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South Palm Beach County Darfur News: Feb. 8'06

From: Save Darfur Coalition of South Palm Beach [SaveDarfurSPB@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:49 PM
To: ncjwfl@bellsouth.net
Subject: Local Darfur News

Next Local Coalition Projects

Following our extremely successful January 26th rally, coalition representatives met on February 7 to plan next steps.
In addition to continued individual congregational and organizations' activities, wee will be working together on three projects:

Advocacy with our U.S. Congressional Reps and Senators - including activating other Florida groups in our own denominations/organizations
A large march/event on April 30 to coincide with rally on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
An event focusing on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, featuring heads of national relief organizations

If you would like to be involved in one of these projects, or would like more information, write to us at SaveDarfurSPB@gmail.com.
Our next coalition meeting will be at 11:30 AM February 21 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton, 2601 St. Andrews.

Darfur DVDs

Master copies of the DVD we used on January 26 are available. Use the DVD at events and meetings or copy and to send to people and groups you want to inspire to awareness and action. For more information, contact carlhouse@att.net.

Million Voices Campaign

On January 26, we collected hundreds of postcards to President Bush as part of the Million Voices Campaign. It is VERY EASY to participate:

People can sign cards online at www.savedarfur.org so you can send out this URL through your email networks.
You can also download and print or order postcards to distribute at meetings, worship services, etc. at www.millionvoicesfordarfur.org/?page=postcards

The Save Darfur Coalition (of which we are a regional affiliate), in cooperation with over 150 faith-based, advocacy, and humanitarian aid organizations, has launched the Million Voices for Darfur campaign, an unprecedented effort to raise awareness of the genocide taking place in Darfur and promote the actions necessary to end it. The goal is to generate one million hand-written and electronic postcards from Americans demanding a stronger and more effective U.S. response. Specifically, the campaign calls on the United States government to support a stronger multinational force to protect the civilians of Darfur.

National Speaker Available in Florida in February-act fast!

The national Save Darfur Coalition is urgently asking for help in bringing Brian Steidle through Florida as part of his speaking tour. Brian is a former Marine who was stationed with the African Union force in Darfur, and he has spoken publicly on Darfur for quite some time now. The Save Darfur Coalition is organizing his national speaking tour, has him in Florida at the end of this month. I would love to touch base with you asap about him being in your area at the very end of the month. Please asap email Jeff Kovick, Local Organizing Coordinator, Save Darfur Coalition at jeff@savedarfur.org

Local Media Coverage

Our January 26 event generated pre-publicity, event coverage and follow-up in many venues including Channel 12 TV, a local section front page with photo in the Palm Beach post, full page 3 story with multiple photos in the Boca Raton News, front page with photo in the Jewish Journal, the Boca Raton Times, and school newspapers. Please thank these media for their coverage. And let the Sun-Sentinel know they missed an important story, and you expect better in the future.

The more recent stories have been:

Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2006/02/07/m8b_brgenocide_0207.html

Expert to speak about combating genocide
If the "obligation of the world is to stop genocide," according to U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, how does one go about it?Jerry Fowler, an expert on such matters, answers that question tonight at Lynn University during his speech Combating Contemporary Genocide. Fowler is the staff director of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Boca Raton News
http://www.bocanews.com/index.php?src=news&prid=14069&category=Local%20News
Darfur relief remains goal of Boca Raton and countywide groups
More events are planned' to unite local effort to help war-torn African people. . . .

Sun-Sentinel ran an AP story about the situation in Darfur and two stories about Angelina Jolie's talk in Switzerland that included mention of Darfur. There was no attempt to connect the stories to local activities.

Save Darfur Coalition of South Palm Beach
2200 Yamato Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
SaveDarfurSPB@gmail.com

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