After 14 days, December 17 was my final day of fasting for Darfur. I broke my fast and enjoyed a lovely lentil soup from my daughter, Kirsten, and a tasty apple for dessert – they were delicious!
As I return to other duties also I will remain part of a team of people across this country [...]
Kempton Lam interviewed me at the beginning of my time outside Harper’s office, and did a follow-up interview on Day 11. Watch the video below, or visit Kempton’s blog: http://kempton.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/helping-darfur/
Kempton Lam recently did an interview with me outside of Harper’s office and put it up on Google Video and his blog (http://kempton.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/helping-darfur/)
WHY A HUNGER STRIKE?
A hunger strike is a non-violent means that an individual or a small group uses in a public place and a public way to call attention to an issue [...]
People on the street are busy on errands and Christmas preparations and many of the them stop and encourage me – believing in the importance of our solidarity with the poorest and most desperate people on earth.
My hunger strike is really a quiet protest that such atrocities go on, but especially that we, in the [...]
Embassy, December 12th, 2007
NEWS STORY
Alberta Politician Brings Darfuri Refugees to Ottawa
A group of eight Darfuri refugees were on Parliament Hill last week to make an urgent, personal call to action, encouraging MPs of all political stripes to urge the government to contribute to a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur, which they say is balancing [...]
Here’s a snapshot of the press conference we did in Ottawa last week. Unfortunately not one media outlet carried the press conference – obviously dissapointing. Many of the Darfuris were asking why Canadians were so interested in scandals and celebrities rather than people dying in Africa. I don’t know what to tell [...]
Thanks very much to you David for opening our eyes to many of these atrocities across the planet and for opening doors for us in the Parliament of Canada which seems so impenetrable to the average citizen. Like me our 7 Darfuri representatives from Calgary were literally ‘blown away’ by the experience in Ottawa – [...]
Today is the third day of my fast (only mild fatigue thankfully!) and my final day in Ottawa. It has been clear from our meetings with MPs from all parties, that there is support for the UN Mission to Sudan. What is lacking from Canada is a clear commitment to funding this mission. Canada has, [...]
This has been an inspiring and discouraging 2 days with our seven Darfuris, witnesses to the genocide going on in their homeland. The press conference with Sen. Romeo Dallaire, David Kilgour, Sen. Grant Mitchell, Dr. Keith Mills (MP), Glen Pearson (MP), Paul Dewar (MP), Mario Silva (MP), Green Party Human Rights critic Joe Foster [...]