STAND at Queens College

This is neither a news story nor an event. But many of you have been asking for more info about Sudan. My first advice is google! Read whatever you can find, bearing in mind that you should always cross-reference info! Also, browse this website as well as http://www.genocideintervention.net/, http://www.enoughproject.org/, hrw.org, and whatever else you come across. Sudantribune.com has frequent news about the region.

Here is what is directly pertinent to the letter campaign we are having:

Perhaps it’s “old news” by now, but back in May, the Queens College STAND chapter held a week-long event called REFUGEE CAMPus. In order to raise awareness about the genocide occurring in Darfur, we slept out on our campus quad in makeshift tents for five days and four nights, during our finals week. Additionally, we spent a great deal of time letting our fellow students know that activism must and does live on.

Our April 1st die-in - expressing solidarity with those being victimized in Sudan - followed on the anti-sexist heels of another outstanding AquaMoon performance. As explained in the Queens Ledger article (see story below), AquaMoon is a spoken-word performance group dedicated to creatively and peacefully combating the evils of sexism, racism, and injustice in general.

I'll let the article speak for itself!

http://www.queensledger.com/pages/full_story?artic...

As Queens College's Chaney-Schwerner-Goodman clock tower tolled noon on Monday, March 23rd, a dozen STAND students laid down on the front steps of one of campus's most popular buildings to express solemn solidarity with those being victimized by genocide in Sudan.