Stop Genocide NowKatie-Jay keeps i-ACT running on several levels. Much of her work entails coordinating partnerships with other grassroots organizations and implementing the campaigns developed by Gabriel and seeing through the details. She graduated from Portland State University with a BA in Sociology and a focus on Community Development. She has previously worked as a community organizer in Thailand, Guatemala, and with grassroots organizations across the United States.
I can remember the two days we spent with Amira so well. It was burning hot and very dry for the middle of the rainy season. Oure Cassoni had seen only two days of raindrops, hardly enough to refill reserves for the rest of the year. Her skin was so radiant, voice confident, and she […]
Change.org is holding it’s 2nd round of voting for the “Top 10 Ideas for Change in America.” Go to CHANGE.org to vote today! Jerry Fowler, President of the Save Darfur Coalition, is asking the Obama Administration to adopt a Peace Surge for Darfur. In doing so, Save Darfur is participating in a contest run by […]
The Obama administration has taken unprecedented action by creating a space for community members throughout the United States to voice their ideas and participate in discussions about what matters to us. For the first time a President-elect is asking you what matters. Tell him that ending the genocide in Darfur is important and must be […]
On Wednesday November 12, four large boxes arrived in the student union office at Brandeis University. The next morning members of the Brandeis STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition chapter began assembling the contents of these boxes into large tents. By the time three tents were assembled, the fifth box had arrived. The tents were assembled […]
On September 10th the government of Sudan launched new attacks on ZamZam Camp for internally displaced persons. Many of those who were injured and killed were already forced to flee their homes one, two or three times. This attack comes a week after an attack on Kalma Camp by government troops. This violence is unacceptable. […]
Don’t allow the United Nations to interfere with justice in Darfur! On July 14, the International Criminal Court (ICC) received a request from Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo to indict Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Immediately, the Sudanese government began pressuring the UN Security Council […]
Print Open Letter to Senators McCain and Obama! It is important that we not only sent emails to the candidates but that we try to reach them in more ways then one. Please print the full letter signed up dozens of groups and mail to: Barack Obama Attn: Foreign Policy PO Box 8102 Chicago IL […]
Justice for the people of Darfur “Why give al-Bashir 12 months, when for 5 years we have seen no peace?” the question posed by a young man in a Darfur refugee captures the theme heard over and over again in the camp during our late July visit. And the theme of international debate over what […]
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. This traveling refugee camp raises awareness and examines Sudan’s Darfur region and its humanitarian crisis – genocide – by placing it in historical context with […]
The exhaustion of Oure Cassoni has caught to me. Now in Abeche, I slept almost the entire day, and slept well through the night last night. I have the privilege of retreating to another town closer to an established culture, closer to a market that sells bread and cheese, and where a restaurant will serve […]