We should be patient, I guess...ummm, nah! People are dying! Dec 10th is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, Dec 9th, is the 60th anniversary of Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Both of them great stuff...on paper! I am sure that both are considered widely as monumental achievements for the human race, but it takes real, breathing humans to make them work and save lives in practice. We've been waiting for 60 years!
We have to get loud people! Let's DGA today and tomorrow...and the days after. Stop Genocide Now has some good ACTIONS going on for tomorrow, but we have to take it a step further. Print those posters and plaster them all over your community. Fax them to Congress, the White House, and the Sudanese Embassy.
So, start with SGN's suggestion and pick one of the girls or women on the posters below and wear it pinned to your clothing all day on Dec 10th, and then get creative and do more!
Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3
Poster 4
Poster 5
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I agree with you about needing to do more. I wish more people that considered themselves activists would do more about Darfur and other atrocities. People feel good when they send an email by clicking on a box, so they can call themselves a humanitarian in exchange for nothing - they have shifted no part of their life or contributed any of their time or money to those who would really benefit from it. Many just click, click, click, click and then pat themselves on the back when real foot soldiers get things done. We need more urgency in our actions, we need more creative actions, we need people to stand up and SHOUT - NO LONGER WILL WE STAND BY and shop, and go to school, and go to the park while others have no rights to do so. We need more people who are willing to alter their lives so that humanity and our world become a better place, not just a thought that passes with each key stroke.
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