Darfur.
I know that my posts keep getting darker and darker, but it is the way of being an International and Area Studies student. I went to a lecture today by Senator Tom Coburn and the head of the Religious Studies program at OU. I was stunned. Right now in Darfur, Sudan, genocide is happening. The UN is not acting quickly enough and the African Union is not strong enough to make anything happen. The U.S. on the other hand does have the power to assist this region and Sec. Rice has requested that the legislature give her the funding to do so. If this situation is severe enough that the fiscally conservative Tom Coburn says that we should help, then you know that this situation is something we need to help with. This is an issue that has bipartisan support, but citizens have not been vocal enough with their leaders to let make this issue a priority.
Right now the best thing you could do is call your Senator and/or representative and ask them right now to support acting to stop genocide in Darfur. If you are uncertain what to say, here's a script:
“Hi, this is ___ calling from ___. I’m calling to urge Representative/Senator ___ to do everything he/she can to make sure that the $123 million that the Administra-tion recently requested for African Union peacekeeping troops in Darfur is appropriated as soon as possible. Funding the African Union is critical to stopping what both the President and Congress have called genocide. Please tell the Congress(man/woman) /Senator that his/her constituents care about Darfur and expect Congress to fund the AU peacekeepers. Thank you.”
Also, please google "Darfur" and find a website that will send a postcard for you to the President that asks him to act to stop the genocide. Then, let your friends know about this. Talk about it at church. Talk about it at work. Tell your relatives. This really is something that we can help with. People always say if they knew, they would have helped. Well, now you know.
Right now the best thing you could do is call your Senator and/or representative and ask them right now to support acting to stop genocide in Darfur. If you are uncertain what to say, here's a script:
“Hi, this is ___ calling from ___. I’m calling to urge Representative/Senator ___ to do everything he/she can to make sure that the $123 million that the Administra-tion recently requested for African Union peacekeeping troops in Darfur is appropriated as soon as possible. Funding the African Union is critical to stopping what both the President and Congress have called genocide. Please tell the Congress(man/woman) /Senator that his/her constituents care about Darfur and expect Congress to fund the AU peacekeepers. Thank you.”
Also, please google "Darfur" and find a website that will send a postcard for you to the President that asks him to act to stop the genocide. Then, let your friends know about this. Talk about it at church. Talk about it at work. Tell your relatives. This really is something that we can help with. People always say if they knew, they would have helped. Well, now you know.
posted by Jesi E. at 2/23/2006 04:32:00 PM
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Perhaps I can lighten the atmosphere with a glimpse of slight hope.
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Perhaps a Resurrection in Eurabia
There is a rallying cry in Italy, a sharp, piercing wake up call to arms against the wave of appeasement and denial that has rendered Europe a crippled, broken civilization. It seems some shred of light has been cast on the great dark continent of Eurabia. A small but growing group of "theocons" have finally recognized that their dhimmitude is the final stage of surrender to the Islamists and have decided to fight the great fight and take back their society from the bloody clutches of the barbarians.
The inspiring Pope Benedict had a divine hand in it ,of course and so I am hopeful, and I haven't held out a hope for Europe for years now.
Italy’s ‘theo-cons’ rally against ‘Islamist threat’
ROME: Senior politicians in Italy’s government launched a policy manifesto on Thursday vowing to protect Western civilization from what they said were the twin threats of Islamic fundamentalism and a moral vacuum.
Marcello Pera, speaker of the Senate and a friend of Pope Benedict, said people in the West were ashamed to stand up for their values and often blamed themselves for being victims of terrorism. “The West has difficulty recognizing itself,” Pera told a news conference to launch the manifesto. “As Pope Benedict said: ‘the West doesn’t love itself any more’,” he said.
The document, entitled “For the West, Force of Civilization”, begins: “The West is in crisis. Attacked externally by fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism, it is not able to rise to the challenge. Undermined internally by a moral and spiritual crisis, it can’t seem to find the courage to react.”
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