Genocide Intervention Network has asked us to spread the word about the up-coming Nov 1 deadline for applications to the Carl Wilkens Fellowship Program. 

If you know someone who might be interested in this, details are listed below.

Thanks for helping us build the anti-genocide constituency!

Teresa

The Carl Wilkens Fellowship is a selective, year-long program that provides a diverse set of emerging citizen leaders with the tools and training to build sustained political will to end genocide. Seeking to bridge the gap between thought and action in the anti-genocide movement, the goal of the Carl Wilkens Fellowship is to develop effective leaders in communities across the United States who have acquired the skills and fostered the relationships necessary to influence and shape US policies on genocide.
 
In its inaugural year, the Carl Wilkens Fellowship program has worked with twenty (20) individuals from communities across the country and from a diversity of backgrounds – from retired corporate lawyers to filmmakers to computer programmers to communications specialists. Each one of them has been impacted by what is going on in Darfur, in Burma, and in other areas of the world. Through the Fellowship program, each one of these individuals has taken it upon themselves to acquire the tools and resources to build sustained political will within their communities for the prevention and cessation of genocide.
 
The Carl Wilkens Fellowship 2010 application is due by November 1 and is available at:

www.genocideintervention.net/advocate/wilkens/apply
 

Our local news did a nice story to help raise awareness!

Got to watchit on Hulu.com and please write some comments.

(By the way we had a wonderful first day of our tour at Freeman High and Middle schools. Will make video blog on our first day tomorrow:)   The Inlander here in Spokane came out with a nice article on Pedaling2Peace. )

Courage, Carl

or should it be called "midlife crisis:)"

Teresa and I are taking off across the USA and stopping at schools along the way to share about Rwanda and people who stand up against genocide and racisim, and intolerance! click on pedaling2peace and download the brochure to learn more. (just click on brochure! I can’t believe i figured this out!)

(Video blog tomorrow after our first school. You don’t want to see my blood shot eyes right now:)

Pedaling2Peace.org

Ben Ferencz  (click here)

http://www.pbs.org/pov/reckoning/video_ferencz.php

Watch this powerful  6 minute video of Ben Ferencz, from "The Reckoning".    He was a 27-year-old lawyer,  who prosecuted 22 German officers at Nuremberg for murdering over a million people in World War II.  Talks about his passion to end war in this world, his role in the development of international justice and why every country — including the United States — needs to be subject to the rule of law.

Then you will want to watch this 1 minute actual clip of Ben at Nuremberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsSx198TsnI

 Old Friends and a good question from a survifor who was 17 at the time.