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Next General Body Meeting : Tuesday, November 14 @9pm!!
If you are interested in becoming more involved with STAND join the E-Board! For more information e-mail me:
EVENTS :
National Call-In Day!
On Wednesday, November 15th
From 9-5 PM
Urge your elected officials to provide more funding for UN Peacekeeping in Darfur to protect innocent civilians in 2007.
Participate in this national STAND event simply by calling the offices of your elected officials on November 15th. Check out www.DarfurScores.org to find the phone numbers of your members of Congress.
Please contact Katelyn at
kpayne@... for more information on the event AND if you are available to help table from 1-3pm on the H St. Terrace!
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***LOOK WHO IS A SPEAKER!!!***
Learn about Darfur in an intimate setting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
11 a.m. Wednesday November 15
Join representatives from the Princeton religious community to hear experts speak about Darfur. Panelist include John Prendergast (International Crisis Group), John Heffernan (US Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience), Manya Friedman (Holocaust Survivor) and Sara Weisman (Co-Founder GW STAND)
RSVP to Sara8685@...
Manya Friedman
Manya Friedman was born in Chmielnik, Poland and is a survivor of the Holocaust. Manya is currently a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is an active member of the Museum's speakers bureau.
Her first experience with anti-Semitism began in 1938 when her family moved to Sosnowiec, Poland, a city located near the German border. Signs appeared urging Polish citizens to boycott Jewish businesses. The following year, German troops invaded Poland . On September 4, 1939, at 2 p.m., Sosnowiec was occupied. That same day, local Jews, including Manya's father, were rounded up. They were held overnight without food or water and then selected for forced labor. Manya's father was assigned to build army latrines. A month later, her mother was arrested for violating the curfew. In 1941 Manya was forced to work for a German company that produced military uniforms. The following year, the Nazis began deporting Jews from Sosnowiec to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Manya and her family were saved temporarily from deportation because of their work permits. In March 1943, however, she was forcibly taken to the Gogolin transit camp, and from there to the Gleiwitz forced labor camp. She never saw her family again; they were deported to Auschwitz. In January 1945, as the Soviet army approached, the prisoners were evacuated on a death march . Manya and the other prisoners were transported for ten days in open freight cars in the bitter cold to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. The Swedish Red Cross rescued her in April 1945. In 1950 she emigrated from Sweden to the United States.
John Heffernan
John Heffernan is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Initiative Director, which is part of the Committee on Conscience at the Museum. The Museum's Committee on Conscience is mandated to alert the national conscience, influence policymakers and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide and related crimes against humanity.
Heffernan brings to the Museum nearly twenty years of experience in development, relief, human rights, and post-conflict reconstruction projects in the United States, Africa, South America, and Europe. As the Committee's Genocide Prevention Initiative Director, John Heffernan oversees the Museum's public outreach initiatives and activities including conducting research on and documenting instances of genocide, developing genocide response strategies and spearheading campaigns to build public awareness of and reaction to instances of genocide.
John Prendergast
John Prendergast is a Senior Adviser at the International Crisis Group. The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization, with nearly 120 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
Prendergast worked in the White House and the State Department in the Clinton administration from 1996-2001 and has worked for a variety of NGOs and think tanks in Africa and the U.S. He has authored or coauthored seven books on Africa and is currently co-authoring a book with actor Don Cheadle.
Sara Weisman
Sara Weisman is a senior at the George Washington University studying International Affairs with concentrations in development and economics. She is co-founder of the student organization GW STAND, Students Taking Action Now Darfur. Her experience with GW STAND has afforded her tremendous experience in organizing, fundraising, lobbying, activism and awareness campaigns. Additionally, Weisman has interned with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscious, the International Crisis Group Africa program, the Save Darfur Coalition and the Center for Strategic and International Studies giving her a solid understanding of the situation in Darfur. She is currently working on a senior thesis analyzing the conflict and potential peacekeeping options in Darfur.
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"Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?"
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will project wall-sized images of the escalating genocide in Darfur onto its façade during Thanksgiving week, marking the first time the national memorial's exterior will be used to highlight contemporary genocide. The program, "Darfur: Who Will Survive Today?" is a unique and highly symbolic Museum project produced in association with Darfur/Darfur to draw attention to the continuing crisis in Darfur.
The multi-media production will run from 5:30 p.m. until midnight every night from November 20 – November 26. There will be an opening night event, with a keynote address by U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, on November 20 at 6:30 p.m. RSVP required for the event, 202-488-0407.
This exhibition is produced by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum [ www.ushmm.org ] in association with Darfur/Darfur [ www.darfurdarfur.org.]
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- Location: Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor, 1957 E Street NW
- Sponsors: Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA)
- RSVP is required, contact Hfassil@.... There will be refreshments served.
Novemeber 15th: Christmas in Darfur Benefit
At Bourbon in Adams Morgan (an amazing bar and restaurant with a billion types of amazing beer) to benefit a film these chicago guys made called "Christmas in Darfur" It's 6- 1am and its only 5 bucks so we should go it will be fun!
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Howard University STAND Event:
The Howard University chapter of Amnesty International and HU STAND
invite you to attend an informative discussion, question and answer
session to help us identify the neccessary steps we must take in order
to educate our communities and demand international intervention to aid
the millions suffering in the Darfur region.
Our goal is to end confusion by identifying the facts from the myths so
we can all act together. Please join us this thursday November 16th, at
7pm in the Blackburn Center's Gallery Lounge.
Directions to Howard University by metro:
Get off at the Shaw/Howard University metro stop (green line). Exit on
the Howard University side and wait by the bus stop for the Howard
shuttle. (The shuttle runs every 10 minutes). Get off at the 4th stop
on the shuttle route. Walk through the black iron gates and walk across
our main campus (the clocktower will be on our right). The Blackburn
center is the building with large glass windows and a fountain in front
of it.
Lauren Edwards
Lauren6984@...
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Upcoming student trips to Uganda and Sierra Leone!
In January 2007, GYPA will be sending 25 American to join 25 Ugandan
students in Kampala and Gulu, Uganda for the Global Kimeeza II: The
Role of Youth in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda. At the same time, 20
Americans and 50 Sierra Leoneans will come together in Freetown,
Sierra Leone for GYPA's first Youth Summit in the country: The Role
of Youth in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone.
Both immersion trips will give participants an opportunity to explore
first-hand the post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation
processes at work in these countries. The purpose of both summits is
to engage and promote youth from the United States and Africa as
leaders in the efforts to rebuild these two war-torn countries.
Participants will participate in discussions regarding conflict
resolution, economic development, rehabilitation and reintegration,
HIV/AIDS, transitional justice, and gender issues, among others.
Students with backgrounds or interests in any of the above fields are
encouraged to apply!
Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
SHARE. LEARN. GIVE. WALK.
Help the Homeless Walk
Take a stand. Help fight hunger and homelessness!
Saturday, Nov. 18
Register Online at
http://gwired.gwu.edu/volunteer
Meet at Kogan Plaza at 7:30 AM and proceed
down to the National Mall!
Walk alongside your fellow Colonials and help the hunger and homelessness crisis.
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What are you doing this summer???
Sign up for a Bike & Build CROSS-COUNTRY CYCLING TRIP and get ready for the most incredible summer of your life!
If you would like to help promote and support the AFFORDABLE HOUSING cause and are looking for an amazing adventure, come to our information session on
Wednesday November 15
@ 5 pm in the
basement of the GW Office of Community Service.
OCS is located at 2129 G St, NW Bldg. D.
At this meeting, Bike & Build alumni will tell you about the best and most rewarding 9 weeks of our lives. We'll show you photos from our trips and answer all your questions about life on the road.
Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and GORP will be served...
Email ebannerman@... or check out www.bikeandbuild.org for more information.
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I'm writing with an exciting opportunity for you and your chapter – the STAND Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference at Swarthmore College December 1-3!
This jam-packed conference will bring students from throughout your
region to learn valuable skills, hear from experts and plan for the
future.
You will also get opportunities to take direct action and network with other student-activists!
Your skills will be fined tuned at workshops teaching advocacy techniques, how to begin a divestment campaign at your school or in your state, how to work with the media, and how to fuse technology and activism. Expect to hear Mia Farrow speak about her travels to refugee camps in Chad and Darfur, scholar Eric Reeves discuss the details of the genocide and many other scholars, experts and members of the Sudanese community share their experiences and expertise. Other confirmed speakers include:
More speakers and workshops are added daily, so be sure to check
www.timetoprotect.org/conferences_midatlantic for an updated list of events.
The first 15 schools that register a student will recieve a free copy of "The Lost Boys of Sudan" DVD and the chance to win a $300 mini-grant to show the movie at their school.
Also - Announcing the STAND Student Keynote Competition!
Alongside our featured keynote Eric Reeves, the selected student keynote speaker will deliver his or her address to more than 150 student advocates for Darfur, as well as world-renowned genocide scholars, community group members, and representatives from international human rights organizations. The selected student will be given the opportunity to articulate the crisis from the student prospective and inspire their peers who work so tirelessly on the issue.
To apply, please submit a short bio (no more than 350 words), including your involvement with the Darfur movement, and a 5-10 minute speech on the subject,
"Why we must stand up for Darfur: the role of students in the fight against genocide."
Applications due Nov 17th. Please send applications to conferences@... , with the subject "Student Keynote Competition"
SPACE IS FILLING UP QUICKLY - Don't miss your chance to be a part of this exciting conference. Register today at
www.timetoprotect.org/conferences.
Hope to see you at the Conference!
Erin Heaney
STAND Conference Coordinator
Miscellaneous:
Read:
Sudan's obstruction forces Norwegian agency to end Darfur operation
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article18593
DC DIVESTMENT:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/DCdivestment/index.html
We Are All Connected: Berklee College of Music Reaches Out to the Women of Darfur
http://cdbaby.com/cd/berkleecom
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