Saturday December 2, 2006

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By Logan Nakyanzi

Julio Medina

Today: Jim talks with Julio Medina, Founder and Executive Director, of Exodus Transitional Community, Inc., which has served over 3,000 formerly incarcerated men and women and has become one of the most successful re-entry programs throughout the country. Medina’s story and those of the men and women of the Exodus program are the subject of a new film, HARD ROAD HOME, out next year.

A Doctoral candidate in Ministry at New York Theological Seminary and the Assistant Director of the Sing Sing Masters of Professional Studies Program, Mr. Medina received his Masters of Divinity at New York Theological Seminary, while serving a 12-year sentence for drug-dealing at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Listen: listen to the entire show here.

December 2, 2006
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Do you really think the United States has the will or ability to help Darfur considering what America has done in many other parts of Africa. See http://worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm

One thing that activists on the left and right have in common is their phony concern for what is going on in the Sudan. Both groups claim that the Arab controlled government is ethinically cleansing black
Africans. If there was real concern in what is going on in Sudan, there would be a discussion about all the parties involved in the atrocities in the Sudan. I suggest you read the article "Tactical Use
of Genocide in Sudan and the Five Lakes Region" by John Bart Gerald. (which can be searched for at http://globalresearch.ca) You might want
to read also "5 truths about Darfur" by Emily Wax which can be found on the washington post website (http://www.washingtonpost.com)

A good question that should be discussed among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even secular humanists is: If we want to see atrocities committed by other governments stopped,
shouldn't we set the example by stopping atrocites committed by our own government, which we benefit from?

In Liberia , Sierre Leone, and the Congo, millions have died while The United States, Israel, and European Countries have gained great wealth
from diamonds, minerals, and other natural resources from these countries. THe United States has made billions of dollars selling weapons to various African countries. Child slaves in West Africa pick cocoa that is used in making chocalate. Is it okay for genocide and oppression to occur when industrialized countries benefit from it?

Unfortunately, the biased way activists on the right and left have discussed the Sudan makes it clear they don't really care about the
people of Sudan and are only using the cause as a political tool. Zionists have taken up the cause of Sudan because they like to link the Palestinian Arabs with the Sudanese Arabs. Others have taken up this cause so that they don't have to think about the genocide being committed in Iraq.

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