WEALTH OF IDEAS

Friends of Rwanda (FORA) presents the 15th Annual Commemoration of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda. DATE: April 18, 2009 TIME: 4:00 to 8:00 pm VENUE: Raymond Great Hall University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95211 Contact Number: 209-946-2452 PROGRAM 4:00 Arrival and Registration 4:30pm—5:00pm Feature Power Point Presentation 5:00pm—5:10pm Introductory Remarks 5:10pm—6:30pm Memorial Mass Select Speakers 6:30pm—7:30pm Reception and Dinner 7:30pm Closing remarks I am reading a short poem at the beginning of the program .

Mahmood Mamdani reads from his newly released book. The Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and of Anthropology Columbia University Friday / April 10 / 7:30 pm at the Berkeley Arts & Letters at the Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave in Berkeley / Directions: http://www.berkeleycityclub.com/ Saviors and Survivors invites the reader to rethink the lesson of Rwanda in light of Darfur. It is a warning to those who would act first and understand later. Part One discusses the nature of Save Darfur advocacy. Like the War on Terror from which it has borrowed its assumptions and coordinates, Save Darfur has turned into a lavishly funded and massive ad campaign spreading and sustaining a lethal illusion, consistently exaggerating the level of mortality and racializing the reasons for it. Why has Save Darfur not lost credibility even though its information is increasingly divorced from reality? A part of the answer lies in its ability to turn activism around Darfur into a domestic "f...