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Tell Senators to Keep Up the Pressure for Peace in Sudan

Tell Senators to Keep Up the Pressure for Peace in Sudan

The U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Maj. Gen. Scott Gration (Ret.), appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 12 to brief lawmakers on developments as the country prepares for a critical referendum in January 2011 that is likely to split...

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Their Struggle Continues… Ours Has Just Begun

Every so often when I am playing my iTunes on random, the i-ACT1 Day 21 soundtrack plays. It’s not the full video, just the beautiful sounds of the Darfuri people, and Chris and Gabriel laughing with them. I always, always cry when I hear, “Don’t just see...

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Looking at Drawings and Counting Dots

Looking at Drawings and Counting Dots

A friend just took digital pictures of panels we have with drawings by Darfuri refugee children.  This is a batch of 26 panels, from the many dozens that we took with us to the Chad-Darfur border.  We handed them out to kids at the camps and gave them some markers,...

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Local Activism – Armenian Sorority Sisters and Camp Darfur

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...

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