Website: https://sa.rochester.edu/ccc/URGI/about

New constitution and mission statement!

Please check this site out because we do not update our STAND chapter page often.

JOIN US! and keep up your kind and hard work.

In solidarity
Joseph Gardella

Stand members again assisted the Office of Spiritual Life and other campus groups by helping with a prayer service to bless hygiene kits that are being transported to Haiti.

As with the AIDS prayer service last Fall, members folded many origami peace cranes for the service to represent hopes for peace and healing.

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:

Hey Everybody,

We are having a pinguard tourney at Alpharetta High School and expect to raise a lot of money. If you guys are in the neighborhood and want to get in on some of the action just drop by on March 19 at 4 PM to 7 PM

Peace,
Neil Chaudhary
(Alpharetta Branch President)

Our goal is to create a student-led group that will raise awareness amongst other students and the community at large. We will meet to discuss the current genocide in areas such as; Sudan, Somalia, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. We will write our local congressman pressuring them to take a larger stand in the prevention of genocide. In our letters we will pressure them to co-sponsor Amendments and Bills being presented to congress. We will also hold fund-raising events to raise money to help aid the many victims of genocide abroad.

STAND is making a fresh batch of our well supported T-Shirts. They are basic black tees, sporting an image of three faces intertwined within a tree. The faces represent the last three generations; those who have been affected by the current global genocides. The print comes in Blue, Green and Purple, sizes small - extra large adult. They will be sold at all events for $12. Also, green ribbons are ALWAYS available for purchase as well!

Boston Latin School STAND has been busy at work for the first half of the 2009-2010 school year. The year began with a Saturday bake sale raising nearly $70. Our leaders board then spent a weekend in DC attending the STAND conference and returning with wonderful ideas and lessons for the rest of the club. Soon after the members were hard at work preparing for our annual cupcake day! Students were allowed to come and decorate their own cupcake, this event raised a spectacular $333! That, is a lot of enjoyed cupcakes. Next STAND moved its attention to making BLS student body more knowledgeable, through Genocide Awareness Day. Hosting 5 in school sessions, that included topics such as, Burma, Congo, Darfur, Rape as a Weapon of War and Responses to Genocide. After school hours an activism fair was hosted. With fun activities and information both on the genocides and ways they could help.

As of January 2010 S.T.A.N.D will be in the process of becoming an additional club/group here at UIllinois, hence the meetings and presentations will be determined as soon the club is registered and established

If you have further questions or comments contact via e-mail or write on the wall provided.

Best,
Shiza R.

*These positions are now open for application*

Event Coordinator:
Responsible for help in organizing events, gaining input from the student body on events, and an overview of supplies and funds needed for events

Secretary:
Responsible for keeping track of attendance at meetings and events, and help in outlining meetings for later reference

Treasurer:
Responsible for assistance in tracking funds and budgeting for events.

The declaration of the CNLG on the 61first anniversary of the Convention for the prevention and the punishment of the crimes against Humanity and genocide is an exceptionnal document which engage all of us to applied all the level of international right to further put in practise all the high level of education for all : the history of the genocide of Tutsis, until the implication of France in this genocide , have to be teach, all over the world , exactly as the genocide of the Jewish people is now teach at the UN.