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Lots of cool peeps were born on this day. So a Happy Birthday to them all: Stewart Copeland, born in 1952 Ruben Blades, born in 1948 (I used to have a mad and highly nonsensical crush on this man) Ginger Rogers, born in 1911 Barbara Stanwyck, born in 1907 ~~~ In Darfur, Sudan, 1,000 people are dying every day, and that number is rising. Over one million black Africans have been bombed and burnt out of their villages, and their crops and water supplies destroyed by Arab "Janjaweed" militias. The Government-backed Janjaweed surround the refugee camps and block life-giving food and medicine getting through. Anyone leaving is raped or killed. The US Government estimates that 370,000 human beings are already dead or certain to die of starvation in these extermination camps. Up to 1 million could die within the next few months. As. . . members of the human family, we cannot let this horror continue. Our government's response so far has been slow and weak. Only an immediate international humanitarian intervention to protect the people of Darfur and ensure aid gets to them will stop the slaughter. Click here to send a fax to Congress telling them to vote for the bi-partisan House and Senate Resolutions demanding the US take these actions to stop the genocide in Darfur. . . The faith community has mobilized to address this moral outrage. Daily, peaceful protests at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington DC have echoed protest tactics used against Apartheid in South Africa. Religious leaders, celebrities and political leaders are being arrested each day in acts of civil disobedience, including Reverend Bob Edgar, Congressman Charlie Rangel, and actor Danny Glover. Blessings, The FaithfulAmerica.org Team For more information on the crisis in Darfur, or to get involved in activism in your community, please visit www.darfurgenocide.org ~~~ Word of the Day for Thursday July 15, 2004 acuity uh-KYOO-uh-tee, noun: Acuteness of perception or vision; sharpness. |