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Day 3: July 12, 2007

Gabriel’s Journal

It is hard to describe the feelings that go through me when I get off the car at a refugee camp. We don’t have one word that tells about all feelings mixed in to one. Joy is definitely there. How can I not feel joy at being around so much life and energy? I get […]

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Day 1: July 10, 2007

Comment replies from Gabriel

Gabriel replies to well wishes from Melva, JC, Jav, Tsai Yi, Mimi Schiff and Ashis.

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Day 2: July 11, 2007

Gabriel’s Journal 2

N’Djamena, 4:01am (N’D Time) Team i-ACT, but more of a Family We call ourselves a team, but there’s lots of love between this small group of people that came together because of something as horrible as genocide. Well, thinking about it as I type, we did not come together because of the horrible. We came […]

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Day 2: July 11, 2007

Gabriel’s Journal

N’Djamena, 3:20am (N’D Time) It’s too late to sleep now, so I’ll write. We need to be at the airport before 6am, and there’s still packing to do. We have to figure out what is essential and what can stay, if it needs to. They have a weight limit that is considerably less than Air […]

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Day 1: July 10, 2007 i-ACT 3: July 10 - 20, 2007

The 10 Day challenge

We want to thank all i-ACTivists who will follow Gabriel, Connie and Yuen-Lin throughout the 10 days. So, similar to last year, we are bringing you the 10Day Challenge. Every time you click on a day’s video on the day that it was posted, notice that in the Action box there will be one word […]

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i-ACT i-ACT 3: July 10 - 20, 2007

i-ACT is Interactive Activism:

We use technology to reject the standard excuse of inaction – ignorance We debunk the myth that ordinary people cannot stop genocide We replace statistics with names, faces and stories The age of bystanders should long have passed – we have entered an age of knowledge which empowers us to protect. Join us as an […]

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Day 1: July 10, 2007

In the Air

Air France flight, LA to Paris, 10:52pm (SPT) I switched malaria pills. On my first two trips to Chad, to the refugee camps on the border with Darfur, I’ve taken the one-a-week pill. They worked well for me during the trips, with little effects on my mind or body, but they kept my head in […]

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Field Report 5: From America with Love

Hello friends y familia:We’re getting ready to go back to the Chad-Darfur border and visit the refugee camps. Since being there this past January, the situation in Darfur and Chad and now the Central African Republic has not improved. It has gotten worse. Aid agencies have been under attack, forcing some of them to leave […]

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Field Report 4: UC Berkeley, California

Dear Friends and Familia: Do enough people care about the fate of Darfur? It is so much more comfortable to look the other way and pretend it is not there. Why worry about people that are so far? It does not affect us. It is so easy to be cynic, after years of working on […]

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Field Report 3: Camp Darfur and Save Darfur rally in Boca Raton, Florida

Hello Friends & Familia: There is not a specific date that marks the start of the genocide in Darfur. The Government of Sudan has been so effective at maintaining almost continuous campaigns of terror in one or more areas of their country that it is hard to pinpoint when one conflict ends and another begins. […]