"A Bone to Pick With Genocide? Try a Million "

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Posted by Simone Pathe , June 11, 2013

For 48 hours, the grass on the National Mall disappeared underneath a sea of white and grey "bones," a symbolic mass grave on the footsteps of the U.S. Capitol. The One Million Bones project is a public art installation created to protest genocide and raise awareness of ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, Burma and Somalia.

Installation artist and activist Naomi Natale conceived of the project in 2009 while the violence in Sudan was unfolding. She was reading Philip Gourevitch's well-known recounting of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families."

"I felt moved to make the reality of what was being described [in the book into] something we in the United States could see," Natale told the PBS NewsHour. One Million Bones embodies what Natale called "the art of the uncomfortable and the inconvenient."

Read more @ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/06/a-bone-to-pick-with-genocide-try-a-million.html

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. K&R

Powerful

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. Kick.

[freshwest]

3. Cried all the way through the video. (Warning, graphic pic):

I am glad to see this leading to the steps of the nation's capitol, may it melt hearts of stone



People, let's think what we are doing and what we are not doing.

If anyone thinks that picture is too much, let me know and I will remove it.