New Facebook Group - "Tell Us Your Darfur Plan!"
New Facebook Group - "Tell Us Your Darfur Plan!"
Posted on Friday, September 5, 2008
Following the end of the GOP's convention yesterday and the DNC last week, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will be preparing for the presidential debates scheduled through the next few months. Thousands of students and activists are mobilizing to make Darfur an issue, and to emphasize that they will cast their ballots for Darfur.
Be a part of this movement - join the Facebook group "Tell us your Darfur plan!"
The group emphasizes the public demand for Presidential Candidates McCain and Obama to have a specific plan regarding US involvement in Darfur should they assume the presidency, and has a goal of attaining 10,000 members prior to the September 26 foreign policy debates at the University of Mississippi.
Join the group and you can also access a detailed presidential debate schedule, video footage, wall posts, and encouragement to sign the Ask the Candidates campaign petition.
Let’s make Darfur an issue!
Guy Hammond, Membership Assistant
Why Do We Ask Them?
Why are we asking the affirmed leaders of organizations in our country to do something?
Why do we keep asking the people who avoid answering?
'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country' - well, I say, Ask not what the world can do for you, ask what you can do for the world.
Why don't we step up and be leaders in our own communities? I am just sixteen years old. I have become desensitized by the media. No longer though. My heart aches to hear of my people - for I count every person, no matter their race or beliefs, as my people - killing one another just because some are different than others.
You may wonder what right I have to say who has a right to do what. I don't.
But I know that life is sacred, and that no one has the right to take the life of another, no matter what they have done.
My generation is viewed with distaste here in the United States, but we are still the future. And those who seek to lead us in the future must lead us where we wish to go. They will do what we want them to do, if only we show in our numbers what we want.
If we, the youth of the world, show our leaders what we believe in and we ask them to do something about it, they will be forced to answer. So let us show them.
In the civil rights movements here in America, the most successful demostrations against the wrongdoings of those times were the peaceful marches thousands strong.
I say we leave our schools, our jobs, and march. Let rumors spread of our march for Darfur, for Sudan, for the end of genocide in the world. I am not sure of any details yet. Up until a couple of weeks ago, the most I knew of this situation was that it inspired the making of t-shirts with the slogan 'Stop genocide in Sudan.' I was not sure what that exactly meant, or what its implications were. Now I know, and I am horrified that there is not more being done.
If you are at all interested, please send me an email at OneSmallVoiceForTheWorld@yahoo.com [thats not supposed to be a link - sorry!]