Tents of Hope (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:23:53
Tim Nonn is a Darfur activist from Northern California, who has conceived and executed several innovative campaigns, including "Dear Sudan," "Judgment on Genocide," and most recently, "Tents of Hope."
"Hope is more like a muscle [...] we have to exercise that muscle of hope by being in connection to one another."
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Piece Description
Tim Nonn is a Darfur activist from Northern California, who has conceived and executed several innovative campaigns, including "Dear Sudan," "Judgment on Genocide," and most recently, "Tents of Hope." "Hope is more like a muscle [...] we have to exercise that muscle of hope by being in connection to one another."
Broadcast History
Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on November 8, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
Transcript
OVEMBER 8, 2007, TENTS OF HOPE
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Tim Nonn. He's a Darfur activist from Northern California, who has conceived and executed several innovative campaigns, including "Dear Sudan," "Judgment on Genocide," and most recently, "Tents of Hope." Tim, welcome to the program.
TIM NONN: Thank you.
JERRY FOWLER: I want to talk about all those campaigns I just mentioned, but first I want to explore how it is that you got involved in this issue.
TIM NONN: I was working at home as an editor and raising my son, who was four years old at the time, back in 2004, and I saw a television program, the "Charlie Rose Show," with John Prendergast and Samantha Powers. And at first I-- when I turned it on, immediately I turned it off, because it was late at night, I had put my son to sleep, and I wanted to relax and not hear something depressing and-- But then something in...
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