CHINA SUPPORTS GENOCIDE IN DARFUR

CHINA, BRING THE OLYMPIC DREAM TO THE DARFUR PEOPLE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzfl7vJzge0
Torch Relay that took place in New York City

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzm149HgyA

Watch the video above and think how it relates to the Darfur genocide that has been being funded with the sell of Sudan's oil to China. Contradictions for the Darfur people and China's Beijing Olympics. Genocide is not sport. China supports the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, at the United Nations. China sells weapons to Sudan that are in turn are supplied to the janjaweed to perpetuate genocide on the Darfur people. And the 2008 Olympic theme is ONE WORLD, ONE DREAM.

CHINA, BRING THE OLYMPIC DREAM TO THE DARFUR PEOPLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYa7Ibtwgfw
About the Torch Relay that took place in Indianapolis, Indiana

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Call 1~800~GENOCIDE
this week
and ask your U.S. Representative and Senators 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.

Investors Against Genocide
http://investorsagainstgenocide.googlepages.com/

Thank You!

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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http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353515028/bctid1334428550
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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http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1329255498/bctid1333277839

Our Moment Is Now

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http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353515028/bctid1184739078

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!

EDWARD & EDWIN MUTANGUHA FROM RWANDANS' HEARTS TO DARFUR

This is a tribute to two young men that I met through kismet September 20th - Edward and Edwin Mutanguha. They are from Rwanda, were born in exile and lived there for 7 years and now attend college ten or so minutes from my home in Rhode Island. Sometimes life smiles upon me and this is one of those times. As someone who lives by principles and conviction that the good in us must be nurtured and tended to like a garden – I find peace in how I live my life and what action I take to add to the good. These two young Rwandan young men have graced my life and given me rich blessings through seeing their goodness.

As the organizer of the Providence Dream for Darfur Torch Relay and Ceremony, I had the honor of getting to know and working together with Edward and Edwin. Almost all of our local and world media coverage was through what Edward and Edwin brought to the message of stopping genocide of the Darfuri people.

The following is an edited message that I sent to Edward today:

Edward, you and Edwin, turned out to be the most important spokesmen of our Torch Relay and Ceremony. Your voices, the message, your grace, your representation of the Dream for Darfur that you both brought to this event and the human rights cause to "live" is priceless and precious. Think about the media coverage that we have received and how much of it has been centered around you and Edwin, your personal experiences, how you each one, lent weight to our message - to the world. You have done this role with grace, elegance, with a quiet voice, but with voices of strength. I extend my gratitude for the work you have done for the Darfuri people and for the ending of genocide as the end product of our comprehensive efforts. You have my heartfelt gratitude that I feel in my soul. I acknowledge that I understand the importance of your voice and Edwin’s voice on the subject of humanity’s inhumanity to others. Genocide must stop with us and it only will - when we do what must be done to make the difference. Thank you. I needed to say this to you.

Your family surely is supremely proud of you and Edwin.

I know I am.

“We are visitors on this planet.
We are here for ninety or one hundred years
at the very most.
During that period,
we must try to do something good ,
something useful, with our lives.

If you contribute to other people’s happiness,
You will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.

H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgprBjvDQsg'

"I Will Be Here"
Sung by Jeremy "Passion" Manongdo
San Francisco, CA


If we don't stop genocide, then who will?
Our leaders have not.

George Bush is now threatening to not fund the UN Peacekeepers for Darfur,
if he doesn't get his way with congress.
Congress has been rendering itself useless in regards to the Bush administration.
President Bush has proved over and over that he doesn't really care about justice, human rights and the Darfur people.

So we must be the champion of this cause.
Our leaders are not.

Exercise humanity.

www.savedarfur.org
www.dreamfordarfur.org
www.standnow.org