A big step in taking the first step to getting recognition and raise awareness is starting at the local level I think. In San Francisco, there are weekly meetings of the community, and for the city of San Francisco, most board meetings are televised. San Francisco passed something a while back saying the city is against the Genocide in Darfur. I think getting a group of people together to start raising awareness in some of the big cities.

In addition in the major corporations that support sudan and have investments there or China in things like PetroChina, it is importnat that divesting is considered because it can be good to get companies from the US to remove their investments in places that support Genocide.

Also when you are a shareholder of a company that is in some way involved with funding the Genocide, you can write a shareholders opinon paper pretty much that the company votes oon it and it lets shareholders say what they think the company should represent.

Sending letters to the UN will only have an effect if a massive number of people send them and even then the effect will only be minimal. The UN won't do anything just because we send a few letters. They don't care what we think. The people that we should be sending letters is to people such as President Elect Barack Obama or Vice President elect Joe Biden and we need to send letters to our state senators and our governors but it's more important to send them to Obama because he can go and be our voice in the UN. Obama will actually care what we think that because he cares about ending the genocide in Darfur and because our votes elected him and he as an obligation to our will.