Die-In for Darfur: Turn Up the Heat on Rice......December 8th 2005

Die-In for Darfur: Turn Up the Heat on Rice

Dear Friend,

It has been three months since “A Day for Darfur: Stop the Genocide, Protect the People”. Only hours after the rally on September 8th Special Assistant to President Bush and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council called Africa Action to request a meeting. Africa Action and many other organizations and committed individuals have continued to host public education events, strategy meetings and dialogue with decision-makers in order to push the U.S. to work with the international community to stop genocide in Darfur. Unfortunately, the U.S. Administration has failed to take the action necessary to stop genocide. It is time, once again, to take to the streets and escalate our pressure on the Bush Administration.

Join Africa Action and friends as we rally at the State Department to challenge Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice to take immediate action to stop genocide in Darfur, Sudan. To represent the 400,000 people who have died in Darfur since the genocide began, activists will risk arrest by staging a “die-in” at the entrance of the State Department, surrounded by drawings made by child survivors in Darfur.

December 8th 2005

12:00 noon

U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, NW

This spirited rally will make clear that the U.S. has a unique capacity and clear moral responsibility to work within the UN for a multinational intervention in Darfur to protect civilians.

Please help us spread the word! Download a flyer and forward this email to ten friends to help stop genocide in Darfur. For more information about the rally, please contact Africa Action at 202-546-7961 or mailto:[email protected]. To learn more about the genocide in Darfur or to see the “Picturing Genocide” exhibit, go to: www.africaaction.org/darfur.

Hope to see you with us on the 8th!

Sincerely,

The Staff @ Africa Action