Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
"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 [...]
Truth vs. soundbites
I’m only just getting my head wrapped around the ENOUGH project’s new Congo campaign well…enough (damn them for making such bad puns inevitable!) to wade into the blogospherical dissent over it, but this entertaining hypothetical chant from the folks over at CongoResources is a nice riff on the trade-offs advocacy orgs always face between how [...]
South Africa loses feisty AIDS activist, poignant digital diarist
This happened last week, but I only just caught up: 24-year-old Thembi Ngubane died last Thursday, after becoming an incredible force for fighting HIV/AIDS. She did this in part by recording a year in her life living with AIDS, as part of Joe Richman’s Radio Diaries series. Her story starts: “Every morning, when I wake [...]
Top 10 Sad Things the Palin-Letterman Controversy Says about America
I had a nice little list going, centered on the most outrageous element of all: a form letter for anti-Letterman protestors–egged on, in spirit at the very least, by Sarah Palin and the exeuctive produer of Sarah Palin Radio (“Governor Palin’s own ‘friendly’ media,” according to the site). The sample letter accuses Letterman’s advertisers of [...]
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