Guys I am planning on going to the Save Darfur rally saturday

[JohnKleeb]

http://www.savedarfur.org/rally/
This looks like it could be interesting and it is a huge issue.

[JI7]

1. some big names there

hopefully that helps bring attention to this. i notice the Bush administration official is still to be announced. i wonder if they will send anyone at all considering they haven't done anythign when they could.

[JohnKleeb]

2. My congressman is among them

I kind of feel like a dick for asking him a politically loaded question when he visited my high school last year. It's hard to say at this point but I may vote for his reelection if it means that we'll have someone pushing for involvement in Darfur and supporting human rights around the world.. I mean I disagree with Frank Wolf on nearly all domestic issues however we are on the same exact page when it comes to Human Rights aborad and to me this is a huge issue. Now on the other hand Karate Allen won't get my vote at all. I wonder who the Bush administration official will be too. Yeah they definely should do something in regards to this. It's bad enough that Clinton didn't do anything in Rwanda and now the same mistake is being made. Noticed Elie Wiesel's name too. He is someone I have a lot of admiration for. A surprising name I did not see was Tom Lantos who like Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust at least I think he was interned I am not sure since he was a resistance fighter so I am not sure if he was ever interned. Either way he's a great guy. Wolf's not so bad either even if he is the most conservative republican in the Northern Virginia delegation.

[karendc]

3. John, it's Sunday...

We will be there too.

[JohnKleeb]

5. D'oh

Thanks cool. I need to read better.

[sandnsea]

7. Great!

Could you email me when you get info up, I'll link to it. The starvation and wars in Africa are just beyond comprehension.

And Kleeb, :hug: Good for you!

[JohnKleeb]

8. Your welcome

I really think this could be great because they're going to have some great speakers like Elie Wiesel, the archbishop of the DC area, Theodore McCarrick who sadly is retiring but he's been a great bishop, Nick and George Clooney, Paul Rusebegina who Don Cheadle played in Hotel Rwanda, Governor Corzine of New Jersey, Democratic congresspeople Pelosi, Capuno, and Payne. and others. Genocide really has become my key issue since I saw Hotel Rwanda last fall.

[ginnyinWI]

4. haha--I first read your posting as

"I'm going to save Darfur Saturday!" :)

[JohnKleeb]

6. yeah me against a militia scary

[beachmom]

9. And where is the messiah in the WH on this one?

I had read that * watched Hotel Rwanda not once but twice, so moved was he from the movie. Yet this genocide continues in Darfur unabated. Where is the diplomacy on this? Where is the moral leadership from the U.S.? I'm not talking about major military intervention, but what about getting the African Union the resources they need to start with?

I saw Nicholas Kristoff on Jim Lehrer, and apparently this war has now spread to Chad. He also spoke of the militia throwing children into bonfires. And I bearly even ever read anything in the newspaper anymore on Darfur (only the battles in Chad)!

That's great you're going JohnKleeb. And KarenDC, too.

[JohnKleeb]

10. You rarely ever see neo-conservatives talk abotu this

I heard what Kristoff said too. He also said for every 28 mins the media devoted to Wacko Jacko's trial last year they focused two on Sudan. This is disgraceful and as Wiesel said "to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all" We have to do something. I didnt know Bush had watched it. He should get involved. It's bad enough that Clinton did hack shit in Rwanda and now we're making the same mistake here. This issue to me is not a left or right issue. It's something that we should do not just because it's the right thing to do because it is I must say our moral obligation.