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WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW

“As American citizens increasingly raise their voices and write their letters about Darfur, the temperature has indeed risen. But not enough. We need to make it a little warmer, a little more uncomfortable for those politicians who would look away. Just a few more degrees. Just a few more thousand letters. It is, frankly, that simple.” - Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2005

JOIN THE DARFUR ACTION COMMITTEE

The Darfur Action Committee (DAC) is a coalition of activists and student groups at UCLA, which functions to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur and mobilize action on campus and in the greater community. It is a member of the national movement STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur). 1) Write to ucladac@yahoo.com to help or for more information. 2) Visit www.international.ucla.edu/darfur to see what the DAC is up to. 3) Visit www.STANDarfur.org to see what the rest of the country is doing.

EDUCATE YOURSELF AND OTHERS

Visit the following websites to learn more about the crisis: 1) International Crisis Group – succinct report: www.icg.org 2) Eric Reeves, private Sudan analyst – regular updates: www.sudanreeves.org 3) Genocide Intervention Network – daily news briefs: www.Genocide Intervention.net 4) Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org 5) Save Darfur Coalition: www.savedarfur.org

JOIN THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN

After the Rwandan genocide, the late Senator Paul Simon said, “If every member of (the U.S.) House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different.” 1) The Darfur Accountability Act (S. 495) and the Darfur Genocide Accountability Act (H.R. 3127) have been introduced to the Senate and the House, calling the U.S. and U.N. to take action in Darfur. It is up to us to get our congressional representatives to support these important pieces of legislation! a. Senators Feinstein and Boxer have both cosigned, but if you are from out of state, please contact your senator. b. Congressman Waxman yet to cosign, andif you are from outside the area, please make sure your representative has done so as well. Visit http://www.house.gov/writerep/ to locate the district office.

HELP WITH THE DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN

Companies that do business in Sudan enable the Government of Sudan to pursue its devastating agenda of destruction. The University of California has $66 million invested in companies doing business in Sudan. The UC Sudan Divestment Taskforce is a coalition of groups in the UCs calling for the UC Regents to divest. 1) Visit www.ucdivest.com to sign a petition in support of UC divestment. 2) Contact UCsudanDT@gmail.com to get involved in the campaign.

PARTICIPATE IN GI-NET ACTION CAMPAIGNS

The Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), an organization that offers private citizens an unprecedented opportunity to have a hand in stopping genocide by contributing to the African Union peacekeepers – the only force providing security to civilians under attack in Darfur – is remembering the genocide in Rwanda by taking action in Darfur. 1) The goals are to raise $1,000,000 and to facilitate the writing of 100,000 letters to government officials urging them to take action to end the genocide in Darfur. 2) Visit www.Genocide Intervention.net for more information on how you can become involved.