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Start: Mar 1 2009 9:00 am

 

March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

Start: Mar 2 2009 3:00 pm

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

Start: Mar 2 2009 6:00 pm
End: Mar 2 2009 7:00 pm

About this event:

Speakers’ Tour:

The Enough Project, in partnership with STAND, hosts a speakers’ tour on college campuses to educate students about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the resulting epidemic of sexual violence against women and girls.

Speakers:

John Norris, Executive Director, Enough Project

Candice Knezevic, Congo Campaign Manager, Enough Project

Jimmie Briggs, Award winning journalist, author and human rights lecturer

Lisa Shannon, Founder of Run for Congo Women

Francisca Thelin

Location:

Oregon State University
Milam Auditorium (Mlm 026)
2520 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

Student Contact:

Alfonso Jimenez: jimeneza@onid.orst.edu

No RSVP required

Start: Mar 2 2009 6:00 pm
End: Mar 2 2009 7:00 pm

The Enough Project in partnership with STAND hosts a speakers’ tour of college campuses to educate students about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the resulting epidemic of sexual violence against women and girls.

Location:
Oregon State University
Milam Auditorium (Mlm 026)
2520 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

Date/Time:
Monday, March 2 2009
6 PM – 7 PM

Speakers Include:
Jimmie Briggs, award winning journalist, author and human rights lecturer
Candice Knezevic, Enough Project
John Norris, Enough Project
Lisa Shannon, Founder of Run for Congo Women
Francisca Thelin, Congolese-American Women with first-hand account of struggles in DRC

Student Contact:
Alfonso Jimenez: jimeneza@onid.orst.edu
No RSVP required

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

all day

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

Start: Mar 3 2009 7:00 pm
End: Mar 3 2009 8:00 pm

Enough Project Co-chair John Prendergast will be presending a public lecture on "Stopping Genocide and Mass Atrocities in the 21st Century" Eckerd College. 

More information available here

St. Petersberg, Florida

No need to RSVP

Start: Mar 3 2009 7:00 pm
End: Mar 3 2009 8:00 pm

About this event:

Speakers’ Tour:

The Enough Project, in partnership with STAND, hosts a speakers’ tour on college campuses to educate students about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the resulting epidemic of sexual violence against women and girls.

Speakers:

Candice Knezevic, Congo Campaign Manager, Enough Project

David Sullivan, Research Associate, Enough Project

Jimmie Briggs, Award winning journalist, author and human rights lecturer

Lisa Shannon, Founder of Run for Congo Women

Francisca Thelin

Location:

UC Berkeley
155 Dwinelle
Berkeley, CA 94720

Student Contact:

Elizabeth Hopper: hopper.elizabeth@gmail.com

No RSVP required

 

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

all day

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

Start: Mar 4 2009 12:00 pm

About This Event:

The International Criminal Court is expected to release an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on March 4. Members of the Darfuri diaspora and their supporters in New York City will rally at noon on this day at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza in support of the ICC's decision.

Location:

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD PLAZA

Gateway to the United Nations

East 47th Street @ 1st & 2nd Ave.

New York, New York
 

 

PDF of an informational flyer. 

Start: Mar 4 2009 6:00 pm
End: Mar 4 2009 7:59 pm

Event: Lecture by John Prendergast: “The Darfur Genocide: What you can do to help end it,” followed by Q&A. 
Time: 7 to 9:30 pm
Location: Whitley Auditorium at Elon University 
  133 West College Avenue, Elon, NC 27244 
 
No RSVP needed

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

all day

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

Start: Mar 5 2009 8:00 am

 

Featuring "The Greatest Silence" — Official Selection

March 5th - 7th, 2009

More info

Start: Mar 5 2009 5:00 pm
End: Mar 5 2009 6:00 pm

Congo Women

Congo/Women is an international photography exhibition and educational campaign that raises awareness of the widespread sexual violence facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The exhibition features powerful life-size photographs that convey the strength and courage of Congolese women. Accompanying essays contextualize the impact of the crisis from a range of perspectives. An advocacy partnership with the Enough Project's Raise Hope for Congo campaign provides tools to demand action and involvement from the global citizenry.

Start time: 5pm

March 5, 2009
Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Rayburn Foyer
Washington, DC

Co-Hosting the event:
Rep. Donald Payne;
Rep. Betty McCollum;
Rep. Carolyn Maloney;
Rep. Jan Schakowsky

Speakers:
Stephen Lewis, Co-Director, AIDS-Free World, Former U.N. Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

John Prendergast, Co-Chair, The Enough Project

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Invited Speaker)

Dr. Roger Luhiriri, Physician, Panzi Hospital, DRC

Sylvie Maunga Mbanga, Human Rights Lawyer and Former Program Coordinator, Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation, DRC

For More Information:
Sarah Hoyt
(202) 326-8700

Click here to RSVP

 

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

all day

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

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Featuring "The Greatest Silence" — Official Selection

March 5th - 7th, 2009

More info

Start: Mar 6 2009 1:00 pm
End: Mar 6 2009 2:00 pm

About This Event:

Call in to get an update on the crisis in Congo, learn more about the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign, and find out how you can help build the movement.
View your event at http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/enoughproject.org/event?action=VIEW&eid=bGtxMTAzcTVpb2FwdW5sdTBnYmlsaTczM3MgZXZlbnRzQGVub3VnaHByb2plY3Qub3Jn.

Participant dial-in number: 888-674-0222 or 201-604-0498 

International dial-in number: 1-201-604-0498

Ask to be placed in the "Raise Hope for Congo's Congo Challenge launch" call.

Speakers:

John Prendergast, Co-Chair, Enough Project

Candice Knezevic, Congo Campaign Manager, Enough Project

Lisa Shannon
 

Start: Mar 6 2009 1:00 pm
 

Join us for this month's Activist Conference Call, featuring Enough Project Co-chair John Prendergast, RAISE Hope for Congo campaign manager Candice Knezevic , and Run for Congo Women founder Lisa Shannon.

Call in to get an update on the crisis in Congo, learn more about the RAISE Hope for Congo campaign, and find out how you can help build the movement.

Participant dial-in number: 888-674-0222 or 201-604-0498 
International dial-in number: 1-201-604-0498

Ask to be placed in the "Raise Hope for Congo's Congo Challenge launch" call.

The call is at 1 pm EST.

Start: Mar 6 2009 5:00 pm

A Season in the Congo

Youth Onstage! is proud to bring to the stage Aimé Césaire's epic drama A Season In the Congo as part of the 2008-2009 "Castillo Performs the World" theatre season. A Season In the Congo poetically chronicles the independence movement in the Congo and is one of the few plays written by the late Aimé Césaire, one of the great surrealist poets of the 20th Century. 

 

March 6 - April 5, 2009

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 pm

TDF accepted; group rates available.

For tickets and information call the Castillo Box Office

 212-941-1234

Order tickets online at www.castillo.org

 

 

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March 2009
Akersveien 20
0177 Oslo
Norway

Panel discussion with the filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jonas Gahr Støreto and former Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway Petter Eide to follow the screening.

More info
 

all day

53rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Headquarters, New York City

More information here.

Start: Mar 5 2009 8:00 am
End: Mar 7 2009 12:59 pm

 

Featuring "The Greatest Silence" — Official Selection

March 5th - 7th, 2009

More info

all day

A Season in the Congo

Youth Onstage! is proud to bring to the stage Aimé Césaire's epic drama A Season In the Congo as part of the 2008-2009 "Castillo Performs the World" theatre season. A Season In the Congo poetically chronicles the independence movement in the Congo and is one of the few plays written by the late Aimé Césaire, one of the great surrealist poets of the 20th Century. 

 

March 6 - April 5, 2009

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:30 pm

TDF accepted; group rates available.

For tickets and information call the Castillo Box Office

 212-941-1234

Order tickets online at www.castillo.org

 

 

Start: Mar 7 2009 2:30 pm

 In Honor of International Women's Day 

2009 

   "Yoga for The Congo"
Heart Opening Workshop

 

 

Join us as we dedicate an afternoon to the women

of The Congo...learn how to open your heart to let the world in, cultivate compassion, and how to take your yoga off the mat & into the world. 

 

Saturday, March 7, 2009

2:30-5PM

Yoga Samahdi in Inman Park, Atlanta

with Instructor Dina Greene and Dialogue's Stephanie Jolluck

http://www.yogaatlanta.com/

 Cost: "love offering"...donate $40 or more and receive a Dialogue

"End the Silence" tshirt. 

 

To secure a spot, please contact

stephanie@dialoguestartone.com 

 

For more info, please visit www.dialoguestartone.com

 
 

 

 

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