Today's Rally at UN Against Sudan Genocide

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Just passing this along:



About today's UN Rally



STOP RACIST GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY IN SUDAN!

SUNDAY, 2pm - UN Plaza



WHY WE ARE RALLYING



On January 19, 2004, Arab militia sponsored by the Sudanese government swept through the village of Goz El Naim in Darfur, Sudan. They abducted 4-year-old Alsadik Mansour as a slave, murdering his parents and burning their bodies. As you read this, Alsadik remains in bondage.



Black people across Sudan are under threat of annihilation. The mass murder of Blacks in Darfur is the first genocide of the 21st century: 50,000 have been slaughtered, 2 million forced into the desert as refugees, and thousands raped and enslaved. In the South, the Shiluk Kingdom faces extermination. Across Sudan, millions of Blacks forced from their homes - Muslims, Christians, and animists - now live in refugee camps.



This is genocide. One million may die by December at the hands of the radical Islamist regime in Khartoum, led by General Omar Bashir, who took power in a 1989 military coup. For too long, world leaders have stood by and failed to stop the atrocities in Sudan's killing fields. Prominent members of the UN Security Council have oil and military contracts in Sudan.



But now a coalition of people of conscience - from all walks of life - have come together to hold world leaders accountable. As New Yorkers commemorate the terror attacks of September 11, they will also stand in solidarity with victims of terror in Sudan (which hosted Osama bin Laden until 1996). We come together to demand UN intervention to stop genocidal militias, to insist that Sudanese leaders be tried for war crimes, and to stand in solidarity with the victims of genocide and slavery - like 4-year-old Alsadik Mansour.



SPONSORS



The American Anti-Slavery Group has organized a coalition of concerned organizations in a historic rally in front of the United Nations on September 12 (click here for directions to Dag Hammerskjold Park at 47th Street by the UN). The event is open to the public, and the goal is to bring together hundreds of people to hold world leaders accountable.





Confirmed speakers include Curtis Sliwa (right), founder of the Guardian Angels and current host of New York City's #1 WABC morning radio show, "The Curtis and Kuby Show", Gloria Steinem (left), Dr. Holly Atkinson of Physicians for Human Rights, Congressional Black Caucus founder Rev. Walter Fauntroy, and Alan Hevesi, current Comptroller of the State of New York.



The driving force behind the rally are African communities under siege, and co-sponsors include the Massalit Community of Darfur, Darfur Peace and Development, South Sudan Voice for Freedom, South Sudanese Community in America, and the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Mauritania