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March 27, 2008 Three local bands will take to the stage at Felicita’s pub on Saturday in Rock 4 Darfur, a benefit concert.
STUDENTS LIE DOWN TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SUDAN GENOCIDE
March 5, 2008 Bodies lay motionless inside Castro Valley High School's gymnasium while students read poetry inspired by the effects of genocide. Shortly afterward, five minutes of silence honored the lives taken by such massacres.
ACTIVISTS RAISE AWARENESS ON DARFUR
February 29, 2008 As genocide continues to plague the Darfur region of Sudan, local activists are devising new strategies and ways to raise awareness of the human rights crisis.
TEENS TUNE IN TO DARFUR CRISIS
February 21, 2008 While their peers may have spent the hours in club meetings, or chorus rehearsals or athletic practices, these teens came to learn more about the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
KINGSTONIAN URGES ACTION ON DARFUR
February 4, 2008 Canada, the U.S. and the rest of the international community aren't doing enough to stop the killing of thousands in Darfur, says a former peacekeeper who served during the Rwandan genocide.
CHS STAND MOVIE NIGHT RAISES AWARENESS, FUNDS
January 4, 2008 About 35 people turned out on the evening of Dec. 19 to view the documentary The Devil Came on Horseback, shown in the CHS commons by the school's chapter of Students Taking Action Now Darfur (STAND), a student-led coalition.
TOP 10 YOUTH ACTIVISM VICTORIES IN 2007
December 25, 2007 From shutting down toxic waste facilities to making colleges more affordable, young people all over America put their energies into remarkable actions for their communities, and for the world.
STUDENTS TAP ONLINE NETWORK TO SPREAD WORD ON SOCIAL CAUSES
December 23, 2007 Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School juniors Rebekah Glickman-Simon and Alexandria Giacalone recently discovered they have something in common with software creators and advertising professionals - a growing recognition of the marketing power of social networking websites.
STUDENTS BECOME O AMBASSADORS
December 22, 2007 The project is sponsored by that most famous of O’s — Oprah Winfrey — in partnership with the Free the Children education charity.
STUDENTS TAKE STAND FOR DARFUR
December 12, 2007 Students at Andover High School were busy last week raising money and awareness to help end the genocide in Darfur
TOOLS OF DEMOCRACY FASCINATE
December 8, 2007 The seeds of activism are germinating among the youth of Rwanda. Students decided to focus the activism of their pilot project called the Focus, Pressure and Action Group, on the situation in Darfur
CARRYING ON: A LIGHT IN THE DARK OF DARFUR
December 6, 2007 A small group of students gathered for a candlelit vigil last night. They were members of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, marking the end of a day of fasting to raise money for refugees displaced by the genocide in Darfur.
THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS FAST TO PREVENT RAPE IN DARFUR
December 6, 2007 ousands of students around the world are fasting from a luxury food item Wednesday and donating the money they would have spent on the item to an anti-genocide network that will use the funds to help protect Darfurian women from rape.
STUDENTS RAISE FUNDS TO AID VICTIMS OF DARFUR VIOLENCE
December 5, 2007 On Wednesday, the high school's STAND chapter collected more than $622 for DarfurFast, which asks people to give up one luxury item and donate the amount that they would have spent on that for civilian-protection efforts in the war-torn area of western Sudan.
DON'T STAND BY, STAND UP
December 5, 2007 STAND, a student-operated anti-genocide coalition, is creating a chapter at Moorpark College to create a way for the students to participate in the fight against genocide around the world.
KIDS HELPING KIDS IN DARFUR
December 3, 2007 A world away from the genocide in Darfur in Africa, students, teachers, and administrators at Frontier High School and a community unite in an effort to make a difference.
STUDENTS RAISING FUNDS FOR ANTI-GENOCIDE GROUP
November 30, 2007 Passing on a particular food or drink on Dec. 5 and donating the cost of that item to Red Bank Regional High School's DarfurFast might save one person at a time, student organizers hope
DYING FOR DARFUR
November 29, 2007 Students today chose to come out to lay together in a somber show of solidarity designed to raise awareness on campus about the current situation in Darfur
STUDENT DARFUR AID EFFORT EXPANDS
November 29, 2007 University student group Will Work For Food has raised about $3,000 in relief funds for Sudan's Darfur region through its unique formula for fundraising and advocacy. It's also looking to expand the model to other colleges and high schools
BOWLING FOR DARFUR
November 27, 2007 From Revs Bowling Alley in Burnaby to Western Sudan, the humanitarian aid was flowing last weekend, thanks to a young woman refusing to stand by while the crisis in Darfur continues
GREENWICH TEENS DANCE FOR PEERS IN DARFUR
November 21, 2007 Last year students from area high schools joined together and raised money at the first “Dance for Darfur” to build a school for girls in the Sudanese region. However, their efforts didn’t stop with building the school.
HUNDREDS DEMAND ACTION IN DARFUR AT SLU
November 19, 2007 Over 500 students, faculty, community volunteers and leaders and members of the entire community participated in a program and rally titled "Voices From Darfur: Personal Stories of a Genocide" in the Busch Student Center at Saint Louis University last week.
STUDENTS START NICKEL DRIVE FOR DARFUR
November 18, 2007 Two Smoky Valley High School students are trying to gather 400,000 nickels — one for each person who has died in Darfur — for a total of $20,000.
STUDENTS PROTEST UBS EVENT
November 15, 2007 Outside the building, Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) members handed out small yellow flyers posing the question: "Do YOU want to work for a company that underwrites GENOCIDE?"
A NICKEL FOR THEIR THOUGHTS
November 6, 2007 Smoky Valley High School junior Kate Emler didn’t have to look far to find a subject for her political action project. It was right on her social studies teacher’s T-shirt.
PERFORMERS TO DANCE TO DARFURIAN CAUSE
October 29, 2007 As part of an effort to bring awareness to campus surrounding the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, the Howard University Student Association and the African Student Association are holding auditions for Dance for Darfur, a talent showcase with emphasis on the African tragedy.
DARFUR RALLY MAKES STOP IN OMAHA
October 28, 2007 00,000 people murdered and millions forced from their homes, it's a massacre striking the Darfur region in Africa. And now people here in Omaha are working to end it.
STUDENTS PLAN DARFUR FILM EXHIBIT
October 26, 2007 Raising awareness about ongoing genocide in Darfur is the mission of a public event that students at Catalina Foothills High School are hosting Saturday night.
VIGIL FOR DARFUR
October 24, 2007 Amnesty International partners with "400,000 faces for Darfur" for a United Nations Day vigil in Washington, D.C. to urge the government to keep Darfur a top priority. Vigil is on October 24th from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. at Lafayette Park
DIE IN
October 19, 2007 Last Friday, Case's chapter of STAND, the student anti-genocide coalition, held an event known as a "Die-In."
STUDENTS SACRIFICE FOR DARFUR
October 12, 2007 STAND Mizzou continued its fight for peace in the Darfur region of Sudan with its Darfur Fast on Oct. 9 and 10. The group urged students to give up a small daily purchase and to donate the money they would have spent to the peacekeeping efforts.
PROTESTERS URGE CHINA TO CUT FUNDING TO SUDAN
October 9, 2007 Genocide survivors and more than 500 people gathered at City Hall on Sunday to protest the mass killings taking place in Darfur and call on China to cut ties in the region.
STAND HOLDS PEACE DAY
September 14, 2007 On Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Students Taking Action Now: Darfur Mizzou, in collaboration with MU's Peace Studies program, held Peace Day to bring positivity on a day remembered for tragedy.
GROUPS WORK TO INCREASE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN SUDAN
August 7, 2007 The New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI) this week announced that it has partnered with the University of Vermont branch of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur to increase awareness about the current conflicts in Sudan.
DARFUR ACTIVISTS PETITION CHINESE EMBASSY
July 30, 2007 American speedskater and Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek joined other activists on Thursday to make a house call at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
AT STATE HOUSE, DARFUR GETS SOME ATTENTION
July 30, 2007 Carcieri, a Brown University international relations major in the 1960s, thanked Scott Warren, a Brown junior who also is majoring in that field, for coordinating the campaign.
STUDENT GROUP FEATURED IN ANTI-GENOCIDE EXHIBIT
July 30, 2007 Photographs of students from a Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School group pressing for an end to genocide will be included in a display presented at the U.S. House of Representatives today.
STUDENTS DISSECT DARFUR CRISIS
July 20, 2007 This week, students from across Canada and Germany have been taking on the roles of world leaders and politicians in an attempt to learn more about the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur and about policy-making in general.
NEW DVD SHINES LIGHT AND HOPE ON DARFUR
July 20, 2007 Mr. Clooney, I am interested in doing any part in raising more awareness about Darfur. I would like to know if the documentary that you did with your son is available for purchase. I'd like to be more informed as well
STUDENTS SEE UN IN ACTION
July 13, 2007 The stage is set for an international group of students to get a rare behind-the scenes look inside the United Nations this summer.
STUDENTS REACT TO DIVESTMENT DECISION
July 6, 2007 Although Harvard released a definitive statement last week condoning certain disputed stock holdings and denying a student group's proposal to more closely examine Sudan-linked investments, those students are refusing to back down in their demands.
HARVARD’S SORT-OF DIVESTMENT
July 5, 2007 Would Harvard go with a set of criteria and try to apply those criteria to funds that include stocks from many companies? On Friday, the university gave its answer: No.
LESSON ABOUT DARFUR SPURS ACTION
July 5, 2007 Students from Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School have raised about $1,500 to help refugees in war-torn Darfur.
IT'S THE GENOCIDE, STUPID
June 22, 2007 Conventional wisdom says that the youth vote is fickle, that in a world of limited budgets, campaign managers are smart to direct resources elsewhere. But new trends in youth political engagement challenge this long-standing belief. And for presidential candidates seeking to exploit these new developments, the message of 2008 may well be, "It's the genocide, stupid."
RELIVING HORRORS OF THE HOMELAND
June 22, 2007 Jerry Nahn won't discuss how his older brother was killed in Liberia, casting his eyes down with an 'I don't remember' about the day government soldiers stormed into their home, carting away his sibling.
DARFUR SITUATION FRUSTRATES KIDS
June 18, 2007 The students had just spent the better part of two semesters raising about $9,500 to rebuild a school in Sudan, but were still well shy of the $25,000 needed to complete the task.
STUDENTS USE THE INTERNET TO HELP DARFUR
June 15, 2007 High school students Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin of Gill, Mass., knew they could raise some money at their school to help the people of Darfur. But they knew they could raise a lot more by enlisting the help of high school students all over the country.
WYOMING STUDENTS PROTEST IN D.C.
June 15, 2007 Protesting at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., is the highlight of the summer for some Wyoming High School students.
CONGRESSMAN ENCOURAGES TEENS TO SPEAK ON DARFUR
June 8, 2007 U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) gave a presentation on the genocide in Darfur to students at Colts Neck High School on June 1. Smith had been invited to the school by senior Christina Assuncao, who was a recent recipient of the bronze and silver medals of the Congressional Award in Washington, D.C.
BG STUDENTS TAKE A STAND FOR DARFUR
June 8, 2007 Students at Bishop Guertin High School will be holding a rally this weekend at Greeley Park to increase awareness about genocide in Darfur.
SAINT ANDREW'S STUDENTS UNITE 'FOR DARFUR'
June 1, 2007 A group of ambitious and well-connected students at Saint Andrew's School in Boca Raton are trying to raise awareness and money for the conflict in Darfur through live music.
RAISING AWARENESS OF DARFUR
June 1, 2007 Last fall, when Olivia Munn founded a Darfur advocacy group at Queens University of Charlotte, she presumed her biggest challenge would be to educate her peers about four years of bloodshed in western region of Sudan.
PASADENA TEENS REACH OUT TO AFRICANS IN NEED
June 1, 2007 Half a world and almost immeasurable economic differences separate the privileged students of Polytechnic School in Pasadena from the nomads of Niger and the genocide victims of Darfur. Yet the three groups have a common bond, thanks in part to one student's visit to Africa last year.
STUDENTS RAISE FUNDS FOR DARFUR RELIEF
May 29, 2007 A group of 11th-grade students from Northfield Mount Hermon School here raised more money for refugees of the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, than 2,499 other schools in the country.
HART STUDENTS RAISE FUNDS FOR DARFUR AID
May 26, 2007 Two 17-year-old Hart High School students brought this international issue to their community last fall when they entered the school into the Dollars for Darfur - a nationwide competition conducted by the Save Darfur Coalition in which nearly 2,000 high schools were challenged to raise $200,000 to help aid humanitarian and lobbyist efforts to stop genocide in the Darfur region.
STUDENTS DEBATE DARFUR CRISIS
May 24, 2007 Fifteen students from two Long Island schools took part in a debate Thursday on the crisis in Darfur with Rep. Steve Israel.
WHEATON COLLEGE TRUSTEES APPROVE SUDAN DIVESTMENT POLICY
May 22, 2007 The Wheaton College Board of Trustees voted unanimously to divest from its endowment holdings any direct investments in companies identified as conducting business in the Sudan. The board's decision was announced by Wheaton President Ronald Crutcher.
GIVE PEACE A FIGHTING CHANCE
May 14, 2007 Before you're able to build houses and plant crops, shouldn't it be a priority to make sure that Hutu militias aren't going to raid your town? And what good does it do to have baby formula sent to Darfur if Janjaweed fighters are simply murdering the children?
MISSION OF PEACE
May 14, 2007 Wildwood students taught to take a stand against persecution, hate
DARFUR SUPPORTED AT RALLY
May 9, 2007 On Sunday, April 29, Northeastern students dressed in white boarded the MBTA Green Line on their way to a protest at the Boston Common.
CPA STUDENTS HOLD CONCERT TO BENEFIT REFUGEES IN DARFUR
May 9, 2007 Christ Presbyterian Academy seniors Will Farley and Rob Herron organized a benefit concert for May 12 to raise both awareness and funds so more relief supplies can be sent to a Darfur refugee camp with 50,000 people.
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