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Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert: The Concert to End Genocide

The Darfur Action Committee at UCLA, as part of Mighty Mic, presents music and speakers focusing attention on genocide and to raise funds to purchase the US Doctors for Africa Mobile Clinic. Adam Sterling, John Prendergast, and Rabbi Harold Schulweis are scheduled to speak at the event.

Thursday, May 29, 2008
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA United States

Adam Sterling is a graduate of UCLA, Afro-American Studies and Political Science; he was a member of the Darfur Action Committee at UCLA while a student and today is the policy director for the Sudan Divestment Taskforce. 

Scheduled to perform:

• OK GO
• Rock & Roll - featured on MTV's The Hills
• Rhymefest
• Zion-I
• Nico Vega
• Pangaea Collective
• Arepa

Scheduled to speak:

• John Prendergast, International Crisis Group
• Adam Sterling, Sudan Divestment Taskforce
• Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Congregation Valley Beth Shalom

Free tickets for everyone on the day of the event.  Tickets are first come, first serve.  Lineup at 4:30 PM in front of Ackerman Grand Ballroom on the UCLA campus.  $15 Suggested donation - all proceeds going to charity in order to purchase the US Doctors for Africa Mobile Clinic.

Come see this exciting concert put on and run by UCLA students.

For more information, please visit www.MightyMic.org or email the Darfur Action Committee at darfur@ucla.edu.

For a commercial preview, please visit http://current.com/items/88955379_ending_genocide.

These events are part of Genocide Awareness Week.  Genocide Awareness Week is a vibrant and dynamic part of the Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert.  It will recall the history, events, and people of five different genocides: Native American, Armenian, Holocaust, Cambodian, and the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Rwanda and Darfur).

Cost: Free and open to the public; parking is available in lot 6; all-day parking is $8.

Special Instructions

Free, but donations gratefully accepted.

For more information please contact

Darfur Action Committee at UCLA darfur@ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/darfur

Sponsor(s): Darfur Action Committee, Information about non-ASC events is posted for informational purposes and does not necessarily reflect opinions of or endorsements by African Studies personnel.