My mom’s pictures of yesterday’s Central Park “Save Darfur” rally are now online.
Full gallery here. You can also hear my mom’s live audioblog posts, if you missed them, here and here. The first one is rather garbled, probably due to a bad cell-phone connection, but the second one is crystal clear.
Here’s a New York Times article about the demonstration in NYC and others around the world. Police estimated the NYC crowd at 20,000; organizers said it was more like 30,000.
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Categories: International News & Politics, New York City
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September 18th, 2006 at 6:21:58 pm
Does saving Darfur include any ‘gasp’ use of the ‘gasp’ military??
September 18th, 2006 at 7:25:34 pm
So did Darfur get saved yet?
September 18th, 2006 at 7:47:02 pm
No, but not for lack of trying. Ma Loy in particular has taken a hands on approach to the problem, with explosive results.
September 19th, 2006 at 12:30:39 am
Two things:
1 - Overwhelming percentage of the crowd was white (95% or more, I’d guess - just look at the more or less random photos you guys took),with college age kids making up huge majority of that group. Where were black New Yorkers?
2 - The last or next to last speaker was Iman Talib, though the mosque he was from was not identified. He was fine for 90% of his speech, but then he began his “beware of wolves in sheeps clothing” routine, in which he warned that there were some, and this is not a quote, I can’t write fast enough, “European” and other interests, presumably also white who wanted to step in for the purposes of getting oil. Either he is woefully misinformed, or is a liar. First,there is no oil in Darfur, and the Chinese (and the desire to make oodles of money by Khartoum through oil) are the driving force behind oil procurement in Sudan. Unfortunately this either ill informed or lying Iman will put this thought in peoples heads, and it is false.
September 19th, 2006 at 12:33:50 am
I should have been clearer, the Chinese are the driving for procuring oil in OTHER parts of Sudan, that is south Sudan. (Sorry about that).