What can WE do about Darfur?

[Paradox]

I don't know what groups are over there, or whether their reliable and whatnot, but I seriously want to do something, even something small, about Darfur. What about in Chad? Any leftist organizations helping the refugess that are fleeing to that country? Tragically ironic that I would feel helpless in this situation when it's the people over there dying who are really helpless. :(

[violencia.Proletariat]

Give the people getting attacked guns to shoot back with? :blush:

[Guest]

I would really like to help as well, but there seems like there is little we can do at the moment. And the most urgent time to act is now.

This site really doesn't say anything about this problem, but it is the worst abuse of human rights at the moment.

[Comjew]

I dont think there is much we can do.. My cousin although is african-american and she sells bracelets that say Darfur on them.

[Niall]

that helps a bit as in people might see them and ask questions and then they might get interested in the problem

[Janus]

Currently...

BBC News

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to speed up preparations for UN peacekeepers to be deployed to Darfur in western Sudan.
The council is calling on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to come up with a range of options within one month.
The African Union had been planning to keep its peacekeepers in Darfur until September and then hand the operation over to the UN.
But Sudan's government objects to the proposed handover.
The Security Council is asking Mr Annan to liaise with the African Union, Khartoum and the rebels to come up with a plan.
"It's a real step forward in building peace across the entire country," Britain's UN Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said in a statement.
The resolution also extended the mandate of a separate UN peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan, which was due to expire on Friday.
Differences
Some 7,000 African Union peacekeepers are in Darfur, but the under-resourced troops have struggled to end the conflict that has so far left more than 100,000 people dead and millions more in overcrowded camps.
UN officials have said they will not send in troops to Darfur without the approval of the Sudanese government.
But Khartoum says it does not want UN troops in Darfur until a peace agreement is reached in talks taking place in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
The head of UN peacekeeping operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno said: "There is a sense of urgency, I think from everybody, that there are people who are dying, that there is still violence in Darfur. That needs to be stopped."

[WUOrevolt]

AU or UN invasion of Darfur? Root out and destroy the Junjaweed? But then there is the question of the refugees. Perhaps maybe have the men and women of Darfur form self defense clubs or militias, similar to the Panthers or EZLN.