Children 'piled up and shot': new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

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8. People often need to have a connection with something before they're motivated into action. For many of the students

protesting, it's because they have family or friends in or from Palestine, or they are Jewish and are interrogating what they may have been taught about Israel, or they have simply decided to learn from people in these situations. Most of the students are U.S. citizens, and so they may also feel they are "closer" to the conflict in Gaza than elsewhere because the U.S. sends arms and aid to Israel, and so have some influence on the decisions their schools and governments make. Most of us have very little connection to Darfur other than a shared humanity, so it's harder for that horror to gain traction, other than generally being used as a whattabout tool.