Please try to help the tens of thousands people in Asia who have been devastated by the killer tsunami and earthquake that shattered so many countries.

You’ll find resources on Google’s Tsunami Relief page:
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html

A word of sorrow closer to home: Writer/critic/human rights advocate Susan Sontag has died after a long battle with cancer. Years ago, I interviewed her for a film I was making on the siege of Sarajevo. She stood with and spoke up for the people of Bosnia in their most difficult hour. He voice was eloquent and strong.

In his tribute, journalist Doug Ireland writes:

“Susan was the epitome of the intellectuelle engagée. She never shirked the responsibility of living in her time, and brought her acute analysis, and empathy with victims of state oppression wherever it was felt, onto the page with memorable effect. The last time she made headlines was when, during the second U.S. war in Iraq, Susan was pilloried by the philistines after she compared the Congress’s applause for George Bush’s war speech to the knee-jerk ovations which the Party Congresses in the Soviet Union gave to Stalin. She got it exactly right, of course.”

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