* More than half of the crowd was Jewish. I might even say � of the crowd was Jewish. They totally showed us up my fellow followers of Jesus. I know that this is probably because they are more sensitive to genocide since it has happened to their people. But I was hoping for a bigger standing from the Jesus side of things, you should not need to have genocide committed against you to be against it and want to try and stop it. Don�t get me wrong, this is not about politics or religious orientation; this is about man�s inhumanity to man, so I am glad there were so many people there. It just felt like we were some of the only people cheering when the Christian speakers spoke because there was noticeably less cheering during and after the Christian speakers. I thought it would be more evenly represented since there is a much larger population that is Christian than population that is Jewish in this country.
* The US government is a lot more knowledgeable and aware than I previously thought.
* So now all we need is for you, yes YOU, YOU the one reading this right now. Go to www.savedarfur.org and find out how to contact your congressional representatives and the president. Take some time to write them letters and tell them that you think it is important to stop this genocide. That website has all you need to know about what is actually happening so you can educate yourself first if you need it.
* I BEG YOU TO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO IT. CALL WRITE EMAIL, SOMETHING ANYTHING. JUST CONTACT THEM NOW. I BEG YOU TO PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW! It will only take a few minutes.
*How would you feel if your child was killed with the butt of a rifle to the head, or your wife, sister and daughter getting gang raped over and over and over again, or your husband, brother, son getting murdered if they leave the refugee area. If everyone you knew was homeless and so were you. And UN Food Aid has just been cut in half, so you not only have had lost your home and your land and the ability to provide for yourself, and had most of your family raped and murdered but now you have to live on less than 1000 calories a day. PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW
* then when you are done doing it yourself, I challenge you to get 5 friends to do it too. And if they get 5 friends to do it too we just multiplied our numbers exponentially.
* as followers of Jesus, we are commanded to love our neighbors. That means friends and enemies alike. That means African Muslims that are getting annihilated and the Arab Muslims that are murdering them. We can help put a stop to these senseless deaths of our fellow humans. We are to be a voice for the voiceless.
* the best article about the rally can be found here
8:13 pm � thanks to excellent directions from Mrs. C over the phone, we got to Panera right before they closed for dinner. We would have gone to Chick Filet again but it is Sunday, so it is closed for the Lord�s Day.
11:02 pm � Chris and Talya start chanting Par Mar Par Mar Par Mar Par Mar Par Mar, which apparently the name of the store at the Exxon station.
11:40 pm - Chris: remember when Virginia used to be Virginia and West Virginia too.
Jess: yeah, those were the days.
1 May 2006
1:27 am � Home. BED.
This is Captain Jessica signing off.
