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#SudanRevolts Live-Updates

SGN staff update you on important developments from Sudan and around the world as the #SudanRevolts protests go viral for a second time. Send us your thoughts and comments on Facebook and send us your photos of events related to the protests in Sudan. *please be aware that there are many photos circulating falsely identified as originating during the […]

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act now archive SGN Blog This is Darfur

2012 #SudanRevolts Live-Updates

SGN staff update you on important developments from Sudan and around the world as the #SudanRevolts protests go viral.

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Why SGN/i-ACT? And more importantly, why Darfur?

If the second question has yet to be answered for you, I’d suggest reading the beautiful and moving words and images of “Why Darfur… Again?” However, for me, the first reason I emailed SGN asking if they had any need for a writer/editor was because it seemed like the best way for my writing to […]

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OUR Activism

After sitting here for a while in my comfortable living room, fingers hovering over my keyboard, I tried eagerly to come up with some compelling testimony of why I’m a Darfur/Sudan activist. It’s the moment that I realized that while I’m in my comfortable living room, there are men, women, and children half a world […]

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Lines and Shapes: Stories and Numbers We Have Heard

Droopy-lidded, hand fitted with my daily oolong tea, I stare at the whirlwind of text swirling on my computer screen, perplexed and confused.  Before me are the images of faces I know too well. Stories I have heard time and time again.  Flashes of desert beige streaked with red…blood red. As always, I sit perplexed, […]

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The Morning News

This morning, before sitting down to address the many tasks on the SGN to-do list I read two articles. The first unfortunately confirms what many of us activists know already, that people continue to die in Darfur. Right now the death toll has reached its highest peak in two years. That means that fighting has […]

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Local Activism – Armenian Sorority Sisters and Camp Darfur

Last week kicked off five straight weeks of Camp Darfur on campuses and in communities from CA to Minnesota and all the way to Hawaii! Three years ago, hosting Camp Darfur was how I got hooked into the SGN community. It was at an event I helped organize back in Portland, OR with the Unitarians […]

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Issue 15: Sudan Sham Elections SGN Blog

Not What Anyone Was Hoping For, except maybe for al-Bashir

This was supposed to be an exciting time for Sudan, instead it is a scary time.  Sham elections are set to begin this Sunday.  They are not, as they should be, a step towards peaceful democracy for people that have lived decades of horrible violence and abuse.  These elections are a false statement of legitimacy […]

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Issue 14: December 2009

Holiday déjà vu

Dear Friends: It was my task to write something about the holidays and relate the meaning and experience of the holidays to the lives of our friends in the refugee camps. As I stare at the blank Word Doc, instead of the spirit of Christmas coming over me, what I get is this overwhelming feeling […]

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Day 0: Preparations

June 13, 2009 – Ian’s Journal

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write in this journal, but after spending a few days with Katie-Jay Scott, Gabriel Stauring, and Eric Angel, I’m feeling a lot more inspired to share my voice in this arena, and I’m truly moved by their passion and expertise. I’ll start by saying there isn’t one clear […]