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Rachel

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Ralph Nader back in the 1960's...I think we would have hit it off

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Protect the People of Darfur

The government of Sudan has been escalating its relentless assault on the people of Darfur. On May 4, Sudanese bombs rained on a Darfuri school, killing at least 13 people, including seven children. T...
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:53:00 GMT

Best Show Ever!

Matthew Good was more than amazing. The man had food poisoning but still got on stage with his guitar and played more passionately than any artist I have ever had the opportunity to see live. And tha...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:42:00 GMT

Matthew Good in Chicago

  Matthew Good is playing a show Monday, March 17th in Chicago.  Nathan and I are making the trip down from Green Bay.  If anyone else wants to go and is interested in car pooling &...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Outrageous

What did Sudanese President Bashir do with a world-infamous war criminal? He gave him a promotion. Bashir has appointed the militia leader who helped orchestrate genocide in Darfur as a senior adviser...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:56:00 GMT

UN Peacekeepers shot at in Darfur

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP)  Sudanese soldiers shot at a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, critically wounding a local driver and wrecking a fuel tanker barely a week into the force's new mission in th...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Don’t Give Up Now: Bringing the Genocide in Darfur to an End

Reading the headlines and watching the news about Sudan can certainly be discouraging. The litany of gloom and doom is well documented. The U.N.-authorized protection force for Darfur is being held up...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:09:00 GMT

Democratic Candidates -Weak HealthCare Proposals

The mainstream Democratic candidates for President -- John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton -- have each put forward their proposals for "affordable quality health coverage for all." The three D...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:41:00 GMT

About ENOUGH- Visit www.enoughproject.org

Fifteen years after the world failed to stop the massacre of more than 800,000 innocents in Rwanda, the world's response to the current bloodshed in Africa is shockingly similar. Today,...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:53:00 GMT

ENOUGH: Darfur - Roots of the Crisis

Sudan, Africa's largest country, owes its existence as one unit to its colonial history. Sudan is divided by religion, ethnicity, tribe and economic livelihood (between nomadic and sedentary cultures)...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:48:00 GMT

John Prendergast is coming to DePere to speak about Darfur

Here is the info about the De Pere event with John Prendergast. It is a free event:   United Nations celebration moves to northeast Wisconsin, St. Norbert College and UW-Green Bay to present le...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:43:00 GMT