{"id":230,"date":"2004-05-17T07:22:53","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=230"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T21:14:31","slug":"sudan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Rampage is as <a href=\"http:\/\/docrampage.blogspot.com\/2004_05_16_docrampage_archive.html#108474458554290443\" target=\"_blank\">pissed off as I am<\/a> about both the genocide taking place in Sudan and the American media&#8217;s lack of interest in covering it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more stories about what&#8217;s happening there:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/africa\/jan-june04\/refugees_05-13.html\" target=\"_blank\">PBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/05\/14\/wchad14.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2004\/05\/14\/ixportal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/s1103684.htm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, if you have good ideas about what we can do (and that don&#8217;t involve sending contributions to the UN), send me an <a href=\"mailto:groth@chimeraobscura.com?subject=Sudan\">e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Rampage is as pissed off as I am about both the genocide taking place in Sudan and the American media&#8217;s lack of interest in covering it. Here are some more stories about what&#8217;s happening there: PBS Telegraph BBC Again, if you have good ideas about what we can do (and that don&#8217;t involve sending &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-crisis\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sudan Crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-again","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":0},"title":"Sudan Again","author":"Gil","date":"June 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Added a Sudan crisis link to the blogroll. And here's an article from the Financial Times calling for EU action to stop the genocide:The Security Council should in addition authorise all measures short of force to be used against Sudan and warn Khartoum of international military intervention if it does\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sudan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-genocide-for-oil-you-french-motherfers","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":1},"title":"No Genocide for Oil, you French Motherf***ers!","author":"Gil","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in May, I wrote my Representative about the Congressional resolution on the Sudanese genocide. He wrote back this weekend (see below). There've been some developments, but no serious results yet. Several Congressmen are calling for the U.S. to label this a genocide, which would automatically trigger intervention by a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sudan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":583,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-sudan","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":2},"title":"More Sudan","author":"Gil","date":"July 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes is insanely pissed off at the media for ignoring the genocide in Darfur:When I've asked television correspondents about this lapse, they've noted that visas to Sudan are difficult to get and that reporting in Darfur is expensive and dangerous. True, but TV crews could at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sudan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-boy-are-my-arms-tired","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":3},"title":"And, boy, are my arms tired!","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from California. I'll ramble extensively about it tonight. Until then, here's an e-mail response I received from Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), regarding the Sudan query I sent him last month:Dear Gil:Thank you for expressing your concerns about Sudan.I appreciate your concerns regarding the civil war ongoing in Sudan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sudan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":332,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-update","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":4},"title":"Sudan Update","author":"Gil","date":"August 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't written much about the genocide in Sudan lately, except for a brief rant during my Budapest dispatches. Partly that's because there's been so much (belated) coverage by the world media. Also, it's because Passion of the Present has been doing such a great job of coverage. I sorta\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics (explicit)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":251,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-thing","url_meta":{"origin":230,"position":5},"title":"One Thing","author":"Gil","date":"June 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so I lied. Here's a piece from the Sunday Washington Post on the genocide in Sudan.Over at the NYTimes, Nicholas Kristof provides a list of Sudan relief organizations you can donate to, as well as links to writing your Reps & Senators.Now back to comparing AstraZeneca's pipeline development to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;basketball&quot;","block_context":{"text":"basketball","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sports\/basketball"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}