We’ve had some bad storms here this week and as the photos showed they did some damage. These are the remants of two of the local schools. It was quite hearth-breaking to see. The good news is that it is the school holidays and term doesn’t start until July 25th so we have a few weeks to mobilise the community into putting it back together.
I also received a unique insight into this conflict from a colleague the other day. He told me that women from the town had predicted the starte of the war because unusually heavy rainfall had combined with high numbers of biting ants that year or something like that. You can mock but I guess they were right!
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Alla hu akhbar!!!
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Hi Sarah, I am an Arizona activist working to raise awareness and urge political pressure to end the Genocide in Sudan. I'm glad I found you. I wanted to ask if you could take a quick look at my website and let me know what more I can do, and alos if you'd be interesting in sharing stories by either yourself or some of the survivors on the "Tell your stories" page.
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Demotix- The Citizen Wire
Dear Sarah,
You're site is fantastic. We hope you might see a cross over with what we're launching!
Demotix is a website for user-generated news, and a citizen ‘wire’ service. Think of it like Flickr or YouTube, but only for original photo/video news. You tell us what is going on, we tell the worldwide web and the world’s mainstream media. As of now, www.demotix.com is live.
Why are we doing it?
We believe citizen journalism – well-managed – can be a tremendous force in political participation, civil society, and freedom of speech around the world. And we believe the media needs rescuing.
• Only four US newspapers have foreign news desks (the NY Times, LA Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal), and there are only 141 US foreign correspondents currently working today (in print and broadcast media)
• In the UK, a 2006 study of the broadsheets showed that more than 50% of the news was directly attributable to press releases
• The world’s media (over 90%) relies on the wire services – the Associated Press and Reuters – for their news. But some 80 countries, or 40% of the world’s nations, have no bureau from either agency.
The news is shrinking daily. We hope Demotix can plug that gap, and more.
We hope to be giving a megaphone to the man and woman in the street with a story to tell. We hope to be able to change the news map – bringing real, raw, original information from countries and about issues the mainstream media haven’t touched in years.
Eventually we hope that Demotix will be THE place where anyone in the world can go, in safety, to upload news – major, minor, local, cultural, political, social... We already have agreements with the Daily Telegraph, Newsweek, La Repubblica, Prospect and others – and will now supply them with a daily wire and picture feed of 'citizen' news. We have also built partnerships with Amnesty, Reporters Sans Frontieres, Witness and many others.
But we need your help. We want to do in pictures/video what you do for text. If you think there is a cross-over and you like us, please write about us, link to us, spread the news. We're nothing without contributors, and your readers are exactly whom we want to be reaching out to. We can get their news out to the world, and in the process change what news is reported. And we'll charge the mainstream media for anything they use, splitting the fees 50:50 with our contributors.
Please be in touch! Are there other ways we might collaborate?
With all thanks
Turi
Turi Munthe
www.demotix.com
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