Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT
Feb 2 2007
‘Dar-furious?’
February 2, 2007
MONTPELIER – Tired of learning about atrocities, both past and
present, Rachel Gatski has decided to take a stand.
Gatski, a student at Montpelier High School, will start this weekend
when she hosts a flea market that she hopes will help raise a tiny
fraction of the money needed to stop the madness in Darfur – a
chaotic region of Sudan where genocide has claimed more than 450,000
lives and displaced more than 2.5 million people since 2003.
After learning about the Holocaust, Armenian genocide and watching
the movie "Hotel Rwanda" in her world history class, Gatski says the
lesson on Darfur put her over the edge. She is circulating a petition
urging Vermont’s Congressional delegation to support legislation that
would give the U.S. State Department the authority to transfer $60
million in peacekeeping funds to the United Nations when a UN
deployment in Darfur occurs.
That’s not all.
Gatski is pledging to donate all proceeds from the flea market that
she’s hosting at Montpelier High School from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Sunday to the Genocide Intervention Network
(). Gatski is raising the money by
renting tables to interested vendors for $12 apiece. For more
information give her a call at 229-9522 (before 9 p.m.) or e-mail her
at [email protected].
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
