stumbled upon 2 unrelated (i think) doings about the children who commute into the streets of ugandan cities to sleep there overnight so that they do not get kidnapped and conscripted into the lord’s resistance army to “fight” the horrendous northern uganda war.

1. don cheadle and his family went to uganda to do a screening of hotel rwanda to raise money and filmed a short documentary called “journey into sunset“. it will premiere at the tribeca film festival next week here in nyc.

2. three young cali filmmakers who also did a documentary on the night commuters called “invisible children“. they are organizing a global night commute to ask americans to spend one night (4/29) sleeping in the streets like the kids in uganda. they have a video to promote the event that is funny riff on the michael jackson “if-we-dance-we-can-save-the-world” school of thought.

i for one have stopped wondering how the world stood by and let the nazi holocaust happen. in my time rwanda, congo, darfur and northern uganda have all taken place (the last three together) and i have blithely gone on with my life with little more than an occasional twinge of outrage.