Article of the Week # “Why Do We Look The Due date Other Way?” Student # Block Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES using the CLOSE reading strategies practiced in class This requires reading of the article three times Step 1: Number the paragraphs Skim the article using these colors and symbols as you read: -UNKNOWN WORDS/DEFINITIONS | PENCIL - questions/insights/impressions (*) important, (!) surprising, (?) wondering [(+) agree, (-) disagree] Step 2: Define the vocabulary that has been boxed for you Choose an appropriate SCORE: /4 synonym that has the same part of speech as the term Write the synonym Points above each boxed term to help you better understand the excerpt Completion Step 3: Read the article carefully, highlight text, and make associated notes in the margin Notes should include: Vocabulary/Tone/Mar • BLUE -strong connotation/denotation (diction/word choice) gin Notes • YELLOW-big ideas (write a summary statement of important ideas for each major section) • PENCIL- questions/insights/impressions List three things you notice immediately List the main points or arguments that this info graphic is trying to get across to its audience How are these points being illustrated or portrayed? What are some supporting details for each main point/argument? What is the author saying? After reading this article, what would you title it? What is the author doing? By Dr Gregory Stanton President, Genocide Watch Copyright 2012 Genocide Watch, Inc Dr Paul Slovic, a social psychologist at the University of Oregon, has conducted path-breaking experiments asking why we cannot sympathize with the suffering or even the murder of large numbers of people in Sudan, or Rwanda, or Bosnia, or Cambodia In one experiment, psychologists asked ordinary Americans to contribute five dollars to feed Rokia, a starving seven-year-old girl in Mali About half would donate the five dollars The same percentage would donate to save Moussa, a little boy from Mali But when photos of both Rokia and Moussa were shown, the percent who would donate dropped And when the photo of Rokia was shown representing 21 million hungry Africans who could be fed by a group of trusted relief organizations, the percentage who would donate dropped to less than ten percent Professor Slovic calls this phenomenon “psychic numbing.” He believes human beings are usually unable to feel compassion for large numbers of people The more victims, the less compassion Genocide Watch has developed an early warning system using our understanding of the genocidal process to predict and recommend policies to prevent genocide Through the International Alliance to End Genocide, the first anti-genocide coalition (founded in 1999), we maintain close relations with policy makers who can take preventive action Rapid response by regional alliances has prevented or stopped several genocides: in East Timor, Kosovo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia , and Sierra Leone We have created international tribunals to try genocidists in former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor, and Cambodia And we finally have an International Criminal Court (the ICC) The UN Security Council has referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC It has indicted President Omar al-Bashir, Abdul Rahim, and Ahmed Harun for crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur But al-Bashir has just laughed He even appointed Harun (one of those indicted) to be Governor of South Kordofan where he is leading another genocide against the people of the Nuba Mountains The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has finished 50 trials and convicted 29 persons The Cambodian Tribunal has sentenced Comrade Duch, the commander of the Tuol Sleng Prison that tortured and killed 14,000 Cambodians, to life in prison And the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge are finally on trial, thirty years after I founded the Cambodian Genocide Project while still a student at Yale Law School in 1982 So as my hero, Dr Martin Luther King, Junior said, “We have come a long way But we have a long, long way to go.” In thirty years of work against genocide, I have learned two things about genocide prevention 10 The first lesson is the direct result of our own human incapacity to comprehend or feel sympathy for large groups of people half way around the world 11 Because individuals cannot that, we need permanent institutions established that will watch out for precursors of genocide, take action to prevent it, intervene to stop it, and arrest and prosecute those who commit it 12 Institutions are necessary to overcome the fleeting nature of our concern That is why in 2000, I proposed and the International Alliance to End Genocide lobbied, and in 2004 the UN Secretary General created the UN Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide It is why we support President Obama’s U.S Atrocities Prevention Board and the creation of similar institutions in Britain, France, Germany, India, Nigeria and other nations around the world But warning is not enough 13 We must also create institutions for action Unfortunately, President Obama has not matched his promise of “Never again” with any concrete action to stop the Sudanese government’s genocide in the Nuba Mountains and Darfur President Obama should impose a NO FLY Zone over the Nuba Mountains Any Sudanese bomber or helicopter gunship that attacks a Nuba village should be allowed to land and then destroyed (when their crews have left at night) by cruise missiles fired from American warships in the Indian Ocean And their runways should be destroyed NATO airstrikes in Libya took control of the skies from Gaddafi The same should be done with al-Bashir’s Sudan 14 The UN has completely failed to prevent or stop genocide, largely because of paralysis by threatened vetoes by one or more of the permanent members so the Security Council, but also because of the UN’s continuing unwillingness to offend member states Regional alliances like NATO, ASEAN, the OAS and ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States, led by Nigeria), have been effective interveners The UN Charter specifically authorizes regional intervention 15 The International Criminal Court needs an Optional Protocol to create an international police force with the sole mandate to arrest leaders indicted by the ICC This police force could be created without any action by the UN—through a treaty among the Assembly of States- Parties to the ICC 16 The second lesson I have learned is that genocide prevention must start and be led by people from countries at risk It cannot be led by an American organization in Washington D.C., led by a pacifist Director, that is unwilling to advocate the use of force to stop genocide Prevention must especially begin from the ground up in countries at risk of genocide A true International Alliance to End Genocide can support such local efforts and create an international mass movement to end genocide 17 The best example is Liberia 18 Leemah Gbowee, a fish seller in Monrovia, Liberia had a strange dream one night She dreamed that the market women of Monrovia should begin each week with an hour of prayer for peace in Liberia, a country then torn apart by civil war between Charles Taylor’s government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Both sides cut off arms and hands, raped women, conscripted child soldiers and turned them into killers on drugs— they committed every war crime She told her dream to a Muslim friend who also sold fish in the market, and they began the weekly prayer meetings in the fish market More and more women joined until five thousand women were praying every week Charles Taylor’s entourage drove blithely by in their Mercedes limosines 19 Then Leemah Gbowee and the other women demanded a meeting with Charles Taylor and with the leaders of the RUF When they met them, the women demanded an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to end the war Both sides agreed; and talks began in Accra, Ghana But the women didn’t trust the men to make peace They pooled their nickels and quarters, rented buses, and went to Accra themselves They slept outside, sometimes in the rain, while the men slept in four-star hotels The talks between the men, led by a former Nigerian President, went nowhere 20 Finally, fed up, the women walked into the building where the talks were underway and sat down in the hallways The Ghanaian police threatened to arrest them One of the senior women said she would make it easy for them by removing all her clothes (One of the most humiliating things that can happen to a man in Ghana is for a grandmother to disrobe in front of him.) The police backed off 21 Finally the Nigerian ex-President told the men that if they didn’t c ome to agreement in three days, he would turn the talks over to the women The agreement they reached included the exile of Charles Taylor to Nigeria 22 Peace returned to Liberia and in the next election, with the women’s crucial votes, Dr Ellen Johnson Sirleaf become the first woman elected President of an African country 23 Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the Yemeni woman human rights activist, Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 24 Charles Taylor was tried for his crimes and convicted He will likely spend the rest of his life in prison 25 To end genocide, it will take love that transcends all boundaries—that allows us to feel the suffering of people in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan 26 To end genocide, it will take justice that tries the serial killers that commit genocide 27 We should never lose hope in the power of love Because love is God’s force personally expressed 28 We must never lose faith in the power of justice Because justice is God’s force socially expressed 29 With love and justice, together we can end genocide Genocide Prevention Advisory Network Conference Report: March 14 – 15, 2012, Guiding Principles of the Emerging Architecture Aiming At the Prevention of Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia: Genocide Prevention Program, pp 144 -147 List the main points or arguments that this info graphic is trying to get across to its audience How are these points being illustrated or portrayed? Create a bibliographic entry/MLA citation of this article and one of the infographics (use your reference book/the internet for help) Don’t forget your HANGING INDENT! 9/10.RL.1-6 *Don’t forget to record your bibliographic entry on your AOW final assignment sheet.* Answer each question in one or more complete sentences Twelve Word Summary: Summarize the entire article in twelve words (think: who, what, when, where, how) What is the underlying tone of the article? Use the tone reference sheet located in your handbook What specific words or phrases develop that tone? Based on what you’ve read and seen, what incident of genocide you think was the most significant? Explain your opinion Explain what you think is the theme of this article Create a thematic statement based on the word chosen from the list of abstract thematic ideas (in your reference handbook) Based on the thematic statement you created, what pieces of evidence in the text support this idea or theme? (use in-text citations) Fragments Directions: Change the sentence fragments into complete sentences, adding correct capitalization and punctuation Do not copy sentences from the text because individuals cannot Scrambled Sentences Directions: Rearrange the words below into sentences Add punctuation and capitalization (Hint: the first word of the sentence is in bold.) also create we must action institutions for _ _ Consider all that you have read about genocide How are genocide and other acts of mass violence possible? Why is it important to learn about the Holocaust other acts of genocide? Explain using evidence from the text to support your answer (ICE/TAG) TAG/ICE TEMPLATES/Examples Step 1: Restate the question insert your opinion/argument/answer Step 2: According to (the author) in his/her (genre), “(title)” introduce quote “copy quote” (cite page/paragraph) Step 3: Explain the connection from your opinion/argument/answer 9/10.RL.8,10