How To Help

This blog’s cause is the Save Darfur Coalition, an US-based advocacy group supporting international intervention in Sudan to halt atrocities in Darfur. Please support the coalition!

You can get involved to help stop the genocide in a number of ways, whether it be signing the petition, which will get the attention of world leaders and show them that we care, that saving Darfur is important to us. Both President Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will be sent your plea for help. If all our voices call for action, surely they will be answered.

Like all organizations, the Save Darfur Coalition needs funds to continue its campaign. Their continued mission to bring about peace in Darfur is a worthy cause and is tax-deductible to boot. Donate today and help the Coalition bring about peace in Sudan.

Local Advocacy Groups are a good way to start grassroots campaigns. Join an existing one, or start one locally, recruit your friends and build up. Create local fundraisers and spread awareness of the issue throughout your community.

This effort cannot succeed without educating others about Darfur and legislative action. It takes popular support to get a legislative proposal, and it takes a legislative proposal for definitive national action. Lobby your Senators and Congressmen so they can get our government more involved in aiding the horrific situation in Darfur. At the same time, grassroots campaigns and donating to the Save Darfur Coalition will sustain the movement. The deaths of 400,000 innocent people cannot go unnoticed. The poverty-stricken people of Darfur cannot continue much longer.  Help spread awareness of this important issue and bring about change. We are doing our best to do our part by spreading awareness on this blog. Join us, and make a difference in the world today. Your voice can make all the difference in the world.

A Tale of Oil, Weapons, and the Olympics

China has been the linked to selling the weapons to the militants who have killed thousands in the ongoing genocide in Darfur. China has taken advantage of Sudan’s vast oil fields and has a strong economic interest that has blinded them from the horrendous acts of mass murder occurring in the Darfur region. Their prominent role in the UN could very well prevent a substantial, multinational peacekeeping task force from going in, unless with the blessing from those in Khartoum.

With China’s hosting of the Olympics just months away, many leaders have made moves to boycott the opening games. Steven Spielberg notably withdrew himself from partaking in helping with the games over his concerns over China’s reluctance to persuade the government in Sudan to stop the killings.

(picture from http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/4396)
While boycotting the Opening Ceremonies is a great symbolic gesture, the world community must take bolder, tougher approaches to convince China to use its strong economic ties Sudan to stop the genocide. It is a sad thought to think that money made from the Olympics may eventually end up in the hands of those behind the killings in Sudan. Money should not take precedence over lives, or the existence of an entire people.