A DAY FOR DARFUR: STOP THE GENOCIDE, PROTECT THE PEOPLE
Sudan Tribune, Sudan
Sept 1 2005
“A Day for Darfur: Stop the Genocide, Protect the People” On One-Year
Anniversary of Bush Administration’s Finding of Genocide in Darfur,
Powerful Event will Draw Hundreds to Demand White House Action
WHAT: A special event to mark the one-year anniversary of the Bush
Administration’s recognition of genocide in Darfur, Sudan and to
demand immediate action from the White House to stop the genocide
and protect the people of Darfur.
WHO: Civil & political leaders, celebrity figures and advocacy groups
will join hundreds of activists. Invited speakers include:
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Rev. Dr. Robert W. Edgar, General
Secretary, National Council of
Churches
Fatima Haroun, Darfurian Representative of Sudan Peace Advocates
Network
Ruth Messinger, President, American Jewish World Service Rev. Jim
Wallis, Founder and Editor in Chief of Sojourners Magazine
Salih Booker, Executive Director, Africa Action David Rubenstein,
Executive Director, Save Darfur Members of Congress
WHEN: Thursday, September 8, 2005, 12pm – 1pm
WHERE: Lafayette Park in front of the White House (near the
intersection of 16th Street & H Street, NW, Washington DC)
One year after the Bush Administration’s declaration that genocide
is occurring in Darfur, Sudan, the genocide continues. More than
400,000 lives have been lost, and yet the President has done little
to provide protection to the people of Darfur. “A Day for Darfur”
will bring hundreds of people together to express their outrage and
to demand that the President take every step necessary to ensure an
immediate multinational intervention to support the African Union
and provide security to the people of Darfur.
This powerful event will feature musical performances, dramatic
visuals, and remarks from leadership figures and celebrities, who
will lead a call to conscience and urge immediate action from the
Bush Administration to stop the genocide in Darfur. The event will
close with a coordinated calling campaign at 1pm, where participants
in the park will pull out their cell phones, and thousands across
the country will pick up their own phones to call President Bush and
pressure him to take immediate steps to stop the genocide.
This event accompanies a nationwide grassroots petition effort, which
has gathered tens of thousands of signatures in recent weeks, and
which also calls on the White House to support an urgent multinational
intervention to stop the genocide in Darfur.
This major event is the latest of more than 1,000 actions on Darfur
held around the U.S. in the past 6 months alone. “A Day for Darfur”
will kick off a period of renewed activism by people of conscience
across the country, who will increase their pressure on President
Bush in the coming weeks to take action to stop the genocide in Darfur.
“A Day for Darfur” is organized by a diverse coalition of advocacy
groups.
EVENT SPONSORS AND ENDORSERS: Africa Action, American Jewish World
Service, Armenian National Committee of America, Darfur Rehabilitation
Project, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Faithful America,
Greater Washington Jewish Task Force on Darfur, Human Rights First,
NAACP, National Council of Churches, Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism, Save Darfur Coalition, Sojourners, STAND, Sudan Peace
Advocates Network, TransAfrica Forum, and the United Methodist Church.