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A DAY FOR DAFUR:
Stop the Genocide. Protect the
People.
TODAY (SEPTEMBER 8th)
12 Noon
(Gathering at 11:45am to start
promptly at 12 noon!)
Lafayette Park. In
front of the White House.
The closest cross streets are 16th and H St.,
NW, Washington DC.
Join us for a powerful event in front of the White House
on September 8th! One year since the Bush Administration declared
that genocide is occuring in Darfur, little has been done to stop the
violence and protect the people. Up to 400,000 people have lost
their lives in Darfur since the government-sponsored genocide began in
2003. More than 2.5 million people have been
displaced, their livelihoods and villages destroyed by government
forces and their proxy militias. These forces have raped many thousands
of women and girls. The humanitarian crisis that forms
part of the genocide continues, as a government-engineered famine
begins to unfold. Unless there is an urgent multinational
intervention, hundreds of thousands more may die this year. On this
anniversary we will call
on President Bush to take every step necessary to stop the genocide in
Darfur. You have the
power to protect! Your voice can move this nation!
Will you join us?
Featured
speakers will include:
Dr.
Robert W. Edgar, General Secretary, National
Council of Churches
Fatima
Haroun, Darfurian Representative of Sudan Peace Advocates Network
Ruth
Messinger*, President, American Jewish World Service
Rev.
Jim Wallis*, Founder and Editor in Chief of Sojourners Magazine
Salih
Booker, Executive Director, Africa Action
Dave
Rubenstein, Executive Director, Save Darfur Coalition
Members of
Congress*
*Invited and intending to come but awaiting final confirmation
CO-SPONSORS
Africa Action, American Jewish World Service,
Armenian National Committee of America, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
, Faithful America, Greater Washington Jewish Task
Force on Darfur, NAACP,
National Council of Churches, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Save Darfur Coalition,
Sojourners, National STAND Coalition, Sudan Peace Advocates
Network, TransAfrica Forum, and the
United Methodist Church.
Visit Africa Action's Website For More
Information including directions and sample fliers as well
places to stay and things to do for those coming out of town!
Click Here to
Sign the Petition to Stop Genocide in Darfur Online
WEBSITE UPDATE
Africa Action's website has undergone a major upgrade!
Check out the new sections for our three primary campaigns on
Darfur,
Debt and
AIDS. Be sure to also browse our brand new
Action Center and home pages for the
Africa Action
Student Network and the
Religious
Action Network. We would appreciate feedback on these new
sections of our website!
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