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Mighty Mic Concert to End Genocide

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A 9-day multi-event human rights gathering will be held May 20 – 29th of 2008 on the UCLA campus. The events will consist of a Genocide Awareness Week to occur between May 20 – May 29, and the Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert to Save Darfur in Ackerman Grand Ballroom on the evening of May 29th, 2008. We feel that this date is significant as this year will see the 60th Anniversary of the Raphael Lemkin’s 1948 Genocide Convention, where the world first proclaimed its opposition to genocide and ethnic cleansing at the international level.

The Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert and Genocide Awareness Week will consist of events that raise awareness about genocides past and present while celebrating the courage and perseverance of genocide survivors and emphasizing the importance of ending the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
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8 responses // Mighty Mic Concert to End Genocide

  • Awesome!!! Danny I'm totally excited...!!!
    Spiral9
  • Concerts have nothing to do with genocide. Also, the U.N. ruled that the civil war in Darfur was not genocide. This is a civil war between the gov't and people who are fighting against it. International relations are not simple.
    BleachedBlind
  • I'm gonna change the world with my turntables.... i'm gonna crossfade genocide out.. What a joke.

    That's like helping free Tibet with the use of bumper stickers....
    1percent
  • I totally disagree. I've been to this event last year, and it's a great way to organize, build community, all focused on change, education, and activism. The concert is actually the final part of this project. The program is not about "freeing the world." It's about bringing light to issues that are so important to know, and to discuss the different ways to get involved.

    There will be experts at this week long event discussing various types of genocides from the Halocaust, to the Cambodian genocide, Rwanda and Darfur. These panelists are experts in their field.

    Last year over 1,500 people showed up. Also a bunch of student group leaders from different social justice networks to talk about different issues going on in the world as well.

    I think Mighty Mic is great...





    Spiral9
  • Wow, 1percent and bleachedblind - Wow.
    Here are good people doing something positive to raise awareness of suffering and injustice, and all you can do is sit on the sidelines and criticize. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
    Julie_Soller
  • Details about the event for those who don't know and assume it's just a concert:

    TUESDAY, MAY 20

    American-Indian Genocide: outdoor workshops, photo exhibit on Bruin Walk, screening of the award-wining documentaryTrail of Tears,
    WEDNESDAY, MAY 21

    Armenian genocide: photo exhibition and a letter writing campaign. Screening of the documentary Arawa.
    THURSDAY, MAY 22

    Holocaust: posters listing the Nuremberg Laws in Bruin Plaza, photo exhibit and a large map of Europe marking the locations of concentration camps.
    TUESDAY, MAY 27

    Cambodian Genocide: outdoor workshops with speakers. photo exhibit, screening of the documentary Year Zero
    WEDNESDAY, MAY 28

    Rwandan and the Darfur genocides: Student made quilt to be donated to the UNICEF Child Survival Program following the conclusion of the event. a candle light vigil, as a 30-minute piece on Darfur, created by MTV U

    THURSDAY, MAY 29

    Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert!

    for more info check out: mightymic.org
    Spiral9
  • I'm soooooooooooooo excited!!!
    Spiral9
  • If you would stop to think that these people are tring to make a difference you wouldn't be so quick to criticize. I agree and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you knew about the meetings and the fact that the people here are aware that is more complicated than a genocide you can see how we are not as ignorant as you assume we are. The proceeds are going to buy a mobile clinic to send to the refugee camps, and of course you believe everything the UN says, and how little they have done and how actually powerless they are you would hold your tongue. Would you also jump with joy atthe fact the US sent miltary aid to El Salavdor to curve the insurgency during Regan's presidency, and contributed to the genocide of thousands of Salvadorians? But you know, it was not really a genocide... i mean right?

    you should go hide. When it comes to the issue of human rights, nthing that contributed to suffering and murder is right, and naything done in help should not be criticized.
    GEstradaGama

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