The Darfur Relief Show

Now, read ahead a bit to find out what we're all about. If you're as shocked by it as we (and many other people) were, then please please take the time to re-post this banner on your profile or into a bulletin... and even better, if you live locally then come along to the show! The code for the banner is below.
Darfur is a region the size of France in Western Sudan. A little over half of the six million people who live in Darfur are black Africans, the rest are Arab. Despite severe underdevelopment in the region, they have a history of peaceful coexistence. They intermarried and often one group was indistinguishable from another. In the 1980s drought exacerbated the region's underdevelopment. Rather than address the problem, the Government has shown complicity with long-standing notions of African inferiority among the Arab population, allowing the right of Africans to live in Darfur to be questioned. In recent years Africans have increasingly come to be referred to as 'abid' meaning slave...The Darfur conflict or the Darfur genocide is an ongoing armed conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local Baggara tribes, and the non-Baggara peoples (mostly tribes of small farmers) of the region.
The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided arms and assistance and has participated in joint attacks with the group. The conflict began in February 2003.
2,500,000 People displaced
350,000 People killed
3,200 Villages destoryed
5 Un Resolutions
Numbers increasing daily...
Yet the slaughter still goes on...
Not nearly enough is being done to stop this genocide...
Thats what the concert is all about, raising awareness and funds for the people in need... to sum it up- We are a charity, but make good music while we're at it.
This is a video of Trippin' Over Wah, the headliners from 2005. Ok the sound quality is terrible, but at least it gives an idea of what the atmosphere is like.
TOTAL MONEY RAISED: £1600... so far!