http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/group_rss/ActionAgainstGenocide This group will work to increase local awareness and participation in programs and events that help to support the refugees of Darfur. Welcome to the 2nd San Diego Walk for Darfur to be held Sunday, March 29th, 2009 De Anza Cove, Mission Bay Park, San Diego, CA The purpose of the 2nd San Diego Walk for Darfur is to bring together people from the San Diego Community to show their solidarity for the people of Darfur, to use our collective voice to help stop this genocide and to raise funds for a humanitarian project that American Jewish World Service is involved with in Darfur. Funds we raise will help to support several projects in Internally Displaced Camps in Darfur that work with women and children, all victims of trauma, in a variety of educational, psychological and social programs. You can help ensure that AJWS is able to continue providing services to children and victims of violence in Darfur. To learn more about the tragic situation in Darfur, go to the SaveDarfur website. Participating in the 2nd San Diego Walk for Darfur is a great way to get actively involved. This family-oriented event is perfect for everyone--all age groups and fitness levels. You can choose to run, jog or walk approximately 2 or 4 miles in beautiful Mission Bay Park. Learn More about the Walk for Darfur... Registering for the Walk is Easy! 1. REGISTER TODAY Take a few minutes to register as an individual, team captain, or to join an existing team. Can't make it? Find out how easy it is to donate or sponsor someone else. Money raised from the Walk will be donated to American Jewish World Service. Why should you be involved in the Walk? Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, nearly three million have been displaced - most in Darfur about 275,00 in Chad. Estimates on the number of dead vary, but most estimates are about 400,000 Darfuri. Any conflict, and certainly this genocide, that is causing this much loss of life, destruction of communities and the attempt to eviserate certain tribal people (Fur, Masalit, Zangawa) is clearly a humanitarian issue. It is a humanitarian issue for people of all faiths, beliefs, races, nationalities and background. President Obama has referred to it as a "stain on our souls." Rabbi Lee Bycel, Executive Director, Western Region, AJWS stated, "March 29 will be a magnificent day in San Diego as people from all backgrounds join together to say that we care, that we can make a difference and that the fate of the people of Darfur is inextricably linked with our own lives. It will be a day of hope - knowing that the funds raised will make a difference." Why do I care? Why should you care? Rabbi Bycel continued, "I first went to Chad in the fall of 2004. I saw first hand the life of the Darfuri refugees in Chad. I heard their personal tragic stories. I realized that their desire for security, food, water, shelter - as well as for education, human rights and hope is no different than mine. I care because they are human beings who inhabit this earth with me and like you and me were created in God's image. I care because we know about their plight and with that awareness cannot stand idly by. I care because when I see their children, I see my own children. I care because I see the ravages of man's inhumanity to man - and know that we need to have our humanity to each other trump the inhumanity in the world." To learn more, please visit www.ajws.org http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/CLbs http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/CLbs/commentary#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:19:31 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/CLbs Darfur Events Orange County http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/9fe0199674d2056b16_ki5xmvj1i.jpg Darfur Events Orange County 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/CLbs/ ORANGE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2008 -- Nicholas Kristof, distinguished journalist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with The New York Times, will give a free talk at Chapman University on Tuesday, September 2 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall. For more information, the public can call (714) 744-7026. Don't miss this event! http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/Bgm http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/Bgm/commentary#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:48:29 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/Bgm Darfur Events Orange County http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/9fe0199674d2056b16_ki5xmvj1i.jpg Darfur Events Orange County 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bgm/ On Sunday, June 1st, Jewish World Watch will host a booth at the Israel Expo. Proceeds to benefit Bialik Rogosin campus in Israel. This school sponsors 42 recent Darfur Immigrant children. There are 720 children at this school. All are living at or below the poverty level. On June 4th, Judy Bernstein from International Rescue Committee, and a recent immigrant from Darfur will be presenting a discussion on the current events happening in the region. This discussion will be hosted at a private home in Laguna Beach, California. Members from the Interfaith Counsel, area book clubs and members of Women of Vision will be in attendance. Judy Bernstein is co-author of "They Poured Fire on us from the Sky. The ture story of the lost boys of the Sudan". On June 4th, the ABTL will be hosting an evening to benefit Darfur refugees and to spread awareness about the ongoing conflict in Darfur. This event will be held at the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa. Orange County for Darfur has begun their summer study group to educate activists. It is vital to understand the politics of Darfur as well as the frame work for activism. Orange County for Darfur continues it's visits to politicians. Congratulations to Congregation Bnai Israel of Tustin. 175 people attended their Interfaith Seder which raised over 17 thousand dollars for Darfur! Proceeds were donated to International Medical Corps. Mobile Medical Unit. Members of the committee lead by Lydia Levin Kuperberg and Mindy Levin, came together from other area Temples to make this event happen. Congratulations to UCI's Darfur Action Committee! Keep those "Rock for Darfur" concerts rolling! Last August, Congregation Shir Ha-Ma a'lot 's Darfur Action Committee held an event at the Orange County Museum of Art that members of the community are still talking about. Together with Co-chair Kristen Perlmutter and Collette Kaplan raised 27 thousand dollars for International Medical Corp. Special guest speaker and African Affairs Expert John Prendergast shed insight on the topic of action and prevention. This fall, the co-chairs hope to host another event. "This years speaker promises to be equally compelling and a fan favorite", reports Collette Kaplan, who sits on the Board of Trustees at SHM and is Chair of the Social Action Committee. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/BVs http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/BVs/commentary#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 03:01:42 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/Collette%20Kaplan/BVs Darfur Events Orange County http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/9fe0199674d2056b16_ki5xmvj1i.jpg Darfur Events Orange County 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/BVs/ Save Darfur Coalition cause on facebook.com is now making a lot of different and calling upon people to raise awarness about the on going Genocide in Darfur. Therefore, if any of you guys have facebook or want to join.. You can add the Save Darfur cause on your page and invite friends to it too.. here is hte link to cause and joining. http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/72?recruiter_id=1087068&h=ppn http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BjG http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BjG/commentary#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:05:06 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BjG South Sudan http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/452fb465f6f7911f54_9usmv2sx3.gif South Sudan 2 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/BjG/ Hey, everyone here.. Our friend Dean Jacobs the writter and founder of Travel for life is traveling to Sudan as part of his world wide Journey across the globe on a low budget.. While he's in Sudan he'll be studying situation there in Sudan.. Check out his latest adventures.. You can also support him by buying his new Book "Wondrous Journey" Visit him and sign up for news letter.. or get more info about his Journey across the globe. Here is the link http://travel4life.org/ http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BGH http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BGH/commentary#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:39:54 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BGH South Sudan http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/452fb465f6f7911f54_9usmv2sx3.gif South Sudan 3 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/BGH/ Hey, everyone now you can support Save Darfur and connect to all of your friends on Facebook.com.. here is the link for more information this is only if you have a facebook network account. Link Em http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BvY http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BvY/commentary#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:19:11 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/BvY South Sudan http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/452fb465f6f7911f54_9usmv2sx3.gif South Sudan 1 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/BvY/ Facebook is really a great source to help educate million of peole about the current situation and raising awarness in Darfur.. There is a link to Darfur crisis on my page and SaveDarfur Coalition group on facebook.. So far many people are getting more informatin and taking action on behalf of situation that's going on right now in Darfur.. If you're welling to connect and get more information and stuff on Face.. here is my face book name.. Emmanuel Sansilous Search it add it and you'll get connect to all the links.. Thank you.. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br7 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br7/commentary#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:31:03 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br7 South Sudan http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/452fb465f6f7911f54_9usmv2sx3.gif South Sudan 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Br7/ Well, the plan B doesn't make any different at all according to Sudan goverment we need to push president bush to do more than that. They're sending us a clear message that the sanction won't stop killing in Darfur. June 4, 2007 (KHARTOUM) -- Business leaders managing Sudan's economic boom predict the new U.S. sanctions imposed because of Darfur will have little impact on this country's oil-based economy, mostly because they avoid targeting key Chinese interests here. Chinese President Hu Jintao shakes hands with his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir. (AFP)The US measures and the violence in Darfur are likely to be topics when the Group of Eight industrialised countries meet this week at a summit in Germany. US President George Bush has directed American officials to meet with allies to try to draft a new United Nations Security Council resolution that would impose multilateral pressure on Sudan, in addition to the unilateral actions by the US. But China has urged negotiations rather than sanctions as the best way to elicit co-operation from Sudan, and holds veto power in the Security Council. That has again highlighted China's central role in the Darfur issue. The US sanctions announced last week target 31 Sudanese companies and three individuals - the military intelligence chief, a cabinet minister and a rebel leader linked to the Darfur violence that has killed 200 000 people and forced 2,5 million from their homes. The newly sanctioned companies join 132 other Sudanese firms already banned from doing business with any US company or bank. But Abdul Rahim Hamdi, a former Sudanese finance minister who advises the Sudanese government on economic matters, said the US sanctions mostly avoid the most critical parts of Sudan's economy - oil and the oil sector's Chinese customers. Last year, Sudan's economy grew by 12 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund. That growth was propelled by the estimated 500 000 barrels of oil produced each day - two-thirds of them bought by China. Hamdi noted that only Sudanese oil-drilling companies are on the new US sanctions list, not Chinese or other foreign corporations - some of which pay huge royalties to the Sudanese government. "The Chinese companies are the only big players, but the Americans have carefully avoided targeting them," Hamdi said. US authorities have defended the new measures, saying they not only broaden the target list but also provide better methods to track down embargo evaders. "Tougher new enforcement techniques," including "forensic accounting" have been used to select the newly targeted companies and to make sure all 163 now on the sanctions list are truly barred from the dollar economy, US embassy spokesperson Joel Maybury said. US officials also dispute the idea that they are leery of disrupting Chinese relations over Darfur. "We can very definitely say that the issue of Sudan is on the United States-China bilateral agenda," US under Secretary of State John Negroponte told reporters last week. However, some Sudanese officials say privately that they believe the White House is unwilling to drive up world oil prices by targeting the shipping companies that export the country's oil production. For now, the only Sudanese company that truly risks being affected by the US measures, Hamdi contends, is Sudatel, Sudan's largest cellphone provider, because it is listed on the stock exchange in the United Arab Emirates and is largely owned by foreign investors. After a decade of American sanctions, Sudan has few commercial ties to the United States at this point, meaning the effect of US sanctions is fairly limited, both Hamdi and outside analysts say. Nearly three-quarters of Sudan's trade is with Arab and Asian nations, Hamdi said. "We have learned years ago to avoid the American banking system. I don't think anybody will be hurt by this," he said. A prominent Khartoum financier, who asked not be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, said Sudanese firms know how to steer clear of dollar transactions by using the euro currency instead. Sudanese firms operate through foreign holding companies or joint ventures to evade restrictions, the financier said. Analysts like Alex Vines, the head of the Africa programme at the British think tank Chatham House, also predicted the US sanctions will have little actual effect on Sudan's economy. "It's more of a political signal," Vines said. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br8 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br8/commentary#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:15:40 EDT http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/sssudan/Br8 South Sudan http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/452fb465f6f7911f54_9usmv2sx3.gif South Sudan 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Br8/ I read recently several articles in the UN news about the current events involving Darfur. What I find appalling is the amount of time, effort, and resources being spent, and propagadistically used to pat the shoulders of the UN envoys and special teams. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bnr http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bnr/commentary#comments Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:21:51 EST http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bnr Marina http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/4566d9d5ad9f7fbb7d_s9m6bxi5e.jpg Marina 2 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bnr/ Hello everyone, I am finding that the farther I have gone academically, the more restless I have become. Since completing my educational goals (for the moment atleast) I have jumped into action. I felt tired of crying alone in the night for people I didn't know, and was exhausted by the nightmeres. So, in order to ease my suffering, I finally realized I needed to act. I live in a very rural area, yet I believe an area with a slight indication of progressivism, yet it seems there has not been a platform for these individuals to become involved in things larger than themselves. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bn8 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bn8/commentary#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:40:31 EST http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/marinadavies/Bn8 Marina http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/4566d9d5ad9f7fbb7d_s9m6bxi5e.jpg Marina 0 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bn8/ I was struck with an idea today. A low cost, high effect campaign to keep people aware of what is going on in Darfur on a daily basis. In the early part of this century Americans citizens who were concerned about the lynching of black, would fly banners in the cities of the U.S. to make people who would otherwise be unaware of what happened. Here's a picture of one such banner . http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/grantpeters/Bpm http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/grantpeters/Bpm/commentary#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:05:35 EST http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/grantpeters/Bpm Grant http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/profile_picture/dcb1f096acb0f5b771_3g7zmv48p.jpg Grant 13 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bpm/ Fellow Members, I have been working to form an alliance with ONE.org. I am sure that most of you are members of ONE already. Both Save Darfur and ONE's agenda is very similar and I think a coalition between the two would help consolidate and pool our resources to help bring an end to the genocide before it is too late. All of us hope that Darfur will not become the next Cambodia or Rwanda, etc,etc, and I think a partnership with ONE would raise awarness and donations if we worked together. We do not want to see a movie in 5 years from now starring Don Cheadle called " Hotel Darfur ", despite how good that movie was. This is a film we hope will never have to be made. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Michael ( Member Kingwood TX e-mail: Bookcornermb@aol.com http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bpy http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bpy/commentary#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:15:46 EST http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bpy michael michael 9 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bpy/ Save Darfur Members, As most of you have probably read, the recent delegation to the Darfur/Chad region ended in disaster. The group was forced to flee after being attacked by the sudanese army or mercenaries. The mission was a complete failure. What should we do to respond to this feeble attempt at aid? Your ides greatly appreciated. Michael ( Member, Kingwood TX ) http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bp9 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bp9/commentary#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:37:11 EST http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/post/michaelbufano/Bp9 michael michael 6 http://www.savedarfur.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bp9/