See What’s Out There

We have just been awarded a project from the American Jewish World Service to help them document their work. They are a great organization and you can take this opportunity, right now, and donate online.

They have been leaders on the issue of genocide in Darfur. For many of us, this is a Jewish issue. If “never again” is to mean anything, then we have to act. We can’t say we didn’t know, we didn’t see. We know.

We believe in the power of visual storytelling and there was a photo on this subject in the New York Times today that is striking. It is not showing murdered families or burnt villages, but rather the rich and the unconcerned in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, hanging out in their fancy clothes and cars, a mere 600 miles from the death and destruction of Darfur. They can do this because they have oil. And they can do this because our government has made a deal with the devil.

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