July 10, 2006
You may download audio and see photos of the Darfur forum at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/darfur_intervention_070606.html
"For 500 years there hasn't been a dominant form of imperialism that wasn't racist in a western sense."- Dr. Enoch Page
On Thursday, July 7th, a packed house gathered at Smith College for this open forum on Darfur.
Panelists offered diverse and challenging perspectives on the crises, exploring the many ethical, moral and political questions behind popular calls for 'humanitarian' intervention and regime change in Sudan.
Panelists:
• Sara Flounders, Co-Director of the International Action Center, NYC, who traveled to Sudan on a fact-finding mission after the bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in 1998;
• Dr. Elliot Fratkin, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Smith College and co-director of Smith's African Studies Program;
• Keith Harmon Snow, independent photojournalist, and human rights and genocide investigator in Africa, with Genocide Watch and Survivor's Rights International in 2004, and the United Nations in 2005;
• Dimitri Oram, writer & researcher on war crimes and the politics of genocide;
• Dr. Enoch Page, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMass, expert on race theory and the anthropology of genocide.
Download mp3 audio of each speaker (5 separate audio programs of about 16 to 20 minutes) and the panel wrap-up (26 minutes) at http://www.traprockpeace.org/darfur_intervention_070606.html
The programs were recorded and edited by Traprock Peace Center and may be downloaded for free and aired on radio with notice (reply by email), attributions and notice of reservation of Traprock's copyright.
An hour long version of the program - recorded and edited by Ed Russell of Active Ingredients Media at http://www.activeingredients.org - is being aired on Monday, July 10th at 6 PM EDT on WXOJ, 103.3 FM (Northampton, MA). You may listen over the web at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/
For more information on Darfur, visit:
http://www.allthingspass.com
http://www.iacenter.org
http://www.traprockpeace.org
http://www.socialistworker.org/htdig/common/Search.shtml (search term: darfur)
Darfur panel sponsored by:
The International Action Center of Western MA, The
Northampton
Committee to Stop the War In Iraq, Traprock Peace Center
and
Touchstone
Farm & Yoga Center
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