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Eyes on Darfur, The Latest Victims of Katrina

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If you’ve watched Sam Kauffmann’s haunting short Massacre at Murambi from the seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival, then you know what’s at stake if the world doesn’t open its eyes to the genocide taking place today in the Darfur region of Sudan. To this end Amnesty International just launched a new website called Eyes on Darfur that enables visitors to literally watch over at risk villages via satellite images posted to the site. It’s a powerful campaign that will hopefully spur more concrete action by individuals and governments, especially those meeting this week at the G-8 summit in Germany.

In other news, Ms. Gertrude might be Still Standing, but many of her New Orleans neighbors are dying, nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina struck their communities. A recent article by Mary Foster of the Associated Press outlines how more and more people are dying from the long-term health and emotional impacts of the storm:

“There is no doubt in my mind that Katrina is still killing our residents,” Orleans Parish coroner Dr. Frank Minyard said this week. “People with pre-existing conditions that are made worse by the stress of living here after the storm. Old people who are just giving up. People who are killing themselves because they feel they can’t go on,” Minyard said.

In other words, people in New Orleans still need our help. So take action now!

No Comments | Leave a Comment | Posted on June 6, 2007