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> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:47:03 -0400
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> Subject: [SAVEDARFUR] Darfur, Sudan events at Miami NEXT WEEK
> From:    "Anna Shoup" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:    Tue, April 5, 2005 9:41 pm
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> Darfur Awareness Week at Miami University:  Please forward this to
> listservs and friends!
> The time to act on this humanitarian crisis in now!
>
> About the situation in Darfur:
> Millions of innocent people are suffering in the Darfur region of
> Sudan. Government-sponsored militias are killing, raping, beating, and
> torturing innocent men, women and children. Tens of thousands have
already
> died and hundreds more die daily. The militias burn villages and have
> chased over 1.6 million people into the desert. Most now live in camps
> without enough water, food, medical care, shelter,
> sanitation, or safety. Go to http://www.savedarfur.org for more
> information.
>
> DIE-IN: Monday, April 11 from 10:30-1:30 at the Miami seal (the hub) The
> "die-in" is a visual representation of the crisis in Sudan. Anyone who
> participates will be lying on the ground as a symbol of the
> victims in Darfur. Email June at [log in to unmask] if you'd like to
> participate. Or just show up. A crowd works best.
> The die-in has been successful in the past at Stanford:
> http://daily.stanford.org/tempo?
page=content&id=16482&repository=0001_article
>
> POETRY SLAM: Monday at 5:30 at Kofenya
> This is with the Nicaragua crew from Students for Peace and Justice.
Email
> Sarah at [log in to unmask] if you're interested. She's in
> search of writers!
>
> SPEAKERS & MOVIES
> Tuesday, April 12: screening of Hotel Rwanda and a Human Rights Watch
> video "Darfur Destroyed" 7pm in 112 Pearson Hall
>
> Wednesday, April 13: GENOCIDE IN DARFUR, WESTERN SUDAN: Can the World
> Watch and Do Nothing Again? lecture by Dr. Scopas Poggo from Ohio
> State State University:
> 7pm in 112 Pearson Hall
>
> Thursday, April 14: Peter Fiamor (on issues of health care and
> economic development in Ghana and the rest of central Africa) and
> Crosbey Mwanza (a journalist and educator from Swaziland who teaches
> journalism throughout southern Africa.   7 pm  112 Pearson
>
> TABLING
> We have tables at Shriver and Belltower all week (April 11-15) from
> 10:30-1:30 to hand out information, sign petitions and write letters to
> government officials. Email June at [log in to unmask] if you'd like to
> help out.
>
> BRACELETS:
> We will be selling Save Darfur bracelets at all events. They are $2.
> www.savedarfur.org
>
> These events are sponsored by: The Social Activities Council, The
> African Students Union, Students for Peace and Justice, The Debate
> Society, The African School Advancement Program and many commited
> individuals. For more information, contact Anna at [log in to unmask]
>
> "You can make it if you really want. You can change the world." Paul
> Rusesabagina, the hero of Hotel Rwanda.
>
>
>
> "I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the
> mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the
flowers,
> the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our
native
> land...I am born of a people who are heroes and heroines...Being part of
> all these people, and in the knowledge that none dare contest that
> assertion, I shall claim that - I am an African". - Thabo Mbeki
>
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>           ~ United We Stand ~
> Miami University African Students' Union
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