Direct from Darfur

Posted Dec 5th 2006 7:04PM by Tateru Nino

Screen Star and UN Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow, fresh from her most recent visit to Chad, will be visiting Second Life to discuss the appalling situation there and in Darfur and answer questions. Also there will be John Heffernan, Director for the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is sponsoring the event supported strongly by Lichtenstein Creative Media, and is also providing a virtual replica of their moving and thought-provoking photographic/video exhibition "Our Walls Bear Witness - Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?".

You can see Mia and John at this very special event in The Infinite Mind sim on Friday, December 8 2006 -- this very week -- from 9am to 10am SLT (or California time for those of you not well acquainted with Second Life timekeeping). The exhibition itself will remain on view until Tuesday 12 December.

"We're seeing atrocities of an indescribable kind . . . [with people] clustered under trees, dazed and terrified," Ms. Farrow told the Associated Press, "The situation continues to deteriorate, and ending this human catastrophe will require the engagement of citizens from all walks of life. Activism begins with education, and I am proud to be working with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in calling attention to genocide unfolding on our watch."

Link to blog post here.