EVENT DETAILS

Sunday, February 12, 2012

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Johnson & Wales University (Denver Campus) 1900 Olive Street ! Denver, CO 80220

Conference fee: $18 per person includes continental breakfast, lunch, and conference materials. This conference is open to youth and teachers/adults who will be accompanying youth participants.

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For More Information Contact:

Roz Duman 303-856-7334 rozduman@aol.com http://www.ccgaa.org/

The Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action is a registered 501(c)(3) whose mission is to challenge our society to end complacency towards and raise awareness of genocides in the past and present and take action to stop genocides in the present and future.

Sunday, February 12, 2012
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Johnson & Wales University(Denver Campus)
1900 Olive St.
Denver, CO 80220

Take YOUR stand and join us at this powerful action-oriented event to end complacency toward genocide! The purpose of this state-wide conference is to educate high school and college students about genocides that have occurred in the past centuries and empower them with the tools to stop the genocide that is raging today in the Sudan and help prevent other genocides. This conference will feature notable speakers in plenary sessions and panel discussions.

Conference fee of $18 includes continental breakfast, lunch, and conference materials. This conference is opened to youth and teachers who will be accompanying youth participants.

For more info contact Roz Duman at 303-856-7334 or rozduman@aol.com

Members of the Colorado Sudanese Community will gather Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. on the West Steps of the State Capitol with Colorado activists to call attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, South Kordofan(Nuba Mountains), Abyei.  Speakers will include, Rt Rev. Andudu Adam Elnail,  Episcopal Bishop of Kadugli and Nuba Mountains(South Kordofan). At an emergency Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., Bishop Elnail provided moving testimony describing ethnic cleansing, murders, rapes and the growing humanitarian crises in his region. Omhagain Dayeen, who recently returned from a four month visit to her homeland of Darfur, will also share what she witnessed. Co-sponsors of this event are the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action and the Sudanese Community of Colorado.

The purpose of the press conference is to launch a Media Campaign in Colorado that will bring awareness to Coloradans about what the Sudanese government has been doing to its own people and continues to do with impunity. In the last two decades there have been five genocides-one in South Sudan in the 1980’s-2005; one in Nuba Mountains in the early 1990’s; one in Darfur from 2003 until the present: one in Eastern Sudan from 1994-2005. It will also highlight the present waging of war in the Nuba Mountains and Abyei. Collectively, these crimes have resulted in the displacement of over 7 million people and the deaths of nearly 3 million people, the largest state-sponsored ethnic killing since World War II.

The rally will call for Coloradans to contact elected officials to support the following actions in Sudan:

1. End all attacks in Sudan that violate international humanitarian law, including deliberate attacks on civilians and indiscriminate aerial bombings; and hold all those responsible to account, regardless of rank.

2. Deployment of a neutral UN peacekeeping force in Nuba Mountains(South Kordofan) until a workable peaceful solution is achieved.

3. Fulfill obligations of cooperation with the ICC, as in executing the ICC arrest warrants against President Al-Bashir and his lieutenant and indicted war criminal Ahmed Haroun.

4. No-FlyZone application: The immediate imposition of a No fly Zone over Numba Mountains(South Kordofan) and Darfur States is urgently needed to protect civilians from bombardment.

5.Call on the Sudanese government to ensure unfettered access by UNAMID peacekeepers and humanitarian activists to all parts of Sudan including those most affected by conflict.

6. Protection of people in Nuba Mountains, Darfur and Abyei: The immediate demand for the disarmament and removal of President Al-Bashir’s  dangerous Popular Defense Force(PDF) and his militias in Nuba Mountains(South Kordofan) and Janjaweed militias in Darfur.

7. End the harassment, detention and torture of journalists, human rights workers, and activists, and church leaders.

8. End the Sudanese government policy of dismantling Internally Displacement Persons’(IDP) camps in Darfur and of deliberately preventing food, water and medical supplies to reach civilians as a weapon of war in Darfur, South Kordofan(Nuba Mountainss) and all affected areas of Sudan.

9, Freeze assets of the Khartoum regime’s leaders and their businesses.

Please rsvp to Linda Farb at lfarb@mho.net if you will be attending.  The team welcomes anyone who has the passion for helping the people of Darfur and South Sudan.  Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road.  Meeting is held in the overflow room just to the left of the main entrance.

When;  SUNDAY, JANUARY 30  -  2:00 PM

Where:  THE MERCURY CAFÉ   -  2199 CALIFORNIA ST.

A Free Event ($5.00 suggested donation)

A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RECENT REFERENDUM IN SOUTHERN SUDAN WHICH, AFTER DECADES OF CIVIL WAR, WILL BECOME AFRICA’S AND THE WORLD’S NEWEST NATION.

SPEAKERS:

DAVID MAYEN  -  Served in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and received a BA in Uganda.   Worked as an intern in the Colorado State Legislature and returned to the Southern Sudan to work in the Parliament.  Currently pursuing an MA in International Security at the Korbel School of International Studies and the University of Denver.

HELEN ACHOL ABYEI  -  Worked in a bank in Southern Sudan for 25 years, but had to flee with her children in 2000.  Came to Denver as a refugee in 2002.  Chairperson of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) chapter in Colorado. This is her last semester at the Community College of Denver.

ANITA SANBORN  -  President of the Colorado Episcopal Foundation and co-founder of the Leadership Institute of the New Sudan (LIONS).  Since 2001 has spent much time in the Sudan (including Darfur) as well as Chad, and has worked with the refugee community in metropolitan Denver.  Has been instrumental in developing a relationship between LIONS and the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Co-sponsored by the Colorado Committee on Africa and the Caribbean,

the Tinansa Intercultural Program at Regis University and

the Colorado Coalition for Genocide Awareness and Action.

Contact: (303) 329-5881  -

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/01/15/world/international-us-sudan-protest.html

Please email Linda at lfarb@mho.net if you will be attending.  The team welcomes anyone who has the passion for helping the people of Darfur and South Sudan.  Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road.  Meeting is held in the overflow room just to the left of the main entrance.

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Insecticide-treated mosquito nets cost $10 each. We are committed to providing enough nets to cover all children in Chukudum. Please support the Nets Work Project by sending a donation payable to “Congregation Har HaShem” with “SSHP” written on the memo line. Mail to HHS, 3950 Baseline Road, Boulder, CO 80303.

*The Southern Sudan Health Project (SSHP) is a Boulder-based coalition of religious institutions, schools, youth groups, and other local organizations assisting in the development of health delivery infrastructure in Chukudum, South Sudan. Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Southern Sudan Health Project: The Wells Project.