Save Darfur Rally
Save Darfur Rally: Voices to Stop Genocide. Central Park East Meadow (enter at 90th St and 5th Ave), 2-5 pm, today (Sunday 17 September). I'll only be there for a short time, due to pre-arranged teaching commitments, but hope to see many (of you?) there as well.
Update: the New York rally was huge, far bigger than I'd expected--tens of thousands, apparently. I wasn't there long, and people were still streaming in--wearing baseball caps and headbands in UN-helmet blue--when I left. I missed Madeleine Albright's speech (heard it was quite good though; she's trying to atone for US Rwanda policy by taking a lead role on Darfur) but I did see Samantha Power, and rather listen to Power than Albright any day. It was heartening to see so such a turnout--especially lots of teenagers and kids, and many people who clearly were not habitual attenders of rallies/protests/etc. People also rallied in: Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Banjul, Berlin, Bishkek, Bonn, Brussels, Budapest, Calgary, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Hague, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Kigali, Lome, London, Lusaka, Madrid, Manama, Maracaiba, Montreal, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris, Phnom Penh, Port Louis, Rio, San Francisco, Singapore, Seoul, Stockholm, Toronto, Trondheim, Ulaan Bator, and Vancouver, according to the Global Day for Darfur site. I hope it matters.
Update: the New York rally was huge, far bigger than I'd expected--tens of thousands, apparently. I wasn't there long, and people were still streaming in--wearing baseball caps and headbands in UN-helmet blue--when I left. I missed Madeleine Albright's speech (heard it was quite good though; she's trying to atone for US Rwanda policy by taking a lead role on Darfur) but I did see Samantha Power, and rather listen to Power than Albright any day. It was heartening to see so such a turnout--especially lots of teenagers and kids, and many people who clearly were not habitual attenders of rallies/protests/etc. People also rallied in: Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Banjul, Berlin, Bishkek, Bonn, Brussels, Budapest, Calgary, Cairo, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Hague, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Kigali, Lome, London, Lusaka, Madrid, Manama, Maracaiba, Montreal, Nairobi, Oslo, Paris, Phnom Penh, Port Louis, Rio, San Francisco, Singapore, Seoul, Stockholm, Toronto, Trondheim, Ulaan Bator, and Vancouver, according to the Global Day for Darfur site. I hope it matters.
posted by kitabet at 12:08 PM
3 Comments:
Isn't Samantha Power beautiful? I think she's the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world.
- Anonymous, 'yes', hesitant 'no' in declaration above ;)
(Got here via Modal Minority)
Elizabeth,
Thanks for posting on the Save Darfur Rally. Somehow, none of the lists that i'm on made any mention of it--sad because if had known earlier, i would certainly have gone and added to the already sizeable turnout.
MSF had a "refugee camp" set up in Central Park this past weekend too.
maya: welcome! and i didn't see mention of the rally via the usual channels either--which is worrying--got it from some friends who are on a steering committee at Amnesty, which was a cosponsor.
and my dear not-so-anon: there did in fact transpire a "Samantha Power is so damn hot" (in addition to intellectually & politically righteous and brilliant, of course) discussion at the rally, in the course of which i may have mentioned previous consensus with you on the subject. hearts & flowers! i am impatient for her new book.
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