Ethan Zuckerman in a brilliant piece shares his experience writing to Senator Kennedy's office to encourage the Senator to take action on Sudan. Ethan explores the reluctance of government officials to use the "g" word--genocide--and quotes a question and answer with a US State Department spokesman that would be funny if it weren't tragic.
One-click news - western, Arab and African sources
- Google News: Sudan search
- allAfrica.com: Sudan
[NGOs, UN, US State Department, African press] - BBC NEWS: Sudan
[daily summary articles, photos, some audio] - Scotsman: Sudan
[best UK coverage] - Sudan Tribune
[best non-mainstream, accurate local view. Paris-based independent covers Sudan press, as well as world press of interest to Sudanese] - Sudan.net
[complementary to Sudan Tribune, includes Arabic sources as well as Khartoum-based daily news] - Blogs and RSS feeds currently commenting on Sudan
[find new sources, find each other] - Islam Online
Strongly Islamist, generally supports the government of Sudan. Know the other side.. - Al-Ahram Weekly
From the editor: "providing as honest and objective a look at contemporary Egyptian and Arab reality as possible -- as seen through Egyptian and Arab eyes." - Sudan - News and Analysis by Eric Reeves
By far the best independent analysis of the developing situation--and usually much more pessimistic than official accounts. Also usually proves to be more accurate. - ReliefWeb: Sudan The Latest
- Weather right now in Sudan
Learn: Background
- Darfur Information Center - Comprehensive information
- Sudan Country Analysis Brief
- TIME Magazine: The Tragedy of Sudan
- FOXNews: Bin Laden's Path Crossed Through Sudan
- Sudan Profile, from Reuters Foundation AlertNet
- Physicians for Human Rights indicators of genocide, call for action
- Engineering a genocide in Sudan (how to)
- Time for action (excellent historical-to-present summary)
- War Nerd (black humor sometimes expresses the truth best)
- Sudan: Darfur Destroyed (Human Rights Watch comprehensive, fact-based)
- Slavery in Sudan (iAbolish--another dimension of the story)
- The New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof describes the crisis
- HRW: Video: Crisis in Darfur, March 2004
- CIA - The World Factbook -- Sudan
- Amnesty International: Sudan Human Rights Concerns
- Doctors without Borders/National Geographic Sudan report
- Human Rights Watch: Africa : Sudan
Learn: Multimedia
- Video documentary of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Human Rights Watch
- Satellite Images of destruction in Darfur, USAID
- Who will survive today? Photo essay from the United States Holocaust Museum
- Download a song for sudan (mp3, lyrics)
- Download a printable flyer/fact sheet (pdf file)
- Download a printable poster 8.5" by 11" (pdf file)
- Watch Human Rights Watch/Witness September 2004 video
Learn: International law
- USAID: Sudan: Darfur Humanitarian Emergency
- Paul Marshall writing in the National Review
- US Congress considers resolutions re: Sudan
- Sudan keeps seat on U.N. rights panel - May 3, 2004
- US President Bush condemns atrocities in Sudan
- Secretary General Kofi Annan warns of genocide in Sudan
- US Declaration of Independence: all "are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- United Nations Convention on Genocide
Social change for the next generation
Hack the Noosphere: face2face and online
- Spotlight on Darfur 1, by Catez Stevens, New Zealand
A fine collection of bloggers writing about Darfur, activism, etc. - October 2, 2005 Columbia University national action conference
- flickr Darfur, Sudan, etc. photo pages
Hack the Noosphere: Create new institutions
Act: Music
- Download and share this FREE SONG to raise awareness and inspire action
A mother's story - by a multi-ethnic group of musicians hailing from Africa, Europe, and America. Creative Commons license. - Free songs "Darfur" and "Darfur Moon" by way of DarfurGenocide.org
The next two grassroots songs for Sudan, one in the ironic, pointedly topical folksong tradition, and one both touching and trenchant - Oxfam's Songs for Sudan download album
Purchase Oxfam's Sudan charity album for £7.99; £5.00 goes to Oxfam for its relief work in Sudan. - Genocide in Sudan, charity album by artists organized by Waxploitation
This largely hip-hop charity album will be released in November, but can be pre-ordered online now. Contribute $12 of which all proceeds go to the United Nations Refugee Agency and UNICEF.
Act: Gather with others
Wear the green ribbon of the Save Darfur Coalition of over 100 faith-based and humanitarian groups
- Poster your town! Download and print here!
- Meet others and make "constructive trouble" in New York today! Protest at the Sudanese Embassy at 305 E. 47th Street..
The best street activism, in New York, almost continuously, wonderful folks! 
- DarfurGenocide.org: mass media events, email mobilization, associated with Faithful America and the US National Council of Churches
- Darfur Sudan genocide humor
- Welcome to Kukummi
- Committee on Conscience -- Center for student action
- Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT)
Act: Organize, lobby
Meet other Sudan peace supporters, let's make this happen!- Sudan Peace Meetup members list
Contact others now! - Contact your US elected officials, quick finder by zip code
Do this as often, it really helps - What You Can Do, from Human Rights Watch
Contact information for the US White House, UK government, members of the UN Security Council - Save Darfur Coalition
Help the Save Darfur Coalition mobilize through religious and humanitarian groups, as well as at colleges and schools - Darfurgenocide.org
Participate in Darfur Genocide events and actions, and email campaign - MTV, mtvU, Amnesty International
Join MTV, mtvU, and Amnesty International mtvU for activism at colleges and schools - Committee on Conscience -- Center for student action!
Act: Donate
Act: Blog!
- World People for Peace
- Sudanwatch
- Rosemary
- Sudan Watch
- Welcome to Kukummi
- DFMoore: Sudan Genocide
- Waveflux
- Crossroads, realmedia of missions in Sudan
- 極東ブログ: スーダン・ダルフール州の民族浄化
- Blog Africa: BlogAfrica Catalog
- Scripting News: genocide in Sudan
- The Doc Searls Weblog : Fiddling while children burn
- BrainStream: Time to Take a Stand on Sudan
- AfricaBlog: While We Sit on the Sidelines
- Blog For Arizona: Powell's Sudanese Farce
- AfricaBlog: While We Sit on the Sidelines... Archives
- Paolo Massa Blog: Genocide, Sudan and the blogosphere
- Gavin's Blog.com: Sudan genocide
- campagna per il Sudan - BLOG.officialSM
- Jeneane Sessum on Sudan
- Michael Parker's Journal
- HipperCritical: The Glory of France
- CommonPrejudice: Darfur, Sudan
- Julie Leung: Seedlings & Sprouts: Blogs as witness
- 13770 - au hasard du web
- Kesher Talk
- Curiosity Box
- Davos Newbies, Lance Knobel
- Crooked Timber
- Harry's Place
- Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? : Making trouble today for a better tomorrow...
- Halley's Comment: You Can Do Something
- Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: The classic sad Gap story: begging the dictators to let the aid in
- Joi Ito's Web: Sudan: a failure of will
- Sudan is getting away with murder
- seldom sober: passion of the present button
- Robert Corr - Kick & Scream - Time for action
- Brenda Stardom
- BOPNews: Sudan actions
- Blog for Victory
- ob4 (of, by, for)
- karmalised: Assistance needed- "No violence required."
- Loaded Mouth: News that Matters
- Latest News From Sudan At Sudan.Net
- InterAction.org, groups providing aid in Sudan
- FaithfulAmerica.org - Genocide in Sudan: A Test of Our Faith
- Darfur: A Genocide We Can Stop
- Mystical Politics
- sudanpeaceonline
- Mary's World - www.ladywriter.net
- Winds of Change.NET: AfricaPundit's Regional Briefing
- rootwork the rootsblog: a cyberhoodoo webspace
- Squeaks from the Squirrel Cage - A cube with a view
- Booker Rising; Molotov
- Cranky Neocon: Slavery in the Sudan
- AfricaBlog
- Black Looks; African feminist blogging from Spain
- The Horn of Africa; Patrick Hall
- Rebecca McKinnon's paper on worldwide blogging
- Voices for Africa; poems of genocide
- Rajan Rishyakaran
- a relative path; Jonathan Broad
- War Nerd - Darfur: A Whole New Hell; Gary Brecher
- Jim Moore's Journal
- Joho the Blog: Sudan blog; Dave Weinberger
- Nicholas Kristof blog New York Times
- Instapundit.com; Glenn Reynolds
- Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog at the Berkman Center
- ME AND OPHELIA; Ingrid Jones
- Links to this blog, searched by Technorati
The Passion of the Present (the essay)
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In Darfur, a region in western Sudan approximately the size of Texas, over a million people are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Genocide evokes not only the moral, but also, the legal responsibility of the world community. Under international agreement, a nation must intervene to stop a genocide when it is officially acknowledged."Officially" is the key word here. So far, no nation in the international community has "officially" acknowledged the truth: Sudan is a bleeding ground of genocide. In this void, the Sudanese government continues to act with brutal impunity.
Thankfully, there are individuals working in human rights organizations who are watching - and witnessing - and organizing, in support of the victims in Darfur. These individuals represent, for all of us, a personal capacity to bear witness to the passion of the present; one candle lit against the darkness.
However, before one can light a candle, someone has to strike a match: a donation to any of the human rights organizations active in Sudan, contacting your government representative, local newspaper, radio and t.v. station. Our individual activism is essential for the candlepower of witness to overcome and extinguish the firepower of genocide.
This world has long endured wars that take lives. Let us be part of one that saves them.
About: The Passion of the Present site is a totally non-profit labor of love and hope - in peace. Thanks for joining the effort.
- Detailed administrative map of Sudan
- Oil concession maps
- Climate and biogeography of Sudan
- Satellite Images of destruction in Darfur, from USAID
About this blog
SaveDarfur.org partnerGOOGLE SEARCH THIS SITE: More than 2966 chronological posts from April, 2004. Try "oil" "China" "women" "genocide treaty" "UN" "Kofi Annan" "timelines" "grassroots".
Our name comes from an essay entitled "The Passion of the Present" that one of our grassroots founders wrote and circulated by email in March of 2004. The blog started at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School.The editors are semi-anonymous in order to keep the focus on Sudan. This site is a resource for a blog-based information community now numbering several hundred interlinked bloggers and sites. Visitors come from around the world. Daily traffic ranges from just under a thousand visitors, to more than eight thousand on days when news attention peaks.
Our technology cost for a public blog service, with no special discount, is still just $13.46 per month! Start a blog if you don't have one already!
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