Famine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/africa/06somalia.html?ref=world

So I'm sure no one is surprised that there is famine in Somalia. Well, I hope no one is surprised. It breaks my heart- the images I see remind me of the last famine in the late '80's/early'90's and how affected I was by them as a child. What makes it worse this time is I feel moreso that the population is used as pawns. People are dying because militants practically forbade them to vaccinate their children, because it was Western poison. There have been reports of refugees being blocked from getting to camps.

I know I may be a little old to have a hero of sorts, but if I had to pick one (you know, outside the fam and all that jazz) it would be Dan Eldon. Photojournalist/artist genius. Worked as the youngest Reuters photog (at the time) and was in Mogadishu. Stoned to death out of ignorance- but his work is his legacy and damn, it's good. I highly suggest getting access to it, either through his website (kept up by his sister and mother) or through 2 books that were published after he died- one of his work and one a biography.