Buffalo for Africa’s Rally for Peace
The rally's schedule is as follows:
5PM: African Dance Performance by “Nedra” (Kim Weber from the WNY Belly Dance Association)
5:10PM: Introduction by Christina Sullivan & Patty Evans. (Opening remarks to explain the schedule of rally, why we are there, introduction of the Board, welcome to special guests, recognize schools/refugee groups, and Granville family, etc.)
5:20PM: Darfur: The Urgency by Drew Beiter
5:30PM: Guest Speaker-Joe Diamond (Holocaust Survivor)
5:35PM: Musical Interlude-Ten Cent Howl will perform Imagine
5:40PM: Guest Speakers- Tribute to John Granville (Buffalo Native & US Diplomat who was killed in the Sudan).
5:55PM: Presentation of Plaque to The Granville Family & Speech by Mayor Byron Brown
6:05PM: One of the Lost Boys/One Mission Found (Guest Speakers- Father Sajdak and Fidele Diing Dhan)
6:15PM: Save the children (Guest Speaker: George Miller)
6:20PM: Musical Performance by Tent Cent Howl (Local Band)
6:50PM: Closure/End Thanks to all participants.
Buffalo for Africa's Rally for Peace
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Niagara Square
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CuzzinPat
Before you pro-war humanitarians go off promoting "action," check this out:
A “humanitarian intervention,” as benevolent as it may try to sound, at its core means non-consensual military action against a foreign country—war under the banner of humanitarianism. The remarkable thing about nearly all of these media calls for intervention is that, beyond the appeals to urgency and morality, virtually no effort is made to explain exactly why or how one should believe that aggressive military action is what will bring peace to Darfur; readers, apparently, are to take that as self-evident.
full article here: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3259
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Colin
A quick look at their website leaves me with no idea of what exactly this group is promoting, exactly. It would have been nice if BR had asked.
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