| Special
message from Marianne Williamson
Nov, 29, 2005
Dear Friends,
I've asked before; I'm pleading now. Today please make the time
to call your two Senators and your Congressional representative,
expressing your desire for the American government to help stop
the genocide in Darfur. To read more about this human slaughter
and how you personally can help stop it, go to http://www.savedarfur.org.
All you have
to do is make one call. To find out the contact info for your Senators
and Congressman, go to http://www.congress.org,
or you can call the U.S. capital switchboard at (877) 762-8762 or
(202) 224-3121. To make your case stronger when speaking to your
Congresspeople or their aids, you might want to make these points:
- The U.S.
should help build the African Union Security Force (Congress recently
cut out the $50 million dollars from the federal budget that would
have been used for this purpose).
- There needs
to be an expanded U.N. security force in Darfur
- The U.S.
should support a no-fly zone to protect civilians
- The Darfur
Peace and Accountability Act should be passed in the House of
Representatives
- We want President
Bush to talk about this issue whenever and however possible, to
awaken the American people to the horror of this situation and
to our moral responsibility to address it.
It has been
said that if one hundred people in each Congressional district in
the U.S. had contacted their representatives about the Rwandan genocide,
then that would have generated the political will to stop it. The
Rwandan horror is being repeated today in the Sudan, and the U.S.
is not yet doing everything we can to help. Not even close.
Dante's famous
quote resonates: "There is a special place in hell reserved
for those who, in times of moral crisis, remain neutral." Genociate
in the Sudan is a moral crisis of the first degree. And we can stop
it. Amen.
Please help
spread the word.... Thanks.
All my best,
Marianne Williamson
Letter From
Marianne Williamson
2/23/05
Dear Friends,
I have been increasingly dismayed by reports of genocide in the
Sudan, and today I read an article
by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times that broke my heart.
A Sudanese government-backed militia called
the janjaweed is seeking to clear the area of all non-Arabs, pillaging
and burning African villages, and having already killed at least
70,000 people. Horribly similar to the Rwandan genocide several
years ago, this insanely brutal activity will only continue if we
fail to act.
The late Senator Paul Simon said
after the Rwandan genocide, "If every member of (the U.S.)
the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home
saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was
first developing, then I think the response would have been different."
Former President Bill Clinton has said that his greatest regret
is not having taken more action in Rwanda at that time. Genocide
in Rwanda is seen in hindsight, however; the tragedy in the Sudan
is unfolding right now.
We have power to help stop
this, if we use it; you and I can make sure that our Congressional
representatives know we care and want to see action. There are in
fact various things our government can do -- from sanctions to freezing
the assets of those Sudanese officials who support the genocide
-- but our government will assuredly not act unless we, the people,
raise our voices.
Please go to to www.congress.org
is you do not already know where to email your Senator and Congressman.
Tell them you want the American government to use its strongest
influence to stop this tragedy. You can look on www.savedarfur.org
or www.darfurgenocide.org
for further information about the crisis, in which men, women and
children are dying the most horrible deaths even as we speak.
This is a moment to use our
democracy, to raise our voices loudly and clearly, and extend our
love to those in desperate need. Let us pray for our Sudanese brothers
and sisters in need, and do what we can to save them.
All my best,
Marianne Williamson
P.S. Please pass this note along to your friends.
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