❧❧❧ Whatever you can do or dream, you can BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe ❧❧❧
❧❧❧ You were born whole, not broken. Sandra Hammel ❧❧❧
On 10.10.10, that is October 10, 2010, people from all over the world who had access to a video camera and a way to upload it to ONE DAY ON EARTH (at Vimeo's video website) - uploaded their videos shot on that one day for a DVD project to illustrate the diversity of what went on ONE DAY ON EARTH. At this time you can go to Archive at One Day On Earth Videos and pick any one of the videos that were posted and watch them. I am including one of several here that I just watched. All were nice or great, but this one stood out to me.
.................................................... 16 YEAR OLD ETHIOPIAN MEBRAHTE BERAU ~ PLANS TO BE FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER OF HER COUNTRY
The text with the video by the poster, Jered Love ~
One Day on Earth ~ One Day in the Life of Mebrahte Berau
Imagine1day is a growing global community of people making passionate contributions to ensure every child in Ethiopia receives a quality primary education by 2020. On 10.10.10., the imagine1day team filmed a day in the life of Mebrahte Berau, a 16-year-old girl from Wazza, a remote rural community in the region of Tigray, in Northern Ethiopia. Mebrahte is a student of imagine1day's Wazza Primary School She is in Grade 8 and is the first out of eight children in her family to attend school. You'll see in one day an incredible story unfold as she goes about her chores and works hard to be able to attend school.
Leilani Munter traveled to Taiji, Japan to bear witness to the needless slaughter of dolphins that occurs annually from September till March. These dolphins are rounded up to be sold to dolphinariums around the world and the dolphins that are not sold are killed and sold for meat. The meat that is gotten from these dolphins is toxic. These dolphins have high levels of mercury in them and poison those who eat the meat. We invite the viewer to travel to Taiji, Japan to also bear witness to this murder and to tell the world about what they've seen thru blogs, alerting the media and talking about it everywhere they go to raise awareness and stop this brutal and senseless killing of the dolphins and poisoning of the Japanese people.
PLEASE DO click on the post title and go to the world map and click on any marker to watch any video that was uploaded to participate in this project. Eventually, the team at ONE DAY ON EARTH will pick the best videos in their opinion and make a culminating DVD. You can order that DVD at the website.
.................................................... I found this wonderful video by Jered Love who is the same poster of the video above. He has wonderful videos at his Vimeo account ~ Jered Love ~ regarding Ethiopia.
FINAL Rafa Nadal vs. Gael Monfil 6-1, 7-5 Sunday, October 10, 2010 re-air Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. noon USA EST The Tennis Channel
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates winning his singles final match against Gael Monfils of France at Ariake Colosseum on October 10, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain in aciton during his match against Santiago Giraldo of Colombia in round 1 of the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 5, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Round 2 pictures
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after defeating Milos Raonic of Canada of Round 2 of the Rakuten Open at Ariake Colosseum on October 7, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.
Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain look on Milos Raonic of Canada in round 2 of the Rakuten Open at Ariake Colosseum on October 7, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after defeating Milos Raonic of Canada in round 2 of the Rakuten Open at Ariake Colosseum on October 7, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after a point in his match against Dmitry Tursunov of Russia in the quarter finals of the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after winning his match against Dmitry Tursunov of Russia in the quarter finals of the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after a point in his match against Dmitry Tursunov of Russia in the quarter finals of the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain plays a backhand in his match against Dmitry Tursunov of Russia in the quarter finals of the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain jumps to celebrate after winning the Men's Singles semi final match against Viktor Troicki of Serbia at the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 9, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Viktor Troicki of Serbia 7-6, 4-6, 7-6. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates a point in the Men's Singles semi final match against Viktor Troicki of Serbia at the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 9, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Viktor Troicki of Serbia 7-6, 4-6, 7-6. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images AsiaPac
Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after winning the Men's Singles semi final match against Viktor Troicki of Serbia at the Rakuten Open tennis tournament at Ariake Colosseum on October 9, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Viktor Troicki of Serbia 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.
Vamos Brigade Rafa's Babolat-sponsored forum It is free to register at these sites and then you can read at your heart's content. These two fan sites are a great source of up-to-date information
One of my wishes: to visit Japan. .....................................................
..................................................... Zen Garden From: MysticZen Japanese Meditation Music - Zen Garden - Kokin Gumi - Daylight The works of Japanese painter Hokusai set to traditional Japanese music. Click the post title for Flowers of Japan
T.R. Reid presents a lowkey study of health care in five countries other than the USA. And he has a book coming out as well. But if you missed it on Frontline on TV and you are reading this, most likely you have at your fingertips the possibility to see a great hour...
Japan, England, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan's health care systems for ALL people in their countries is explored. If you didn't see Sicko, or did see it and need some more information to think about changing the USA health care or where you live, this is a website worth some exploration. There are many resources including interviews from a representative from each of the five countries named.
in England the Percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spent on health care is 8.3 % and the average family premium is $0. It is funded by taxation. Co-payments: None for most services; some co-pays for dental care, eyeglasses and 5 percent of prescriptions. Young people and the elderly are exempt from all drug co-pays.
In Japan you can learn that Percentage of GDP spent on health care is 8% and the average family premium is $280 per month, with employers paying more than half. Co-payments: 30 percent of the cost of a procedure, but the total amount paid in a month is capped according to income. In Japan a hospital bed is nightly $10 for a 4 patient room and $90 for a private room.
In Germany, the Percentage of GDP spent on health care is 10.7% and the average family premium is $750 per month; premiums are pegged to patients' income. Co-payments: 10 euros ($15) every three months; some patients, like pregnant women, are exempt.
What is it? Germany, like Japan, uses a social insurance model. In fact, Germany is the birthplace of social insurance, which dates back to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. But unlike the Japanese, who get insurance from work or are assigned to a community fund, Germans are free to buy their insurance from one of more than 200 private, nonprofit "sickness funds." As in Japan, the poor receive public assistance to pay their premiums.
In Taiwan, the Percentage GDP spent on health care is 6.3% and the average family premium is $650 per year for a family for four. Co-payments: 20 percent of the cost of drugs, up to $6.50; up to $7 for outpatient care; $1.80 for dental and traditional Chinese medicine. There are exemptions for major diseases, childbirth, preventive services, and for the poor, veterans, and children.
What is it? Taiwan adopted a "National Health Insurance" model in 1995 after studying other countries' systems. Like Japan and Germany, all citizens must have insurance, but there is only one, government-run insurer. Working people pay premiums split with their employers; others pay flat rates with government help; and some groups, like the poor and veterans, are fully subsidized. The resulting system is similar to Canada's -- and the U.S. Medicare program.
In Switzerland, the Percentage of GDP spent on health care is 11.6% and the average family premium is $750, paid entirely by consumers; there are government subsidies for low-income citizens. Co-payments: 10 percent of the cost of services, up to $420 per year.
What is it? The Swiss system is social insurance like in Japan and Germany, voted in by a national referendum in 1994. Switzerland didn't have far to go to achieve universal coverage; 95 percent of the population already had voluntary insurance when the law was passed. All citizens are required to have coverage; those not covered were automatically assigned to a company. The government provides assistance to those who can't afford the premiums.
T. R. Reid Reid is a former chief of The Washington Post's London, Tokyo and Rocky Mountain bureaus, and also had stints covering Congress, national politics and four presidential elections for the paper. He is the author of eight books -- three in Japanese -- most recently "The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy." Source
AND MORAL INTEGRITY. AND TRUTH. OH.TRUTH. A FOREIGN CONCEPT FROM THIS DUO WE CALL PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
ONCE WE SPLIT THE ATOM WE STEPPED OVER THE THRESHOLD OF NO RETURN
WE REALLY CAN’T CONTROL WHO HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Seriously, how is it possible to control what some other leader will do? It is self-delusion that we will be able to control what Iran, North Korean, Russian or any country does regarding building nuclear weapons. We wrote the Japanese constitution and wrote in it that they can’t have a military. Maybe, having no military isn’t a bad idea. Maybe.
“We” (Bush and Cheney intellectual types) want to control the world. But “we” really can’t. Not really. Seriously. …………………………………………….
WE NEED TO STOP AND THINK. The unabashed, illogical, short-sighted, fear-based policies and mode of operation, that we have had from Cheney and Bush, have been mistakes and yet where is the will to make a change?
I wouldn’t want to be President of the United States of America. Ever. But more, now, than before Bushed ucked it up. The outstanding public debt as of 16 Oct 2007 is nine TRILLION, forty-eight BILLION, nine hundred twenty nine million, six hundred fifty one thousand, eight dollars and fifty four cents. That looks like this: $ 9 , 0 4 8 , 9 2 9 , 6 5 1 , 0 0 8 . 5 4
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.42 billion PER DAY since September 29, 2006!
“The U.S. budget deficit is financed by borrowing. More and more of that money comes from China, now the United States' second-largest lender, after Japan. China's investment in U.S. government debt has more than tripled in the past five years, from $71 billion in 2000 to $242 billion in 2005. ….Congress and the president have been unwilling to raise taxes or make deep spending cuts. The only alternative is to borrow.” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200510u/nj_schneider_2005-10-25
China! Do we really want Bank China to be in control? What are we thinking!?! Are we thinking? Who is minding “The Store”? It’s GW Bush and robbing us in more than one way. Imagine if the government suggested spending one-fourth of this amount of money on the education of our children. We would have said “no”. Imagine if the government suggested to spend one-fourth of this money to help our children who are “at risk”. We would have said “no”. Imagine if the government had suggested spending a small portion of this money to reimburse the Social Security accounts. We would have said “no”. Right? Imagine if the government had suggested repaying the Indian Trust Funds that have been robbed from by the very government agencies that were to protect the funds – we would have said “no”. Why are we willing to let our government to invest in the Iraq war and not spend our tax money on what would really invest in our country’s people? And the $12 BILLION that was LOST by sending it in cash to Iraq on wood pallets – how much did you read or hear about that?! “We had to pay Iraqis in cash,” Mr. Bremer said of the money, most of which came from Iraqi oil sales. “Delay would have been demoralizing and unfair to millions of Iraqi families.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/washington/07bremer.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FB%2FBremer%2C%20L.%20Paul%20III What of the demoralizing and unfairness to millions of USA citizens?!! I don’t understand the apathy of the country that we call United States of America. However, I think it would be more appropriately called the Divided States of America. We let this insanity to go on via George Bush and keep going through our lives. It is outrageous that we don’t get angry about the debt. In my town it is annually a contentious subject that our taxes are raised by the town by $350. And where is the same reaction to the federal runaway spending on a war that has had a moving “target” continually?
FOLLOW THE MONEY (OIL): TWELVE BENCHMARKS
1. January 2003: The Wall Street Journal reported that representatives from Exxon Mobil Corp., ChevronTexaco Corp., ConocoPhillips and Halliburton, among others, were meeting with Vice President Cheney's staff to plan the post- war revival of Iraq's oil industry.
2. March 2003: Iraqi Oil Ministry was one of the few structures the invading forces protected from looters in the first days of the war.
3. April 2003: During the initial assault on Baghdad, soldiers set up forward bases named Camp Shell and Camp Exxon.
4. May 22, 2003: President Bush signed Executive Order 13303 providing full legal immunity to all U.S. oil companies doing business in Iraq in order to facilitate the country's "orderly reconstruction."
5. November 2003: McKee (ConocoPhillips executive who is overseeing Iraqi oil industry) quietly ordered a new plan for Iraq's oil. The drafting would be overseen by a "senior adviser," Amy Jaffe, who ....now works for James Baker, the former Secretary of State, whose law firm serves as counsel to both ExxonMobil and the defense minister of Saudi Arabia. The plan, written by State Department contractor BearingPoint, was guided, says Jaffe, by a handful of oil-industry consultants and executives.
6. March 2004: Iraq's interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) passed in March 2004 by Iraq's Governing Council, sets forth that Coalition Provisional Authority laws, regulations, and orders are to remain in force after the transfer of sovereignty unless a duly enacted piece of legislation rescinds or amends them.
7. August 30, 2005: Bush says U.S. troops would continue fighting in Iraq in order to protect the country's vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists.
8. February 2006-June 2006: USAID contracts with Bearing Point to draft Iraq’s oil law to provide "legal and regulatory advice in drafting the framework of petroleum and other energy-related legislation, including foreign investment".
9. March 15, 2006: Gen. John Abizaid, the Army general overseeing U.S. military operations in Iraq said the United States may want to keep a long-term military presence in Iraq to bolster moderates against extremists in the region and protect the flow of oil.
10. July 2006: U.S. Government and oil companies get a copy of the draft oil law. In September 2006 the Internation Monetary Fund and World Bank receive their copy.
11. February 2007: "Draft Hydrocarbon Law" was submitted first to the Iraqi Cabinet and then to the Iraqi Parliament (Council of Representatives) by the Cabinet.
12. April -May 2007: Defense Secretary Robert Gates and U.S. Vice President Cheney each travel separately to Baghdad to push political benchmarks and specifically the oil law.
From a Study of U.S. Influence on Iraqi Oil, by Erik Leaver, Carol and Ed Newman, Fellow Institute for Policy Studies June 4, 2007. Click above title to read full article and complete bibliography of sources. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/23353
And yet we won’t vote for any candidate who would admit that taxes will be raised. Are we rational?
President Bush has openly said repeatedly that he makes decisions and is never doubtful that he may have been wrong. Bill Maher refers to this Bush characteristic:"It must feel good to be 'dead certain' about everything. But it's not a virtue, especially when you're always wrong. Bertrand Russell said, 'The trouble with the world is the stupid are cock-sure and the intelligent, full of doubt.' Doubt is good. It suits human nature.Doubt is what makes you careful.Doubt is what makes you open to change.Doubt is why Eddie Murphy took a DNA test."
I just had a house guest for the weekend from Australia but she is living in Washington, D.C. as her husband is stationed in D.C. He is an officer in the Australian Army. As someone who works toward ending the genocide in Darfur, it is particularly interesting to me that he served in Rwanda in 1995, still a time of slaughter in Rwanda. She and I talked about Bush. It is always healthy to learn how others see our President. Admittedly I think Bush has not been a good President for the US. But the fact that how I see President Bush is quite the same as my house guest sees Mr. Bush tells me that his behavior translates clearly to other parts of the world in the same way that he translates in my mind. As I traveled Europe in 2005, I found the same true. And this was the first European trip that I have ever been treated with obvious disdain in Italy. Italy is a part of the USA coalition in Iraq, but the Italian people didn't choose to be a part of the coalition. Just their government did. While in my area at the Naval War College, a Greek military officer also shared with me his views of our President. As he said, he likes the American people, but separates our government's actions from us. He also said that "good sense" is often bypassed in the US military mode of operating.
As a part of the world, the US would be wise to care about the way we are viewed by other nation's and their people. We don't have to let it dictate our every governmental foreign policy but it would help us maneuver through our foreign relations. As is true in Iraq, the solution is not so much going to be achieved militarily, but through diplomacy in the world of governments and politics. And during the Bush administration days, diplomacy has been a foreign language that we can't speak. ...................................................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eFHEiYwiNc Bill Maher's opening September 7, 2007 Bush called Australia Austria while he was at APEC summit in Australia. Bush also called APEC - OPEC on the same trip.
President George W. Bush joins fellow APEC leaders for the official portrait Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in front of the Sydney Opera House. White House photo by Chris Greenberg. Everyone has their right hand up to wave, except for George Bush. Maybe, he didn't hear the photographer's instruction to have everyone wave their right hand for the picture. President George W. Bush, left center, joins fellow leaders during the APEC Leaders Retreat Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in Sydney, Australia. White House photo by Eric Draper.
.................................................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWu8T8F5W4 Bill Maher September 7, 2007, Following the opening with Retired Colonel Larry Wilkerson of the U.S. Army discussing Iraq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvT4adazeOE Ralph Nader on Bill Maher's Real Time September 7, 2007 includes the issue of Chinese recalls
I caught a portion of this HBO movie, White Light, Black Rain last Friday. I was supposed to be working on the Dream for Darfur event, as I am the lead organizer of it for Providence, Rhode Island, USA. But I have my television on a lot just for background. I came across this movie and had to sit down and be sucked into the story. The Truth. Nuclear War is one thing for those who lived through it. And another for those who know nothing about its truthful effects. I heard a man say at a dinner party a few years ago that we should just "Nuke 'em over there...in Iraq". In my most polite tone of writing - this is simple ignorant and mindless bluster and ego talking.
Each person on the planet who has a television or the means should see this movie. And all politicians should see it and have to write a public response to it after viewing for public reading.
"All things are on the table" has outlived its usefulness in a world that has country after country building or wanting to build nuclear weapons. You have no respect for Life if you want a world with nuclear weapons. We, the USA, have no power over which countries have a nuclear bomb. We might want to pretend that we do, but we don't. ...................................................................................
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On August 9, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, Bock's Car left Tinian carrying Fat Man, a plutonium implosion-type bomb. The primary target was the Kokura Arsenal, but upon reaching the target, they found that it was covered by a heavy ground haze and smoke, pilot Charles Sweeney turned to the secondary target of the Mitsubishi Torpedo Plant at Nagasaki.
Of the 286,00 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries.
................................................................................... At Sundance. Thank Goodness for Sundance.And HBO.There just may be a god who cares.
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STOP GENOCIDE
The Beijing, China 2008 Olympics has chosen this theme:
ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM
And yet, China has been instrumental in the continuation of the Darfur genocide since its conception
As a human rights activist,
I bring to your attention the four and a half year old genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
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.
Let us not be silent.
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 never a way.
Our collective silence is a weapon used by the genocidaires.
Silence kills.
Complicity encourages and emboldens.
Apathy disgraces us individually and collectively.
We are, each one, responsible for our personal silence.
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.”
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.
The AmericanIndianGenocideMuseum 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 VerdeIslands 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 atthe 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.
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/
“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 FordhamUniversities’ online Nanking information:
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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