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HOPE vs. Action
President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Ambassador Rice have made several statements on Darfur in the past several years. President and our Secretary of State, most noticeably, made a joint statement on May 28, 2008 that ended with: “If peace and security for the...
Darfur Is Heating Up – Now More Than Ever, We Need to Keep the Pressure On!
Over the last several weeks we have asked you to make phone call after phone call, to fax, to email, and to stand by the people of Darfur by changing your facebook, myspace, or twitter profile picture. Many of you have reached busy signals, answering machines, and...
Social Networking: Grow the Community, Join Us!
Stop Genocide Now has been busy spreading the word through various social networks. Are you on any of the following social networking sites? Join the community – get more frequent updates, view photos, pass actions and articles on to your community more often...
Darfur: Increased Violence Demands Increased Action, Now.
Dear friends and family: Disturbing news is coming out of Darfur. Attacks on innocent civilians have increased, and threats of more violence are coming from the Government of Sudan. President Obama and his new administration must act decisively and immediately to save...
Thank You for your support in 2008!
The entire Stop Genocide Now team thanks you and your community for your generous support in 2008. Your contributions (of money and time) have allowed SGN and UNHCR to expand educational opportunities in Darfur refugee camps. We have traveled to more US communities...
Hope
I will start by apologizing for the following lengthy post, as I took the content from author Paul Rogat Loeb’s “Soul of a Citizen.” As much as I wanted to paraphrase, all of his words seemed too important. “Virtually all of America’s...
Our Global Community: Humanity
For many refugees 2009 will be their 6th year living in a desperate situation where their tents cannot shield them from the sun, rain, or wind of the harsh desert landscape. It will be filled with months of struggling to make rations last. And long, hard days of...
Our Global Community: Humanity
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...
Would You Have Noticed?
What would happen if one of finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written, on one of the most valuable violins ever made, played for forty-five minutes in busy metro station in D.C.? Would people stop and listen? Would...