Books by John Prendergast
Events
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
STAND, A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, at UCF present
"Dafur, Congo, and the Steps to Peace"
Lecture by John Prendergast
4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816
Student Union, Key West Ballroom 218 AB
6PM-8PM
2nd Annual STAND Gala: A Benefit for the Congo at the Michigan League, Koessler Room (3rd Floor)
Omekongo Dibinga will be speaking at the Michigan League, Koessler room at an event hosted by Community High School STAND Chapter. Silent auction begins at 6:30PM, Congo presentation at 8:00PM.
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
Foreign Policy Initiative and ASMEA present
Sudan: On the Path to Peace or Crisis?
A panel discussion featuring:
John Prendergast, Co-Founder, The Enough Project
Dr. J. Peter Pham, Senior Fellow and Africa Project Director, National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and Vice President, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
Ambassador Herman J. Cohen, Former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Dr. Gérard Prunier, Senior Researcher Emeritus, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Member of the Academic Council, ASMEA
Ambassador David Shinn (moderator), Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Conference Center
1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC
The panel will address the complicated dynamics at play in Sudan, discuss U.S. policy options, and analyze regional implications as well as the influence of foreign actors, including Egypt, China, and Iran.
Telephone: (202) 429-8860
P.O. Box 33699 Email: info@asmeascholars.org
Washington, DC 20033
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
Join Host Committee Honorary Co-chairs Senator Robert Menendez and Congressman Jim McDermott, along with poker pros Annie Duke, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, and Greg Raymer, for the 2010 Ante Up for Africa D.C. Poker Tournament. Additional members of Congress are expected to attend.
Where: Hyatt Regency Washington
400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
When: April 14, 2010 at 6:30 pm
REGISTER HERE.
Please contact Rebekah Seder at rseder@enoughproject.org for more information.
Premiering on PBS during National Holocaust Remembrance Week on April 14 at 9 p.m. (check local listings), WORSE THAN WAR documents Goldhagen’s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. After the premiere, come back to this page to watch the full program online anytime.
For more information on the film, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/worse-than-war/.
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
Join Host Committee Honorary Co-chairs Senator Robert Menendez and Congressman Jim McDermott, along with poker pros Annie Duke, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, and Greg Raymer, for the 2010 Ante Up for Africa D.C. Poker Tournament. Additional members of Congress are expected to attend.
Where: Hyatt Regency Washington
400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
When: April 14, 2010 at 6:30 pm
REGISTER HERE.
Please contact Rebekah Seder at rseder@enoughproject.org for more information.
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
IN DARFUR
March 31–April 18, 2010
By Winter Miller
Directed by Derek Goldman
Based on true events, this impeccably researched chronicle of the unfolding genocide in Sudan is a searing story of humanitarian urgency and compromised journalistic ethics. Can one woman's story stand for the plight of a nation? And what are the costs of mobilizing world opinion?
Are you a student of the University of West Georgia or live in the area? Join Omekongo on April 21!
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Bonner Lecture Hall
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Are you a student of Lafayette College or live in the area? Join Dr. Lee Ann De Reus and Laura Heaton on April 22!
Time: 4:30 PM
Venue: Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, Room 104
For details about the festival, visit http://www.humanrightsartfestival.com/
About the Festival
The first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival will be held in Silver Spring, MD (just outside of Washington D.C.) from April 23-25, 2010. This multi-venue, multi-media event will bring together artists, local businesses and politicians to use socially transformative art to raise awareness of human rights and justice issues, as well as the important work of Amnesty International.
The festival will run from 4 pm to late night Friday, and then 10 am to late night Saturday and Sunday. Amnesty International will have a presence at all of the events, and the art festival will be a manner in which to raise awareness of the important work that Amnesty undertakes, as well as the quintessentially American values that they espouse.
Each day will include a variety of events including visual art shows, new media events, performance art, spoken word, theater, book readings, panel discussions, film, music, hands-on workshops, art walks from exhibit to exhibit, participatory parades, international foods etc. throughout the Arts and Entertainment District of Silver Spring, all centered on raising awareness of human rights issues. Venues will include local restaurants, art spaces, theaters and community spaces.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Amnesty International has more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions. They coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.
SPECIAL EVENT OF NOTE:
Caryn West will be displaying her vibrant portraits of children from around the globe at Bombay Gaylord restaurant (8401 Georgia Ave.) during the festival and will be giving two talks about her project Teaching the World through Art and signing her book The Trouble with the Alphabet at 2:00 PM on both Sat. and Sun.
Included in her book are the following local organizations: ADRA International, Women for Women International, Shared Hope International, SOS Children’s Villages, U.S. Campaign for Burma, ENOUGH Project, International Campaigfor Tibet, and American’s for Informed Democracy. Review the book at: www.ttwta.com
Yale STAND presents
A Conversation with
John Prendergast, Co-Founder of the Enough Project
Moderated by Lea Brilmayer, Howard M. Holzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School
Please join us this Friday at 3PM for a discussion of violence in Darfur, the Sudanese elections, and efforts to create peace in Sudan.
Co-sponsored by the Schell Center for International Human Rights, Amnesty International, Yale African Student Alliance, Social Justice Network, and the Yale Law School Africa Law and Policy Association.
William L Harkness Hall, Room 208
100 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511
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Master's Tea: Saybrook College and STAND present a conversation with John Prendergast
Friday, April 23, 5pm (doors open at 4:45pm)
Saybrook College Master’s House
90 High St (or Entryway N)
http://www.yaledailynews.com/events/2010/04/23/saybrook-college-and-stand-present-conversation-jo/
Additional Info/Contact: jeremy.poindexter@yale.edu
For details about the festival, visit http://www.humanrightsartfestival.com/
About the Festival
The first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival will be held in Silver Spring, MD (just outside of Washington D.C.) from April 23-25, 2010. This multi-venue, multi-media event will bring together artists, local businesses and politicians to use socially transformative art to raise awareness of human rights and justice issues, as well as the important work of Amnesty International.
The festival will run from 4 pm to late night Friday, and then 10 am to late night Saturday and Sunday. Amnesty International will have a presence at all of the events, and the art festival will be a manner in which to raise awareness of the important work that Amnesty undertakes, as well as the quintessentially American values that they espouse.
Each day will include a variety of events including visual art shows, new media events, performance art, spoken word, theater, book readings, panel discussions, film, music, hands-on workshops, art walks from exhibit to exhibit, participatory parades, international foods etc. throughout the Arts and Entertainment District of Silver Spring, all centered on raising awareness of human rights issues. Venues will include local restaurants, art spaces, theaters and community spaces.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Amnesty International has more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions. They coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.
SPECIAL EVENT OF NOTE:
Caryn West will be displaying her vibrant portraits of children from around the globe at Bombay Gaylord restaurant (8401 Georgia Ave.) during the festival and will be giving two talks about her project Teaching the World through Art and signing her book The Trouble with the Alphabet at 2:00 PM on both Sat. and Sun.
Included in her book are the following local organizations: ADRA International, Women for Women International, Shared Hope International, SOS Children’s Villages, U.S. Campaign for Burma, ENOUGH Project, International Campaigfor Tibet, and American’s for Informed Democracy. Review the book at: www.ttwta.com
For details about the festival, visit http://www.humanrightsartfestival.com/
About the Festival
The first ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival will be held in Silver Spring, MD (just outside of Washington D.C.) from April 23-25, 2010. This multi-venue, multi-media event will bring together artists, local businesses and politicians to use socially transformative art to raise awareness of human rights and justice issues, as well as the important work of Amnesty International.
The festival will run from 4 pm to late night Friday, and then 10 am to late night Saturday and Sunday. Amnesty International will have a presence at all of the events, and the art festival will be a manner in which to raise awareness of the important work that Amnesty undertakes, as well as the quintessentially American values that they espouse.
Each day will include a variety of events including visual art shows, new media events, performance art, spoken word, theater, book readings, panel discussions, film, music, hands-on workshops, art walks from exhibit to exhibit, participatory parades, international foods etc. throughout the Arts and Entertainment District of Silver Spring, all centered on raising awareness of human rights issues. Venues will include local restaurants, art spaces, theaters and community spaces.
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Amnesty International has more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions. They coordinate this support to act for justice on a wide range of issues.
SPECIAL EVENT OF NOTE:
Caryn West will be displaying her vibrant portraits of children from around the globe at Bombay Gaylord restaurant (8401 Georgia Ave.) during the festival and will be giving two talks about her project Teaching the World through Art and signing her book The Trouble with the Alphabet at 2:00 PM on both Sat. and Sun.
Included in her book are the following local organizations: ADRA International, Women for Women International, Shared Hope International, SOS Children’s Villages, U.S. Campaign for Burma, ENOUGH Project, International Campaigfor Tibet, and American’s for Informed Democracy. Review the book at: www.ttwta.com
Sudan: A Country's Present & Future
Sunday, April 25th | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Goodman Auditorium, IL Holocaust Museum
Featured Speaker: Dr. Isaiah Majok Dau
Currently on sabbatical at Trinity School for Ministry (Ambridge, PA), Dr. Dau is the Bishop of Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa (PEFA) in Nairobi, Kenya; and Principal at Nairobi Pentecostal Bible College. Dr. Dau directs Mobile Leadership Training seminars in war affected areas of Southern Sudan and Sudanese Refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda, and for 19 years served as principal, senior
lecturer and research fellow of theology and public life. In October 2005, he was appointed Professor of Theology at Global University, USA and worldwide. Dr. Dau is the author of “Suffering and God: A Theological Study of the War in Sudan.”
Followed by a Panel Discussion and Q&A with:
Malual Awak, President, Sudanese Community Association of Illinois
Gabriel Dut Atem, Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan
Luol Deng, Chicago Bulls Forward and Board Chair, Sudanese Community Association of Illinois (Tenative)
Reservations Requested—Free Program
To RSVP call 847-967-4844 or email Kelley.Szany@ilhmec.org
Co-Sponsored by the Sudanese Community Center and the Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan
St. Mary's Public Honors College presents
A Conversation with
John Prendergast
"There is a Reason for Optimism in Troubled Africa"
8:00pm
Daugherty-Palmer Commons
The ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and the Enough Project invite you to a: Luncheon Panel Discussion on Combating Gender-Based Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
CO-HOSTS: Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) & Sam Brownback (R-KS)
WHEN: 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. on May 5, 2010
WHERE: Senate Finance Committee Room
SPEAKERS:
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Lisa Shannon, Founder of Run for Congo Women and author: A Thousand Sisters
Dominique Bikaba, Congolese Advocate
John Prendergast, Co-founder of the Enough Project
Date: May 5, 2010
Time: 3:30 -5:30
Location: Senate Finance Committee Room
Capacity: 100
Watch on HBO or Request a Free DVD
Thursday, May 6, 2010
8:00 – 9:30 pm EST/PST
Call Details:
Time: 9:35p ET / 8:35p C / 7:35p MT / 6:35p PT
Dial in Number: ( 877 ) 210 – 8943
Conference ID: 70957757
Join activists and viewers across the country to watch the HBO premiere of Sergio, a powerful film following Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN’s top envoy in Baghdad following the US-led invasion of Iraq and one of the most tireless and effective advocates for peace and stability the world has ever known.
Campus Progress and the Enough Project have teamed up to coordinate and organize house parties across the U.S. to view and discuss the film together. House parties are great, informal ways to gather friends, family, co-workers, students, and neighbors together to foster discussion and community around an important issue.
Click here to register:
http://www.campusprogress.org/events/5407/party-with-a-purpose-host-a
