Genocide in Darfur: I hear the drums echoing tonight

Pamela Leavey has a good piece up at The Democratic Daily about George Clooney's effort to raise awareness about the tragedy of Darfur:

George Clooney is on a mission — to Save Darfur. Clooney was in Washington today for the Save Darfur rally just days after returning from a secret mission into Darfur with his television-anchor father, Nick Clooney. They smuggled cameras into the Darfur refugee camps to report on what’s been called the 21st century’s first genocide. This Week interviewed George Clooney this morning, watch the video clip here:

The WaPo reports that among the speakers at today’s Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C., were: “Rabbi David Saperstein; Al Sharpton; Joe Madison, a liberal black radio talk-show host who has been pushing the issue; Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention; rap and fashion mogul Russell Simmons; and former basketball star Manute Bol, who is himself Sudanese.”

Please read. Thanks.

http://www.savedarfur.org/

http://www.darfurgenocide.org/

Human Rights Watch

Wikipedia-Darfur Conflict