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Hi!

For the Madison area this afternoon, please tune in on WISC-Channel 3 
at 4pm. Here's an excerpt of the show from the Oprah web site:

 "As she often does, journalist Lisa Ling risked her life to tell us a 
very important story. She recently travelled to the Democratic Republic 
of the Congo to uncover what's been happening to women in the middle of 
this war-torn country. The country's most recent conflict stems from a 
struggle for resources and power, both among domestic and foreign 
interests—four million people have already been massacred. Lisa spoke 
to brutalized women in the village of Bukavu who are speaking for the 
first time in hopes the world will hear their voices. Every single day 
in the Congo, rape is used as a vicious weapon against women in this 
war.

"More than any other place I've been, life in the Congo can really be 
like living hell," Lisa says. "If you're a woman, you're constantly in 
danger of rebels who are hiding in the forest coming and attacking your 
village and gang raping you, possibly in front of your children."

Read the emotional letters from women who survived horrific sexual 
cruelty and torture in the eastern Congo."

"Lisa: Women in the Congo are considered "war booty," essentially. They 
are the ones who are suffering the most. The villages are attacked in 
the middle of the night by young soldiers. They violently rape the 
women. They've killed so many people already in six years. Four million 
people—and no one is paying attention. … This is happening right now.

Oprah: It's happening right now. And I feel a responsibility that we 
have a voice to let people know what's going on, and to not to do that, 
I think, would be a crime. 

Find out how you can help women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
through the organization Women For Women International."

Thank you for supporting the women of Eastern Congo,
--Emilie

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