Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
Does the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in Foreign Policy last month, on whether the Holocaust is the right tool for teaching us about genocide (or helping us identify early warning signs, etc.). The whole piece is worth a [...]
(Eat) Fast for Darfur
In February, when I was in Kigali, a Rwandan friend came over for dinner, and he was surprised that I was eating. He was earlier at a home where a woman turned down a Fanta and some food. “You’re a good eater,” he told her, confused. “What’s going on?” She told him she was partaking [...]
"I totally would've joined the Refugee Run, but I'm way overqualified"
You remember the refugee run, right? Where all the political big shots at the Global Risk Forum could learn what it’s “really” like? Earlier this week, Scott Gration, Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, tried to diffuse the controversy that’s been swirling around his policy statements (more on that below). He made a personal appeal to [...]
Deja vu about genocide. Or, why it’s okay to sleep with a racist
Yesterday, Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley and the press had a little battle. Some of it might sound familiar: [CROWLEY]:…”On that second point, the President has said that genocide has taken place in Darfur. But as General Gration himself said yesterday, our focus is not on definitions. Our focus is right now on the [...]
One year of corruption in Africa = 704 million years of HIV treatment
At least according to the calculations of the Namibian* activists who made this video, the first in a series called “Lords of Bling.” Take a look if you want to know how many courses of TB or HIV treatment you could get for the money Uganda’s President Museveni pours into his private jet, Swaziland’s King [...]
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