Students Taking Action Now: Darfur

Take a STAND Against the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur

Saturday, November 7th
Bar Night benefiting Doctors without Borders
Buddhist Biker Bar & Grill from 10 pm to 2 am

Monday, November 9th
Join the DarfurFast and learn more about Refugee Camps in Sudan & Chad
The South Lawn from 10 am to 2 pm

Tuesday, Nov. 10 - Thursday, Nov. 12th
Help support STAND’s Darfur refugee program by buying baked good!
The Curry School & the Nursing School

Tuesday, November 10th
Women in Darfur Documentary & Dessert Reception
All donations to benefit Women for Women International
Minor Hall Room 125 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm

Wednesday, November 11th
Presentation on The Present and Future of Sudan: A Country at Risk
Wilson Hall Room 301 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm

Thursday, November 12th
Interfaith Vigil for Darfur
The UVA Chapel from 7:30 pm to 9 pm

Please contact lam3pv@virginia.edu if you have any questions.

Here’s a new story on continued violence in Southern Sudan.

Continue to check enoughproject.org for coverage of uprisings.

Come out to support Doctors without Borders on Saturday night!

WHERE? Buddhist Biker Bar & Grill; 20 Elliewood Ave., Charlottesville, VA

WHEN? Saturday, Sept. 26th from 10 PM - 2 AM

HOW MUCH? $3 16oz. cup gets you $1 Coors all night!

If you have any questions, please contact lam3pv@virginia.edu

The first meeting of the fall semester will be September 8th at 7:00 PM in Cocke Hall 101. This first meeting will be informative and describe some of our past events, a little more on the situation in Darfur, and will look ahead to the coming semester as well.

Here’s a great editorial from the LATimes on the current crisis in Darfur. Enjoy!

Click here to read.

Hope everyone is having a great summer!

For all first years, transfer students, and even current students who are interested in joining Students Taking Action Now: Darfur at UVA, please visit our table at the Fall Activities Fair. This will be on Monday, August 24th on the South Lawn from 11- 4. Stop by to hear more about the club!

Also, this year we will be meeting on Tuesdays at 7 PM in the Cocke Hall Room 101. The first meeting date is yet to be decided.

Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 7 PM in Alumni Hall

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur at UVA is hosting Gretchen Wallace this Thursday in collaboration with the Alumni Association. Gretchen Wallace is the founder of Global Grassroots, an organization that is helping African women overcome struggles especially after a genocide, and will be speaking on the struggles these women have overcome. She also co-produced A Devil Came on Horseback with her brother Brian Steidle which STAND has shown at UVA in the past as well.

Here is the press release on the event: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=8225

To learn more about Global Grassroots please go here: www.globalgrassroots.org

Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an ageny of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts, or omissions.

On March 5th, Sudan’s president, President Omar al-Bashir, was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Later that same day, as a retailiation to the indictment, 13 aid organziations (10 internation, 3 local)  including Doctors without Borders who STAND has donated to in the past, were kicked out of Darfur by Bashir because he saw them at “spies” and “thieves”. This leaves the IDPs in Darfur with only half of the aid they had received before, and the UN unable to make up for the loss.  In the past two days, three aid workers were kidnapped, but have been released as of just hours ago. For more information view the following articles:

Aid Organizations Removed from Darfur:

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/05/AR2009030501633.html

Aid Workers Kidnapped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/world/africa/14sudan.html?ref=world

Congress Calling for Special Envoy:

http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-03-11-voa52.cfm

Due to recent StudCo changes, our new website will be STANDatUVA.org instead of uvastand.org. Just a minor change but it keeps us from being in violation.