Last month I heard on the radio about an event taking place at The Forks in Winnipeg. Turns out that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was running a tour that would be in town that weekend — the event was to set up a refugee camp and give tours of it so people could get a feel for the facilities and the conditions in one of the many refugee camps in the world. We decided it’d be good for the whole family, so we all headed down to check it out. Unfortunately, the SD Card with the photos was corrupted, but there are other photos online of the event, and you can preview it online as well to get a sense of the different stations on the tour and the information presented at each. The preview sets you in the role of the refugee — or IDP, Internally Displaced Person, since “refugees” are technically people who have crossed a border; IDPs may be in the same position, but have not actually left their country.
Charity & Justice for Refugees (Blog Action Day)
Yom HaShoah
I awoke this morning with the vague awareness that today was Yom HaShoah, and I had this strange thought floating through my brain about “Genocide Bingo.” Now there’s two words I never thought I’d put together, and the idea weirded me out just a little. I poked around just a little, and discovered that the term “Genocide” was coined first in 1943 by Polish-Jewish legal scholar Raphael Lemkin from the Greek root génos (family, tribe or race – gene); secondly from Latin -cide (occido—to massacre, kill). He wrote,
Captchas & Political Gotchas (Kenya)
Don’t you just hate captchas? And yet sometimes they just say so much. 
I’m not feeling particularly insightful this morning and I thought the foregoing might be the extent of what I had to say. I’m behind in blog reading again, but I see this morning that Sonja has an excellent primer on Kenya… very thorough. I’ve said nothing about Kenya because to be honest, I just don’t know anything. I know that Bill (who has direct connections in Kenya) has expressed some — not sure the right word — disappointment? at the lack of blogosphere response to Kenya. Hmmm. I guess most of us haven’t finished not responding to Darfur yet. When we’re finished not responding there, perhaps we’ll have more time and understanding to not respond to Kenya with. Trouble is, I’m still not entirely sure how to respond… an attempt to understand will probably be a good start, so I’ll be back to Sonja’s post to read further; Bill has some other practical suggestions.
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