Stop Genocide NowWe’re wrapping up our first full day in Chad now, and you should see Gabriel and KTJ’s room. It’s a maze of wires, boxes, cameras and computers, everything we need to keep you all updated as we make our way out east to the refugee camps. Today was a big logistics day, figuring out all […]
Thank You For Your Presence We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the beautiful people who worked determinedly to help ensure that our beloved Gabriel, KTJ, Jeremiah and Joshua could make it back home safely. On Saturday, February 2, Javi received a call from his brother Gabriel, a few minutes after surviving […]
5 February 2008 According to plans, I would have been home three days ago. I know that I must have sounded redundant and boring when telling my three travel partners that many time, if not always, things just do not go as planed in Chad. This journey has taken this notion to the extreme. Clichés […]
It was a close one. Bullets flew over our heads and parts of the walls and objects around us came raining down on us. We were already lying on the ground because the attack on the hotel had started just a few minutes before, when we came running down from the third floor. We made […]
Only the screen of my computer and the small emergency fixture above the African statue light the dining room. I can hear familiar voices and urgent news in French passing through the crowd. We have all gathered here after the attack and are waiting to be evacuated from N’Djamena. A plane flies close to the […]
Hello from N’Djamena: We made it safely out of Eastern Chad, right before violence and instability broke out; we could have been stuck there, since the road we last traveled was closed down the very next day. Our friends in the camps are not as lucky, with aid staff being relocated and services being stopped; […]
G’s Journal—day 12 (and 11 and 10) I’m again writing from up in the air, flying over the Chadian desert on our way back to N’Djamena. Day 12 is the last day of our fourth i-ACT, but it is not the end of our “interactive-activism.” We have to see it with the energy of beginners. […]
Envoyé par Katie-Jay le 27 janvier 2008-01-28 9ème jour Ses yeux sont plus profonds que je l’imaginais par rapport aux photos et à la vidéo. Sa peine est plus apparente dans chacun de ses mots. Son ton devient très solennel lorsqu’elle décrit le jour où elle est partie. Le jour où son mari et 60 […]
G’s Journal—day 8Today was another travel day, and we felt it. We left Goz Beida and Camp Djabal a lot later than I would have wished for, 1:15pm. That made it way too tight for traveling from Abeche to Farchana by car. We flew in to Abeche at about 2pm, with a few errands to […]
G’s Journal—day 7 I become attached to specific people I meet in the camps pretty easily, and I wonder if they feel the same. I like to think they do! Today we went back to Djabal Camp, and it already felt familiar. I knew that I would, with no problem, again find Oumer and want […]