"a closer walk"

as FLEFF draws to a close, i wonder what people saw, how many took advantage of its presence, and how did the films and presentations (if at all) change them.

today, i saw a film chronicling the worldwide AIDS epidemic. a film that asks "what kind of people are we?" the following statistics are from that film.

every 8 seconds, someone dies of AIDS. this means that today alone, 10,000 people will die from a preventable disease.

in south africa, today alone, 1,500 people will get that very disease.

already, 1/3 of pregnant women in some parts of africa have AIDS.

800,000 children were born with HIV in 2002; and 5,000,000 children have died since the beginning of the epidemic.

99% of the people in africa with AIDS won't have access to medical care and treatment.

and yet we barely move, we barely acknowledge, we thank god it's not happening to us. and so i ask, who is the us? who is the them?

where is the we?