Be sure to check out the new website of Uganda Conflict Action Network(Uganda-CAN)
A notable new effort, and they say it best themselves...
Uganda Conflict Action Network (Uganda-CAN) seeks to:
Raise awareness about the war in northern Uganda, particularly highlighting the realities on the ground and the voices of Ugandans caught in the midst of war.
Take creative and targeted action to lobby policymakers in the United States to push for a comprehensive peaceful resolution to the war in northern Uganda and an end to its consequent suffering.
Work in partnership with operating humanitarian organizations to provide relief and other forms of assistance to alleviate the unnecessary human suffering in northern Uganda.
Build an effective broad-based grassroots network of concerned, outraged citizens committed to monitoring and using their power to work for peace and renewal in the Great Lakes Region of Africa and beyond.
Urbane Analysis: Attention Left Wingers: see how these fine young protestors at Uganda-CAN have World Vision on their radar? A good move, you should follow their leadership in this kind of constructive peacemaking. And it would be more than a nice gesture, since the U.S. has (lamentably) an eroding reputation as an "honest broker" in this conflict - insofar as it has been a decades-long financial prop to the Museveni regime, which in turn has a vested interest in perpetuating this conflict to deflect the spotlight on horrible results/ accountability/ progress in advancing Uganda. Want to learn more about that? Then the Uganda-CAN website would be worth your time. There is a free market of ideas out there: Go shopping! That's more than those Ugandan kids in the picture above, lined-up for their measly daily ration of three liters of water, can hope for based on the horrible status quo imposed by the Museveni regime.
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