March 2012
210 posts
of Montreal in concert in two days, and this couldn’t be more dead on.
An afterlife is nothing to live for Nothing to die for, nothing to fight for If those in this life are not sacred Then nothing that’s a part of it is sacred either If you think God is more important than your neighbor You’re capable of terrible evil If you think some prophet’s words are more important ...
“United Nations planners have said privately that their worst-case scenario is...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“dissent channel”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Every statement out of Khartoum showed opposition to a UN force. What then...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Peacekeeping, as opposed to peace enforcement, requires that there is actually a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Traditional peacekeeping is designed for a situation in which the parties to the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“By 2006, U.S. officials were firmly convinced that only a robust UN force, not...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“So for months on end, the rebel leaders enjoyed the perks of endless peace...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Meanwhile, key groups that might have helped bring about stability were...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“White-Hammond eventually headed backstage as well. She had been assigned to...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The selection of speakers had been controversial. U.S.-based members of the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“White-Hammond knew that as much as Save Darfur worked to bus groups in from...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“It was frustrating because it was white men doing this. In many ways I felt...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called John Bolton to his office. “We all kept...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“for those under political pressure, airlifting in an additional 400 AMIS troops,...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“It was the equivalent of having one police officer for all of Manhattan.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Bell was told that the quickest way to dispense the money was to work through...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“GI-Net’s idea of direct support to AMIS was controversial, and the Save Darfur...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Others, myself included, who are open to believing that there are several ways...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Today, those who have different views on how genocides end are rarely aware of...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“One set of the drafters of the Genocide Convention (the “single intent/motive”...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Contrary to conventional wisdom, the growing Darfur movement was not a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The United States gained a significant amount of political capital both...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Rather than a heroic story of Darfur advocates pushing the U.S. government to do...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“A group of human rights advocates from African organizations had gathered on the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“As for most of the new Darfur advocates, putting the time into developing their...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The Save Darfur Coalition spent February gathering support for their first major...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“A week later, the badly charred bodies of the relief workers began their journey...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“In December 1989, after successfully completing its mission in southern Sudan,...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“It is in the realm of [U.S.] domestic politics that the battle to stop genocide...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The people who started turning up to Darfur events were not those already on the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“It was the involvement of regular citizens who were new to human rights...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“In his childhood Bell attended Hebrew school each week and read “many, many”...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“the one comment that remained in her memory when she returned to Boston was that...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Within a matter of months it became an article of faith within the Darfur...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“In a radio interview immediately after the Rwandan genocide, the late Senator...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“One idea that became important to the emerging U.S. movement for Darfur was...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The ferment Fowler was referring to, with community groups and religious...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“There was all this ferment growing around the country; people were spontaneously...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“A month after their first Save Darfur Coalition meeting in New York, Fowler...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The idea for a New York meeting arose during a three-party conference call with...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Eric Reeves wrote this piece about how aid workers were literally passing a hat...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The original idea was to get resources to people who are there trying to make a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Analogizing to Rwanda, the Swarthmore students became convinced that they could...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“They believed that by raising their voices they could push the U.S. government...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“Five days after Powell’s testimony, Lisa Rogoff, a student intern at the U.S....”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“The thing I liked about voter registration was that you brought people in to...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“when Bell, age 12, asked about his parents’ expectations, his mom replied, “We...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“In his childhood Bell attended Hebrew school each week and read “many, many”...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton
“One idea that started gaining traction was the marketing of human rights to...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide by Rebecca Hamilton 