Waxploitation Records will be putting out a CD and donate the proceeds to help fight against the Genocide in Sudan. Genoside in Sudan includes donated tracks from the likes of Jurassic 5, X-ecutioners, Jill Scott, System of a Down, Yoko Ono, Gorillaz, DJ Spooky, Danger Mouse & Murs and others.
The conflict in Sudan has created arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than one million people driven from their homes and up to 50,000 people killed by government supported militias known as “Janjaweeds.” The systematic rape of women and the murder of children have been widely reported. Unfortunately troops cannot intervene in the conflict until the UN officially labels the situation Genocide
“We’re trying to address two things with this CD,” says Waxploitation CEO Jeff Antebi, the album’s executive producer. “The first is to get the United Nations to declare the ongoing atrocities Genocide, so that real action can take effect to stop what is obviously an ‘ethnic cleansing’ taking place, in violation of the 1948 Geneva Convention. The second is to raise money for the dire relief situation effecting over 1 million innocent civilians who might die from starvation and disease if aid does not reach them right now.”
