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Advocacy and Action (Voices on Genocide Prevention)

Series: Voices on Genocide Prevention
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:23:13

Bec Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), discusses the movement to prevent genocide in Darfur, especially in regard to student activism. Read the full description.
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Bec Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), discusses the movement to prevent genocide in Darfur, especially in regard to student activism, and her work to build a permanent political constituency against genocide and mass atrocity . Bec highlights two of GI-Net's newest initiatives, Darfur Scores, which provides report cards for all members of Congress dependent on their level of action on the Darfur issue; and 1-800-GENOCIDE, a genocide hot-line that will connect you directly with your representative's office.

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MARCH 22, 2007, ADVOCACY AND ACTIVISM

JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Rebecca Hamilton. She is co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network. She has co-written with Chad Hazlett, a forthcoming essay, ?Not On Our Watch: The Emergence of the American Movement for Darfur.? This interview is the third of three that we are producing in conjunction with Facing History and Ourselves. Rebecca Hamilton will participate in an online discussion on March 26th and 27th. You can find details about participating in that discussion on the Voices on Genocide Prevention blog: www.vogp.org. Today, we want to focus on advocacy and action. Bec, welcome to the program.

BEC HAMILTON: Thanks Jerry.

JERRY FOWLER: Let us start with the big picture. There has been, in some ways, an explosion of activism on Darfur. Why is that?

BEC HAMILTON: I t...
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