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...That was made clear this week when director Steven Spielberg announced he was quitting his role as a creative consultant for the Games' opening and closing ceremonies. The Hollywood filmmaker cited Beijing's failure to press its ally and trading partner Sudan to end the fighting in Darfur, where as many as 400,000 people have died and 2.5 million displaced in fighting between rebel groups, the government and government-backed militias. Spielberg, the director of such films as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, had written letters to Chinese President Hu Jintao urging him to take more action...
...conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual.' Steven Spielberg, film director, announcing he would withdraw as artistic adviser to this summer's Beijing Olympics over China's stance on the conflict in Darfur, Sudan...
...from the ardent class of 1967 call today’s students “apathetic,” they seem to be referring to this inaction, not necessarily with regard to human rights abuses from half a century ago, but to the war in Iraq, mass murder in Darfur, or any number of contemporary tragedies. But our generation’s passive reaction to global injustice indicates nothing about whether or not we care, it is merely an indication of our acquired ability to move on in the presence of injustice while still doing what we can to contribute...
Maybe in this easy transition from worrying about torture to worrying about textbooks, our raised awareness has degenerated into desensitization to violence. Maybe we’ve lost the ability to care in the conventional sense. Documentaries on current humanitarian crises like the genocide in Darfur have been made with the intention of inciting action from the viewers, often falling back on simple shock value. But even that effective activist tool has lost some of its resonance for our media-minded generation: it takes a lot to shock us. We’ve been pushed to a new extreme...
GEORGE CLOONEY, newly appointed U.N. Messenger of Peace, on the world's failure to supply peacekeepers in Darfur...