A Challenge for Us All

I'm going to add to Neil's passionate posts on the situation in Darfur, Sudan, by giving readers sites where they can better inform themselves on what is actually occuring there. The fact that Dubya did not mention Darfur in the SOTU means that it's up to us to draw the attention of our fellow-citizens and government officials to it. The people of Darfur live with terror of a very real and horrible kind daily. The American Progress Action Fund has a webpage, Sudan: A Challenge for Us All, where you can watch several Flash movie presentations (not for the faint of heart, but we need to get over our faint hearts and learn the realities of other people's worlds), read articles and talks from experts in the area and the events of the past years there. Yes, "past years," plural. This has been an ongoing situation for three years now, and it only continues to deteriorate.

Another useful place to check out is the DivestSudan page of DivestTerror.org. Here you will learn that we are financing the campaign against the southern regions of the Sudan by the money our state pension funds and university pension funds are investing in African oil. Oil again, perhaps the worst thing to ever happen to the planet. You can download your own particular state and discover what its role is in this, learn how to join in petitioning that this practice be discontinued, and many other useful things.

A couple more useful virtual visits are to Darfur: A Genocide We Can Stop, with the latest news from Sudan, petitions to sign, letters to write to the White House and Congress, then on to Save Darfur, where you can find many more useful links. This one, for instance, which gives a very clear and readable summary of the current situation. Read, talk about this in your own blogs, at the water cooler, around the family dinner table, in your churches, at school. Take up the challenge - before it's entirely too late.

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