Sudan Rally in New York 9.17.06

Directions to Rally

Enter from 5th Ave. at 90th St., follow East Drive uptown to East Meadow

Subway: Take the 4, 5,6 to 86th Street or the 6 to 96th Street

Bus: Take the M1. M2, M3, or M4 southbound on 5th Ave. or northbound on Madison Avenue or take the M106 or M96 across Central Park.

More at the link above.

The Man Who Started the Shouting

The Christian Science Monitor has a great writeup on Eric Reeves, the Smith College English professor who writes the definitive Sudan blog.


If the Bush administration calls the Darfur crisis in western Sudan "genocide," if those green "Not on our watch" banners cropping up around the nation prick your conscience, and if Hollywood stars drop in on the issue, it's due in no small part to the work of the relentless Smith College professor with a laptop and a thick hide. "As a one-man nongovernmental organization, he has done more than any other individual or group I know of to keep the crisis in Darfur on the agenda of political leaders and the public," says Susannah Sirkin, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights.

In the past seven years, Reeves has published hundreds of tart essays. His signature weekly analytical blog is read religiously by hundreds of policymakers involved with Sudan, and Congress has called him to testify several times.

Read the whole article here, and don't forget to check out Eric's wonderful blog.