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What You Can Do:
Be Aware | Spread Their Message

● Write your own letters and/or e-mails to your Senator, Congressmen & President urging them to take action.

● Be on the e-mail lists

This is the most helpful feature that activist-websites have. If you join the e-mail list at the various links I’ve added to the left, a lot of them will then notify you whenever a petition needs to be signed or whenever pressure needs to be added to a leader during key decision times. These petitions and letters will have the message field already filled in, you just have to add your name and e-mail address and it will be sent.
Here is an important one to sign!
http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign/savedarfurcoalition
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/newsudan.php

You can also choose to add your e-mail to my own e-mail list. Whenever I receive details on an important event or petition that needs attention or signatures, I will let you know. I will also include you on my weekly e-mail updates. Send me a request here

Send e-mails to the media asking for more coverage on these issues.

Spread the word… Hold a house party, pass out flyers, tell their stories.

● "Single most significant action needed – Bipartisan pressure to hold Sudan accountable."

Askthecandidates.org

We need to encourage the candidates to determine a Darfur policy and post it on their webpage.
Please sign the petition! Sign the petition below and ask the candidate's foreign policy advisors to develop a Darfur policy and prioritize this policy in the campaign.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1432/t/6430/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23750

Also - I like their buttons. I got a 6" one to hang in my office. They say "I VOTE FOR DARFUR" which basically sends the message that regardless of who you are voting for, we want EACH of the candidates to know that THIS is our issue and it must be addressed. So order a button and wear it when you attend any political events, and especially when you go to vote.

● GULU WALK

Walk to raise support and funds or walk to show your physical support for the Night Commuters http://guluwalk.com/blog/
(Their site does not show the 2008 Walk Date yet, but word is it will be in Oct.)

● Sponsor, Buy, Donate @ any of the links I’ve listed on the right

● Invisible Children (Uganda)

http://www.invisiblechildren.com
Includes an Education Program, Bracelet Campaign, Schools for Schools, packets to have a House Party, and much more!

● Know Their name!

I love this idea! The name campaign http://www.creativevisions.org/name/organization.htm

Join the name campaign and order a name plate that includes the name and age of a missing child who has been abducted by the LRA (Link) for just $10.00. Know their names, speak their stories.

● Become part of the Save Darfur community

Join or start a local advocacy group. Attend local events. http://www.savedarfur.org/page/group

● Join the Divest for Darfur team

Join DivestforDarfur.org and encourage investment firms to withdraw from companies that help fund genocide in Darfur. PLEASE CHECK YOUR STOCK INVESTMENTS. Is your stock supporting the genocide in Darfur?

“Several investment firms hold shares of PetroChina, a Chinese oil company that is one of the highest offenders in helping fund the genocide in Darfur. By divesting, these firms can help create financial pressure to end the government-sponsored violence in Darfur.”

***Sign the form to urge investment firms to divest their holdings from any companies that help fund the genocide.
You can track down a list of offenders through their website.
http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign/divestnow_home

● Know the scores of our congressmen on the issue of Darfur.

http://www.darfurscores.org/

● Join the Dream for Darfur team

DreamforDarfur.org

Urge China to use its unrivaled influence with the Sudanese government – as Beijing prepares to host the 2008 Olympics – to help bring the Olympic dream to Darfur.

● Add your face to the Control Arms campaign

Demand a global arms trade treaty.
http://www.controlarms.org/

● Give & Shop

When shopping online do it through http://www.giveandshop.com/
“A safe and secure shopping site where half the proceeds go to charity. Here's how it works: the first step is to choose a cause, you then choose a retailer which links you to their site. After shopping with the retailer at NO additional cost, half the commission earned from your purchase goes to charity.”

● Send a former child soldier back to school!

Sponsor the studies of a former childsoldier for one or three years and give them a new future. http://www.childsoldiers.net/

● Check out United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

See the amazing images & read their stories.
“In collaboration with Google Earth, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has brought together compelling visual evidence of the destruction in Darfur.”
http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/projects/darfur/#create

● Everyclick

Raise funds for the Coalition while searching the internet

You can raise funds for the Child Soldiers Educational and Research Trust every time you use the internet. By using Everyclick as your search engine, every search qualifies for a percentage share of the profits. There is no cost to you and it's easy to start. Simply click on the url below and save it in your favorites. Then use it every time you need to search the internet. http://www.everyclick.com/coalitiontostoptheuseofchildsoldiers

● Wear a bracelet or T-shirt to spread the word, or get a bumper sticker.

Following the genocide in Rwanda, Senator Paul Simon said, "If every member of the House and the Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, then I think the response would have been different."