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Issue 2: Oct 2007

Introducing KTJ

Greetings SGN community! I am proud to be working with you all. Since July I have been working with the core team and recently have begun traveling with Gabriel and Camp Darfur. My background is in community development and organizing and I am eager to share these skills with you and the community of Darfurians […]

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Issue 2: Oct 2007

What are the REAL numbers for Darfur?

Each day I open my computer and the BBC news pops up as my home page. I respect the BBC because their news system is far more balanced and community-based than ours here in the States. Almost daily in the past week, BBC has posted a front page report about an attack on Darfur. The […]

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En Español Issue 2: Oct 2007

En Español

Jorge Holly, quien trabaja para el Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados, platico con nosotros en Julio 2007 sobre la situacion en Darfur y la vida dificil de los sobrevivientes.

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Issue 2: Oct 2007

Revisiting Ahmat

View 2005 interview with English-speaking young refugee, Ahmat (16 at time of interview). Ahmat is now back in Darfur, risking his life in order to continue studying. Click here to download the transcript of the interview

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Issue 1: Sept 2007

Darfur in the news: peacekeepers killed and kidnapped.

As the world waits for the 26,000 hybrid force to pull together their troops, supplies, and money for a UN-Africa Union peacekeeping mission, we see the situation in Darfur worsening. Rebel leaders have attacked a base, killing soldiers and looting their base. Today 40 soldiers are still missing. Senegal is now threatening to pull out […]

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Issue 1: Sept 2007

About News Coverage

Although there has been a lot more Darfur news coverage, you still have to make an effort and look for it. The mainstream media outlets barely mention it. One happening they did cover, though, was the United Nations resolution to send in 26,000 troops in to the region. The meaning of that was not really […]

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Issue 1: Sept 2007

Dream for Darfur

KTJ and I took Camp Darfur out to New York City for the first official Dream for Darfur U.S. Olympic Torch Relay event. China has great influence over the Government of Sudan, and this campaign’s purpose is to remind the Chinese government of its responsibility as a leader in the world to protect human rights […]

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Camp Darfur

New York City, NY

Camp Darfur participated in the kick-off event for the national Dream for Darfur campaign in NYC on the day Colin Powell, four years earlier, declared Darfur a genocide. Survivors from Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur spoke about the impact of genocide and the need to end the violence in Darfur immediately. The New […]

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i-ACT i-ACT 3: July 10 - 20, 2007

i-ACT in the news

It was a busy day yesterday! Gabriel, Connie and Yuen-Lin arrived home safely in time to watch i-ACT featured on San Francisco’s local ABC news last night (video and news article), as well had their question to the candidates answered in the CNN/YouTube presidential debate! Please read article, by John Morlino: President Bush: Imagine Yourself […]

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Day 10: July 19, 2007

Yuen-Lin’s replies to comments (Day 10 and before)

Here are my long overdue responses to your comments :) Thank you so much for your support, encouragement, ideas and insights. Day 2: Swee Ting Day 4: Gina and Brandon, Teresa, Meron, Lisa, Jia-Li Day 5: Mary Ann, Lisa, Pam, Jia-Li Day 6: Mary Ann and Lisa Day 7: Lisa Day 8: Lisa, Day 10: […]