Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Programming Ideas for next year (Your input welcome!)

(Please consult 1) www.standnow.org, 2) Chronicle coverage of past Darfur activities for campaign ideas, 3) UNC Darfur group, 4) Save Darfur event archive for ideas.)

Try to have one major event every month to maintain the momentum and student interests =)

1. Produce a staged reading "Darfur Stories"
  • Please contact James Tager or Chloe Chien for the script.
  • Could fundraise through this performance.
  • Make use of the Darfur Score Cards as well.

2. Documentary screenings
  • God Grew Tired of Us (Work with devin.alavian@duke at Freewater to bring in this film, which costs $500-$1500 for license and shipping.)
  • All About Darfur (Lilly 6563)
  • Darfur Diaries (Lilly 7927)
  • Lost Boys of Sudan (Lilly 4129)
  • There are also other films not about genocide, but about ethnic relations/history in Sudan. Search 'Sudan' in 'subject keywords' field.

3. Panel/speaker of writers, humanitarian workers, politicians, refugees, survivors, artists,
  • Reverend Warner (g.warner@duke) wanted to bring in a speaker in September

4. Conference/symposium
5. Lobbying for State divestment
6. Get Duke to publicly commit to future non-investment in Sudan
7. March/rally/vigil
8. Visual display- mock refugee camp, t-shirt display, life-size refugee cutouts
9. Die-in!
10. Tabling to collect signatures & Darfur Scores messages.
11. Make and give out t-shirts
12. Darfur Fast
13. Dinner fundraiser

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