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Comment by Gabriel Stauring (CCAL30)

Author: Gabriel Stauring (CCAL30) (1398)
Date posted: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:00:08 PST
Comment on: Stop Genocide Now 2007 (8)
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You know, Jim, each Camp Darfur has its own feeling. The last few have been pretty amazing. The ideal is for each community to take it over and make it their own. At Venice and Wildwood High, they have completely done that.

I'd like to add material about "the beauty that is lost" when a genocide is destroying a whole people. At Camp Darfur-Pasadena last year, a Bosnian woman helped us out, and she brought a lot of the culture that was being destroyed, including typical dresses, arts, and books. She herself was a survivor, so it was a very moving experience to walk in to that tent.

I loved how the young people of the high schools did so much research, and then they shared what they learned with the entire student body. It was very effective.

I would like more interactive activities. I've been speaking with Tsai Yi and Stacey, both of whom have arts/theater/etc. in their background and have great ideas about how to really engage visitors in a more complete way.

It would be very helpful to get material that would help with all of this and ideas on how to make it better.

Oh, we definitely need to add more on heroes, upstanders, regular people that embraced responsibility and decided to act. We have one for each of the genocide presented, but we need so much more. We also want to start collecting the stories and pictures of many of the people we meet around the country, who are themselves upstanders.

On the action side, we always have action as a big part of CD, so ideas that would make action more than just signing a petition would be good.

So, there is a lot to do, but we don't stop moving while we work on it :)

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