the world around
i've come to realize there is so much going on that i have no idea about. i don't really like that. more than just me not knowing, i'm completely shocked at how so many of us can have no idea as we go along our everyday schedule in our comfortable apartments and go to sleep in our cozy beds each night.
Something in me has just been set aflame at the thought of genocide and all that is happening all over, especially in africa. gosh i want to do something. its pretty crazy as i start to think about all this, the more i realize that i am just a speck, a blip on the radar screen. the world is all around me and you and it just keeps going. time keeps passing people keep suffering and dying. there is much more than just me. there is much more than just us. more than my family and my circle of friends. there is much more than i know, much more than i can wrap my head around. much much more.
check out what's really happening.
www.invisiblechildren.com it might shock you.
and
www.millionvoicesfordarfur.org
you've got a voice. you can help. we all have a heart, a brain, and some education of some kind. let's use it. for once.
I just signed a postcard to President Bush asking him to take action to stop the genocide in Darfur.
Right now a campaign of rape, slaughter and displacement is currently being carried out in the western region of Sudan, the largest country in Africa. Government-supported troops have displaced 2.5 million people in the past two years, hundreds of thousands have died due to attacks, disease and starvation, and it is estimated that 500 men, women and children continue to die every day.
We must put pressure on our national leaders to take immediate action. President Bush and the United States Congress have recognized the situation in Darfur as "genocide," but it will take much more than words to end the violence and suffering in Darfur. In fact this recognition imposes a legal obligation, let alone the inherent moral obligation, upon the U.S. to take action to stop the genocide.
Visit http://www.MillionVoicesForDarfur.org to send your postcard today.
If our leaders made Darfur a priority, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved
wow. know that you're more than a nobody. you've got a voice. you can help.
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