Comments on: Pledge2Protect Conference http://blogfordarfur.org/archives/1983 Save Darfur Weblog Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: ashley_witness http://blogfordarfur.org/archives/1983#comment-158 ashley_witness Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:30:46 +0000 http://blogfordarfur.org/?p=1983#comment-158 Today, over 800 student activists converged on Capitol Hill for the largest lobby day to prevent genocide in history. The students were marching to the Hill at 8:30am to meet with their elected officials and to push Congress to implement the recommendations of the Genocide Prevention Task Force (GPTF) report. As part of an innovative partnership between STAND, the student led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, and WITNESS, the international human rights organization that pioneered video advocacy, the student activists collected 500 video messages from their student body and community. For the first time, these messages were edited to create individual videos for Senators, which the students began hand-delivering to them this morning. View personalized videos for Senators: http://hub.witness.org/STAND-STUDENT-VIDEOS With this campaign we are seeing the ‘YouTube generation’ in action – and today, we're seeing them change how citizens are lobbying Congress. Less than a month after the Obama administration unveiled the Sudan policy review, these students are reminding their elected officials and President Obama of the moral and political imperative to bring peace in Sudan today and ensure that other similar conflicts don't occur in the future. Today, over 800 student activists converged on Capitol Hill for the largest lobby day to prevent genocide in history.
The students were marching to the Hill at 8:30am to meet with their elected officials and to push Congress to implement the recommendations of the Genocide Prevention Task Force (GPTF) report. As part of an innovative partnership between STAND, the student led division of the Genocide Intervention Network, and WITNESS, the international human rights organization that pioneered video advocacy, the student activists collected 500 video messages from their student body and community. For the first time, these messages were edited to create individual videos for Senators, which the students began hand-delivering to them this morning. View personalized videos for Senators: http://hub.witness.org/STAND-STUDENT-VIDEOS

With this campaign we are seeing the ‘YouTube generation’ in action – and today, we’re seeing them change how citizens are lobbying Congress. Less than a month after the Obama administration unveiled the Sudan policy review, these students are reminding their elected officials and President Obama of the moral and political imperative to bring peace in Sudan today and ensure that other similar conflicts don’t occur in the future.

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