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October 2009 
A Day for Darfur.
Mike
What is Darfur? What can we do? What can you do? What is genocide? Why should we care?
I just started reading Not On Our Watch a book about the mission to end genocide in Darfur and beyond. One of the first strategies mentioned in the book is to Raise Awareness.
I started thinking ~
What if we all Give a Day for Darfur?
What if we gave at least 8 hours of our life towards the cause in Darfur?
If 10,000 of the 75,000+ zaadsters gave 8 hours towards the cause in Darfur that would be 80,000 hours or over 3,300 days or over 9 Years of effort towards Darfur.
I have started by raising my awareness by buying the book Not On Our Watch and the Instant Karma CD. I hope I can raise your awareness too and that you can help raise the awareness of others.
Spread the message ~ A Day for Darfur!
Share this blog and the links below with all your online and offline friends!
Write your own blogs on Darfur!
We can make a difference!
Photo from: http://www.theirc.org/resources/essays/index.jsp?page=4
Links to Darfur sites
http://www.enoughproject.org/index.php
http://www.savedarfur.org/content
http://www.notonourwatchbook.com/
http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/
http://low.instantkarma.org/takeaction.html
http://www.genocideindarfur.net/
http://www.globefordarfur.org/
http://www.genocideintervention.net/index.php
http://www.standnow.org/
Documentaries about Darfur
http://www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/home.html
Music for Darfur
http://www.berklee.edu/darfur/
http://asap.calabashmusic.com/
Photos from Darfur
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101041004/photoessay/
Poetry for Dafur
http://www.thehypertexts.com/For%20Darfur%20Poets%20Poetry%20Literature%20Art%20Genocide.htm
http://robinmerrill.tripod.com/id37.html
Online Interactive Game
http://www.darfurisdying.com/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/
Access: Public
wow! quite an extensive list of resources, mike! awesome.
let's make a difference, and may peace reign supreme!
from the book Not On Our Watch,
“What we've learned is that there are three pillars to fostering a real change in human rights and conflict resolution policy:
1. Field research to learn what is really happening in the conflict zones and what needs to be done
2. High-level advocacy to deliver the message to the people who determine policy
3. Domestic political pressure from a constituency that cares about these issues and takes them up with their elected officials.”
The last one is the hardest because it requires the most actions. But only through consistent & determined effort can real change happen..
Your right, #3 is the toughest one because we need to get the constituents of our country and others to care about these issues. Another excerpt from Not On Our Watch -
“If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been quite different.”
Senator Paul Simon in response to U.S. noninvolvement in Rwanda in 1994 (also quoted on http://www.lifenets.net/
If you go to this link, there are a couple of lifenets.net videos on how to write an effective political letter and how to organize a letter drive - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lifenets
I will keep the momentum going on my blog and zaadz. Isn't this one of the core things zaadz is about - creating/making change. We need to get other zaadzsters motivated! I will be working on some other ideas to do that.
What a wonderful way to spread the word - thank you for posting this blog!!!
I just realized that your comment above mine lists LifeNets.net - that is the organization I'm campaigning with - my link is http://www.lifenets.net/dev/?q=node/15&refid=45 - small world! It's a great organization.