Tag: Enough Project

On this post last year we announced The Hope for Darfur – Justice in Sudan March in Washington, sponsored  by The Darfur Interfaith Network. This week-end  the event is back and will be on Sunday, May 15, 2011, starting at the Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street, N.W. and will proceed to the White House at Lafayette Park. This year’s message is: We encourage the U.S, along with the international community, to renew and strengthen the ...

The Enough Moment is on sale. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us an empowering and hopeful new book, as they reveal the steps being taken by engaged citizens—”Upstanders”—famous and unknown, here and abroad, to combat genocide, rape, and child soldierdom in Africa, and show how you can be a part of the movement. The Enough Moment, by John Prendergast with Don Cheadle, is on sale now, and ...

Today is our first anniversary. The Sama Gazette was launched on July 28th, 2009: The Sama Gazette is now online… Time passes so quickly! During this first year, we shared with you what caught our attention, what we liked and the organizations and campaigns we support. Our first supporters are our valued Sama Readers who from the beginning of this great adventure, post comments, send emails and read us everyday. Many of them even actively support ...

One of our goal at the Sama Gazette (if not our goal number one) is to raise awareness of the plights facing many people around the world: human rights issues, social, hunger and environmental issues, starvation and poverty. We hope our support is contributing to mobilize people, as we have already seen positive results among our readers who are actively supporting campaigns and joined several meetings, in France and in the United States. From RAISE ...

In April, we published an article about the new campaign launched by Enough Project: Change the Equation for Congo: Just 5 minutes for 5 days. Many Sama Readerscommented about it and took action by sending an email to their Representative; a few days later, we mentioned the campaign again in: Friday Digest: Congo campaign/Zimbabwe/Sudan/iPad… We support this campaign on the Sama Gazette because we think it’s important we buy conflict-free cell ...

The Hope for Darfur – Justice in Sudan March and Rally, sponsored  by The Darfur Interfaith Network, is scheduled for Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 1:30 pm in Washington. The march will begin at the athletic field on Raoul Wallenberg Place behind the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. About the March (learn more about it): The Hope For Darfur – Justice in Sudan March objective is to encourage people to stand up, take action, and march to ...

In August 2009, one of our first post on the Sama Gazette was: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… This post followed the publication of an article on the Boston Globe: The new blood diamonds by John Prendergast, co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress. Since then, more and more people are now aware of the situation and we can’t look away anymore. Starting today (April 19 – 23), Raise Hope for Congo ...

  Every Sunday, it’s Twitter Sunday on the Sama Gazette. A weekly rendezvous where we share with you our Favorites Tweets from the people/organizations/companies we follow on Twitter. Today is the last Sunday of the year, so we decided to list all our Twitter Sunday posts since we started the rendezvous.   A good way to know more about our ‘Friends’ on Twitter, discover their humor, learn more about their commitment…   Twitter ...

  It’s Sunday on the Sama Gazette News Website, it’s time for Twitter Sunday! Today we decided to get serious. After sharing our Favorites Tweets from Diablo Cody, Moby, Wired, David Lynch and FecalFace, we selected for you the tweets posted by Enough Project. You may already know Enough Project if you read the Sama Gazette, we mentioned them several times on our articles: RAISE Hope for Congo: Activism you can wear and The (new) blood ...

A month ago, we posted an article titled: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… and we received many emails about it. The situation in Congo is dangerous and we think it’s important to raise awareness about it. John Prendergast is co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress, and his article: The new blood diamonds was published on the Boston Globe. It was a month ago and we are still talking about the situation ...