Actress Quincy Tyler Bernstine delivers a monologue from "Ruined, Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that is set in the DRC and concerns women as human battlefields in civil war. Bernstine portrays Salima, as she remembers how she was raped by soldiers.

PLEASE...be sure to watch video of today's BRILLIANT (second panel) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing, "Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones - Spotlight:  DRC and Sudan".  You will laugh and cry and be moved to ACT!

http://tinyurl.com/o9b5up for hearing and transcripts, and read Enough's Laura Heaton's post of May 15 on Enough's blog.

In a programme first broadcast on Wednesday May 6th, Stephen Sackur investigates the political and economic factors underpinning the endemic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For an introduction to this piece, see David Sullivan's Minerals Down Under on Enough's blog, Enough Said : http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/minerals-down-under

May 2009

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Kim Longinotto & Documentary Filmmaking

May 9 | 1:00-4:00 PM | DCTV, 3rd Fl Studio | $75/$50 Register

Congo's ecosystem does not escape the grotesque savagery inflicted upon the people of Congo, nor does the wellbeing of mankind. Some gentle giants...

By Wambi Michael

May 3, 2009

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