After reading two disturbing articles today in reaction to Blood Diamond I’ve decided to elaborate a bit on my own knowledge of blood diamonds as well as tell my own story and why I refuse to buy diamonds. But first the articles. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote a review of Blood Diamond whose main [...]

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I went and saw Blood Diamond last night and 24 hours later it’s still all I can think about. Blood Diamond tackles a slew of issues facing Africa such as hyper-violent rebel militia groups (like the RUF or LRA), the first world’s insatiable greed over Africa’s resources, blood diamonds, the diamond industry itself (De Beers, [...]

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