Buy a bracelet.....please....

I don't do the whole promotion thing often, not even of my own stuff. I figure the banner is there if you want to support the site you will without me creating a paypal account or doing some type of blog-a-thon.

That said...I do own one of the blue truth bracelets that I wear everyday and now I've ordered some of these because I think it's just as important if not more than the truth campaign....

So buy a bracelet please...if you don't want to buy ten of them for $15.00 plus the shipping shoot me an email, I'll have extras and I'm sure we can come to some type of arrangement, and no I do not and will not profit from this if you buy one, except for getting a warm feeling knowing fellow bloggers care too.

Save Darfur

These days the Sudanese authorities are adding a new twist to their crimes against humanity: they are arresting girls and women who have become pregnant because of the mass rapes by Sudanese soldiers and militia members. If the victims are not yet married, or if their husbands have been killed, then they are imprisoned for adultery.

Doctors Without Borders issued a report last month about Darfur that quoted one 16-year-old girl as saying:

"I was collecting firewood for my family when three armed men on camels came and surrounded me. They held me down, tied my hands and raped me, one after the other. When I arrived home, I told my family what had happened.

"They threw me out of home, and I had to build my own hut away from them. I was engaged to a man, and I was so much looking forward to getting married. After I got raped, he did not want to marry me and broke off the engagement because he said I was now disgraced and spoilt. ...

"When I was eight months pregnant from the rape, the police came to my hut and forced me with their guns to go to the police station. They asked me questions, so I told them that I had been raped. They told me that as I was not married, I will deliver this baby illegally.

"They beat me with a whip on the chest and back and put me in jail."

The report quoted another girl, 17, who was gang-raped and then locked inside her hut, which was set on fire. She escaped through the wall of the hut but suffered extensive burns.

"We're proud of what we do," said Kenny Gluck, the operations director based in the Netherlands for Doctors Without Borders. "But people's villages have been burned, their crops have been destroyed, their wells spiked, their family members raped, tortured and killed - and they come to us, and we give them 2,100 kilocalories a day." In effect, Mr. Gluck said, the aid effort is sustaining victims so they can be killed with a full belly.

The above taken from Nicholas Kristof's op ed at the New York Times:

Kristof

While I agree with him that sending in US troops isn't the option there is alot more we can be doing with and without the UN to help save these people. Sure the money from a bracelet won't do much but it's a start and also a way to keep this in the public if enough of us start wearing them...

Thanks....and let's spread some love...don't make me get old school hippyish....