Falling Whistles
I have a present for everyone but it’s like 650MB and it’s taking me forever to get uploaded. In the interim I want to share with you some pertinent information that we all can begin to take action on. I would like to begin by saying that YOU can make a difference and not by just throwing money at it although we all know that helps.
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Now this is a story that goes back centuries and they are calling it falling whistles.
The words of Sean Carasso:
Laying in Titu Prison, these 5 boy-prisoners first told me of the whistleblowers.
Abducted in Congo and too small even to carry a gun, boys were given merely a whistle and sent to the front lines of battle.
The sound of their whistles calling together was meant to frighten the enemy away. Failing that, their sole duty was to receive the bullets with their bodies.
With falling whistles, their only choice was to feign death, or face it.
The whistle became a symbol of the level of injustice in Congo. The haunting image of whistles falling from palm sized hands pushed me forward.
It wasn’t until I returned home that I realized – there in Congo a whistleblower is a victim of injustice, but here in the West, a whistleblower is someone who calls out injustice.
Possessed within this single symbol was both problem and response.
Around the world, the sound of a whistle demands STOP. PAY ATTENTION.
Demand the same from your friends and family.
Become a whistleblower for the war in Congo.
Injustice cannot exist when millions of people call it out.
Together we’ll stand even as they fell, and use what was once their only weapon as our voice to fight for their freedom.
FALLING WHISTLES – THEIR WEAPON, OUR VOICE
Go to the website and download the story (pdf).
Pretty amazing in a bad way you dig. According to www.cia.gov 1.4 million in the DRC have been fighting between government forces and rebels since mid-1990s.
Democratic Republic of the Congo is a source and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; much of this trafficking occurs within the country’s unstable eastern provinces and is perpetrated by armed groups outside government control. Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007; while some significant initial advances were noted, the government’s capacity to apprehend, convict, or imprison traffickers remained weak; the government lacks sufficient financial, technical, and human resources to effectively address not only trafficking crimes, but also to provide basic levels of security in some parts of the country (2008). It’s so bad that the lack of a well-developed financial system limits the country’s utility as a money-laundering center.
We will research ways to help as you will.
