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Sudan Activist Call TODAY
Posted by Laura Heaton on Jul 14, 2010
Interested to hear how news of the ICC warrant calling for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is playing out in Sudan? Curious about how activists are responding to this development? Heard about the genocide prevention resolution in Congress and want to know more? Join a call TODAY at 4:30 EST for more background about the ICC in Sudan, specifics about the warrant issued this week, and to find out how to get involved in the latest advocacy efforts. The call features a full line-up of advocates:
- Megan Fleming, Save Darfur Coalition
- Martha Bixby, Save Darfur Coalition
- Omer Ismail, Enough Project
- Katie Jay-Scott and Gabriel Stauring, iAct
- Naama Haviv, Jewish World Watch
- Allyson Neville, Genocide Intervention Network
- Alex Meixner, Save Darfur Coalition
- A.J. Fay, Activist
Conference dial-in number: (712) 432-0075
Participant access code: 236841
Tune in for an informative conversation and get your questions answered.
Activists:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's very much biz as usual here in the 'REAL' (as opposed to the 'VIRTUAL') Sudan; the arrival of the rains (and the recently announced cap on sugar prices) is what's on everybody's lips here, not the ICC.......
The latest ICC shenanigans mean nothing here; Sudanese had a chance to kick-out Pres Bashir in the elections; anybody could have put their 'x' elsewhere if they wanted to (nobody voted out in the open).
They didn't.
Get over it.
The ICC will have to go the heads of millions and millions of ordinary Sudanese to nab him.
And they can't.
And do you really honestly (stress) think that the ICC has ANY credibility here after its' lilly-livered (nay, deafening silence) to the Gaza floatilla incident, and Israel's horrific tearing up of Gaza a few years back??? (Let alone the USG's shameful silence and use of its veto to shield Israel from an international investigation.)
We live in an increasingly democratised media (Al Jazeera, blogs etc), so the days when US activists can bend a narrative to suit its own objectives are long over; that's unless you can explain to ordinary Sudanese why Israel (and the 'Big Powers') can willfully flout international norms?????
They're international aren't they? So why aren't they applied everywhere???
Answers on a postcard please.
Omer Ismail, fyi, hasn't been back to Sudan for donkey years, so he's hardly in a position to comment on how the ICC's nakedly politicised behaviour is "playing out in Sudan".
The rest of the activists listed above have NEVE EVER been to Sudan.
Says it all really.
Ibrahim Adam
El Fasher
North Darfur
Sudan