الممثل الأمريكي داني كلوفر يشارك في المظاهرات والسفارة تغلق أبوابها.

الممثل الأمريكي داني كلوفر يشارك في المظاهرات والسفارة السودانية تغلق أبوابها بواشنطن.

ذكرت صحيفة الواشنطن تايمز, ان السفارة السودانية بواشنطن سوف تغلق أبوابها ابتدأ من اليوم(أمس) الاثنين الموافق 22-8-2004 الى حين إشعار أخر. ومن المفترض أن تكون هناك مظاهرة كبيرة يوم الأربعاء غداً يشارك فيها بعض الشخصيات الهامة من ضمنهم الممثل الشهير داني كلوفر وبعض رجال الكونجرس ونشطاء الحقوق الإنسانية والمدنية.


دينق.


By James Morrison


Sudan embassy shut
The Embassy of Sudan, the site of daily protests over the massacres in the Darfur region of the African nation, closed yesterday for an indefinite period.
The closure comes as a vast coalition of demonstrators is planning nationwide protests for tomorrow. Actor Danny Glover, the latest celebrity to join the movement, is expected at the noon demonstration outside the embassy at 2210 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
The embassy Web site (www.sudanembassy.org) issued this brief announcement: "This is to inform that the embassy will be closed starting from Monday, Aug. 23, 2004, until further notice."
However, the demonstrators say they are not concerned whether the embassy is open or closed. The building is symbolic of the government that Congress last month condemned for "genocide" against black African farmers in Darfur by Arab militias initially armed by the government to fight rebels.
"We have demonstrated every day since June 29, and we will continue to demonstrate whether they are inside [the embassy] or not. They never answered the door, anyway," said protest leader and radio talk-show host Joe Madison, who is in his sixth week of a hunger strike to draw attention to the crisis in Darfur.
"What we want them to shut down is not the embassy. We want them to shut down the genocide. We want them to shut down the refugee camps. We want them to shut down the atrocities that are taking place."
Mr. Madison said the Washington-based Sudan Campaign wants President Bush to heed the congressional resolution and declare Sudan guilty of genocide.
The militias, called the Janjaweed, are blamed for killing 50,000 people and displacing 1 million. The U.N. Security Council on July 30 gave the Sudanese government 30 days to stop the bloodshed.
Meanwhile, another group, the Save Darfur Coalition, is urging communities throughout North America to stage demonstrations tomorrow.
Calling the protest a "Day of Conscience," the coalition said it wants to "raise public awareness about the horrific situation in Darfur and to demand that the international community take immediate and decisive action to stop the killing, the rape and the destruction of villages and to assure that humanitarian relief reaches all those in need."
In Washington, Mr. Glover intends to add his name to a long list of elected leaders and average citizens who have been arrested on embassy grounds for unlawful assembly, a charge that carries a $50 fine.
Mr. Madison said the list includes an 82-year-old grandmother and a 75-year-old woman who got arrested last week on her birthday.
Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders and several members of Congress also have been arrested.
Mr. Madison, who continues to host his show on WOL-AM from 6 to 10 p.m. on weekdays, has consumed only chicken broth on his hunger strike.
Leaders of the think tanks TransAfrica Forum and Africa Action also plan to be arrested tomorrow.

Deng,

May be the Embassy has no cooling system to counter attack the hot weather of DC there days.
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I have received this related message from Mohamed Alghadi to be post here




Please join the global movement in support of 1.2 million of the Fur people who are literally staying now in the harsh desert of Darfur and Chad. A hunger strike will start tomorrow in more than 20 countries across the globe to highlight the tragedy in Darfur.



Please click on this link www.darfurgenocide.org/webcast.htm to register and become able to connect directly with the real voice of the people and listen to their stories…Via this online tool you can even engage in a direct dialogue with the people in the camps…



Please consider donating your lunch money ($5?) to any of the organizations you trust or those currently work directly with people in Darfur (check the orgs here: http://www.interaction.org/sudan/index.html or http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/ngolist.html



Remember every dollar makes a difference: $30 (6 lunches) will help digging a pit latrine (there is a need for 3,000 ones to prevent the strong fear of Cholera outbreak on the Chadian borders); $2.5 will buy a trowel to be used by one family as part of ‘defecation set’.. there is a current need of 350,000 trowels.


Thanks for your noble solidarity…





Mohamed Ibrahim

(a.k.a Mohamed Elgadi)