Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: April 23, 2008
Time: 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Contact: wendell@umd.edu

Stopping Genocide in Darfur: What You Can Do
A Conversation with John Prendergast

John Prendergast, Author and Human Rights Activist

Having worked on crises in Africa for over twenty years, Mr. Prendergast is a dedicated humanitarian.  During the Clinton administration he was the director of African Affairs for the National Security Council (1996-1999) and was a Special Advisor to the State Department (1999-2001). Currently he serves as a Senior Advisor of the International Crisis Group. With focused efforts in Sudan , the Congo , Chad , and Uganda , Mr. Prendergast is the Co-Chair of the Enough Project, which was founded in 2006 to work with individuals and policy-makers to promote peace and help end genocide and crimes against humanity.  Mr. Prendergast co-authored his most recent publication with actor Don Cheadle, Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond (2007). 

Location:

Hoff Theatre At University of Maryland

College Park, MD, 20742

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: May 1, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Contact: For more information, please email KK8279@aol.com or laura@savedarfur.org

STAND for Conscience and the Save Darfur Coalition have coordinated this Voices from Darfur event at Annandale High School. Speakers include Abu Asal and Elnour Adam. Abu Asal is from the city of Al-Fashir and has written various articles and books that have spoken out against the Sudanese government's treatment of the Darfuri people. Elnour Adam's village was one of the first to be attacked, he has various family at refugee camps in Chad and voices opinion against the genocide through various methods of peaceful activism. With a stance against the genocide in Darfur, both have brought their voices to the national speaking tour.

Location:

Annandale High School

4700 Medford Drive

AHS Cafeteria

Annandale, VA, 22003

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: April 16, 2008
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Contact: 801-695-2055

Weber State STAND will be hosting a Congo Awareness day featuring a refugee speaker and a film about the devastating war in the Congo. This is a great oppurtunity to learn first hand about the war in the Congo that has claimed over 5.4 million lives and has resulted in the rapes of hundreds of thousands of women. Please show up to this extraordinary event.

Location:

Weber State University

36th and Harrison

This event is FREE

Ogden, UT, 84405

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: April 16, 2008
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: 801-695-2055

Grace Akollo from the Zion Project, an organization dedicated to help the people of Uganda, will be speaking at 7pm Wednesday the 16th of April in the Wildcat theater of the union building at Weber State University in ogden, Utah. Grace will speak about her experience as a former child soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. Grace is a very influential speaker and it is an honor for Weber State to host her speech. This is an oppurtunity that you can't miss!

Location:

Weber State University

36th and Harrison

Info about the Invisible children movement

Ogden, UT, 84405

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: April 10, 2008
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Contact: Bruce Cole, STAND-A Nation Against Genocide President JSCC CHAPTER-7312984664

Event: 12:00a.m.-1:15 p.m. Jackson, Tenn. - Jackson State Community College will present Ibrahim Adam, a refugee from Darfur, as a guest speaker at Noon on Wednesday, April 9 in Ayers Auditorium in the McWherter Center. Adam is a part of "Voices of Darfur," a national speaking tour, presented by the student anti-genocide coalition, STAND. The event is being sponsored on campus by JSCC student club Nation Against Genocide and the Student Government Association. "Voice of Darfur" features a short documentary film followed by a personal account of the genocide from survivors like Adam. As many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Diana Fordham, assistant professor of history, at 731-424-3520 x736 or dfordham@jscc.edu.

Location:

Jackson State Communitiy College-Ayers Auditorium

2046 North Parkway

Jackson, TN, 38301

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture | Film Screening
Date: March 28, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Contact: Lisa Gonzalez lisaviva@aol.com 323-377-5608

Screening of Darfur Diaries Documentary, This Friday, 3/28 @ 5:30 pm. ROOM 415 (Building 400)Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA. We will also have a speaker presenting information about the genocide in Darfur: Dr. Lako Tongun who is a professor at Pitzer College at Claremont Colleges. Dr. Tongun is an expert in the areas: African and Third-World Politics; Political Economy, Developmental Economics (Third World).

Location:

Fullerton College, Lecture Hall 415

321 E. Chapman Ave.

Building 400

Fullerton, CA, 92832

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture | Fundraiser | Benefit Concert | Tabling/Awareness Raising
Start: April 5, 2008 8:30 pm
End: April 6, 2008 12:00 am
Contact: Chelsea Dulaney, (330) 612-0601, cdulaney@kent.edu; St. Vincent-St. Mary alumna and Kent State student Ken McDonald, (330) 253-9113, kmcdonald@stvm.com; Campus Minister at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School

In efforts to raise money and awareness for genocide in Darfur, St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron will be hosting “The Concert for Darfur” Saturday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. The concert, open to the public, will feature the following local bands and music artists: Pete Nischt, Déjà vu and Slight Revolution. Dan Teng’o, a graduate student in journalism and mass communication at Kent State University, will also be speaking about his own experiences as a journalist in Darfur. Admission is $5, and all proceeds from admission, baked goods and t-shirts will benefit Darfur.

Location:

St. Vincent St. Mary High School

15 North Maple

Akron, OH, 44303-2326

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: April 9, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Contact: Bruce Cole-7312984664

ATTENTION: THE POSTED TIME ON THE SITE IS WRONG IT SHOULD SAY: April 9, 2008: 12:00p.m. A Nation Against Genocide along with Voices of Darfur will host a speaker who's life in Darfur, Sudan portrays for us only what we've read about and seen in the news. Now, people who are unaware of this genocide will gain knowledge and understanding as to what has really taken place in Darfur. Jackson State welcomes Ibrahim Adam, a refugee of Darfur. We also welcome members of the surrounding communities to join in to stop the genocide that has already killed thousands.

Location:

Jackson State Community College-Ayers Auditorium(McWherter Build

2046 North Parkway

Jackson, TN, 38305

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture | Vigil
Date: April 17, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Contact: University of Miami Hillel mgimal@miamihillel.org

reACT attendees will have a unique chance to listen to Survivors from two Genocides. Distinguished by age and background, Jacqueline Murekatete, Rwandan Survivor, and Joe Sachs, Holocaust Survivor, share a common history of trauma and loss due to the hate of some and the indifference of many. South Florida students from eight different Miami colleges, high schools and community groups from across the city will join together to raise their voices against the world's indifference toward past and present Genocides. Join us and reACT.

Location:

Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial

1933 Meridian Ave

Miami, FL, 33137

United States

Event Type: Speaker/Lecture
Date: March 26, 2008
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Contact: Howard University STAND hustand2008@gmail.com

Respected Howard University faculty and other experts will be open to answering questions on the situation in Darfur of Howard University students and the surrounding communities.

Location:

Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall

Washington, DC, 20059

United States