Taking action on Darfur

As I finally sat down to write a letter you can send to your elected officials, I noticed that in an email I'd gotten from Amnesty International, they'd already written an excellent one. It's also automated so it will look up your officials for you, take action. Also, there's a new post on the coalition for Darfur chronicling our inaction during the Rwandan genocide and now the Sudan genocide--with what the news was really focused on. Speaking of the Rwandan Genocide, if you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda yet, put it on the top of your list, it's easily the best movie I've seen all year. There's an excellent article in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune with the run down on what Congress is (or isn't) doing about Sudan and what the major political roadblocks have been in getting the UN and world to act -- the usual, money and oil. It is definitely worth reading considering there are currently as many as 10 different bills floating around the congress on Darfur, but none of them have been debated. Which means there needs to be some pressure put on our elected officials from their constituents to get these bills out there, so write ‘em! Maybe we could actually get them to do something more than fighting for power and arguing over "liberal judges" and "nuclear options!"

posted by Sarai @ 12:02 PM