The Beach, the Georgian and the Genocide
Just finished reading the book, "The Beach", which the movie a while back was based on. Much better than the movie of course, but still, not terribly great. Now again I am staying riiiight on the beach, and it's fantastic. I miss the beach life and culture, I must say... and of course good beach weather. So last night I overhead some people speaking Russian, and understand that one is Georgian, one Ukrainian and one, well Dutch. So I said hi and started talking to the Georgian especially, since I'd never met one outside of Georgia... turns out he has an Armenian grandparent, but in any case moved here (Sydney) 13 years ago and loves it. No plans even to visit Georgia again, no apparent desire.
Most of you have probably already heard about the PBS Armenian Genocide show coming up and about the "Panel" afterwards. The big Armenian organizations say there will be deniers of the genocide on it, which, if it is true is incredibly insulting (imagine them putting Neo-NAZIs on a panel after a holocaust documentary!!). Some PBS stations have already decided not to show the panel... so take a minute and make sure yours isn't going to either... enough of this second class genocide victim status.
*Please sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pbspanel and forward it to as many people as possible. More than 10,000 people have already signed it.
*Send e-mails to Jacoba Atlas at Jatlas@pbs.org urging her not to provide air time to genocide deniers.
* Since the individual PBS stations are the ones that decide whether to air the panel discussion or not, contact your local PBS station and urge them not to broadcast the post-show. To find your local PBS station, go to www.pbs.org/stationfinder, enter your zip code and click next. When you see the logo of your local station, click next again. This would give you the phone/fax numbers as well as mail and e-mail addresses of your local station.
Most of you have probably already heard about the PBS Armenian Genocide show coming up and about the "Panel" afterwards. The big Armenian organizations say there will be deniers of the genocide on it, which, if it is true is incredibly insulting (imagine them putting Neo-NAZIs on a panel after a holocaust documentary!!). Some PBS stations have already decided not to show the panel... so take a minute and make sure yours isn't going to either... enough of this second class genocide victim status.
*Please sign the online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pbspanel and forward it to as many people as possible. More than 10,000 people have already signed it.
*Send e-mails to Jacoba Atlas at Jatlas@pbs.org urging her not to provide air time to genocide deniers.
* Since the individual PBS stations are the ones that decide whether to air the panel discussion or not, contact your local PBS station and urge them not to broadcast the post-show. To find your local PBS station, go to www.pbs.org/stationfinder, enter your zip code and click next. When you see the logo of your local station, click next again. This would give you the phone/fax numbers as well as mail and e-mail addresses of your local station.
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