Philadelphia’s Global Day for Darfur March and Rally

On April 29, 2007, the Darfur Alert Coalition will host Philadelphia’s Global Day for Darfur march and rally, designed to spread the word about our most recent social and legislative agenda and to reinvigorate the fight to put an end to the tragic events happening in Sudan’s Darfur region. Darfur Alert Coalition’s event is one of more than 200 events being held in conjunction with Save Darfur Coalition occurring around the world this April.

The goals of these events are clear: To demand the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to help protect civilians, and to embolden calls for harsher sanctions against the Sudanese government for its failure to comply with UN Security Council resolutions.

The situation in Darfur is dire. Four years of genocidal violence has left over 200,000 dead, 2.5 million innocent civilians displaced, and 4 million men, women, and children completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter.

LTSP is one of the co-sponsors and your presence at this rally is a powerful statement against the very real genocide there, of which we are sadly aware every day.

Some background: Previous Global Day for Darfur events attracted tens of thousands of supporters from around the world. In September 2006, 57 events took place in 41 countries on 6 continents focused on the need to get U.N. peacekeeping troops into Darfur. The second Global Day in December drew attention to the use of sexual violence against the women of Darfur.

To join our coalition or more about the April 29 event, please contact Lou Ann Merkle at (610) 832-7028, or lamerkle@comcast.net. Financial contributions can be made out to Darfur Alert Coalition. Thank you for your time, compassion, and consideration.

Lou Ann Merkle
Executive Director,
Darfur Alert Coalition
Darfur Alert Coalition P.O. Box 42036 Philadelphia, PA 19101 www.darfuralert.org 484-250-2795 lamerkle@comcast.net


ADVISORS
Honorable Allyson Schwartz
Congresswoman,
13th District, PA
Alan Butkowitz
Philadelphia City Controller
Honorable Jannie Blackwell
Philadelphia City
Councilwoman
Bishop Ernest C. Morris
Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ
Salih Mahmoud Osman, Esq.
Intern’l Human Rights Award
Recipient: ABA & HRW
Timothy Jenkins, Esquire
Pres., Unlimited Visions
Enid Adler, Esquire
Dr. Mohamed Elgadi
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Ali B. Ali Dinar
President
Fatima M. Haroun
Vice President
Jim Remsen
Vice President
Dr. Mahdi Ibn Ziyad
Secretary
Ibrahim Hamid
Treasurer
Jim Feldman, Esq.
DAC Attorney
Lou Ann Merkle
Executive Director
Suad Mansour
Darfur Projects Director
Burt Siegel
Communications Director
Tigani Abu Algasim
Volunteer Director
Rita Fitzgerald
Advocacy Director
Lisa Deeley
Badawi Osman
D A R F U R ALERT C O A L I T I O N
"WORKI NG FOR PEACE, JUSTI CE AND HEALI NG WI TH SURVI VORS OF GENOCI DE I N DARFUR. ”