Sample Media Alert for your Camp Darfur Event
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(Ask KTJ for a word document sample of this so your group can modify it!)
MEDIA ALERT
For Immediate Release
Name of Group
Date
Contact: Have a contact person for your group! Provide Name, Phone Number, Email
STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE AT XX UNIVERSITY HOST
CAMP DARFUR EXHIBIT AND EVENT
WHAT:
Students for Justice at XX University are hosting Camp Darfur Camp Darfur is an interactive,
educational mock-refugee camp that brings attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan,
and gives individuals the opportunity to discover their own power to make a difference. This
traveling refugee camp raises awareness and examines Sudan's Darfur region and its
humanitarian crisis – genocide – by placing it in historical context with Armenia, the Holocaust,
Cambodia, and Rwanda.
Students, faculty, and community members are invited to walk through the camp and take
action to bring peace and justice to Sudan.
1-3 sentences about your program for the day(s).
WHO:
Here is where information should be listed about the group, school and gov. reps that
might be attending.
Camp Darfur is a project of Stop Genocide Now (SGN) and i-ACT (interactive-activism), a
grassroots team that seeks to change the way the world responds to genocide. The
camp travels across the country raising awareness and empowering individuals and
groups to take action. SGN also sends teams to the Darfur refugee camps on the Chad
Darfur border. Please visit www.stopgenocidenow.org and www.iactivism.org for more
information.
WHEN:
DATE(S)
WHERE:
Specific Location with street address, building address, and where to park
WHY:
The situation in Sudan is urgent: Nearly three million Darfuris living in camps face the threat of
rape and aid cut-offs; the country's president remains wanted for war crimes and crimes against
humanity; and a return to full-scale North-South civil war looms. The Obama administration and
other world leaders must:
1. Lead a more effective and urgent peace process for Darfur
2. Build an international coalition for strict implementation of the North-South peace deal
3. Implement a policy that creates real consequences* for those who continue to attack
civilians, block life-saving aid, undermine peace, and obstruct justice
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ABOUT YOUR GROUP: give a short mission statement/description about your group so that the media
knows who is hosting it!
Send out the alert one week before the event and follow-up with a press release the day before!
Try to keep the Media Alert to one page. The Press Release can be a little longer, but no longer than one
page with everything important in the first two paragraphs.
Resources: www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur
Email Katie-Jay Scott at ktj@iactivism.org
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Resources: www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur
Email Katie-Jay Scott at ktj@iactivism.org
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