REFUGEE CAMPus Lives On
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. During the last night of REFUGEE CAMPus, we had Interfaith Jam Night, which entailed over 40 students, a few guitars, drums, a collective knowledge of all sorts of songs, and more Heart, Passion, Love, and Laughter than I’ve seen anywhere... It was one of the best - if not the best - night of so many of our lives, just coming together (Beatles pun intended) like that in Peace and Love and dancing on through the night...
Read the below articles to find out more about what we did, and by all means, contact us if you’d like to do something like it!
REFUGEE CAMPus was the most powerful experience of so many of our lives, and we believe that it really did create change: it raised a lot of awareness and attracted more people to nonviolent, loving activism, as well as energized us to continue our Campaigns for Peace in the fall term with sustained actions against hunger, sexual oppression, the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and so much more....
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one....”
Learn More about REFUGEE CAMPus below!
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/05/27/whites...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeysee/sets/72157620...
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20318973...
http://www.queenstribune.com/news/1243468450.html
http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=99309
Double-page photo spread in the New York Daily News (not online)
