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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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OCTOBER 17, 2007

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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OCTOBER 1, 2007

Extra points if you include an amusing photo, cartoon or video with your post. George Irish of Shake the Pillars posts about Amnesty International's "Get in Bed with Darfur" -Putting the Fun Into Human Rights Campaigning. Your favorite fun, creative nonprofit campaign (i.e. fundraising, advocacy). Your own take on the theme.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

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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JULY 4, 2007

She also won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Reporting for her article, " Dying in Darfur ," in The New Yorker. So I will intern at the Loft , prolly with young writers or spoken word. The idea is that students get to put social justice-ee ideas into practice. Photo Credit: Royal by Dianna writing social change

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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