The Save Darfur Coalition’s President, Jerry Fowler, was on CNN last night. We’re trying to locate the video clip, but you can read the transcript right now.

JERRY FOWLER, PRESIDENT, SAVE DARFUR COALITION: I think there’s a tremendous amount of frustration, but even deeper than that it’s a disappointment. And all we can hope is that when President Bush does go to China, that he takes the opportunity to really press the Chinese and get commitments from them to start being part of the solution in Darfur instead of being part of the problem.

Complete transcript (scroll most of the way down).

Each month the Save Darfur Coalition recognizes an individual or group who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and drive in their efforts to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur. This month, Matthew Heck and his classmates have been chosen.

I’ll never forget running down Highway 40 in the heart of Ohio. I think that’s the moment when the magnitude of my idea finally sunk in. Michael Gurley, my friend and co-runner, said to me between the typical ragged breath of a runner, “This is crazy. We’re on a highway…in the middle of nowhere…running.”

The chances of that being a verbatim quotation are extremely low. There’s something about running over 100 miles in a week that knocks the body’s chemistry off a bit and leaves the memory functions a bit lacking, but the true beginnings of my loss of sanity have roots in earlier times.

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Sure, you know how divestment works in the interest of Darfur. But what about contract prohibition?

We’ve created some easy to understand graphic representation of how banning contracts between our government and firms that do work with the Sudanese government can help the plight of Darfur.

The Problem: How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Genocide (pdf)

The Solution: How Contract Prohibition Can Help End the Genocide in Darfur (pdf)

General Divestment Information

Today is the ’soft launch’ of this website, the Save Darfur Coalition’s Blog, meaning we’re not actively promoting it yet, but we’re going to start writing posts.

The goal of this site is to make it easier for people interested in saving Darfur to find timely information about what’s happening in Sudan, what they can do in their own countries, and what can be done online to help.

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