Darfur Calendar for June - Local Events as of May 30th

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don't forget to look for events in your local area and pass them on to us for general posting!!

Darfur Calendar

– updated May 30th 2005

Washington, DC - * Weekly

Every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30PM
A Sudan Speak Out and Vigil
Lafayette Park

This event is being organized by Africa Action
[e-mail] 202 546 7961

Atherton, CA - May 31, 2005

10:45 AM
Presentation is given by Menlo-Atherton High School students. The Presentation includes a powerpoint and an open screening of Hotel Rwanda. Menlo Atherton High School 555 Middlefield Rd Atherton, CA 94027. Put on by students.

Contact Info: Mary Porzig [e-mail]

For more details see the calendar at http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org

Brooklyn, NY - June 5, 2005

Day for Darfur is a day to educate ourselves on the crisis in Darfur and call on the U.S. government to awake from its slumber. St. Ann's School, Brooklyn Heights, 129 Pierrepont St. between > Clinton and Cadman Plaza. Organized by Daniel Frederick Levin, 3rd grade teacher, and other > concerned faculty/high school students.

RSVP or contact with questions at [e-mail]

St. Louis, MO - June 9, 2005

7:30 PM (2 hrs)
Photo Exhibit in St. Louis, MO
STOP THE SLAUGHTER IN DARFUR Featuring- -Amnesty International Country Specialist Scott Edwards -Sudan/Darfur Photo Exhibit

For more details see the calendar at http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org

Abuja - June 10, 2005

NIGERIA-SUDAN: Darfur PEACE TALKS set to resume in Abuja on 10 June

Arlington Heights, IL - June 12, 2006

At 3:30 pm. Informal dinner to follow
Planning Meeting and request for volunteers. We will set goals and plan activities for the year. At 630 West Campbell Street. Event planned by the Chicago Alliance to End Genocide

Martha Cook [e-mail]

Washington, DC - June 14, 2005

Tuesday, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Survey of Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Key Findings and Recommendations (Not on Darfur per se but about the whole region including Iraq).At Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Put on by Woodrow Wilson Center & Freedom House.

To confirm time and place, contact Maria-Stella Gatzoulis on the day of the event: tel. [phone].

Check their page for the latest updates and notices. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/

All – Nationwide - June 20, 2005

World Refugee Day
UNHCR To find out about events in your area or to plan one go to:

http://www.unhcr.ch/.

Philadelphia, PA - June 20, 2005

Dinner, Panel Discussion & slide show.
Directions: 3420 Sansom Street Near the U of Penn in West Philly... Sansom St. is between Walnut & Chestnut Streets..between 34th & 35th Sts. Presentation by Dr. Jerry Ehrlich; Dr. Ibrahim Imam; Stephanie Nyombayire; Rev. Isaac Miller – (the rector of The Church of the Advocate and a founding member of The Darfur Alert! Coalition). Table Talks at 6 PM include a three course dinner, followed by the speakers and discussion from 7:30 – 9 PM. $38/person includes tax and gratuity. reservations with advance payment (its complicated – go to the site below)

For more details see the calendar at http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org

All – Nationwide - June 26, 2005

DENOUNCE TORTURE - Events
Contact Amnesty to find out about the events nearest you
Amnesty International

http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/

New York City, NY - June 26, 2005

Time: 10:00 to afternoon.
Please join the New York City Jewish community in an afternoon dedicated to raising funds for Emergency Relief in Darfur, Sudan, discussing strategies for activism, and reflecting on Jewish issues raised by the ongoing crisis. The initiating sponsors of the event are the American Jewish World Service, Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, and Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. All funds raised will benefit the American Jewish World Service's Sudan Emergency Appeal.

Additional details will follow. Inquiries about volunteer and co-sponsorship opportunities should be directed to Barak Epstein at [e-mail]

For more details see the calendar at http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org

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1. Here is another one for NY

New York, NY - June 27, 9:45 am - 11:45 am

New York, NY: A World Refugee Day Commemoration, Portraits of Suffering and Courage: Lifting Up Sudan. The Rt. Rev. Catherine Waynick, Bishop of Indianapolis and John Prendergast, Special Advisor to the President of the International Crisis Group and former Clinton Administration Advisor on Africa. The Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue, between 43rd and 44th Streets.

For more information, call 212-716-6057 or send email to [e-mail].

To see original post: http://www.amicc.org/calendar.html#june05

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. I linked to this calendar in this Darfur thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1512382

Your calendar of events is too good to be lost like this - have to find a way to make visible. We really do need a Darfur Group.