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Olympic Update


April 09, 2008 | Tags: china, Tibet, Darfur, Olympics

A nice handful of you contacted me expressing interest in my post about the Beijing Olympics and the displacement of people that was occurring to build the stadiums, as well as the atrocities involved with the situation in Tibet. I hope you’re still out there and paying attention, because there are some updates to be discussed!

For those that are planning on voting in the upcoming election, here’s some United States politics finding its way into the Olympic situation: democratic hopeful Barack Obama has called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics’ opening ceremony by President Bush if China doesn’t improve its human rights record, or if more steps aren’t taken towards helping end the genocide in Darfur. Hillary Clinton has also expressed a desire for action taken against the Olympics by Bush. It’s nice to see them doing something productive, rather than bashing eachother, isn’t it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7339943.stm

 

Ice cream company (and a long time frozen treat favorite of mine) Ben and Jerry’s has also taken a stand against the 2008 Olympics as well as the situation in Darfur. The company has representatives (one of which is Sudanese and one of which has worked in the Sudanese refugee camps) traveling across the company to college campuses and Ben and Jerry’s stores raising awareness by sharing stories of Darfur. According to the following article, “China buys two-thirds of Sudan’s oil exports”. Yikes.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-26-ben-jerry-china-darfur_N.htm

 

A name you should all be aware of by now, Ernie Paniccioli, notified me of a moment in this whole Olympic mess that has seemingly been overlooked by a lot of large, American news sources. During the torch run in San Francisco, runner Majora Carter flashed a Tibetan flag that she had hidden in her sleeve in an act of condemnation of China’s actions. An even bigger catch? She did so just after being passed the torch. Good for her!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080409/ap_on_re_us/olympic_torch

 

Those are my updates for now, DX. I hope at least some of you are paying attention, despite the fact that I'm not sitting here rambling about the latest faux-Carter III album cover that's floating around the internet, or whatever the hell else is going on in Hollywoodland right now.


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