Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wesley Fryer

A Million Voices for Darfur

A Million Voices for Darfur is a website that enables you and your students to directly communicate with President Bush and urge him to take action on behalf of the United States to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Enter your name and email address, and add an additional personal message. The Save Darfur Coalition and its partners are sending these messages directly to President Bush in postcard form. After submitting your message, you can send information to ten other email contacts you know about the Darfur situation and our need to speak out. You can additionally print out flyers and postcards that you can print, distribute and mail.

To learn more about the situation in Darfur, I recommend listening to the interviews included in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience’s podcast on genocide prevention.

I will be speaking tomorrow morning with a men’s fellowship group here in Lubbock about the situation in Darfur and why we need to speak out on this issue. Luke 10:25-37, The Parable of the Good Samaritan, is instructive to us all about “who is my neighbor” and how we are each called to care for our neighbors. Darfur and the Sudan may be a long way away geographically, but we live in a global village where communication is more direct and immediate than ever. Let us bring our collective voices to bear on those perpetuating genocide in Darfur. Whatever our political, religious or social affiliations, surely we can come together in condemning genocide and insisting that the global community take action on behalf of the Sudanese people who are the targets of mass violence.

The slogan of the A Million Voices for Darfur campaign is:

Instead of mourning a genocide, what if we could stop one?

You can take action on this issue today. Isn’t this something important enough to make time for? Read the list of Partners of the Million Voices for Darfur campaign. Whoever you are and wherever you are, this is a campaign worth getting involved with and helping tell others about.

The USHMM’s Committee on Conscience website, which provides updated information and action recommendations regarding genocide situations worldwide, is available on www.committeeonconscience.org. The Save Darfur campaign also has suggestions and resources for ways to take further action on this situation.

The 13 minute “Crisis in Darfur” video by Human Rights Watch provides a good overview of the situation.

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