Event on Wednesday

Some ACS folks are helping to put this together. Its not an ACS event, but I thought I would share the info.

BENEFIT CONCERT
TO PREVENT HOTEL DARFUR
 
A preventable humanitarian crisis, affecting more than two million people, is raging in the Darfur region of western Sudan right this minute. Not since the Rwanda genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement. Government-backed militias, known collectively as the Janjaweed, are systematically eliminating entire communities of African tribal farmers. Villages are being razed, women and girls raped and branded, men and boys murdered, and food and water supplies targeted and destroyed.
 
WE CAN NOT REMAIN SILENT
Help Us Make Some Noise!
 
Join New Yorkers as we celebrate local musicians and heighten awareness about this dire situation.
 
Wednesday, April 13th 8:00pm
doors open at 7:30pm
Tonic - 107 Norfolk Street, NYC
between Delancey and Rivington
$16 admission (includes one free drink)
 
Musicians include:
 Karl Huth (www.karlhuth.com), Matt Stamm (www.mattstamm.com), Ben Eyler (www.beneyler.com) and Vanya Green.
 
Featured speaker will be:
Gerry Martone, Director of Emergency Response for the
International Rescue Committee (www.theirc.org), who will share his personal experiences as relief worker in the Darfur region.
 
For more information about the crisis in Darfur, please visit www.savedarfur.org. If you have any questions concerning the event, please email us at preventdarfur@yahoo.com.