wfn.org | Coverage Advisory: Live Webcast Aug. 25 from Sudan Border

["Carol Fouke" <cfouke@ncccusa.org>]

LIVE WEBCAST, TELECONFERENCE PLANNED FOR AUG. 25 FROM SUDAN BORDER

August 24, 2004, New York City - To mark Wednesday's (August 25) National Day
of Conscience on Sudan, FaithfulAmerica.org is planning a live Webcast from a
refugee camp on Sudan's border with Chad, to include interviews with
survivors of the Darfur genocide and a tour of the camp.

The live "international town hall meeting" begins at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern
Time.  Sign up at www.faithfulamerica.org/webcast.htm  (For people who miss
the live Webcast, a tape will be available for viewing at
www.faithfulamerica.org beginning later in the day.)

At 10 a.m. Wednesday (U.S. Eastern Time; 3 p.m. Chad), genocide survivors and
aid workers will be speaking live from the Sudan/Chad border in a media
teleconference.  Joining the call will be Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize
winner, author and Holocaust survivor; Samantha Power, author of the 2003
Pulitzer Prize winning "A Problem from Hell; America and the Age of Genocide"
and the upcoming New Yorker feature story on Darfur; and John Prendergast,
former White House advisor for African affairs.

U.S. journalists call-in number for the 10 a.m. teleconference:
1-800-540-0559.  International journalists call-in number: 01-1-785-832-0326.
 Conference ID: Genocide

The international telephone conference call will be hosted by TrueMajority
and a ground team from Global Nomad's Group (GNG).  Separate of the telepress
conference, GNG will also be offering journalists live video links to
genocide survivors and aid workers on the Sudan border.  To book a satellite
TV interview with refugees from Darfur or for more information on the August
25 events, contact Michael Khoo, Julie Wolk, or Alex Howe at Fenton
Communications: 202-822-5200

The National Day of Conscience has been organized by the National Council of
Churches USA (NCC) and 70 other faith-based, humanitarian and humanitarian
groups united in the interfaith Save Darfur Coalition.	

On that day (or, if that is impossible, on another day of their choosing),
communities across North America are urged to engage in interfaith activities
designed to raise public awareness about the growing genocide in Darfur and
to demand that the international community take immediate and decisive action
to stop the killing, the rape, and the destruction of villages, and to assure
that humanitarian relief reaches all those in need.  For more information,
see www.ncccusa.org/news/04savedarfurcoalition.html  

Persons who wish also are invited to join a national day of fasting on the
25th.  Click here for your commitment to be recorded as a point of light on
an electronic map of the United States:
www.darfurgenocide.org/hungerstrike.htm  The Webcast and fast are a joint
venture of the NCC's online advocacy arm FaithfulAmerica.org and of
TrueMajority.org

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