Comments on: Parisian Nights

By: pcalvin

pcalvin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:18:30 +0000

A very strong series of images. Ironically, today’s NY Times has a travel piece about “The Frugal Pleasures of Paris in Summer”.

By: yg

yg — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:22:37 +0000

with their plight, that black eye belongs to us. is there nothing we get right? surely our embassy in france can be stirred to do more.
for people to be reduced like this when they’ve exhibited how bright they are… they have obvious skills that are sorely needed and yet policy makers are either too oblivious or unimaginative enough to harness it. it is so insulting to be offered handouts and to be viewed as a charity case when they have something valuable to offer whose potential is not being realized.
slide 17 aches with betrayal.

By: Tena

Tena — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:29:11 +0000

Seems to me that the world is ignoring the refugee problem because no one knows what to do about it. Ignoring it obviously will not make it go away and every war that starts in another 3d world country produces thousands of new refugees.
Aid agencies try to address this problem, but they don’t have the money or the manpower to keep track of all the people on the globe who have been dispossessed of their homes. This is going to be one of the major problems of this century and eventually we’re going to have to deal with it – these people cannot just be turned loose and then lost.
I don’t have the answer. I don’t think anyone does. *sigh*

By: mon_oeil

mon_oeil — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:41:18 +0000

I find the title of the piece rather odd, of course the point is to contrast the notion of an enjoyable, even romantic night in the city of lights with what the Afghani refugees must go through. But since their plight has more to do with American failures in Afghanistan perhaps the title should point the finger to the appropriate perpetrator in whose country they will have very little chance to seek refuge.

By: raketemannschaften

raketemannschaften — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:23:06 +0000

targeted en oubli ette

By: Tom Traubert

Tom Traubert — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:01:39 +0000

Those photos are profoundly moving. Just extraordinary.

By: stevelaudig

stevelaudig — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:22:21 +0000

Is this the “backwash” of Empire that ferments, ripens and finally becomes the blowback of empire?