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bets
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Username: Bets
Post Number: 1016
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - 9:22 pm: | 
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Yes, this Op/Ed piece appeared weeks ago. Yes, I didn't bring it up. Yes, I hoped someone else would.
There's a sickness that is perpetuating this abhorrent situation. I admit it: I'm guilty. I haven't posted yet, I haven't written yet, I've donated to Tsunami victims, I really HATE it!!!
Yet, it's really happening, and we're (as a country, a nation, a non-partisan PEOPLE) not doing a damn thing to stop it.
My neice forwarded this link to me and begged me to get involved. Part of my involvement is raising awareness here. Did you know about this? Do you care? DID YOU? DO YOU?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23kristof.html?hp
un: ickyicky4
pw: ickyicky
Somehow ,typing this generic username/password combo onto the keyboard seems to transfer an oil of shame to the fingertips.
Please, write to Frank Lautenberg, Jon Corzine, Hilary Clinton, Charles Schumer, ANYONE! to stop this mass murder that happens under a heartless, careless American eye.
I cannot promise to monitor this thread, so I hope it doesn't die an undeserved death due to she who's raised the issue.
The people of Sudan need help. Desperately. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2125
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 - 10:02 pm: |
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You're right, bets. This is still a major, major problem, and all we have really seen so far are speeches. It is ridiculous that so little action has been taken. I have responded to a few requests for contacts to our representatives from various organizations during the past few months, but, sadly, these efforts haven't seemed to accomplish much. |
Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 939
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 10:10 am: |
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If Halliburton were able to receive no-bid contracts and overcharge the country for services rendered on oil fields in Sudan, no doubt the Bush administration would be howling about spreadable democracy over there. After all, Sudan has about as many WMD as Iraq had.
However, Bush cannot see any financial reward for Sudanese freedom, therefore the U.S. is shamefully quiet about what is happening.
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cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3238
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 11:37 am: |
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Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1688
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 1:25 pm: |
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I thought the UN was handling this.
Oh, according to them, its not Genocide. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3240
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 1:30 pm: |
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Danforth quit as US ambassador to the UN, and on his way out he ripped that blessed world body for being worthless in dealing with the Sudan.
Janay is right. The UN said it's not genocide, merely killing with ethnic implications (I think the wording was). Kofi ought to know it when he sees it, as he did in Rwanda. |
dave23
Citizen
Username: Dave23
Post Number: 193
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 2:13 pm: |
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Robert,
The Righties are right on this one. Both Negroponte and Danforth urged stronger language, which would in turn demand stonger action, from the UN.
Though Bush hasn't used his pulpit to prompt action, either has any other nation or multinational body. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3241
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 2:33 pm: |
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Maybe there's no financial reward or oil-for-food contracts for the UN in the Sudan that accounts for their inaction. |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 93
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 2:50 pm: |
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Wow, someone puts up a heartfelt plea for people to notice and do something about a terrible situation and within less that 24 hours it's degenerated into the usual red vs. blue bickering that makes this section of the message board so tedious and pointless.
Is there any organization which is putting out a petition or anything about this? Sometimes you can download letter templates to send to your legislators?
So anyway, here's my contribution to the discussion. Now knock off the nonsense and either do something about this or shut up. There's plenty of other threads where you can beat up your usual political punching bags.
U.S. Senator Jon S. Corzine
http://corzine.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
FAX: (202) 228-2197
(TDD/TTY) (202) 2241984
One Gateway Center, 11th Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102
(973) 645-3030
FAX: (973) 645-0502
208 White Horse Pike, Suite 18
Barrington, New Jersey 08007
(856) 757-5353
FAX: (856) 546-1526
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/webform.html
Washington D.C. Office:
Hart Senate Office Building
Suite 324
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3224
TTY: (202) 224-2087
Fax: (202) 228-4054
Newark Office:
One Gateway Center
Twenty-Third Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 639-8700
1-888-398-1642
Fax: (973) 639-8723
Congressman Donald M. Payne
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Washington Office
2209 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone (202) 225-3436
Fax (202) 225-4160
Kerry McKenney Legislative Director/Press Secretary
Alexandrine De Bianchi Legislative Assistant/Systems Administrator
Darlene Murray Scheduler/Intern Coordinator
Noelle Lusane Professional staff member of the Subcommittee on Africa
Stephanie Martinez Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant
Jonita Whitaker State Department Fellow/ Foreign Affairs Advisor
LaVerne Alexander Legislative Assistant
Newark Office
50 Walnut Street, Room 1016
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Phone (973) 645-3213
Fax (973) 645-5902
Maxine James Chief of Staff
Robert Cottingham District Representative
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Bobbi Walston Office Manager
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Elizabeth Office
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Phone (908) 629-0222
Fax (908) 629-0221
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Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 94
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 3:08 pm: |
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I should've finished the column before I posted. This site has sample letters to send your Congressman, President etc.
http://www.savedarfur.org/
Haven't read them yet so don't yell at me for content. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2129
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 3:56 pm: |
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Maybe there's no oil in the ground there, which accounts for OUR inaction.
(Or, because we don't have the troops to spare, anyway.) |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 95
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 4:07 pm: |
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Arg. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3243
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 4:17 pm: |
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The US was pressing for definitive action on the Sudan, and was rebuffed by the UN and it's member tyrants.
The UN kinda finds Congo's refugees hot little numbers. Must not be enough in the Sudan.
But hey -- if the UN says there's no genocide, must be true. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2130
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 4:48 pm: |
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Sorry, Mr.Incredible, just a reflex. 
I was glad to see the US's attempts to pressure the U.N. -- there is no excuse for the U.N.'s denial and inaction.
I don't see the point of bringing that UN Congo scandal into this, though. |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3245
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - 9:09 pm: |
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Really? Doesn't the Congo define the entire UN body just as Abu Graib defines the intentions and proclivities of the Bush Administration? And one could say, then, the UN just reopened the Congo under 'new management' (to borrow a Kennedy rhetorically winning flourish). |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2133
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2005 - 11:33 am: |
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Did the U.N. sanction sexual abuse? |
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