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Darfur: Too Dark Too Far

Sunday, July 29, 2007

On Tuesday night, July 31, Luna Stage will be hosting a benefit screening of the documentary "Darfur: Too Dark Too Far," directed by Hafiz Farid. See our calendar for details. The film, which examines the root causes of genocide, begins at 7:30pm. But try to arrive at 7pm for the welcome reception. And stay after the screening ends, if you can, for a Q&A with Farid and Sudanese activist Simon Deng. Minimum contribution is $50.

Posted by Melissa Rayworth on July 29, 2007 9:24 AM
 

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I wonder if he has one of those cute "not on our watch" signs on his lawn?

The same people who want us to rush into darfur are the same that want us out of Iraq.

| July 29, 2007 12:11 PM | Reply
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If we can only understand the "root cause" of genocide, we can stop it right?

Ever and as always: "Too little too late" would be more apt.

| July 29, 2007 12:12 PM | Reply
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While I understand the need to raise money to fight the genocide, I'd love to see more FREE programs about the crisis in Darfur. Then maybe more people would become educated. Those who don't have the $ or who are already trying to help the cause are unlikely to give $50 from the outset.

| July 29, 2007 1:57 PM | Reply
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We just returned from Israel.

I spoke to a kindly man in Eilat, a resort city in the south of Israel on the straits leading to the Indian Ocean, inquiring about the numerous African workers there.

He explained a little known fact, that these workers were from Darfur, and that they had walked all the way from Sudan through Egypt, into Israel, and that this was their southernmost safe haven.

| July 29, 2007 6:54 PM | Reply
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How nice that you just returned from Israel.

| July 29, 2007 7:30 PM | Reply
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I have begun to think that the right question to ask the so-called civilized world is to stop saying "Never Again" since those words carry no meaning. Why bother repeating the phrase when you know in your heart you do not mean it?

| July 29, 2007 10:04 PM | Reply
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How cute that the Jews own genocide when the word was coined for the killing of the mass killing of Armenians.

| July 29, 2007 10:08 PM | Reply
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Perhaps your kaffiyeh is getting in the way of your typing, but I don't quite get your post.

| July 29, 2007 11:27 PM | Reply
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No one "owns" genocide, Maxie. But it is hard not to note that both Stalin's minions in the 30's and the Germans in WWII got it down to a real, sadly efficient science.

And that today's Hamas and Fatah and Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda fanatics would probably love to show much they've learned from the Germans re the Jews if the free world would just give them that chance.

But your claim that genocide's definition stems from the organized slaughter of the Armenians by the Turks is a bit facile there, Max. Been reading wikipedia lately, eh? Then putting too much faith in its "over-written" brand of mock scholarship? Just keep those jackboots shined up, fella.

| July 30, 2007 8:38 AM | Reply
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Brutus Beefcake (love the name!) makes a very cogent observation. Many of the same people who are appalled and outraged over the situation in Darfur and would advocate sending *peacekeeping* troops over there in a heartbeat are the same ones who are adamantly opposed to our presence in Iraq. Why is this so? Are Iraqi lives less important than those in Darfur? Both conflicts are political in nature and in both cases, neither country attacked us first. Please enlighten me.

| July 30, 2007 9:09 AM | Reply
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"Brutus Beefcake," Miss Martta, is another of Olive Oyl's unsucccessful swains in both the old "Popeye" cartoons and the daily strip. He may even be related to Bluto, I no longer recall.

| July 30, 2007 9:21 AM | Reply
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MaxBlack seems to believe sarcasm and semantic word games are the appropriate response to a human interest story that could be easily seen as something positive.

| July 30, 2007 7:10 PM | Reply
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