Monday, April 03, 2006

Darfur National Speaking Tour Comes to Amherst!

DARFUR NATIONAL

Speaking Tour

comes to amherst

Saturday, April 22nd
at 4 pm

Cole Assembly Room
Converse Hall
AMHERST COLLEGE


Reception to follow

As Sudan’s deepening Darfur crisis cries out for world attention, a coalition of human-rights and religious groups is launching a special speakers tour to raise public awareness about the ongoing, systematic atrocities in western Sudan and the humanitarian catastrophe it has caused as well as the need for a massive response from both government and private sectors.

PLEASE COME & HEAR THESE WITNESSES TO THE VIOLENCE WHO ARE HERE DIRECTLY FROM SUDAN FOR THIS TOUR ONLY -- AND LEARN HOW YOU CAN JOIN A NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR DARFUR NOW.

Sponsored by Western Mass. Darfur Coalition, Amherst College Chapter of STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur), Amherst Human Rights Commission, American Friends Service Committee, Amherst Chapter 128 of Amnesty International, SAGE, and Smith College Darfur Coalition.

CONTACT: Fanny Rothschild, Western Mass. Darfur Coalition

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