Twitter tag cloud for #cairospeech
The wonders of modern technology had me watching “the speech” live on youtube, while receiving incoming tweets (check out: #cairospeech) of people’s reactions from around the world (the twittersphere is hardly representative, but for what it’s worth I’d say the reaction was 85% Can we give this man the Nobel Peace Prize; 15% This is the same old U.S.A. trumped up in better wording). If you missed the speech itself, it’s worth reading the transcript.
Darfur got a call out: “And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.” I predict reactions from the Darfur advocacy community of – We agree, but stop talking and start acting.
I’ll be in Cairo on Saturday so will be interested to speak with people there. On that topic – why is it that I was flooded with questions for Luis Moreno Ocampo and Jan Pronk, but have received radio silence on Zeid al Sabban?
Speak Your Mind