CHINA, STOP SELLING WEAPONS FOR THE DARFUR SLAUGHTER ~ SORROW IN THE DARFUR SAND

Grass roots is where our conscience bears witness to our humanity ~ not our complicit ~ democratic or not ~ governments! If our governments were half of what they claim to be, this Darfur genocide would not have lasted for over four and a half years with Sudan's government-supported janjaweed committing genocide in conjunction with Omar al-Bashir's regime. If not for the grassroots consistent spotlight on this human disaster ~ the genocide would barely be a pinpoint size story on the worldwide stage. The USA media loves stories of the likes of Senator Larry Craig from Idaho over stories about human rights of an entire population losing their lives in an African country. Shame on the United States of America media. You have got the freedom to report and you have been failing.

On this post is the second batch of 25 pictures of our
Providence, Rhode Island Torch Relay
for the Dream for Darfur campaign
taken with my camera by Prout High School student, Tegan Nelson.
Our t-shirts read

I CARRY THE TORCH FOR DARFUR

STOP GENOCIDE
PROVIDENCE, RI
OCT. 27, 2007
www.savedarfur.org
www.standnow.org
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Barack delivered a speech December 5, 2007 at Cornell College calling on a new generation of Americans to step up, serve their country, and change the world:
"The decisions that we make today will shape the century that my daughters
and your children will grow up in."

SAND AND SORROW HBO FILM about DARFUR

There is a genocide going on now for over four and half years. And "we" know it, although the media would rather not report about it, other than a sprinkling once and awhile. And what is reported isn't that accurate a lot of the times. And the criticism of the Save Darfur Coalition in a couple articles recentlly are cheap-shot-reporting and have a lot of inaccuracies in them. But people who haven't kept up-to-date the last few years on Darfur wouldn't know that and will believe the bitter-angled reporting being spewed.

There was a great HBO premiere of the film Sand and Sorrow Thursday, December 6, 2007. I had two people come and watch it at my house. It was excellent! We then listened in to the Q & A call with John Prendergast, Samantha Power and Nick Kristof.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Barack Obama quite a bit in the film with Samantha Power ~ his foreign relations advisor. Samantha Power wrote the book A PROBLEM FROM HELL.

If you missed the Sand and Sorrow film on HBO Thursday, December 6 you can watch a live stream of the full film beginning Friday, December 7 through Sunday, December 9th at HBO.com

Sand and Sorrow
Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, another tragic story of inhumanity is unfolding in another African nation. As a bloody byproduct of the ongoing civil war in Sudan, hundreds of thousands of native Sudanese have died, while millions more have been forcibly displaced from their homes and land in the western region of Darfur by their own government. Executive produced and narrated by George Clooney, and directed by Peabody Award winner Paul Freedman, SAND AND SORROW journeys into the heart of the crisis in Darfur. Premiered Thursday, December 6 at 8pm ET/PT. Read more. And more at http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/sandandsorrow/?ntrack_para1=feat_main_text

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Our Moment Is Now

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Call 1~800~GENOCIDE
this week or early next week
and ask your U.S. Representative to pass the funding fully
for the UN Peacekeepers for Darfur

President Bush's Comment Phone Line
202-456-1111
He needs a push to do something right.

Thank You!

29 MILLION PLUS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 ~ 24 WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN '08 ~ HOW MANY WILL?

WHERE IS THAT COMPASSIONATE CHRISTIANITY OF GEORGE BUSH?
What has Bush gotten right?

I'm sure it depends on who you ask. I can't think of anything personally. But that's just me.

I hope somehow the young people get the message how powerful their voices can be in the way of votes in the 2008 election. I didn't vote in my first Presidential election. And Richard Nixon was elected. And well, most of us would consider that a mistake. Except my family.

I would like to raise the issue of hurricane Katrina and how we have not taken care of our own here, in what President Bush has dubbed "the Homeland".

REBUILDING has different meanings to different people in New Orleans.

Please vote ~ getting to know the candidate you vote for before you vote. And please, do vote.
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Plans to Demolish 4,500 Public Housing Units in New Orleans Approved
The Bush administration has given the Housing Authority of New Orleans the go ahead to demolish the city's four largest public housing complexes. The Department of Housing and Urban Development approved the demolition of the 4,500 housing units on Friday. Democratic Seantor Mary Landrieu criticized the ruling but other lawmakers have endorsed such moves. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Republican Congressman Richard Baker said: "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it but God did."
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"...WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO CLEAN UP THIS MESS...We've got a lot of work to do...and now we're going to go comfort people in THAT part of the world." President George W Bush

Vote Responsibly ~
We will have to live with our collective decision for President for a long four years
It has been a long seven years.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xNWz4UXO7w
BUSH VISITS NEW ORLEANS

"In 2008, over 29 million people between the ages of 18 and 24 will be eligible to vote. How many will?" www.18in08.com