Your activism challenges the conscience of the world.

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Your activism challenges the conscience of the
world.

• --Speaker of the House
• Nancy Pelosi

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STAND What Can I Do Now?

• Presented by
• Lauren DeSieno Lindsay Hoolehan Courtney Loomis

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What Can I Do Now?

• Call 1-800-GENOCIDE
• Cost 2 minutes of your time!
• Provide your zip code and simply spell out the
  talking points of the crisis in Darfur
  
• Ask you Senator or Rep. to urge President Bush
  to implement the Darfur Peace and Accountability
  Act (DPAA)
  
• Call for increased economic sanctions on Sudan --
  money talks!
  
• Urge our UN ambassadors to call for multilateral
  peacekeeping forces to be sent in to settle the
  conflict and protect the people of Darfur

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What Can I Do Now?

• Email your Representative and Senator
• Web Pages
• www.dent.house.gov www.specter.senate.gov
  
  
• www.casey.senate.gov
• Check out www.darfurscores.org/

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What Can I Do Now?

• STAND
• Originally
• Students Taking Action Now Darfur
• Currently
• STAND A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition

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STAND

• Objectives
• Increase consciousness
• Take nonpartisan political action
• Raise funds for humanitarian relief
• Coordinate national and international efforts
• STAND advocates for a peacekeeping mission of at
  least 15,000 troops in Darfur led by a NATO
  member state

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STAND

• Organize 600 high school and college chapters
• Advocate compel our officials to support
  Darfur-related legislation (call, email, write a
  letter, speak up)
  
• Educate implement genocide education into
  Americas public schools
  
• Divest encourage the government, corporations,
  and universities to divest their money from the
  genocidal government of Sudan
  
• Publicize obtain press for STAND events and
  activities
  

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STAND at Salisbury High School

• If interested --- Sign the form circulating
  through the auditorium and tell your friends if
  they are not here
  
• Board Approval
• Stay in touch

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Not on My Watch

• STAND up and do something NOW!!

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Questions????
2.5 million are displaced
80-90 of all villages in Darfur have been
decimated
3.5 million are hungry
80 will put a student through school for a year
400,000 have already been killed
1 US dollar will feed a person for a whole week
in Sudan
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Genocide cannot be committed unless people are
willing to stand aside and allow it
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There is no such thing as doing nothing. You are
either allowing genocide to occur, or you are
trying to stop it.
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International indifference is crucial to the
implementation of genocide. Khartoum is counting
on your apathy. By doing nothing, youre playing
right into their hands.
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2.5 million are displaced
80-90 of all villages in Darfur have been
decimated
3.5 million are hungry
80 will put a student through school for a year
400,000 have already been killed
1 US dollar will feed a person for a whole week
in Sudan
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If we dont look out for other people, society
falls apart.
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What value does your life have if you dont value
life enough to assert its worth?
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What if it were you?