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Community Outreach
June: AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be giving a Darfur presentation at the San Mateo Rotary Club.
May 16: AADG Director spoke at a Dream for Darfur- and STAND-sponsored rally in front of VISA headquarters in San Francisco. For more info about why this action was taken, visit http://tinyurl.com/5lolyw
May 8 Update: AADG and the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition gave a presentation this week to students at Lynnbrook High School in San Jose, CA. Next up: Presentations to an Amnesty Int’l chapter and a San Francisco high school!
AADG will be giving a Darfur workshop at the Day of Learning, an educational event for high school students, educators, and adults. The event is being organized and hosted by the Holocaust Center of Northern California. Learn more and register here.
Continuing project—we’re doing grassroots outreach to Chinese and Chinese American communities around the country, in preparation for the Beijing Olympic Torch’s arrival this April in San Francisco. For more info on why we’re invested in pushing China on the Darfur issue, visit http://www.ourpledge.org/olympics and http://www.dreamfordarfur.org.
AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be giving a Darfur presentation to the Palo Alto Red Cross on Monday, December 3 at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Email info@ourpledge.org for more info.
Ongoing: Event planning and outreach! ... AADG staff members Elissa Test and Nikki Serapio are two of the primary organizers of the Sunday, Nov. 18 “Dream for Darfur” rally and symbolic torch relay in Oakland, CA. Congresswoman Barbara Lee will be speaking at this event, which is free and open to the public. Go to www.DarfurSF.org to learn more and register today!
November 4, 2007: AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be leading a discussion at a Darfur awareness event at Niles Congregational Church (Fremont, CA), after a community screening of “The Devil Came on Horseback.”
From Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, AADG will be at the national STAND conference in Washington, DC. See http://www.standnow.org for more details.
Sept. 23, 2007: AADG Director Nikki Serapio is helping to moderate a planning meeting for the Nov. 18, 2007 Dream for Darfur torch relay in San Francisco. For more info, visit http://darfursf.org/content/?p=169 and http://darfursf.org/content/?p=163
Advocacy
Ongoing: AADG is helping out with the second phase of the Save Darfur Coalition’s Divest for Darfur campaign. Working with the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, we’ll be focusing on San Mateo, CA-based Franklin Templeton, which holds a huge number of shares in PetroChina. For more info, visit http://www.savedarfur.org/page/content/Div_4_Dar-aystl
AADG is helping plan out a new campaign focusing on California contract prohibition. What’s this mean? Stay tuned for more details. Or, if you’d like to learn more and possibly get involved, please email Sarah Grundahl at sarah at savedarfur.org.
Media advoacy—AADG staff members, along with the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, are currently reaching out to national and local California Bay Area media outlets to secure good coverage of our April 9th Darfur action in San Francisco.
March and April 2008 Project—We’re in the middle of planning a large-scale Darfur protest for Wendesday, April 9, 2008, to greet the arrival of the Beijing Olympic Torch in San Francisco. Working with the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition and the Save Darfur Coalition. Stay tuned for details. Visit http://www.savedarfur.org/china for more info.
January + February 2008: We’ll be rolling out a new viral video, letter-writing, and calling campaign soon focused on the need to impose stronger targeted sanctions against Sudan’s genocidaires. Stay tuned to http://www.ourpledge.org this month and next…
Oct. 15, 2007: AADG Executive Director Nikki Serapio spoke at a Darfur Divest rally at Franklin Templeton headquarters in San Mateo, CA. The event was organized by the Save Darfur Coalition and the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition. Photos will be posted soon to our Flickr page.
Ongoing: Helping the Save Darfur Coaliton, STAND, and other Darfur groups with an advocacy campaign related to passing H.R.180, The Darfur Divestment and Accountability Act
Ongoing: During the week of September 23, 2007, representatives from AADG and the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition will be in DC for meetings with the offices of Congressman Tom Lantos, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara Boxer, and Senator Dianne Feinstein. We’re still trying to arrange additional meetings with other offices.
8/16, Some Bay Area follow-up: We’ve been trying to secure a meeting with Rep. Anna Eshoo’s office for the past few weeks. Actually, we’ll try getting a meeting with the Congresswoman herself…
Website Stuff
Some pages on OurPledge.org are getting a little stale. Our apologies! We’ll be pushing out fresh content soon.
March 2008: OurPledge.org will be moving over to a new e-petition system this month, powered by Democracy in Action. Be on the lookout for fresh content!
December + January 2008: This month OurPledge.org will be starting a blog series featuring entries by ordinary citizens from all over the U.S. Why? Because ou are the frontlines in this movement to end genocide! This blog series is one way in which OurPledge.org can help facilitate communication between activists.
Ongoing: We need to do some serious updating to our website. Please bear with us. We’ll be refreshing a number of pages soon.
Other Events, Meetings, and Projects We're Involved In
AADG will be giving a Darfur presentation to the Palo Alto Fellowship Forum in May. The Forum is made up of Bay Area citizen leaders that are interested in international and humanitarian affairs.
AADG will be working with its grassroots members to host House Parties focused on the premiere of “Sand and Sorrow,” a new Darfur documentary that’s being aired by HBO. (First screening is on Thursday, December 6, 2007.) See http://campusprogress.org/events/2166/party-with-a-purpose-host-a-sand-a for more about this terrific opportunity for promoting Darfur awareness and advocacy. This initiative is being spearheaded by the ENOUGH Project and Campus Progress.
Later: This November, AADG will give a Darfur presentation to members of the Santa Clara County Social Issues Committee
Oct. 26, 2007: AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be giving a brief Darfur presentation at the United Nations Film Festival, after a screening of the “Devil Came on Horseback”. He’ll also be participating in a Q&A session after the film.
Oct. 27, 2007: AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be participating in a Human Rights Torch Relay event in San Francisco, CA. AADG will be speaking about how the Chinese Government is fueling the genocide in Darfur.
Oct. 9, 2007 in Los Gatos, California – AADG Executive Director Nikki Serapio will be giving a presentation along with Dr. Ashis Brahma, a doctor who worked in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad. More info here: http://darfursf.org/content/?p=175
September 20, 2007 presentation at Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco
September 16, 2007 showing of “The Devil Came on Horseback” in San Francisco. Click here for more details and to register. Nikki Serapio will be leading a panel discussion after the first showing of the above film.
September 15, 2007: AADG Director Nikki Serapio will be giving a divestment presentation at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco