justice for the women of the sudan
Martin Luther King, Jr. said: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
My friend Dian sent me this email today and I am sharing it with you:
Since 2003, thousands of girls and women have been raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence in the Darfur region of Sudan. While the world waits, the perpetrators continue to rape and kill with impunity.
But amidst the wreckage, inspiring women and men are risking everything to make things right. Join them in demanding that the Sudanese government bring the war criminals to justice. It’s an easy way to make a big impact for human rights.
Watch the video featuring Snow Patrol’s cover of “Isolation” and make some noise for human rights.
After the video I suggest you write. Activity is always rewarded with response; it is the lack of activity that allows the terrors to continue … lack of activity and lack of "thinking outside the box." Breyten Breytenbach writes in a Poest Against War newsletter:
Because no, I don't despair … We know that essential contributions to peace building, to development, to the re-shaping of Africa - will be made by organizations of women and of the youth, by those active in cultural creativeness, by engaging the roving armed bands on questions of formation for citizenship, by motivating our interventions on thorough and exact knowledge and on an ongoing search for understanding the reasons for communal tensions and the ways out, by revalorizing the role played by traditional structures and indigenous methods in matters of conflict mediation and survival - and all of the above premised on understanding and exploring the links between imagination and creation.
For I believe that it is possible to strengthen and season the freedom of the mind, and that this freedom constitutes the necessary lever for bringing about further changes.
Good luck!