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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Be A Voice for Darfur is an excellent example of multi-channel campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. The genocide in Darfur continues - now in its sixth year and at the price of nearly half a million lives. Darfur Voices. Save Darfur Coalition. Team Darfur.

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APRIL 22, 2006

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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JUNE 9, 2007

It isn't often that you can't wait to keep reading a book about genocide, but that is how it was while I was reading Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Darfur activism book Don Cheadle John Prendergast Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. They were bored students, clicking on their friend???s moving from Darfur to Burma to whatever cause is next.

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MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Use your voice! Describe the work you do with Never Again and maybe a bit about the project.

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