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The Save Darfur Coalition’s "Be A Voice For Darfur" - A Stellar Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign

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Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Here's the call to action from the web site. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Darfur Voices. Team Darfur.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

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The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Peace Games & International Efforts

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Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. College students have led the fight on issues. Darfur Is Dying was the result. The founder and creator of game consulted people in Darfur.

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Not On Our Watch: The Least Depressing Book About Darfur You'll Ever Read

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We want to remove all excuses and impediments to individual action, because such actions--collectively--do make a difference -- Not On Our Watch. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast I particularly appreciated the historical background on the situation. Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

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The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is providing leverage for Tibetan, Darfurian, Burmese and Chinese human rights campaigns: The International Campaign for Tibet created the Race for Tibet. They've organized an international Olympic Torch Relay which began on August 9 in Chad, near the Darfur border, and will finish in China in January.

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What Are Your 2009 Have Fun Do Good Resolutions?

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Continue learning about why genocide happens and how I can take action by following blogs like the Genocide Intervention Network , ENOUGH , Stop Genocide on Change.org , Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth , and Human Rights Now. Write to the Nigerian woman I sponsored through Women for Women International each month.

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Nonprofit Blog Highlight: Global Fund for Women

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"I want to ask all of you, and those not here with us, to imagine yourself in that situation, wondering, why your life is not important enough for decisive action to end the violence, to end the supply of arms to militias, and to end military aid that is used against innocent populations." women international philanthropy blog

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