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geekgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:11 AM
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this is GENOCIDE wee need to contact the UNITED NATIONS for HELP!!!!
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 08:25 AM by geekgrrl
I am watching on TV right now- live footage- thousands of people- thousands still at the superdome. thousands still in NO. No one getting in or out. People dying all over the place. This is CRIME. We need outside help.

Anyone know how to even begin to plee to other countries and the UN for freakin' help??

If this is such a "huge task" (as bush says- such hard work!) then we need help!!

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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:15 AM
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1. 50 nations are queuing to help, still refused
what are we suppose to do ? Invade ?
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geekgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:21 AM
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2. imagine if tons called/emailed- here's some contact information
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 08:24 AM by geekgrrl
the UN refugee agency:
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/contact

UN relief web (note their info on the "massive US hurrican relief effort"- that should be corrected!!):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/hlp.nsf/db900ByKey/Contact?OpenDocument

contact UN OCHA (coordinating office for humanitarian affairs):
http://ochaonline.un.org/contactus.asp

Oxfam:
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/contacts.htm

I'd call my own govt but they aren't helping out!!




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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:21 AM
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3. U.S., OTHERS TAKE HEAT FOR OPPOSING U.N. GENOCIDE AGREEMENT
U.S., OTHERS TAKE HEAT FOR OPPOSING U.N. GENOCIDE AGREEMENT

Published on Saturday, August 14, 2005 by OnWorld.net

by Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON, D.C., - International charity Oxfam is seeking to turn up the heat on governments it says are blocking efforts to prevent genocide and protect civilians from atrocities such as those seen during the 1994 bloodbath in Rwanda.

The organization is accusing prominent United Nations member states the United States, Brazil, India, and Russia of blocking, or at least giving the cold shoulder to, an emerging international agreement establishing an international duty to head off genocide and protect civilians from ethnic cleansing as seen in the Balkans.

Other governments opposed to the proposed measures, to be discussed at a U.N. summit in New York next month, include Syria, Iran, Cuba, Pakistan, Egypt, and Algeria, according to Oxfam.

''It is hard to overstate how important this is,'' said Nicola Reindorp, head of Oxfam's New York office. ''In one month's time, the biggest meeting of world leaders in history could endorse a new standard which could help stop a future Rwanda from happening.''

''We've taken the step of exposing the governments blocking the agreement so people around the world can call on them to change their minds,'' Reindorp added.
..more..

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0814-03.htm
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 08:39 AM
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4. U.N. ? FEMA? N.G? It was hard work dismantling these unnecessary..
organizations.
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