Forwarded Message: > To: [log in to unmask] > From: Sheila Mwiandi <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [Fwd: [SAVEDARFUR] Darfur, Sudan events at Miami NEXT WEEK] > Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:47:03 -0400 > ----- > ---------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- -- > Subject: [SAVEDARFUR] Darfur, Sudan events at Miami NEXT WEEK > From: "Anna Shoup" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, April 5, 2005 9:41 pm > To: [log in to unmask] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------- > /Ps/ A reply to this e-mail goes to the whole listserv. > If you intend to reply to the sender or any of the > officers, please use their personal e-mail addresses. > --------------------------------------------------------- > ~ United We Stand ~ > Miami University African Students' Union > http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/muasu --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/