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"Never Again": The Permanent Anti-Genocide Movement

Genocide Intervention Network — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:55:58 -0700

After the Holocaust, world leaders proclaimed, "Never Again!" Then: Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and now Darfur, where more than 400,000 have been killed. Join the first permanent anti-genocide movement at www.GenocideIntervention.net.

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DarfurFast

Genocide Intervention Network — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:17:44 -0800

On December 5th, students around the world will ask their peers, families, and communities to join them in DarfurFast by fasting from one luxury item for one day and donating the money they would have spent on those items to protect civilians in Darfur. Just three dollars — less than the cost of a latte– can provide protection for one woman for a year.

Learn more and find DarfurFast events near you!

In the past three years, STAND’s DarfurFast has raised more than $400,000 for civilian protection in Darfur. This year, we intend to raise even more. This holiday season, students will bring it home to their families and communities and ask them to join in solidarity for Darfur by pledging to participate in DarfurFast.

Register your school for DarfurFast!

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Don Cheadle: 'Darfur Now' and 1-800-GENOCIDE

Genocide Intervention Network — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:10:03 -0800

Academy Award Nominee Don Cheadle from "Hotel Rwanda" and Genocide Intervention Network activist Adam Sterling talk about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, ways you can get involved, and how to ensure your tax dollars aren't funding genocide.

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Genocide Intervention Network — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:04:26 -0800

The Genocide Intervention Network is most actively focused on the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

To date, the Genocide Intervention Network has raised $500,000 from individual private donations for civilian protection in Darfur; more than half of every donation we receive goes directly to civilian protection in Darfur. Coupled with targeted advocacy campaigns — in which members demonstrated their personal commitment to the cause by explaining how much money had been raised by the legislator's own constituents — GI-Net members helped pass the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act in 2006, and advocated for an increase of $50 million in funding for the African Union peacekeepers.

GI-Net also oversees the Sudan Divestment Task Force; our targeted divestment campaign coordinates grassroots activism and lobbying to divest funds from the most egregious, worst-offending companies without doing harm to innocent Sudanese civilians. Since the Sudan divestment movement began in April 2005, dozens of states, cities and universities — and numerous companies and individuals — have placed restrictions on their Sudan-linked investments. California, the first US state to adopt the Genocide Intervention Network's targeted divestment model, is home to the two largest public pension systems in the country.

STAND, a nationwide, student-led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, mobilizes high school and college-age young adults through more than 800 campus chapters. Formed out of the rapidly-growing student movement to protect Darfur, STAND works to unify this anti-genocide movement under one message by providing students with informational, educational and organizing resources, empowering them through an extensive network of impassioned student activists and advocating for a change in the world's mentality towards genocide.

Without the political will, policymakers will never take the actions needed to stop genocide. Our toll-free hotline — 1-800-GENOCIDE — provides members of the growing anti-genocide constituency an easy way to contact their elected officials. Without being put on hold or having to look up the number, callers have the option of being connected directly with their members of Congress, governor or the president. Before being connected to the relevant office, callers hear an up-to-date briefing about the specific actions elected officials must take to stop genocide.

Our widely-used congressional scorecard on Darfur grades each member of Congress on his or her record on ending the Darfur genocide. The Darfur scorecard empowers citizens with the tools and knowledge to more effectively pressure their elected officials to transform "Never Again" from a promise we make into a commitment we keep.

Stopping genocide in Darfur must be an important political priority for the next president. Concerned Americans from across the country want to know that the next president is willing and able to meet this moral challenge. Ask The Candidates gives voters in the United States the tools to demand that every presidential candidate make specific pledges and policy statements that will lead to ending genocide in Darfur.

What I Stand For: Civilian Protection in Darfur

Genocide Intervention Network — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:49:54 -0800

Sudanese University of Vermont student Achier Mou shares his thoughts on the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. He just discovered that his mother survived attacks on his family when he was young.