Happy 4th Birthday to charity:water and Some Words of Encouragement

Today, our friends at charity:water turned 4 years old. Every year to celebrate their anniversary, charity:water drills a clean water well and broadcasts it live to the world. This year, things are not going quite as planned: So, the bad news is that the drill today did not work. As charity:water founder Scott Harrison says [...]

Human Rights Watch: Kyrgyzstan Genocide Interviews

Elie Wiesel, John Prendergast: From the Holocaust to Darfur

Come Meet the New Operation Broken Silence

The issues are local and they are global. Over 1 billion people in the world are affected by them, and it’s time to take action. If you live in Memphis and the surrounding area, here is your chance! Our 3 focus areas, genocide, modern slavery, and the World Water Crisis, will be highlighted at a [...]

Modern Slavery Follow Up Meeting

On August 2, we will be at First Evangelical Church for the follow-up meeting from the July 19th DEMAND Screening Event. There will be a brief recap on the current issue of modern slavery and human trafficking, and then we will introduce our guests to the new department being added into Operation Broken Silence. Afterwords, [...]

Ocampo: “Now End This Darfur Denial”

Internationl Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo wrote this recent article that appeared in the Guardian. Here’s a snippet: No more excuses. No more denial. This week, the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for three charges of genocide against the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. The world once claimed ignorance of the Nazi atrocities. Fifty years [...]

The Sudan3 Campaign

We need to act now to prevent the mass atrocities that lie in Sudan’s increasingly bleak future. With that said, we present to you the Sudan3 Campaign. The Sudan3 Campaign Action 1: Email Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp You can email this letter to Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp: Greetings Ambassador Rapp, I am [...]

Behind the Scenes at OBS…

July is proving to be one of the busiest months in our history. For the remainder of this month, we will be focusing on building ourselves as a movement as we complete multiple projects that will set us up for success. We’re moving forward! Here’s a behind the scenes look at what we’re up to: [...]

Samantha Power Addresses Campus Progress

Study: Africa’s Water Most Precarious, Iceland Best

The risk of intra and cross border conflicts will continue to grow in Africa over the coming years as lack of access to clean drinking water continues to threaten stability in many war-torn and/or impoverished regions. Reuters reports: African nations led by Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan have the most precarious water supplies in the world while [...]

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