Make a Difference in Darfur, in One Day: Join Don Cheadle, Nick Kristof, Allison Janney and more

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Thursday October 05, 2006 · 7:37 AM PDT

2006/10/05 · 07:37

TODAY, you have the chance to make your voice heard around the world -- and have a direct impact on the ground in Darfur. Join DarfurFast to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur and support an immediate and robust protection force to end the genocide. Find events in your area.

Activists and students around the world -- on four continents! -- will join Hotel Rwanda star Don Cheadle, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, West Wing stars Allison Janney and Janel Maloney, US Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios, authors Dave Eggers and Samantha Power, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, Olympic Gold Medalist Joey Cheek and others in pledging their solidarity with the victims of genocide in Darfur.

Inside: More ways to get involved, why Andrew Natsios is giving up meat and dessert for the day, and a YouTube video to help spread the word! Read More

California Divests from Sudan: LIVE today at 3PM Eastern (12PM Pacific)

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 10:40 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 10:40

Don Cheadle speaking at a Sudan divestment rally

George Clooney and Hotel Rwanda star Don Cheadle will join Gov. Schwarzenegger and former US Secretary of State George Shultz today in public divestment of the state's holdings in companies that do business with the genocidal government of Sudan.

The event will be webcast live at 3PM Eastern/12PM Pacific, and will also feature a presentation by Adam Sterling, national policy director for the Sudan Divestment Task Force and a student at UCLA.

The divestment is a major victory for the anti-genocide movement and the hundreds of activists across the state who have been sending thousands of postcards to the governor, urging him to sign the bill passed by the Democratic legislature. Targeted divestment campaigns -- which focus on companies providing no benefit to Sudanese civilians through agricultural, medical, educational or other means -- are on the upswing in dozens of states. See what's going on in your state.

More information about the divestment campaign after the jump. Read More

This weekend: Have a hand in stopping genocide in Darfur

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 2:02 PM PDT

2006/09/01 · 14:02

Yesterday morning, the United Nations Security Council authorized a UN peacekeeping force to expand from Southern Sudan into Darfur, to replace the African Union peacekeepers who will leave at the end of this month. The resolution asks the government of Sudan to approve the expansion -- permission that, to date, Khartoum has not been willing to give.

Please write a letter to your local newspaper this weekend, reminding your community about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, and urging your senators to support the UN peacekeepers with at least $100 million in funding.

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 6:18 AM PDT

2006/08/10 · 06:18

Unfortunately I don't have time to comment much on this, but I thought people here would find it thought-provoking.

Sudan has purchased the best protection in the world: a veto-wielding member on the U.N. Security Council willing to ensure that Khartoum's campaign of human destruction in Darfur can continue. ... China is underwriting the first genocide of the 21st Century, and using their political weight to ensure that it is not stopped.

Full text on the flip, plus a poll! Read More

Tell Bush to Appoint a Special Envoy for Darfur

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Monday June 19, 2006 · 4:57 PM PDT

2006/06/19 · 16:57

This morning, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick -- who coordinated the Bush administration's efforts to stop genocide in Darfur, Sudan -- announced his resignation. Zoellick's resignation leaves a huge hole in the United States' response to a situation declared by President Bush to be "clearly genocide" in which "the human cost is beyond calculation."

Please tell the president to take the next steps toward protecting civilians in Darfur by appointing a special envoy to Darfur.

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Final Peace Deal in Darfur Within Reach, But US Must Support Peacekeepers

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 1:08 PM PDT

2006/05/05 · 13:08

As mcjoan notes, the largest rebel group in Sudan signed a peace agreement with the genocidal Sudanese government.

Does this mean the end of genocide in Darfur?

The short answer: no. The long answer: maybe, but only if the world commits to supporting peacekeeping in Darfur. Read More

A Modern-Day Freedom Ride

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Saturday March 11, 2006 · 3:44 PM PST

2006/03/11 · 15:44

A day after being arrested for protesting at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, members of the Soulforce Equality Ride are gearing up for nonviolent protest -- and, if the college bars them, civil disobedience -- at Pat Robertson's Regent University.

At military and religious colleges around the nation bans on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender enrollment force students into closets of fear and self-hate. These bans devalue the life of GLBT people and they slam the door on academic freedom. The Equality Ride empowers young adults to challenge these college bans.

In the extended post, veteran civil rights leader Rodney Powell talks about the connections between the Freedom Rides of the 1960s and the Equality Ride of today -- and ways you can support the Equality Ride, by joining their events at 20 colleges around the country and sponsoring one of the 30 equality riders.

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Wednesday February 08, 2006 · 3:25 PM PST

2006/02/08 · 15:25

A big victory today as the Genocide Intervention Network announces that Sudan's lobbyist to the United States has resigned after sustained pressure from Darfur Internet activists.

Thousands of members of the Genocide Intervention Network urged U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to fire Sudan's lobbyist in light of the ongoing crisis in Sudan that has been declared a genocide by both President Bush and the U.S. Congress. Pressure from GI-Net members and many other individuals and organizations in the Darfur activist community led to the lobbyist's departure.

The lesson here is clear -- governments who will not protect their own people do not deserve the privilege of doing business in the United States. Concerned Americans -- you -- will not stand for it. Read More

SOTU: Bush References Genocide But Declines Specifics

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 8:40 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 20:40

The Genocide Intervention Network recognizes the Bush Administration's leadership on resolving the 21-year civil war between the Sudanese government and southern Sudan, while imploring the president to make a similar moral commitment to ending the genocide in the western region of Darfur.

Innocent people in Darfur are not protected. High-level attention from the White House will end the genocide.

While the president noted the compassion shown to "a refugee fleeing genocide" in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he chose not to outline the concrete policies necessary to translate that compassion into human security for Darfurians. Read More

Tell Sec. Rice to Fire Sudan's Lobbyist

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Monday January 30, 2006 · 9:14 AM PST

2006/01/30 · 09:14

Call 202.647.5291 today -- then forward this message to 10 friends!

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice allows a U.S. lobbyist to represent the government of Sudan in Washington, D.C.

On Aug. 12, 2005, Rice exempted Sudan from long-standing sanctions to permit the hiring of a Washington lobbyist (and former State Department official). The State Department claims that the lobbyist is helping the United States and Sudan communicate. But throughout September, the government of Sudan attacked civilians in Darfur. (See articles here, here and here.) Clearly, the lobbyist is not getting the right message to the government of Sudan.

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 5:06 PM PST

2006/01/27 · 17:06

The Genocide Intervention Network and Students Taking Action Now: Darfur today launch the "Power to Protect" campaign, focused on bringing a unified student voice to bear on the United States' inaction in the face of genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

Power to Protect, accessible online at PowerToProtect.org, is the first broad-based student initiative to help resolve the ongoing crisis in Darfur. The campaign will help unify students within the Darfur advocacy movement, show the United States government that there is a vocal and active anti-genocide constituency, and pressure the government to take action.

The campaign demands that President Bush and the U.S. Congress use all diplomatic means necessary to immediately deploy a larger, stronger multinational force to protect civilians in Darfur.

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 5:21 AM PST

2006/01/15 · 05:21

Some lesser-known quotes from Martin Luther King Jr., to combat the dominant "dreamer/reformer" idea that will be sold by the media tomorrow.

King was nothing less than a radical revolutionary -- which you know if you've read his most important speech, diaried just now.

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Make a Difference in Darfur, in One Day: Join Don Cheadle, Nick Kristof, Allison Janney and more

California Divests from Sudan: LIVE today at 3PM Eastern (12PM Pacific)

This weekend: Have a hand in stopping genocide in Darfur

China's Crude Conscience on Darfur

Tell Bush to Appoint a Special Envoy for Darfur

Final Peace Deal in Darfur Within Reach, But US Must Support Peacekeepers

A Modern-Day Freedom Ride

How the Emerging Anti-Genocide Constituency Took Down a Lobbyist for Genocide

SOTU: Bush References Genocide But Declines Specifics

Tell Sec. Rice to Fire Sudan's Lobbyist

Darfur Advocacy Groups Launch 'Power to Protect' Campaign

Martin Luther King Jr. in his own words