Comments on: cause on a string http://everydaytrash.com/2007/01/30/cause-on-a-string/ A closer look at what we throw away. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: everydaytrash http://everydaytrash.com/2007/01/30/cause-on-a-string/#comment-422 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:32:54 +0000 http://everydaytrash.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/cause-on-a-string/#comment-422 Distasteful is right.

]]> By: kimberly http://everydaytrash.com/2007/01/30/cause-on-a-string/#comment-412 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:05:35 +0000 http://everydaytrash.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/cause-on-a-string/#comment-412 Yes, but no. I don’t have a link, but this was the header from today’s Global Development Briefing:

‘ “It’s either some colossal cluelessness or remarkable indifference to that reality that would somehow try to equate raising one’s hand with a diamond on it as a promotional counter-measure to the effect of the film.”

– Edward Zwick, director of Hollywood film Blood Diamond, attacking a campaign to get film stars to display gems at awards events. The US diamond industry is donating USD 10,000 to African charities for each star raising a hand with a ring at events including the Oscars. Zwick, whose Africa-set film highlights the issue of illegal diamond profits funding wars, called the move a “charitable bribe” and “distasteful.” The World Diamond Council (WDC) said so-called “blood diamonds” made up less than 1 percent of new diamonds, compared with 4 percent in the late 1990s. Conflict diamonds have been linked to armed struggles in Sierra Leone, Liberia, the DRC (Congo) and the Central African Republic. ‘

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