THE ONLY HOPE FOR DARFUR: WE-THE-PEOPLE. duh

Note: Click HERE for 100s o f photos and detials from Sunday's AfricaAction.org arrests at the White House 9/09/06.

It is said that the mark of truly being “crazy” is expecting different results to come despite repeating the same actions over and over and…

Ok, we've tried some new approaches, hoping we could find a new formula for mass social change (stopping Genocide has NEVER been done. N-E-V-E-R); looking for a way that would be comfortable, convenient, safe, executed from where we are, from our computer terminal / phone / office / home in some combination. The variations we’ve tried are:
* Blame - UN, EU, AU, Bush, Congress...
* Emails / Blogs / Letters / Phone calls / Post cards / 1-day-fasts (yawn; oh, excuse me) / an occasional 3 hour demonstration (with entertainment!)...
* Letting the Nonprofits do it - SaveDarfur.org, AfricaAction.org, GenocideIntervention.net, STANDnow.org...
* Divestment...
* Meetings, lectures, prayer services...
And the results are in! WE ARE NOT, N-O-T STOPPING THE GENOCIDE! Infact, all evidence to the contrary - things have gotten worse, much worse. We might have known it would not come this cheap.

The answer for Darfur is the same answer we found for…
* Ending the Vietnam War
* Gaining Civil Rights in the US
* Gaining Women the right to Vote in the US
* Ending apartheid in South Africa
* Throwing off oppression at the start of the US....

Yup. Soldiers, of the antiviolent variety, putting themselves in harms way to protect the innocent. King's way. Gandhi's way. Jesus' way. A mother's way.

Let the blame for the Genocide rest with us. WE-THE-PEOPLE. Let the END OF GENOCIDE BE BROUGHT BY US, we-the-people-of-the-world! No one else, nothing else can stop it, can save 4,000,000 in Concentration Camps in Sudan and Chad. The buck stops with WE-THE-PEOPLE.

Time for us to start - marching, demonstrating, sitting-in, hunger striking… UNTIL DARFUR GENOCIDE STOPS.

The next step is September 17th (SaveDarfur.org; DayForDarfur.org). We must make these worldwide events an earsplitting mandate to the “governing bodies” that we demand, we mandate, we support nothing less than the immediate end to the Genocide. Our message must be unmistakable, “Do what it takes. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. Do what we hired you to do, or make room for those who will.”

Then we need to be ready on SEPTEMBER 18th, 19th… AS LONG AS IT TAKES, WHATEVER IT TAKES FROM US TO END THIS GENOCIDE, NOW.