Darfur Updates

American Jewish World Services www.jws.org
Coalition to Save Darfur www.savedarfur.org
Day for Darfur www.dayfordarfur.org
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Committee on Conscience www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur
Religious Action Center www.rac.org
http://www.darfurscores.net/ Find out how your representative scored on the situation in Darfur
Genocide Intervention Network http://www.genocideintervention.net/index.php

1. Read the new report by David Rubenstein of the Save Darfur Coalition

2. Read the NY Times article, "Poisoned Arrows vs Machine Guns" by Nicholas Kristof

3. Sudan Update: Solar Cookers

Here’s another way you can help the refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan: just $25 provides one family with two solar cookers, two pots, and training for the women, which greatly reduces the need to collect firewood and the danger of attack. Jewish World Watch - a coalition of synagogues in Southern California – is working with or Solar Cookers International to purchase and provide them. For information about how you can contribute to this project, see JWW’s information page. The Save Darfur Coalition also has an action packet for Human Rights Day, December 10, 2006.

4. Reform Jewish Leader Commends Passage of Both Funding for Darfur Peacekeeping and the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act

September 29, 2006 – In response to passage of the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill including $20 million for African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued a statement, noting in particular: “This past week has shown the resolve of our government to support the people of Darfur, [but] our action and our voices cannot stop with the end of the Congressional session this week.”

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