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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

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In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). One of those individuals is Paul Ohisa, and he's a refugee from Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild. It had been bombed.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Came to the idea that if people play together, they tend not to think of people as different nationalities. College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. "Americans aren't that bad as you play with them." They think of each other as gamers.

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

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. His campaign was successful.

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