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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 962.404
EAN: 9781401303358
ISBN: 1401303358
Label: Hyperion
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Studio: Hyperion
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Editorial Review:
An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' helpWhile Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -- and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced by violence, and 400,000 have died in Darfur to date.Both shocked and energized by this ongoing tragedy, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist John Prendergast to focus the world's attention. Not on Our Watch, their empowering book, offers six strategies readers themselves can implement: Raise Awareness, Raise Funds, Write a Letter, Call for Divestment, Start an Organization, and Lobby the Government. Each of these small actions can make a huge difference in the fate of a nation, and a people -- not only in Darfur, but in other crisis zones such as Somalia, Congo, and northern Uganda.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - DARFUR and PALESTINE: VICTIMS of GENOCIDE.
Read and be very upset, just like reading about the atrocities being committed against the helpless Palestinians. What is this world coming to? Read the book to be aware and speak out about the truth you read here.
Rating:  - The futility of compassion
This book will stir your outrage and fuel within you a tremendous desire to help. To do something! It is well-written to engage you and it evokes powerful emotions -- disgust, horror, hope.
But in the end, what a let-down!
The course of action recommended? The community of nations should come together to end this. Hasn't all this useless talking been going on for decades?
There is more to this story.
Sudan is an Islamic nation that has spent ... Read More
Rating: - call to action
Well now I know where Darfur is, not to mention Chad, Congo, Uganda, Kenya etc....this book does a pretty good job of explaining the conflict. But their main purpose is to get the reader to ACT. Which I am doing... if only to allay the deep sense of trajedy one gets from reading of the terror going on there...and here, as we turn our backs on the situation. At first I was put off by the seeming light-heartedness of the authors but now I realize they, and you, as the reader, have to put up some kind ... Read More
Rating: - If you want to change something.
If you want to learn about some ways to actually try and change something in our world about the terrible things that are happening internationally then read this book. The authors are very practical in breaking down simple steps you can take as the average joe to change things. This is GREAT!
Rating: - A MUST READ
THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ANY AND ALL HUMAN BEINGS THAT HAVE COMPASSION AND HOPE FOR ALL PEOPLE.
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