The Sudan Freedom Walk, covering 300 miles to call attention to the ongoing genocide and slavery of black African Sudanese, began with a rally near the UN in New York on Wednesday. About 75 people attended the event, which starts in New York and concludes on April 5 in Washington, D.C. at the Capitol Building. More information about the walk, which will stop in 19 cities, can be found at www.sudanfreedomwalk.org. (Also here.)
In the interviews which follow, you will hear many unkind words about the UN, Arabs, and Islam. By people who have good cause. This was also clear at a rally in front of the UN in September 2004 (when Gloria Steinem put her foot in her mouth), and at a rally in December 2004.
- Photos and a report of the 2006 Sudan Freedom Walk.
- Another report with photos.
- Atlas Shrugs has lots of video and photos:
- Video interview with former slave Simon Deng.
- Simon Deng's complete remarks.
- Video interview with I-Abolish founder Charles Jacobs (who also co-founded the David Project to expose the anti-Israel bias in Columbia University's Middle East studies Dept.)
- Video interview with Sudanese native and former basketball star Manute Bol. (More on Bol's involvement with the cause.)
- More photos.
Pamela also points out some ironic hyperbole from leftist antiwar group United for Peace and Justice, over a definition of "slavery."
Consider:
The missing element in every human 'solution' is
an accurate definition of the creature.
Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly
developed, and sensitive perception of diversity. Thus
aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-
ing internal mental and external physical selectivity.
Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends
itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes
his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall
that his other features are but vehicles of experi-
ence intent on the development of perceptive
awareness and the following acts of decision and
choice. Note that the products of man cannot define
him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-
making process and include the cognition of self,
the utility of experience, the development of value-
measuring systems and language, and the accultur-
ation of civilization.
The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,
customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of
his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the
creative process, is a choice-making process. His
articles, constructs, and commodities, however
marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-
atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own
highest expression of the creative process.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and
significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean
fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the
forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-
ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a
natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and
bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his
singular and plural brow.
Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by
nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of
Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive
characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural
foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-
spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-
ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the
universe.
Let us proclaim it. Behold!
The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV
- from The HUMAN PARADIGM
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