Stop Genocide NowJoin Gabriel and Chis on i-ACT’s first trip to Chad. For 21 consecutive days, the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF) and StopGenocideNow.org will webcast the immediacy of the ongoing genocide in Darfur directly from the field with the new awareness campaign i-ACT (Interactive Activism).
i-ACT will travel to the Chad/Dafur border and visit refugee camps. Along with technical assistance from volunteers, they will use the power of the Internet to put a face to the mind-numbing numbers of dead, dying and displaced.
9:36pm Title: Day 11: Guereda-Kounoungo-Guereda-Mile-Guereda-Iriba That was our day today. We had not planned to go to camp Kounoungo, but I then heard that the African Union, the force that is in charge of monitoring the “peace” in Darfur, was going to land by helicopter to check out conditions in the camp, so we headed […]
Continue to write letters to the newspaper Because this is such an important issue, we want to give everyone a chance to write a letter. We will ask you to ACT on letter writing a few days. Please take a moment to write to your national newspapers. If we show that this is important to […]
I’ll be right back! 5:19 pm I was going to start writing, but I just looked outside right now, and it is getting dark. I think I should go take a bath, since every day we come back bathed in sand; there is just no way around it. It is sandy and windy! Today we […]
Write a letter to the newspaper Write a letter to the editor of your national newspaper urging your support for increased international engagement in Darfur. Talk to them about i-ACT and tell them in your own words why you think i-ACT is an important tool to increase coverage about the genocide in Darfur. Help us […]
A boy called Muhammad 6:36 pm It was just by chance that we met Muhammad. We were at the top of a hill where a water tank is, so we could get a panoramic view of the camp. You can see that on the Day 8 video. After that, we were going “home,” since Ali, […]
Be a Witness and join the pledge for more media coverage on genocide. This week we are going to concentrate on contacting the media. During June 2005, CNN, FOXNews, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS ran 50 times as many stories about Michael Jackson and 12 times as many stories about Tom Cruise as they did about […]
Commenting back 12:41 pm Hola Mom! Me estoy poniendo bastante protector de sol y trato de encontrar una sombrita cuando puedo. Como estas tu y todos por alla? Yo aca enfocandome en cada dia y en la gente que voy conociendo. Los extano mucho pero los siento cerca. Un abrazo. Tu hijo el quinto y […]
Women with their Children 6:01 pm Right away on entering Mile, I noticed that women are the energy that powers the camp. Women, with their children, gather water and dig up dirt to create mud bricks. They carry these bricks to their tents and then build walls that become rooms and spaces for their families […]
What a sky! There’s no electricity flowing here nor at any point in our 360 degree horizon right now. The moon is also absent. This leaves us with a sky that is perfect for star-watching. I had forgotten there are this many stars, especially now that we do not have Carl Segan to remind us […]
I’ve been shaken and bathed in sand just about as much as anyone can be. The road from Abeche to Guereda is quite an experience. Check out Day 5, and you’ll get an idea. It took us about 5 hours to get out here. Our Land Cruiser almost did not want to make it. With […]