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Instant Karma by John Lennon
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Instant Karma is one of the three by John Lennon (along with Imagine and Give Peace a Chance) to be in the Rock N` Hall Of Fame. It is no surprise many consider John Lennon the most influential political artist of the 20th century.
John Lennon educated us all to the idea of world peace.
Instant Karma was recorded the same day it was written and released only ten days later. John Lennon later said he “wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we’re putting it out for dinner.”
Yoko Ono granted rights to Lennon’s entire solo songbook to Amnesty International.
Instant Karma is now the name of Amnesty International’s new campaign to stop the horrific human rights abuses taking place in Darfur, Sudan.
More than 50 musicians including Green Day, Avril Lavigne, U2, R.E.M. and many others have made original recordings of John Lennon’s songs for this campaign. A portion of revenue from music downloads and CD sales will directly support Amnesty International’s human rights work.
In 2004 the U.S. government determined that genocide had been committed in Darfur. In January 2005, the UN Commission of Inquiry concluded, “crimes against humanity and war crimes have been committed in Darfur and may be no less serious and heinous then genocide.”
The death toll in Dafur now exceeds 400,000. Over 2,500,000 civilians have been driven from their homes, their villages torched and property stolen. More than 4,500,000 people are still at risk of attacks, starvation and disease.
Sudan’s Muglad Basin, the largest of the Central African rift basins, contains three billion barrels of crude in two fields alone. Several smaller fields have also been discovered. Geological surveys also imply that Darfur has unexploited oil reserves.
Two key human rights questions have been raised about developments in semi-autonomous Southern Sudan oil fields: did people ever live there? And if so, were they forcibly displaced by the government to make way for oil development? The answer to both questions is yes.
Baggara, the same people recruited for the Janjaweed militias, hunted civilians in government-organized destroy and displace raids. This was enabled by infrastructure built by the Lundin oil consortium led by a Swedish company.
Here is the history is of an international oil consortium driving the exploitation of previously negligible divisions between neighbors to depopulate an oil rich region. And now something very similar is happening in Dafur.
And something very similar is happening in Iraq.
Until we end our dependence upon oil with conservation and the development of appropriate alternative energy technologies we will witness this scenario repeated again and again the world over. And as non-renewable oil resources decline in the face of increasing demand the violence will only escalate.
Now is the time to stand up and be heard to stop the oil-begotten violence in Sudan and Iraq. Now is the time to get behind biofuels and other appropriate energy technologies. Now is the time for international oil consortiums to reap Instant Karma.
Help make it unprofitable to destroy peace for oil. Support alternatives to international oil consortiums and start creating lasting world peace.
Tags: Appropriate Technology, Peace
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