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Do your part and STAND UP!
The 2008 Summer Olympics is an event that stands for peace and global unity. Unfortunately, next summer’s Olympic host country – China - is helping to facilitate the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Hundreds of thousands are dead in Darfur, and millions have been displaced from their homes. Because of China’s significant economic, political, and military ties to the government of Sudan, China has the leverage to make the Sudanese government refrain from committing mass atrocities in Darfur. China is in a unique position to exert its enormous influence and bring an end to the genocide in Darfur!
STAND, in partnership with the Save Darfur Coalition and the Olympic Dream for Darfur, is organizing an Olympic Torch Relay across the United States to raise awareness of this deadly link and pressure China to stop the genocide in Darfur. The Relay will bring new media attention to China’s role in the genocide in Darfur, and encourage American elected officials to pressure China to use its influence in a positive way. The Olympic Torch Relays will take place across more than 21 states and involve thousands of students, local activists, celebrities, community groups, faith-based organizations, Olympic athletes, and legislators. STAND students will play an integral role in organizing the Olympic Torch relays.
Three dollars can protect one woman for a year in Darfur. The Genocide Intervention Network’s civilian protection program, the first of its kind in Darfur, works with Darfuri community leaders, displaced women and girls, and the African Union Mission in Sudan to protect women and girls from rape and attack as they venture to collect firewood outside of their camps.
On December 5th...
Students around the world will ask their peers, families, and communities to join them in DarfurFast – an event that asks participants to fast from one item for the day and donate the money that we would have spent on those items to protecting civilians in Darfur. Just three dollars– less than the cost of a latte at Starbucks - is enough to provide protection for one woman for one year.
As the situation in Darfur worsens and more people are forced into internally displaced person (IDP) camps, firewood near the camps grows increasingly scarce. Every day, women and girls are forced to wander further into the desert to find firewood for cooking, exposing them to rape and attack from waiting militias.
While most humanitarian aid organizations have been forced to pull out of Darfur due to increasing instability, GI-Net’s civilian protection program ensures the protection of the brave women and girls who must expose themselves to attack each day while they collect the firewood they need to survive in the IDP camps.
In the past three years, STAND’s DarfurFast has raised more than $400,000 for civilian protection in Darfur. This year, we intend to raise even more. This holiday season, students will bring it home to their families and communities and ask them to join in solidarity for Darfur by pledging to participate in DarfurFast.
In June, STAND will display a “Darfur” banner in Washington, DC. Each letter of the word “Darfur” will come from a different region in the US, sending a strong message that high school students across the nation are STANDing up against genocide! The banner will be made of pictures of YOU taking action to end the genocide! Read to see how to display a picture of you and your chapter in action to stop genocide in Darfur!
The Genocide Intervention Network has created the first-ever anti-genocide hotline. Call today to be connected directly to your elected officials for free. All you need is your zip code. The hotline will provide you with up-to-date talking points related to current Darfur legislation and other actions your elected officials can take to help end the genocide. Make Darfur a top priority for your governor, members of Congress and the White House.
With hundreds of innocent civilians continuing to die in Darfur each week, our Congress is averaging a “C” for its efforts to end the genocide (www.DarfurScores.org). Your teachers, professors, and parents use your grades to hold you accountable for your academic performance. Why shouldn’t we use Darfur Scores to hold our members of Congress accountable for taking action against this genocide?
In Darfur, hundreds of people a day are raped, starved and murdered by the Sudanese armed forces and a Sudanese government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed. At least 400,000 people have died and more than 2 million Darfurians have been left homeless. The United Nations Security Council authorized that peacekeepers be deployed to Darfur, but the Sudanese government has not yet allowed them entry. Meanwhile, the calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter continues. We started Dollars for Darfur because we got tired of waiting for others to change the world. Dollars for Darfur is a national high school fundraising effort to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur. Half of the money raised will fund humanitarian efforts for Darfuri refugees and the other half will fund the advocacy efforts of the Save Darfur Coalition. We believe high school students can help end this genocide.
