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101st Dem Hour: Darfur

by redwagon
Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 at 02:05:12 PM EST

There is genocide happening now. If we raised 10% of what we raised to change the regime here, we can end it

Donate Now! Save Darfur

The same tools we used to get our nation to step back from the brink of fascism can stop genocide.

Where were you during Rawanda? Where are you now? Is this fight not as important as any?

Here are three general places to give:

iAbolish has been in Darfur as long as any organization. Stop the enslavement: http://iabolish.org/
Save Darfur is an association of nearly 200 religious groups to stop the slaughter:

http://www.savedarfur.org/
3. Save the Children in Darfur
http://www.savethechildren.org/emergencies/africa/sudan-humanitarian-crisis.html

Here are five specific ways to help:

Write an editorial for your local paper
Find out when the tour of Darfur photos is touring your area, and support it

http://www.ushmm.org/
3. Give money
http://www.savedarfur.org/
4. Help the ill, Doctors without Bordors
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/sudan.cfm
5. Help the hungry
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_darfuroverview.html

We have the power to stop genocide. Let's do it.

101st Dem Hour: Darfur | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: 101st Dem Hour: Darfur (4.00 / 4)

I posted this on Kos, and sadly, not only did no one care someone commented that none cares. Gosh, these dead people are even blacker than the ones in NOLA.

Why does big orange make me crazy and why do I go there?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/21/105536/94

by redwagon on Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 at 02:06:35 PM EST

Re: 101st Dem Hour: Darfur (4.00 / 3)

Thank you for keeping this issue front and center. We must act now, though we should have done something sooner. We have no troops to help keep the peace in Darfur because they are in Iraq waging a war of aggression....sigh.

And btw, I don't give a damn if they are black yellow pink or freakin purple with green polka dots, they are my brothers and sisters on this very fragile planet. Anyone alive who doesn't embrace that is brain-dead while walking.

As for THE orange place, it's to be expected... sigh.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

by blueneck on Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 at 02:37:48 PM EST
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Re: 101st Dem Hour: Darfur (none / 1)

Thanks for your entry, redwagon.

Sadly, as long as the Sudanese government rejects a UN force, there will be no effective intervention. And the big powers have little true interest in establishing sanctions. The Chinese are deeply entrenched, so no resolution of consequence will pass the Security Council.

Annan awaits Sudan letter on hybrid UN force for Darfur; UN aid chief warns of `abyss'

22 November 2006 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said he was awaiting a letter from Sudan's Government regarding the agreement reached last week on a hybrid UN-African Union force for strife-torn Darfur, while the world body's top aid official warned the Security Council that the region was heading towards an `abyss' of suffering.
"I spoke to President [Omar Hassan Al] Bashir today and he has indicated that he will be writing to me shortly and I think I should wait for his letter. But in Addis Ababa we agreed to the three phases," Mr. Annan told reporters after briefing the Council on last Thursday's deal reached in the Ethiopian capital.

John McCain - Less Jobs More War

by ask on Wed Nov 22nd, 2006 at 08:46:15 PM EST

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