Uganda.The war in Uganda has wrenched the children’s lives.In this movie you will see reality, torturous pain and hope through the children’s experience in the world.Three brave and trauma-filled young people, ages 12, 13 and 14, will open their pain to you and let you have some understanding what is truth for them and what you should not turn your eyes and hearts from.This film will open in New York City and Los Angeles in mid November 2007.Hopefully, it will find audiences will warrant it opening in more than just these two cities.War Dance won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Award.
“For the last twenty years, Northern Uganda has been at war with a rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.). The children are not only the victims of the rebels, they are the rebels. The L.R.A has a chillingly effective process to fill its ranks: abducting children. Eighty percent of their army is kids, some as young as five. Under the cover of darkness, the rebels raid villages to kidnap new soldiers. Children are ripped from their beds, their parents unarmed and helpless. Once abducted, the children are forced at gunpoint to viciously beat or kill neighbors, other children and sometimes even their own parents. The boys become soldiers, the girls forced into sexual slavery.
After two decades, there is little sign of peace on the horizon."*
Uganda has an annual music competition for the school children in Kampala.The children in War Dance live in a refugee camp and they enter their school, Patongo, in the competition with 55 other schools.The children get lost in the music and dance and find some time away from the heavy emotional wounds that they live with.You can’t watch this film and not have your heart touched.
"...Patongo’s head teacher wishes he could give his students more. The war has stolen so much: their homes, their parents and their childhoods. Patongo’s refugee camp packs sixty thousand people in its endless squalor. There is no electricity, running water, and no place safe. Close to half of the primary school students are escaped child soldiers. The bullet holes in the school wall tell the stories the children would rather forget. Two years ago, the L.R.A. dragged twenty-nine children from their schoolhouse to become their soldiers. You can see the horror in the eyes of these children.
But when the music starts, expressions shift. After a lifetime of trauma, this year PatongoPrimary School students have something magical to anticipate. For the first time, they have qualifed to compete in Kampala’s national festival. The capital city may as well be on another planet to these kids. Most have never left the camp, but they dream about Kampala’s towering buildings, plentiful soda and soldier-free streets. Unlike the wealthier schools from the south, Patongo’s students scrap for school uniforms and instruments. Despite the odds, the children endlessly practice their performances, filling the sweltering one room schoolhouse with dust. They are driven by heart, talent and, for some, the need to rebuild lives shattered by the L.R.A.”* http://www.shineglobal.org/shine_currentdocs.htm
No pretentious Survivor show, here.This is real.Even though the film has true human tragedy exposed to your heart, it doesn’t leave you down.Go see War Dance.See for yourself.
I have nothing to do with this film.I simply saw it and think that it is monumentally important for all to see. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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Genocide is not only a word,
it is crying of the whole human race.
There is nothing redeeming about being silent
when speaking up is the humane thing to do.
The honor and integrity of the human race is at stake.
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