David Morse

Author, Activist & Journalist

David's Darfur section includes resources, recent essays, interviews with Samantha Power, Alex de Waal, book reviews, links to Sudan-related sites and timely action appeals. Discover ways you can make a difference.

Haiti

In case you haven't taken the step or want to take another, toward helping Haiti dig out from the immediate horror and supporting its longer health-care challenges, I invite you to read Tracy Kidder's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. Kidder provides a moving account of Paul Farmer's dedicated work in Haiti. The book includes the genesis of Farmer's organization, Partners in Health. See also "How the U.S. Impoverished Haiti" (nathanielturner.com/howusimpoverishedhaiti.htm).

Latest Review

Dreams from My Father by Obama and The Heart of Whiteness by Jensen.
Two books I've read recently may interest visitors to this web-site who are drawn by a concern for Darfur. One is Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, the intimate account of a young black man's efforts to find a place in white society. The other is Robert Jensen's The Heart of Whiteness, a tough look at white privilege - a phenomenon least visible to whites themselves. (Complete article here.)

News & Updates

New article from David, "Can Sudan 'Marriage' Be Saved?" posted January 22, 2010 in The Huffington Post, argues the case that the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement is failing, and that the international community's penchant for denial makes war inevitable as 2011 approaches -- unless the U.S. and China can help prepare for an independent South Sudan. Please comment on-line. Whether you agree or not, this dialog needs to begin.

Jen Marlowe's new documentary film, "Rebuilding Hope," is available for viewing! Based on our 2007 travels with Chris Koor Garang, Gabriel Bol Deng, and Garang Mayuol, Jen's film offers a rich tapestry of struggle and hope. For more information visit http://www.rebuildinghopesudan.org/. Proceeds of the film will support our projects in the three villages.

Article from David, "Linking Sudan and U.S. Healthcare" publlished as "High-Tech vs. Humane Healthcare" by In These Times

Why I'm abandoning the word "genocide" to describe what's happening today, and why this doesn't get the Obama administration off the hook.

Also see Andrew Natsios's recent opinion piece, "Obama, Adrift on Sudan", in The Washington Post. A timely warning to the Darfur advocacy movement.

Danger that Khartoum will steal Sudan's coming elections.

. . . I suggest also writing or calling Congressional Representatives and asking them to cosponsor House Continuing Resolution 159 (.pdf), "Recognizing the fifth anniversary of the declaration by the United States Congress of genocide in Darfur, Sudan." Also see article "Focus on Lives, Not Labels"

January 2009: New photo essay by David: "From Darfur to Nairobi".

Sprouts: HOPE For Ariang Village and Sudan [128Kbps mp3 (26.79MB)]
Gabriel Bol Deng of South Sudan talks about his journey from a refugee camp to the US and back to Sudan with David and Jen Marlowe.

"With the Lost Boys in Southern Sudan. Starting from Zero (Part 1)" and "The Coming Collision in Sudan (Part 2)" by David Morse available at tomdispatch.com.

David and filmmaker Jen Marlowe accompanied three "Lost Boys" - Gabriel Bol Deng, Chris Koor Garang, and Garang Mayuol to their villages to deliver humanitarian aid and find out if they had family alive. [See slide show here]