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April 13 in Solidarity: Global Day for Darfur

Danielle Vyas, of ModernMusings.com leads the charge:

The Mission is to build upon Amnesty International’s global efforts within the blogsphere.

The Strategy is to Educate, Motivate and Activate toward ending the genocide in Darfur.

Educate through analysis of reports and news materials, compilations of facts through viral multimedia like podcasts and videos posted on Youtube and linking to articles, blog posts, and viral media to expand public knowledge of the Darfuri genocide. Any and all aspects can be focused on; such as the root causes of the murder, who is behind it, and what the international community has done to promote the murder and to end it.

Motivate through the capacity within humanity for empathy. Motivate through love. Pull at heart strings, communicate the sameness of Darfuri families and your own, and share the simple, common fact that we are all the same and the suffering of the Darfuri people is felt within our hearts. Motivate through the anger for the greed, the murder, and the lack of action.

Activate through petitions, open letters, letters to all our elected officials as well as U.N., Sudanese and Chinese officials, and speaking out to the corporate sponsors of the Beijing Olympics as China plays a key role.

I will be adding some facts, links and viral media in the coming days which anyone can grab and use. I will also have some fact sheets and other materials to spread. Since we are building a movement, I will prominently display all participants’ contributions and continue with the link love.

I’ll be taking part on the 13th, along with

Blackperspective.net
Electronic Village
Eddie G. Griffin
Black Women Vote
The Jose Vilson
Musing of the Night
Trav’s Thoughts
Ultraviolet Underground
Vanessa Unplugged
A Political Season
Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth
Black and Missing but not Forgotten

and hopefully many more. If you’d like to participate, drop a line at ModernMusings so you can be added to the list of participants.

And check out this nifty slideshow she created.

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  1. Thanks Kevin for further promoting the movement.

    I will also be updating that handy dandy slideshow with our new participants. I am pretty sure that the code will remain the same, however.

    In light and love

    Danielle

    Posted by Danielle Vyas | April 7, 2008, 5:05 pm
  2. Slant, good look’in on standing up with us on Darfur. You’re always down for the campaigns.

    Did you get my email? I used the gmail account you have listed at the Spear.

    Posted by Yobachi | April 8, 2008, 12:10 am
  3. I just finished the link post for the campaign which includes 5 action items sponsored by Dream for Darfur.

    http://modernmusings.com/in-solidarity-global-day-for-darfur-links/

    I again thank you for participating.

    In light and love

    Danielle

    Posted by Danielle Vyas | April 10, 2008, 5:02 pm