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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 8, 2006

They are asking for you to call the national and local office of your Representative and ask them to support Net Neutrality, and to vote "no" on the COPE telecommunications law if it doesn't include Rep. I'm calling to ask Congressman/woman __ to support the Obey/Lantos/Hyde Amendment to add $50 million dollars for humanitarian aid in Darfur.

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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. Participate in the 2009 Indie Resolution Challenge sponsored by my local paper, The East Bay Express.

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JULY 2, 2008

Read Darfur Diaries by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro. Watched Darfur Now. Continue reading and learning about why genocide happens, and what I can do to encourage the United States to be a part of the solution. What I've done: Read What is the What by Dave Eggers.

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APRIL 10, 2009

The Save Darfur Coalition asks to organize events, vigils. Identify leaders/super-activists and empower them to host local events. EMcD @ kanter At @ carepages we enabled members to share their stories offline (local media, support groups, religious organizations) MandyGRS @ kanter. Create something to attend! do you use?"

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Organize as a canned goods food drive for your local food bank. Be A Voice for Darfur is a petition and awareness campaign designed to bring attention to the appalling genocide in Darfur. Don't wait till the last minute - it takes time to sort, distribute. RedCross : Send a free, downloadable holiday card to a hero [link].

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Steve talked about how Google Earth can make the world a smaller place and add faces and places to statistics, like the USHMM's Crisis in Darfur layer does (pictured above). Videos in the balloons will only work on Windows.

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