iAct6 Day 7: Stop Genocide Now with Mia Farrow in Camp Oure Cassoni

By Citizen Correspondent Gabriel Stauring

Date Posted: 08/08/08

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It is Day 7 of i-ACT6 from refugee camp Oure Cassoni in Chad.

With Mia Farrow, the Stop Genocide Now ground team continues to explore the lives and heart wrenching stories of the refugees. The camp athletes continue to prepare for their own Darfur Olympic Games under an alternate banner: Humanity before Politics.
Mia Farrow reminds us of our responsibility to do everything we can to help the Darfur refugees. "With Knowledge comes Responsibility."

Katie-Jay contemplates the inhumane decisions required of those who were attacked in their village homes by the Janjaweed in Darfur and Mia questions what voice we should listen to, the world leaders or the children?

Stop Genocide Now representatives, Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott return to Eastern Chad, Africa as a part of the Dream for Darfur Olympics program. Stauring and Scott will not only visit refugee camps in an effort to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur, but also to urge China, the host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, to use its political power to instill a full protection force in Darfur, by persuading the Sudanese government to abide by UN Resolution 1769.

Furthermore, Stauring and Scott’s return to Africa will again ignite Stop Genocide’s sixth installment of their interactive-activism program i-ACT6. On August 1, 2008, i-ACT6 will again connect individuals in the United States with the faces, names, and lives of Darfur refugees who escaped the genocide in their homeland, through the Stop Genocide Now website. Daily video and journal posts from Stauring and Scott will be posted to the website directly from refugee camps in Chad, enabling i-ACT participants to connect with those in Africa and Stop Genocide Now activists.

“We want to continue putting a face to the numbers and allowing the voices of the victims to be heard,” said Stop Genocide Now founder Gabriel Stauring. “Students have been the leaders of the Darfur movement, and we are looking for students and their communities to increase the heat and raise the noise this summer to bring peace to Darfur through i-ACT 6.”

In addition, i-ACT participants will be encouraged to take part in daily actions, such as writing letters to local newspapers and congressmen, hosting i-ACT viewing parties, participating in the Stop Genocide Now 100 Day Fast, and working with other advocacy organizations in an effort to continue to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur.