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Report Back From Darfur and Chad

Date:
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Time:
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
Station 40
Email:
Location Details:
Station 40
3030B 16th Street @ Mission
S.F.

Report Back From Darfur and Chad
(And A Benefit For A Film About Darfuri Rebels)

by Shane Bauer and David Martinez

Wednesday November 14th
8 p.m.
Station 40
3030B 16th Street @ Mission
S.F.

A presentation of photographs and clips of film that we recorded in
the Summer of 2007, attempting to put a human face on the Darfuri
rebel movement and to explain the crisis from the point of view of the
people who in a sense started the whole thing by standing up to the
Sudanese government. We will focus on the ordinary (and
not-so-ordinary) people who, frustrated by decades of marginalization
by their country's rulers and inspired by the limited successes of the
war in South Sudan, rose against Khartoum and have since suffered the
terrible consequences. We will place Darfur in a broader context,
showing how the conflicts there are part of a longer and deeper
history of the Sudan and of the Sahel region as a whole.

$5-$10 Donation Requested, No One Turned Away
Added to the calendar on Tue, Nov 13, 2007 4:07PM

Comments (Hide Comments)
by Aaron Aarons (kpfa [at] aarons.f-m.fm)
If you can provide any information about the Darfur rebel movement(s) and its/their supporters that would make an anti-imperialist anti-capitalist go out of his or her way to support them, please let us know! So far, most of the fuss about Darfur is being made by Zionists and their U.S. allies, who have caused a lot more death and destruction in Iraq than the Sudanese government could conceivably cause in Darfur.

I'm not just asking this rhetorically, though! I really would like to know more about what's really going on there, aside from the obvious fact that lots of people are suffering and dying.
by while the world is silent
Check out Human rights watch on this isssue.
Over 250,000 people are dead. 10,000 more are dying each month. 2 million people are in exile.
Yeah, the Jews are active in publicizing this issue. Apparently they take the "Never again" stuff seriously.
Good for them.
The Holocaust museums all have exhibits on Rwanda and Darfur, btw.
I just rented the movie "Hotel Rwanda"- in the preface they plead for the world community to do "something" about Darfur.
Ok. We'll just demand "documentation". Willl the bodies stacked like cordwood in the desert be enough for you?
You want "documentation"? Come to this event. Bring a friend. Learn something.
by Aaron Aarons
First of all, my request for documentation was not regarding the fact that a lot of people are being killed, but for "information about the Darfur rebel movement(s) and its/their supporters". I can oppose people being slaughtered in Darfur without supporting (or opposing) any rebel movement I know nothing about, just as I can oppose the U.S. slaughter of Iraqis without having opinions about the various groups that are said to be fighting the U.S..*

The Zionists, unlike most of my fellow anti-Zionist Jews, have never been consistent opponents of genocide and mass murder. In fact, they were the most ardent supporters of the wars and sanctions against Iraq that have caused the deaths of at least 2,000,000 Iraqis. They also actively aided the mass murder/genocide of indigenous people in Guatemala and other parts of Central America during the 1980's.

When, by the way, are those "Holocaust Museums" going to have exhibits about the genocides of the Native American peoples and the African slave trade? Or the mass murders of the peoples of the Philippines, Korea and Vietnam by the U.S.? Or the Iraqis, as I mentioned above? Or the Palestinians? Have they decided yet to denounce the mass murder/genocide of the Armenians by the Turks 90 years ago, or are they still unwilling to antagonize their Turkish allies?

Hypocrisy, thy name -- or one of your names -- is Zionism!

* To be clear about a difference, though: I'll always support actions against U.S. imperialist forces even if I can't stand the people carrying out the actions, but I need to know more specifics about who the attackers are and what their politics are in the case of the government of a (semi-/neo-)colonial nation being the target.
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