Posted on 05/01/2009 12:26:07 PM PDT by jan in Colorado
There are moments in life when you truly feel alive. Today, May 1st 2009, I feel alive.
After days, thousands of miles, countless phone calls...e-mails, outbursts of anger and excitement....blood, sweat, and tears...the seemingly impossible has happened. The last city to be "RESCUED" was Chicago. The figures we had called out to lend a voice to the senseless war in Northern Uganda were: President Obama or his wife Michelle, Vice President Biden, Bono, and Oprah. The woman has spoken, and Oprah is now filming the founders of Invisible Children to be aired on her show today...
My friend Jay said it well on the live feed from the office this morning....This has nothing to do with celebrities. It has everything to do with the voice of the "small" people. And it has everything to do with the range that these voices need to travel. Northen Uganda and the Congo deserve every possible effort we can muster up. Every piece of attention of anyone who will listen. The days of indifference need to end. This pandemic of carelessness has no room inside the walls of the human heart. And somehow it's even larger than that. It's about taking care of each other....it's about looking out for each other....it's about going against every modern tendency that leads us away from each other. The technical age can divide us - or it can bring us closer. It's up to you. We have chosen to use it to unite with one voice to broadcast the stories we so rarely hear. The world really is flat...and it is now possible to have a neighbor across the seven seas.
So watch OPRAH today. And get out of the chair. We are in this together, so please, don't sleep through the revolution.
i dont get it
What invisible children? Oh, the ones they abort every year? Somehow I just don’t think O is going to do a show on them.
And while I’m on the subject of O. Isn’t it interesting that two of the most annoying and insulting people I can think of right now both can be referred to simply as “O” and is “Uh Oh.”
The woman has spoken? Who What Who?
You and me both.
Invisible children will be featured? How will anyone know they’re there?
Here’s a photo:
why doesnt Oprah(the woman I assume) and Obo have a
show regarding the INVISIBLE SENIORS.......THE PEOPLE LEFT WITHOUT MONEY, SOCIAL SECURITY, PENSIONS OH AND THE COUNTRY THEY FOUGHT FOR!!!! THEN I WILL WATCH.
There are lots of people willing to express concern, but few willing to do the hard work,.......
I’ve worked with refugees from the Ruanda/Congo border area here, and while there is lots of excitement over “the Invisible Children”, some of those very needy refugee children are right here in my town, struggling, with illiterate parents that speak no English, and bounce from very low pay job to job, usually because of cultural misunderstandings.
You can get 1000 people to an Invisible Childrens’ “Let’s-Feel-Good-About-How-Much-We-Care” rally, but getting 2 people to go spend time with these kids on a Saturday afternoon is a horse of a different color.
WTH are you talking about? - you want us to watch oprah?
Yes our country ran by Oprah and Obo the talking Teleprompter. How did this happen and how do we get out country back? Thats the show I want to watch.
She’s doing a report on Claude Rains’ offspring?
Is Oprah doing a show on aborted babies?
Hasn’t Oprah done enough damage to this country?
We don’t need Oprah Winfrey to tell us who we should help, how to find a job, how to wear our clothes, how to protect ourselves from disease, what books to read, how to raise our children, ect.
She needs to retire.
OMG - ROFL.
Chipo's group Arkansas Students March For Child Soldiers In Uganda
Oprah is for Obama. Oprah is a tool. I would not waste my time.
And Oprah could send a few hundred million dollars and not see a dent in her portfolio - but it’s just so much easier for her to have all of US who are losing our shirts b/c of HER president, send money we don’t have.
Thomas Jefferson already answered:
Refresh the tree of liberty.
ping
Well, I’m sure it’s a good cause but I really can’t stand Oprah. Checked your profile - cool comparison of quote b/t Obama and Mao. Creepy but cool.
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