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Get to know: Global Days for Darfur

Over at God's Politics, Adam Taylor titles his Friday Darfur post: For God’s Sake, Save Darfur! End the Politics of Delay. And he lists some growing numbers of folks of faith who are acting out, "273 events in 175 cities and 42 states (and D.C.) across the country, as well as events in 20 countries, and the number is growing daily."

The blog: Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth heralds a die in and divestment rally in Boston Common.

"The Save Darfur Coalition is a non-profit organization and advocacy group dedicated to ending the genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. It is a coalition of over 160 faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organizations designed to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective united response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of some two million people in Darfur."

According to their wikipedia entry:

The Save Darfur Coalition began on July 14, 2004 when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American Jewish World Service organized a Darfur Emergency Summit at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan featuring Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel. Mr. Wiesel inspired the group with his impassioned remarks about the suffering being inflicted on Darfurians: "How can I hope to move people from indifference if I remain indifferent to the plight of others? I cannot stand idly by or all my endeavors will be unworthy."

You've got to check out Johnny Ramirez's flash graphic for Global Days for Darfur.

And Amnesty International has a great new site up devoted to Darfur, called Instant Karma.

As you know time is running out for the people of Darfur. Four years of genocidal violence has left over 400,000 dead, 2.5 million innocent civilians displaced, and 4 million men, women, and children completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter.

Here's Sojourners' Global Days for Darfur toolkit as well as other resources.

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