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DARFUR NOW College Tour, Chicago

By Paul | May 29, 2008

Last week I had a chance to document an event called Darfur Now College Tour. It’s a nationwide tour in support of the Theodore Braun’s absorbing documentary, Darfur Now, which arrived on DVD May 27th. Don Cheadle poses a very hard question for all who went to see the movie: “How do you respond to an event as difficult to understand as a government-sponsored mass murder of part of a country’s civilian population?”

The United Nations has estimated that by 2007, 200,000 people had been killed and 2.5 million displaced from their rural villages in Darfur. Despite international outrage, not a single person responsible for war crimes against humanity in Darfur has been brought to justice.

Don Cheadle has been trying to rise awareness for the problem of genocide since 2004 when he was making the movie “Hotel Rwanda”. He teamed up with John Prendergast to write a book “Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond”. Recently he has enlisted several hip-hop artists to help raise awareness for the crisis in Darfur.

Chicago was of of the cities participating in the project. First there was a special screening of Darfur Now movie at Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago in Hyde Park. After that the concert was hosted by The Abbey Pub in Chicago. Performing artists included:

If you would like to find out more about the conflict in Darfur and the problem of genocide (in 21st CENTURY !!!), please visit these sites: STAND, Relief International, Take Part by Participant Media.

Here are a few pictures from that event.









Two beautiful ladies: Chundria and Nekia Nichelle from FLAIR TV.













If you would like to see more pictures from that event, please click HERE.

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