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CRISIS in Sudan/Chad - 2008

Educate, Advocate and Mobilize.

The Crisis in Darfur has now spread significantly into Chad. A military Coup launched against the Chadian Presidency of Idriss Deby at the beginning of February 2008 has seen the capital N'Djamena under heavy fire, NGO and Aid Community staff evacuated and the Refugee Camps inside the Chadian border - home to more than 150,000 Darfuris and internally displaced Chadians - left more vulnerable to open attack than ever before.

The following website links will connect you to the most active, engaged and up-to-date information, campaigns and activist groups working together to bring this insanity to an end.

STOP GENOCIDE NOW 2008

Grass-roots Interactive Global Activism - Projects include "i-ACT" - filmed and reported directly from the Refugee Camps of Eastern Chad by GABRIEL STAURING and KATIE-JAY SCOTT and the team (including NINY KHOR ) - and "Camp Darfur" - an interactive awareness and education event that brings attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and gives individuals the opportunity to discover their own power to make a difference. A traveling refugee camp coming to your community.

Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net)

Mark Hanis and the team at Genocide Intervention Network envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. The mission is to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Initiatives and GI-Net supported projects include:

STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition

Sudan Targeted Divestment: Are your investments funding genocide?

Darfur Scorecard: What is your Representative doing about genocide?

10 Things: Ten things you can do to stop genocide.

ENOUGH! Project

The project to abolish genocide and mass atrocities is an initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group (launched January 30, 2007). Site includes monthly reports, papers and op-eds.

Save Darfur Coalition

An alliance of over 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations. Updates, campaigns, blog and newsletters on site.

Ask the Candidates The next US President MUST stop the genocide in Darfur.
1-800-GENOCIDE (1-800-436-6243): Call the anti-genocide hotline and get the most up-to-date talking points before getting connected (for free) to your legislator at the state and federal level.
ICG: International Crisis Group. Detailed crisis reports, briefings, international op-ed pieces.
HRW: Human Rights Watch. A great site for current alerts & information.
Amnesty International
USHMM Speaker's Directory

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Welcome everyone. The new site is starting to take form. There is a lot of missing baseline content that we take for granted on the main omidyar.net site.

We'll need some volunteers to fill some of the help pages as people notice that content is missing.

We may also need more formal privacy policies, and user agreements. Anyone have an opinion on how formal, or what needs to be added to either right away?

It's like we now have an empty lot, and it's time to build our community from scratch.

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Crisis in Sudan - October 2007

EDUCATE

Darfur Now: An amazing movie about Darfur that includes George Clooney, Don Cheadle, and GI-Net's Adam Sterling!
ENOUGH Project: has monthly reports and policy papers
ICG, HRW, and Amnesty also have great reports
USHMM Speaker's Directory (in cooperation with the Genocide Intervention Network).
USHMM blog on Genocide Prevention weekly podcast
Dream for Darfur and Where Will We Be: Two campaigns to highlight China's complicity in the Darfur genocide

ADVOCATE Pass the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act (HR 180)

1-800-GENOCIDE: (1-800-436-6243): Call the anti-genocide hotline and get the most up-to-date talking points before getting connected (for free) to your legislator at the state and federal level. Stopping genocide is only a phone call away!
Darfur Scores: Find out how your Congressional leader responds to stopping genocide as well as how the White House is doing in enforcing the law.
Targeted Divestment: Ensure you're not funding genocide from your state pension plan to your mutual fund.

MOBILIZE

Ask The Candidates: The best way to get the next President of the United States to prevent and stop genocide.
10 Things: Ten things you can do to stop genocide.

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Crisis in Sudan - September 2007

This thread is a continuation of discussions on Darfur and Sudan that stared within o/net. Click here for the July and August discussion archive

Esther, Gabriel, and Jim if you would like anything to read different please let me know and I can change it. If you would like to keep this discussion in the <Ned> Front Porch group for October, that would work...or you could start a Crisis in Sudan or Stop Genocide Now group...any of those options would work and you've always had enough participants to support a group. In some ways, I'd say go month to month in the Front Porch for now because more people will see it here (but your choice of course). And your continuing thread has been one of the most action focused in all of o.net. Keep up the great work.

EDUCATE

ENOUGH Campaign has monthly reports and policy papers

ICG, HRW, and Amnesty also have great reports

USHMM Speaker's Directory (in cooperation with the Genocide Intervention Network).

USHMM blog on Genocide Prevention weekly podcast updates, recently featuring Bec Hamilton of GI-Net, John Prendergast of ICG, Lee Feinstien and many others).

Genocide Olympics and Where Will We Be Two campaigns to highlight China's complicity in the Darfur genocide

China's complicity in Khartoum's crimes in Darfur http://www.omidyar.net/group/sud ancrisis/news/71/

ADVOCATE

1-800-GENOCIDE (1-800-436-6243): Call the anti-genocide hotline and get the most up-to-date talking points before getting connected (for free) to your legislator at the state and federal level.

Targeted Divestment: Ensure you're not funding genocide from your state pension plan to your mutual fund.

Fidelity Out of Sudan: One of the most active campaigns targeting a specific corporation.

Darfur Scores: Find out how your Congressional leader responds to stopping genocide as well as how the White House is doing in enforcing the law.

MOBILIZE

Ask The Candidates http://www.AskTheCandidates.org

Stop Genocide Now 2007 http://www.omidyar.net/group/sud ancrisis/news/70/: i-ACT, Camp Darfur, From America with Love . . . On this thread, we will work on everything Stop Genocide Now, which is about connecting with others around the country and world that care about Darfur and about stopping genocide. http://stopgenocidenow.org/
ENOUGH! The project to abolish genocide and mass atrocities: an initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group (launched January 30, 2007). See http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/SharmaAnita.html Hear Anita Sharma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrq-6JplkA Website available soon http://www.enoughproject.org/

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