darfur from day 1

Darfur From Day 1

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Outline

• Goals of campaign• Intro of campaign• Asks for Obama• Track Record of Administration• Basics of the campaign• 5 actions• Regional Response Teams• Actions throughout the semester


Goals

Primary: Affecting the Obama administration’s policy on Darfur

Secondary:• Affecting MoC’s stances on Darfur• Generating media about changing policy on

Darfur• Rejuvenating advocacy tactics and engaging

members


Campaign Intro

• 5 major nationwide actions throughout the first 100 days of the administration

• Formation of Regional Response Teams (RRTs)• Hearings, budget, and other actions

throughout the semester


Asks for Obama

Darfur Actions

• Do not invoke Article 16• Enhance mulitateral, non-military coercion by increasing

targeted sanctions from a broader coalition• Expand the arms embargo• Make the peacekeeping force in Darfur, UNAMID, effective• Ban offensive military flights• Appoint a high-level Sudan envoy with senior diplomats• Ensure that there are an appropriate amount of foreign

service officers for the region


Asks for Obama

Genocide Prevention

• Invest $250 million for crisis prevention and response

• Create international information-sharing network for preventing genocide

• Create an interagency mechanism within the US government for sharing information and coordinating preventive action


Track Record of Administration

• President Obama• VP Biden• Secretary Clinton• UN Ambassador Susan Rice• Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel• CIA Director Leon Pannetta• NSA James Jones


Actions Throughout the Semester

• Day 1—Fax in agenda• Day 25—Call in to State Department • Day 50—Fax in • Day 75• Day 100—Nationwide action to take place on

campuses, and lobby meetings


RRT

• Designed to respond rapidly to urgent actions• Application form• Training calls• Close interaction with Ocs


Day 75 Brainstorming

• YouTube campaign• In-district lobby meetings during congressional

recess• Something around NATO summit and

helicopters


Day 100 Brainstorming

• Nationwide action for campuses or groups of schools

• Media-generating• Something to invite MoC’s to• We need YOUR help to plan this!


Other actions

• Lobby days in-district, emphasizing– Special envoy– Budget for peacekeepers

• Responding to developments on the ground


Resources

• Website!• Video• Agenda from Day 1 action• Calendar with events


http://standnow.org/campaigns/dfd1

darfur from day 1

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