Do your members of Congress make the grade on stopping genocide?

Join STAND students around the country in pushing for key legislation to make sure that Congress is doing its part to protect civilians in Darfur and punish the government of Sudan for these atrocities.

This campaign will center around Darfur Report Cards to pressure our members of Congress into action. Starting in January, you will be able to download report cards for all 535 members of Congress from www.DarfurScores.org. Each individual report card will have the elected official’s name, his or her grade, and a complete listing of all key legislation s/he has and has not supported. There will also be a section for “notes” where you can write messages to your members of Congress based on their performance.

Vist www.DarfurReportCards.com for report cards, and check out the links below for more info on how you can use them to build relationships with and put pressure on your members of Congress.

General Campaign Materials

Overview: Summarizes the Making the Grade: Darfur Report Cards campaign.

What We're Asking For: An effective peacekeeping force to protect civilians in Darfur, as authorized in UN Resolution 1706. Find out what Congress can do to support this.

How Your Chapter Can Take Action: Ideas for ways that your chapter can use Darfur Report Cards to build relationships with and put pressure on your members of Congress. Look below for specific, step-by-step guides and templates related to each one of these.

Guides

Want to get students and professors to write report card messages, but not sure exactly how? Are you canvassing for the first time and need some pointers? Want a sample walk-through of a lobby meeting to help you get prepared? Check out the step-by-step guides below for all this, and more. These will be updated in the coming weeks, so keep checking back for new guides!

Hand out Report Cards on Campus: Some specific ideas for how your chapter can get students and professors to sign report cards, which you can collect and send to your elected officials. Includes a sample cover letter for sending to the foreign policy legislative aides of your elected officials.

Write to Your Editorial Board: Every newspaper has an editorial board whose members write their opinions on issues of importance to the local community. Here you can find a template letter to send to the editorial boards on your local papers, letting them know how your members of Congress have performed when it comes to stopping genocide.

As always, please email Alexa Malishchak at advocacy@standnow.org with further questions.