Dream for Darfur: Olympic Torch Relay

• Download the Torch-Relay Organizer Toolkit to start planning your event!

As the world prepares for the 2008 Summer Olympics, an event that stands for peace and brotherhood, the games are being hosted by a country facilitating the suffering and destruction in Darfur.

Through its economic, political, and military support of the government of Sudan, China is the most influential nation allowing the Sudanese government to continue to commit mass atrocities. China is therefore in a position to exert real and consequential influence on the crisis in Darfur.

For years, China ignored this responsibility altogether, Now, due to pressure by activists influence from around the world, they have began to at last pay some public heed to their role.

We have an extraordinary opportunity to reach out to the Chinese government, in its role as host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, to urge Beijing's leaders to use their considerable Leverage with Sudan.

Olympic Dream for Darfur is organizing an Olympic Torch Relay from Darfur to Beijing and across the United States to galvanize public support around the world to exert pressure on China to stop the genocide in Darfur.

We've created the Olympic Torch Relay Organizing Toolkit to help you organize, plan and carry out a successful event. We hope this resource will energize and engage your community to bring greater awareness the crisis in Darfur, China's role in ending it.

Dream for Darfur
Save Darfur Coalition
STAND

Calendar:

Events will take place in 21 states, multiple cities, engage thousands of activists and provide an opportunity to elevate the crises in Darfur with media outlets. While we have identified 21 states, we encourage all communities to participate and plan events on dates corresponding with events nearby cities below.

Please post your Torch-Relay events on our website! To post your event, click here and select "Torch-Relay" as the event type.

New York - September 9th
Vermont - September 29th
Massachusetts (Boston) - September 30th
New Hampshire - September 30th
Pennsylvania (Pittsburg and Philadelphia) - October 6th
Ohio - October 13th
Indiana (Indianapolis) - October 14th
Illinois (Chicago) - October 20th
Iowa (Des Moines) - October 21st
Nebraska - October 27th
Colorado - October 28th
Utah (Salt Lake) - November 3rd
Washington (Seattle) - November 4th
Oregon (Portland) - November 10th
California (SF and LA) -- November 17th
Nevada (Las Vegas) - December 2nd
New Mexico - December 2nd
Texas - December 1st
Tennessee (Nashville) - December 8th
Florida (Miami) - December 8th
Georgia (Atlanta) - December 8th
Washington DC - December 10th