Business Advice

The following text is reprinted entirely from Jim Moore’s post at Sudan: The Passion of the Present:

Many many many thanks to Katrin Verclas of Passion of the Present and Greg Moore of Blockstreetandbuilding.com for collaborating on this darkly beautiful and powerful poster, and accompanying fact sheet.

The poster and flyer are undated, so they are appropriate both for today’s Sudan: Day of Conscience events and for ongoing use, such as postering of public spaces and using in conjunction with the green ribbon campaign. Print the poster and put it up in buildings you frequent! Schools, offices, churches!!

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Got a reply from Sen. Jim Talent’s office to my email on the plight of the civilian population of the Darfur in Sudan (so charmingly classed by one blogger in the category of “obscure current events in 5th world countries”). Talent’s is the only response I’ve received so far, and is probably typical of the replies one might expect. Let’s look it over:

Like you, I find the crisis in the Darfur region disturbing. Since the fighting in Darfur started just a little more than a year ago, the United Nations and USAID estimate at least 30,000 people have been killed, more than 130,000 people have been forced from their homes and have fled to neighboring Chad, and more than 1,000,000 people have been internally displaced.

The situation in Darfur is something more than “disturbing.” Still, those distressing estimates match up with figures from other sources, so it’s clear that Talent is at least aware of the extent of the problem.

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