Stop Genocide Now
Day 1: April 7, 2008 Gabriel Stauring of Redondo Beach, California, along with Amber Garrow in Clackamas, Oregon and Malik Abdulrahman in Darfur, Sudan, fasts in solidarity with Adef and pledges $25 to the World Food Programme. Adef lives in Camp Djabal, Eastern Chad. Adef’s village was destroyed, and he had to flee across the […]
Fasting has been used effectively to bring about social justice peace. Two leaders that used fasting as a way to bring about change are Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. They changed the world that we now live in, by maintaining hope, staying positive, and, at the same time, being serious and dedicated in their activism. […]
If you are fasting with us, it more than likely means that your commitment to not being a bystander goes beyond what most people are willing to give of themselves. We are going to ask you to do more, though. Now is the time for the world’s actions to match the urgency of the situation […]
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s, is providing three cars to travel from Vermont to San Francisco in preparation for the April 9th Olympic Torch Relay. The cars have billboards attached that encourage China to engage constructively in Sudan. Upon arrival in San Francisco, the cars will tour the San Francisco Bay Area to build […]
If the caravan would have followed the original path I realize I would have seen 6 rally’s in different states, talked to hundreds of people, handed out pounds of free ice cream 4 times from Ben and Jerry but this morning I woke up in San Francisco for another day of work. I never could […]
We allow multiple fasters for each day, so if you would like to fast for Darfur send us an email at fast@stopgenocidenow.org to be added! Day Date Name City, State Country Pledge Amount Pledge To 1 April 7 Gabriel Stauring Redondo Beach, CA USA $25 WFP Amber Garrow Clackamas, OR USA $25 WFP Malik Abdulrahman […]
Unfortunately, an accident with one of the vehicles has forced the Cross Country Caravan for Darfur to be canceled. The remaining two vehicles will be shipped back to San Francisco. We are still waiting for details and will continue to post updates.
Issue 16: June 2010 June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations Refugee Agency theme is Home: They can take my Home but not my Future. Join the movement working to make sure that our Sudanese friends have the future they want, a future back at home. Write a Letter to the Editor, gather […]
Living on an island, it’s easy to forget that there is a world out there in need of our care and continued consideration. As part of the Dream for Darfur torch relay event in Honolulu, Camp Darfur was able to bring that sense of reality to the participants of the event, as well as many […]
On a very recent article by CNN, president of Sudan al-Bashir is quoted as saying that less than 10,000 people have died and less than 500,000 have been displaced by the five-year crisis in the region of Darfur. Reading this, it makes me want to burst out laughing, but what stops me is knowing that, […]