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Save Darfur Coalition: Testimony & Advocacy Event (Act Now for Darfur)
On the afternoon of Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Save Darfur Coalition will bring survivors from past genocides and mass atrocities, including Darfur, South Sudan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, the Holocaust, and Armenia, together with faith leaders, leading anti-genocide advocates, and local activists to reflect on these atrocities and call on President Obama to Act Now For Darfur.
The event will begin with a memorial ceremony by survivors to honor the lives that have been lost. In commemoration of the victims of these atrocities, the survivors, speakers and all attendees will be able to add personal objects to a memorial constructed specifically for this event. This memorial will be a powerful and symbolic call to President Obama to take notice.
Following the ceremony there will be a short speaking program featuring individuals who have been "upstanders" in the face of genocide. These individuals have been leaders in the movement to end genocide.
Speakers include:
Carl Wilkens
Director of World Outside My Shoes, the only American to stay in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Jon Western
Former Balkans and East European Specialist at the U.S. Department of State, Professor
John Prendergast
Co-founder of the Enough Project
Jerry Fowler
President of the Save Darfur Coalition
Mohammed Yahya
President of the Damanga Coalition and Darfuri Leader
Fatima Haroun
Vice President of the Darfur Alert Coalition and Darfuri Leader
Rabbi Steve Gutow
President of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs
Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond
Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA, Chairwoman of the Save Darfur Coalition, and Co-founder of My Sister’s Keeper
Music will be provided by Themba Mawoko from Zimbabwe on the marimbas and Verity Norman from South Africa on the violin.
The program will highlight the importance and power of "standing up", the Darfur movement as part of the broader anti-genocide movement, and the potential to effect change by acting at this moment in history.
Please join us for this afternoon of remembrance and action.
The event will begin with a memorial ceremony by survivors to honor the lives that have been lost. In commemoration of the victims of these atrocities, the survivors, speakers and all attendees will be able to add personal objects to a memorial constructed specifically for this event. This memorial will be a powerful and symbolic call to President Obama to take notice.
Following the ceremony there will be a short speaking program featuring individuals who have been "upstanders" in the face of genocide. These individuals have been leaders in the movement to end genocide.
Speakers include:
Carl Wilkens
Director of World Outside My Shoes, the only American to stay in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Jon Western
Former Balkans and East European Specialist at the U.S. Department of State, Professor
John Prendergast
Co-founder of the Enough Project
Jerry Fowler
President of the Save Darfur Coalition
Mohammed Yahya
President of the Damanga Coalition and Darfuri Leader
Fatima Haroun
Vice President of the Darfur Alert Coalition and Darfuri Leader
Rabbi Steve Gutow
President of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs
Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond
Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston, MA, Chairwoman of the Save Darfur Coalition, and Co-founder of My Sister’s Keeper
Music will be provided by Themba Mawoko from Zimbabwe on the marimbas and Verity Norman from South Africa on the violin.
The program will highlight the importance and power of "standing up", the Darfur movement as part of the broader anti-genocide movement, and the potential to effect change by acting at this moment in history.
Please join us for this afternoon of remembrance and action.
| Time: | Sunday, April 19 from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
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| Host: | Catherine Wagner Wagner |
| Contact Phone: | 202-478-6155 |
| Location: | Lafayette Square, Washington, DC (Washington, DC)
Washington, DC 20006
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| Don't forget your event materials!: | Now that you have registered your event, be sure to order your Event in a Box materials from our shop. You can find other useful materials and more information about Act Now for Darfur site. The Save Darfur Coalition may be able to provide limited financial support to some local April events on a need basis. If you will need such support please email april@savedarfur.org to receive more information on this program. Application coming soon! |
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