Stand UBC

Welcome to the blog for the UBC Chapter of Stand Canada.  

Stand Canada is the leading national youth-based organization dedicated to inspiring activism and advocacy addressing genocide.

06 December 2007

Darfur 2008 Youth Conference in Vancouver

Have a look at this: http://ubc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6747563946


And this! www.darfur2008.org.

03 December 2007

The beauty of Google Reader

Someone just introduced me to Google Reader--it's amazing! It basically encourages me to read up on Darfur more frequently--it can really simplify the task. What Reader does is it lets you select various blogs and news sites that you will receive updates from on a regular basis--without clogging your email inbox. Just do a search for "reader" and you'll find it (and it's by no means the only service of its kind). It should give you some fairly simple set-up instructions.

Anyway, when you start looking for news and blog sites to add to your Reader, here are some suggestions you might find interesting:

http://coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/atom.xml

http://darfurdaily.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

http://www.sudanreeves.com/backend.php

***
http://enoughproject.wordpress.com/feed/

http://www.crisisgroup.org/rss/rss_reports.cfm

http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeskelSquare

http://www.ssrc.org/blog/feed/

Now, I don't immerse myself in all of these. In fact, they make it easier to SKIM which is nice.
The last four feeds (under ***) may include non-Darfur topics.

Also, some regular news sites:

Sudan Tribune
AlertNet
ReliefWeb
BBC
Google News, etc etc etc....

Go nuts!