Stop Genocide NowOur e-magazine from the i-ACT team with updates, and a look into our current efforts to spread awareness about what is happening in Sudan.
This Sunday is World Refugee Day. This year’s theme is “Home: They can take my Home but not my Future”. Learn more about how you can be a part of it. Read more here
This week is critical for the future of Sudan as it is likely that the long awaited Sudan policy will be finalized by the Secretary of State, President Obama and their high level advisors. We are writing to ask you to take a series of action to help influence the Obama Administration to choose the […]
On Monday September 21, 2009, UN declared International Day of Peace, we ask you to join others worldwide to fast for Peace and Justice in Sudan. WHAT: Water-only fast from midnight-midnight on Monday September 21, 2009. For those who are unable to fast water-only we encourage you to participate by eating refugee rations of 800 […]
After I expressed a precarious situation one day to a good friend, he said “I don’t have any answers, but I have many beautiful questions.” That assessment could be applied to my understanding of the situation in Darfur. Recently, I had the opportunity to go on The Ron Reagan Show on Air America radio, and […]
Nicole Slezak 7 September 2009 The Obama Administration, with US Brigadier General Scott Gration as the Special Envoy to Sudan, recently undertook a review of its policy toward Sudan. It was announced on 4 September by Gration that the administration came to a consensus “on the overall broad framework on what we call incentives and […]
I was given a tshirt almost a year and half ago that reminds me that my hope for a better world, and the love and energy I have to give towards making the change requires me to ACT. At times I feel like I have done all that I can, but am reminded by the […]
“Humanity Before Politics” was one of the first moving i-ACT statements that caught my eye when I looked at a picture of a group of Darfuri boys wearing t-shirts with the slogan. Gabriel later told me how fun it was to watch them play basketball that day the picture was taken. Basketball in a refugee […]
It feels cool to hear our team’s time out here in Eastern Chad called a “mission.” They ask, “How long is your mission?” “Where is your mission going?” I like to think that our mission never ends. When we get back to the US, our mission continues and, for the most part, becomes even more […]
The Oregon Community has been quiet; however, strategic and present. There are many independent groups working, still very much committed to the vast mission of bringing about awareness and education for Darfur. As a community, we have all had the privilege of coming together through Darfur Fast for Life; this gave us the opportunity to […]
What: Darfur Rally *Support the International Criminal Court (ICC) *Express the Dire Need for Humanitarian Assistance *Protect the Women and Children of Darfur *A panel discussion/dialogue/activist networking event will follow the rally. When: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 12:30-4:00 pm Where: Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York City 47th Street and First Avenue near United Nations visitors’ […]
I met Adam and Abdal at Obama School in Camp Djabal. We (the i-ACT team) were going over the logistics of a live video broadcast that we would do from the school later in the day. They came up to me, each holding a piece of folded paper. They told me that they had letters […]