Dear ANNIE,
Last week, Congress passed an emergency supplemental funding bill which includes $150 million to support the peacekeeping effort in Darfur through the end of September.
While we applaud this decision, we are very concerned that this funding will run out on October 1st, leaving peacekeeping forces in Darfur stranded without adequate resources.
The Administration has failed to request any funding for Darfur in the fiscal year 2008 budget, which starts at the beginning of October 2007.
Will you please join us in calling on the President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to urge them to fix this upcoming shortfall now before it's too late? Click here to send your message now.
Congress has agreed that the President failed to address the full funding needs of Darfur peacekeeping in his recent budget request for fiscal year 2008.
To quote the official language of the recently passed funding bill, Congress "is concerned that the Administration has not adequately planned for future peacekeeping activities in Sudan/Darfur in FY 2008 and urges the Secretary of State to work with the Office of Management and Budget to submit a budget amendment for FY 2008 addressing these urgent needs."
Please join us and Congress in urging the President and his Office of Management and Budget to provide the funds to prevent this budget shortfall that would threaten the Darfur peacekeeping effort.
Click here to send your letter to President Bush and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget today.
With your help, we can work with our government to ensure adequate support for the essential peacekeeping effort in Darfur.
Thank you again for your commitment to ending the violence in the region.
Best regards,
David RubensteinSave Darfur Coalition
P.S. Join Global Days for Darfur, a world-wide week of rallies, marches and vigils from April 23rd to April 30th. Click here to find or host an event in your community and help alert the world that time has run out for the people of Darfur.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Picking Up Pennies in 2007
Celebrities and Cash for Darfur
Anderson in Africa Bono in Africa George Clooney in Darfur Angelina in Africa
All you have to do is, bend down, pick up the coins and send the total to the Darfur charity at the end of the year.
After emptying my box of 'picked up coins' from 2006, and sending the money to the Save Darfur Coalition, I instantly began picking up coins for 2007 to refill my box.
I must say, with a keener eye this year than I had last year, the box is filling up really quickly this year and we're only 3 months into 2007. Already I have found one $1 doller bill and lots of coins. Last year I found a $20 bill on the ground in Manhattan.
Everywhere I go I find coins on the floor. Just tonight I was in our local post office in Westwood, New Jersey, and there on the floor was a 10 cent piece.
When I go to the mall, which is about twice a week, I nearly always pick up at least 80 cents in change, many times even more! Not much I know but as I have said before, times that by 7 nights a week and a million people doing it, it soon becomes big money for the people of Darfur.
I read today on a website called www.yuddy.com that Robbie Williams (of Take That fame) held a charity football match last year at Manchester United's ground at Old Trafford, Manchester, England to raise money for the people of Africa.
I must say, with a keener eye this year than I had last year, the box is filling up really quickly this year and we're only 3 months into 2007. Already I have found one $1 doller bill and lots of coins. Last year I found a $20 bill on the ground in Manhattan.
Everywhere I go I find coins on the floor. Just tonight I was in our local post office in Westwood, New Jersey, and there on the floor was a 10 cent piece.
When I go to the mall, which is about twice a week, I nearly always pick up at least 80 cents in change, many times even more! Not much I know but as I have said before, times that by 7 nights a week and a million people doing it, it soon becomes big money for the people of Darfur.
I read today on a website called www.yuddy.com that Robbie Williams (of Take That fame) held a charity football match last year at Manchester United's ground at Old Trafford, Manchester, England to raise money for the people of Africa.
Robbie Williams' fund raising football match at Old Trafford
With so many celebrities becoming active in the fight against the genocide in Africa I find it hard to understand why more ordinary people dont take a bigger interest.
There's Angelina Jolie, Brad pitt, Bono, George Clooney, Robbie Williams and Anderson Cooper (off CNN) all trying to highlight the plight of these people. If they were releasing a new perfume, album or movie we'd all support it, so lets support the charities they support aswell.
With so many celebrities becoming active in the fight against the genocide in Africa I find it hard to understand why more ordinary people dont take a bigger interest.
There's Angelina Jolie, Brad pitt, Bono, George Clooney, Robbie Williams and Anderson Cooper (off CNN) all trying to highlight the plight of these people. If they were releasing a new perfume, album or movie we'd all support it, so lets support the charities they support aswell.
Anderson in Africa Bono in Africa George Clooney in Darfur Angelina in Africa
All you have to do is, bend down, pick up the coins and send the total to the Darfur charity at the end of the year.
Get the details from: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=311148085&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.savedarfur.org%2F
Simple!
Dear ANNIE,
As a member of the Weekly Action Network, you are one of our most committed supporters.
That is why I'm writing to ask you to help build our network of activists.
It's easy - just hit "forward," delete this introduction, and then send the message below to everyone in your address book who might be willing to join you in standing up for the people of Darfur.
The more voices we have speaking out on behalf of the innocent people in Darfur, the better our chances of stopping the violence and restoring stability to the region will be.
We can't thank you enough for everything you do to help stop the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
Ben ProchazkaSave Darfur Coalition
---------------------- PLEASE FORWARD MESSAGE BELOW ---------------------
Dear friends,
Did you know that 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes in Darfur, Sudan? Each day, they face threats that are hard for us to even imagine including rape, disease, and starvation.
These people need our help to put an end to the genocide and they need it NOW.
Please join me in taking the first step to stopping the violence.
Click the link below to sign the Save Darfur Coalition's petition urging President Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban to take immediate steps to stop the killing.http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7071
Together, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people in the region who desperately need outside help.
The Save Darfur Coalition is urging President Bush and the UN Secretary-General to prevent further killings, displacement, and rape by deploying UN peacekeepers, strengthening the understaffed African Union force that is already in Darfur, establishing and enforcing a no-fly zone, increasing humanitarian aid, and ensuring access for delivery of food, medication and other essential supplies.
Please do not stand by while the violence continues - you can make a difference.
Click below now to get involved.http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7071
Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you.
If you'd like to make a donation to support the campaign, click the link below.https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/darfur/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2083
Thanks for your help.
The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 175 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of more than two million people in the Darfur region.
To learn more, please visit http://www.SaveDarfur.org
As a member of the Weekly Action Network, you are one of our most committed supporters.
That is why I'm writing to ask you to help build our network of activists.
It's easy - just hit "forward," delete this introduction, and then send the message below to everyone in your address book who might be willing to join you in standing up for the people of Darfur.
The more voices we have speaking out on behalf of the innocent people in Darfur, the better our chances of stopping the violence and restoring stability to the region will be.
We can't thank you enough for everything you do to help stop the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
Ben ProchazkaSave Darfur Coalition
---------------------- PLEASE FORWARD MESSAGE BELOW ---------------------
Dear friends,
Did you know that 2.5 million people have been driven from their homes in Darfur, Sudan? Each day, they face threats that are hard for us to even imagine including rape, disease, and starvation.
These people need our help to put an end to the genocide and they need it NOW.
Please join me in taking the first step to stopping the violence.
Click the link below to sign the Save Darfur Coalition's petition urging President Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban to take immediate steps to stop the killing.http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7071
Together, we can make a difference in the lives of millions of people in the region who desperately need outside help.
The Save Darfur Coalition is urging President Bush and the UN Secretary-General to prevent further killings, displacement, and rape by deploying UN peacekeepers, strengthening the understaffed African Union force that is already in Darfur, establishing and enforcing a no-fly zone, increasing humanitarian aid, and ensuring access for delivery of food, medication and other essential supplies.
Please do not stand by while the violence continues - you can make a difference.
Click below now to get involved.http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7071
Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you.
If you'd like to make a donation to support the campaign, click the link below.https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/darfur/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2083
Thanks for your help.
The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 175 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of more than two million people in the Darfur region.
To learn more, please visit http://www.SaveDarfur.org
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dear ANNIE,
Activists across the world have come together to plan "Global Days for Darfur" - a week of rallies, marches, vigils and other events designed to alert the world that "time has run out" for the people of Darfur.
Will you please join us and thousands of Darfur activists around the globe the week of April 23rd - 30th? Click here to find an event taking place near you.
At the web page, locate the "Find an Event" section on the right-hand side of the page, enter your zip code and the numbers of miles you'd like to search within, then click "Find Events" to see what will be taking place in your area.
If you find that there are not yet any events taking place in your town or city, we encourage you to host your own event for others in your community to join.
Click here to organize your own Global Days for Darfur event in your town or city. You can get started by locating the "Create an Event" section on the right-hand side of the page (right above "Find an Event"), entering your zip code, and clicking "create event."
If you are willing to organize an event, we encourage you to register your event by Sunday, March 25th to give us enough time to promote them to the rest of the community.
As you know all too well, time has run out for the people of Darfur.
We must call attention to the escalating violence and the continued failure of the international community to adequately respond to this crisis. The Global Days for Darfur week of action and events offers a perfect forum to help raise awareness of the crisis and to call for the immediate deployment of an international peacekeeping force to Darfur.
Please support your fellow activists in speaking out for the people of Darfur by joining an event in your area. Or, if there are currently no activities planned in your community, we hope you will consider creating your own event during this important week.
Once again, thank you for your incredible commitment to stopping the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
Ben ProchazkaSave Darfur Coalition
Activists across the world have come together to plan "Global Days for Darfur" - a week of rallies, marches, vigils and other events designed to alert the world that "time has run out" for the people of Darfur.
Will you please join us and thousands of Darfur activists around the globe the week of April 23rd - 30th? Click here to find an event taking place near you.
At the web page, locate the "Find an Event" section on the right-hand side of the page, enter your zip code and the numbers of miles you'd like to search within, then click "Find Events" to see what will be taking place in your area.
If you find that there are not yet any events taking place in your town or city, we encourage you to host your own event for others in your community to join.
Click here to organize your own Global Days for Darfur event in your town or city. You can get started by locating the "Create an Event" section on the right-hand side of the page (right above "Find an Event"), entering your zip code, and clicking "create event."
If you are willing to organize an event, we encourage you to register your event by Sunday, March 25th to give us enough time to promote them to the rest of the community.
As you know all too well, time has run out for the people of Darfur.
We must call attention to the escalating violence and the continued failure of the international community to adequately respond to this crisis. The Global Days for Darfur week of action and events offers a perfect forum to help raise awareness of the crisis and to call for the immediate deployment of an international peacekeeping force to Darfur.
Please support your fellow activists in speaking out for the people of Darfur by joining an event in your area. Or, if there are currently no activities planned in your community, we hope you will consider creating your own event during this important week.
Once again, thank you for your incredible commitment to stopping the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
Ben ProchazkaSave Darfur Coalition
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Dear ANNIE,
Join Me in Calling the White House
Dial 1-800-290-2662 to urge President Bush to save lives in Darfur by launching "Plan B" immediately.
Once you've hung up, click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition.
Each year I travel to Africa as a medical missionary. I've just returned from my latest trip, a deeply troubling visit to the Sudan.
Due to a series of increasingly violent attacks on foreign aid workers in Darfur over the past six months, international efforts to protect civilians and provide them with food, clean water, shelter, and medical care are in a state of crisis.
Countless men, women, and children are in real danger of falling prey to violence, starvation, or disease as a result of these attacks.
The U.S. must take the lead in working with the international community to end the violence. The lives of millions hang in the balance.
Please join me in calling the White House comment line today to urge President Bush to launch "Plan B," his tough, three-tiered plan to push Sudan to end the genocide, before more lives are lost in Darfur.
It will only take two minutes of your time and could make a world of difference for millions of people in need. Just follow the steps below:
Dial 1-800-290-2662 (toll-free)
Once you've been transferred to the comment line leave your comment using the talking points below:
I'm calling to urge President Bush to implement "Plan B" to help bring an end to the genocide in Darfur. Specifically, I am asking him to:
Enforce tough sanctions against Sudan;
Work with the UN to authorize and enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur to protect civilians from Sudanese bombers; and
Press the UN for faster deployment of UN peacekeepers to protect civilians in Darfur.
Click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition (this step is crucial - please don't skip it.)
The U.S. and the international community are all that stand between millions of civilians in Darfur and the Sudanese regime's policy of genocide. Hundreds of thousands have already been killed, and time is running out for millions more.
Without tough "Plan B" measures to accompany diplomatic efforts, the international community's efforts to end the violence in Darfur are doomed to fail.
Please follow the steps above to join me in calling the White House comment line to ask President Bush to launch "Plan B" without further delay, then click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition.
I hope you will help me spread this message of urgent action by forwarding my email to your friends, family and co-workers and asking them to join you in taking two minutes to call the White House.
Thank you for your ongoing advocacy on behalf of the people of Darfur.
Sincerely,
Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
P.S. Check out our new t-shirts and sweatshirts! Click here to visit the Save Darfur Coalition's online store to browse our merchandise, including a new selection of t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring our new logo. The logo is an acacia tree, which often serves as the only shelter for Darfuri refugees whose villages have been destroyed, and is therefore a powerful symbol of hope that our work together will result in lasting protection for the people of Darfur.
Donate to Help Save DarfurHelp build the political pressure needed to end the crisis in Darfur by supporting the Save Darfur Coalition's crucial awareness and advocacy programs.
Click here now to make a secure, tax-deductible online donation.
http://www.savedarfur.org/
Join Me in Calling the White House
Dial 1-800-290-2662 to urge President Bush to save lives in Darfur by launching "Plan B" immediately.
Once you've hung up, click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition.
Each year I travel to Africa as a medical missionary. I've just returned from my latest trip, a deeply troubling visit to the Sudan.
Due to a series of increasingly violent attacks on foreign aid workers in Darfur over the past six months, international efforts to protect civilians and provide them with food, clean water, shelter, and medical care are in a state of crisis.
Countless men, women, and children are in real danger of falling prey to violence, starvation, or disease as a result of these attacks.
The U.S. must take the lead in working with the international community to end the violence. The lives of millions hang in the balance.
Please join me in calling the White House comment line today to urge President Bush to launch "Plan B," his tough, three-tiered plan to push Sudan to end the genocide, before more lives are lost in Darfur.
It will only take two minutes of your time and could make a world of difference for millions of people in need. Just follow the steps below:
Dial 1-800-290-2662 (toll-free)
Once you've been transferred to the comment line leave your comment using the talking points below:
I'm calling to urge President Bush to implement "Plan B" to help bring an end to the genocide in Darfur. Specifically, I am asking him to:
Enforce tough sanctions against Sudan;
Work with the UN to authorize and enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur to protect civilians from Sudanese bombers; and
Press the UN for faster deployment of UN peacekeepers to protect civilians in Darfur.
Click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition (this step is crucial - please don't skip it.)
The U.S. and the international community are all that stand between millions of civilians in Darfur and the Sudanese regime's policy of genocide. Hundreds of thousands have already been killed, and time is running out for millions more.
Without tough "Plan B" measures to accompany diplomatic efforts, the international community's efforts to end the violence in Darfur are doomed to fail.
Please follow the steps above to join me in calling the White House comment line to ask President Bush to launch "Plan B" without further delay, then click here to report your call back to the Save Darfur Coalition.
I hope you will help me spread this message of urgent action by forwarding my email to your friends, family and co-workers and asking them to join you in taking two minutes to call the White House.
Thank you for your ongoing advocacy on behalf of the people of Darfur.
Sincerely,
Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
P.S. Check out our new t-shirts and sweatshirts! Click here to visit the Save Darfur Coalition's online store to browse our merchandise, including a new selection of t-shirts and sweatshirts featuring our new logo. The logo is an acacia tree, which often serves as the only shelter for Darfuri refugees whose villages have been destroyed, and is therefore a powerful symbol of hope that our work together will result in lasting protection for the people of Darfur.
Donate to Help Save DarfurHelp build the political pressure needed to end the crisis in Darfur by supporting the Save Darfur Coalition's crucial awareness and advocacy programs.
Click here now to make a secure, tax-deductible online donation.
http://www.savedarfur.org/
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Picking Up Pennies For Darfur
January 25th 2007
Today I took the coins I had collected to the post office and changed them for a money order which I have now mailed to Save Darfur, in Washington, D.C. The grand total was $63.16.
Now, this may not be a huge amount of money but if it was collected by 1,000 or 5,000 or maybe 1,000,000 people each year in America, just think of what that amount of money could do to help the starving, displaced people of Darfur?
So, make today the day that you start picking up pennies when you see them on sidewalks and in the malls.
In my experience the best places to find dropped pennies are at shop registers where people are handed their receipts and coins and drop the coins when exiting the store.
I have found many, many coins in the foyer of cinemas too.
In a mall close to where I live there is a 'ski simulator' ride. After it has turned its occupants up side down and round and round they seem to lose coins from their pockets. At the close of the day at the mall, I often scramble under the machine and collect the dropped coins. I have, on occasions, picked up over $1.00 in loose change just from under the machine. Times that by 365 nights of the year and you can see the total growing!!!!
Another great place for finding dropped coins are in noisy music stores such as Virgin Mega Store. I think people drop the coins and cant hear them drop above the noise of the music. But I know they're there and I pick them up for Darfur.
Let me know if you find any special places where people drop pennies and just walk away. Maybe this year more of us can make use of these disguarded coins and make a difference to Darfur.
http://www.savedarfur.org
January 25th 2007
Today I took the coins I had collected to the post office and changed them for a money order which I have now mailed to Save Darfur, in Washington, D.C. The grand total was $63.16.
Now, this may not be a huge amount of money but if it was collected by 1,000 or 5,000 or maybe 1,000,000 people each year in America, just think of what that amount of money could do to help the starving, displaced people of Darfur?
So, make today the day that you start picking up pennies when you see them on sidewalks and in the malls.
In my experience the best places to find dropped pennies are at shop registers where people are handed their receipts and coins and drop the coins when exiting the store.
I have found many, many coins in the foyer of cinemas too.
In a mall close to where I live there is a 'ski simulator' ride. After it has turned its occupants up side down and round and round they seem to lose coins from their pockets. At the close of the day at the mall, I often scramble under the machine and collect the dropped coins. I have, on occasions, picked up over $1.00 in loose change just from under the machine. Times that by 365 nights of the year and you can see the total growing!!!!
Another great place for finding dropped coins are in noisy music stores such as Virgin Mega Store. I think people drop the coins and cant hear them drop above the noise of the music. But I know they're there and I pick them up for Darfur.
Let me know if you find any special places where people drop pennies and just walk away. Maybe this year more of us can make use of these disguarded coins and make a difference to Darfur.
http://www.savedarfur.org
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