Stop Genocide NowToday we offer you two actions. The first, many of you can complete by following a link and signing a petition. The second is a personal commitment that we are asking you to take with us. Both require you to really look at yourself and the context in which you live amongst humanity. 1. Did […]
After the Emergency Rally for Darfur at the Federal Building Gabriel and KT-J went out to Orange County and set up the DARFUR tent on a homes rooftop. President Obamas helicopters flew right above it. The next day, they headed out to the NBC studios and set up the tent just a few steps from […]
Dear friends and family, Today we left N’djamena for Abeche. The day started with some drama at N’djamena airport, where we found that our luggage was way above the weight limit of 15kg per person. Mind you, it wasn’t that we brought a lot of extra items from home – just that with all that […]
I would love to be taking a nap in the plane right now. We are 23,000 feet above the arid, Chadian desert. Finally, a step closer to the refugee camps. A step that was quite exhausting. But it wouldn’t be Chad if it was easy. After sleeping for about two hours, we abruptly finished packing, […]
We need to be loud and consistent with our voices for Darfur. Wake Up, Brush Your Teeth, Call Your Leaders provides consistency if we all pledge to contact our leaders at least once a day. Today, take your consistency a step beyond. The ENOUGH Project has put forth the policies the Obama Administration should take […]
For now we are in N’Djamena for another day, preparing our luggage and cutting out everything we once considered a necessity. There is a fuel shortage in the East, and we might not get away with the extra weight we usually do. We head out to collect our permits in the afternoon. A sand storm […]
Now more than ever we need the voices and stories of Darfuris to reach beyond our homes and into our neighbors and leaders lives. They need us to be their voices. On this first day of i-ACT we are asking you share it with others: 1. Tell Five Friends about Darfur. Send them our website […]
Why is that we as humanity are so much more comfortable recognizing and commemorating past genocides, than acting to stop one while it is happening? Why do we look away when we can effect change? I revisit these questions almost everyday. There isn’t an end answer, but sometimes it leads to more imaginative ways to […]
Each day we will have a new action item for you to participate in during i-ACT. However, we are also offering a single action, for each of the 10 days, that you can take. As part of an Urgent Call-in Campaign to pressure the Obama Administration we want to keep the phone lines busy. At […]
I am looking at the flight tracker on the little screen almost right over my head. The little plane on the screen has just left behind the Mediterranean waters and is now over the African continent. It happened so fast, this leaving my comfortable world to be here, a bit closer to the camps. The […]