September 16, 2008
Just yesterday, Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced a resolution (S. Res. 660) calling for an expansion of the U.N. arms embargo on Sudan. This legislation is a critical step toward stopping the arms flow fueling the genocide in Darfur. We need your help to make sure it passes.
According to a 2005 U.N. Security Council resolution, the government of Sudan may not transfer any weapons into Darfur without prior approval from the Security Council. Despite Khartoum’s brazen defiance of this requirement, countries like China continue to sell weapons to Sudan.
As the flow of weapons into Darfur continues unabated, it is clear that the current arms embargo is not working. The Senate resolution calls on all states to end arms sales to any armed actor in Sudan and urges the U.S. to seek an expansion of the arms embargo to cover all of Sudan, not just Darfur.
Congress is in session only a few short weeks. Please call your senators today to ensure their support of this bipartisan bill.
Thank you again for standing with the people of Darfur.
Sincerely,
AJWS Action Team 
August 5, 2008
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July 16, 2008
http://action.ajws.org/campaign/didyouknow_nbc
Did you know that NBC owns the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
Did you know that NBC paid almost $900 million for this privilege?
Did you know that NBC will broadcast more than 1,000 hours of the Olympics on its various stations and hopes to sell $1.1 billion in Olympic ad sales?
Did you know that from January 2003 through June 2008, NBC has dedicated less than seven hours to covering the genocide in Darfur, Sudan?
As both a leading news provider and broadcaster of the Games, NBC has a duty to balance its promotion of the Beijing Games with coverage of China’s economic, diplomatic and military support of the government of Sudan. While paying lip service to the Olympic ideals of peace and brotherhood, China continues to underwrite the genocide in Darfur.
Please send a letter to the president of NBC News today, urging him to devote attention to China’s role in the ongoing atrocities in Darfur. Join AJWS in asking NBC to devote 100 minutes of prime time public service announcements or similar programming—before and during the Olympics—to covering the situation in Darfur and China’s relationship to Sudan.
http://action.ajws.org/campaign/didyouknow_nbc
June 28, 2008
PHR is working together with Human Rights First and other
advocacy groups to ask the G8 countries – US, Canada, Japan, the
UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia – to act on Darfur.
In two weeks, the G8 leaders meet in Japan for their annual
Summit to debate action on issues of global concern. If the
violence in Darfur – which has left more than 300,000 people
dead and caused more than 2 million to flee their homes – is not
a matter of global concern, then what is?
The G8 Summit comes at a perilous time for both Darfur and the
whole of Sudan. Intensified violence in Darfur has resulted in
more death and displacement, and recent fighting in the Abyei
region of Sudan suggests the unraveling of the fragile
North/South peace agreement.
The government of Sudan and the entire world will be watching
the G-8 Summit closely. Last week, over 40 non-governmental
organizations, representing all G8 nations and Sudan, sent an
Open Letter to the G8 Leaders and Foreign Ministers, calling on
them to demand:
– An immediate stop to violence in Darfur;
– A halt to arms transfers, directly or indirectly, to Darfur
in violation of the U.N. arms embargo;
– Rapid deployment of the peacekeeping force in Darfur, UNAMID;
– A reinvigorated peace process;
– Justice and accountability for atrocities committed.
Please join us and activists around the world in pressuring G-8
leaders to take a strong stand – including a promise to act -
against violence in Darfur and Sudan.
Take action today; sign the petition at Human Rights First:
http://actnow-phr.org/ct/S1e_El51WzSy/
June 28, 2008
The Trapeze Swinger (Iron and Wine)
Guaranteed (Eddie Vedder)
New Soul (Yael Naim)
Spring Street (Dar Williams)
Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
Home for Now (Patrick Park)
You Could be Happy (Snow Patrol)
Got No Water (Matisyahu)
Hail to Whatever You Found In the Sunlight (Rilo Kiley)
Rodeo Clowns (G.Love and Special Sauce)
Girl America (Mat Kearney)
Lazuz (HaDag Nahash)
Summer Never Ends (Northern State)
Jardin d’Eden (MC Solaar)
Tree Hugger (Antsy Pants)
Dream Life of Rand McNally (Jason Mraz)
June 2, 2008
| This Is Just To Say |
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| by William Carlos Williams |
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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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Copyright © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. |
May 31, 2008
Call on governments to lift HIV travel restrictions
Introduction
In advance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York from June 10- 11, the World AIDS Campaign and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance urge organizations to sign onto a letter from civil society to the UN missions and Heads of State of countries that impose travel restrictions on people living with HIV.
We join with other members of civil society in condemning such restrictions as discriminatory and in contradiction to the commitments made through the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration. We urge governments that continue to impose travel restriction on people living with HIV to lift these, whether short or long-term.
ignatures will be collected via email until June 5. To sign on, email the name of your organization and country to universalaccess2010@icaso.org. Signatures will also be collected during the civil-society pre-meeting taking place the day before (June 9) of the High Level Meeting in New York.
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