April 6 & 7, 2006

100 Days of Action & STAND FAST

The 100 Days of Action will occur from April 6 to July 14, 2006

STAND FAST will be STAND’s Day of Action on April 7.

There will be a Washington Lobby Day to kick off 100 Days of Action on April 6, culminating in a rally at the White House at 5:30 pm.

STAND FAST

Who: mtvU, STAND, and you

What: Students from across the nation are going to unite and STAND FAST to help the people suffering from ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan. Students are going to give something up - fast - in order to reflect on both their opportunities and the moral tragedy that plagues Darfur.

When: April 7, 2005 - the anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda

How: You can give up anything, like caffeine, cigarettes, or chocolate. Then donate the money you would have spent on your item to a relief organization providing assistance in Darfur.

Why: Join students across the nation to imagine a future where these atrocities will have justice as an answer - not silence. We can turn the voices of college students across America into one voice that is so loud it cannot be ignored.

100 Days of Action • 100 Days • 100,000 Signatures • $1,000,000

The Rwandan Genocide occurred from April 6, 1994 to July 14, 1994. During these 100 days, at least 800,000 people were killed as the world stood by and watched. On April 6, 2005, the GIF will remember Rwanda by taking action to stop the genocide in Sudan. Beginning on April 6, the GIF will launch the 100 Days of Action Campaign to combat the genocide in Darfur. This campaign reflects the GIF's commitment to creating a comprehensive response to genocide. The goals of this grassroots campaign are to raise $1,000,000 in support of the GIF and to facilitate the writing of 100,000 letters to government officials urging them to take action to end the genocide in Darfur. This goal will be reached through the participation of colleges, universities, religious organizations, schools, and individuals all over the United States.

The GIF has already received overwhelming public support from elected officials and policy experts. On Feb. 10, 2005, Samantha Power, founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, current lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, said of the creation of the GIF, "I am completely blown away by what these students have taken upon themselves and hope that this will encourage people of greater means and political capacities to do what they can do because if everyone did what this ... I think it would be a very different situation in Darfur."