Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] the ice-cream guy and our close election

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Jonathan King wrote:

> But at the same time, I really and truly hate the doofy "it's all so 
> simple" politics of the oreo cookie set.
[snip]
> But if you want to change the world, your slogan can't be based on 
> cookies and dreams.


Here's the latest from the Cookie Man and his TrueMajority coallition:

In the three months since TrueMajority started working to stop the 
genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, the president and a unanimous Congress 
have declared the Darfur killing a genocide; the UN Security Council has 
given Sudan a tight deadline to provide security for the refugees or the 
members will consider oil sanctions; and the Khartoum government is now 
allowing food aid and relief workers to reach the survivors, millions of 
whom live in refugee camps.

The security situation outside the camps is still terrible, but what we've 
achieved in a short time has been amazing. All previous genocides were so 
labeled after the fact, but for the first time, the world community is 
trying to stop this one. You've been a big part of getting our government, 
and consequently the world community, to act quickly. We did not do this 
alone, but we did a lot. Along with our friends at Faithful America, 
members of TrueMajority, took the following actions:

· Sent 152,000 well-timed faxes, messages and phone calls to Congress in
   the run-up to the congressional votes on Sudan

· Participated in a 1,000-person die-in in front of the White House on the
   day of the vote (An aide to Sen. Feingold told us it was "touch and go"
   whether the vote would take place and that our activism was extremely
   helpful.)

· Donated $130,000 to send a camera crew to the refugee camps, whose
   satellite images generated over 50 newspaper, television and radio
   stories about Darfur all over the country

· Participated in a hunger strike of 3,200 people in 50 states
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