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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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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general. This was in 2006.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up

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Facebook used to be only open to college students but, realizing they couldn’t play with the big boys, opened to the public about a year ago. Forbes, Twitter, Washington Post… are among the 70 companies that developed applications in time for the announcement. First a little background. They are growing like crazy.