Join the Call for End to Genocide in Darfur: Olympic Torch Lighting, Relay and Rally Connecting Darfur-Yerevan-Boston
Please join the No Place for Denial team and friends and neighbors from throughout the region as Massachusetts Dreams for Darfur and calls on China to use its influence to help end the genocide in Darfur. On Sunday, October 7, residents of Massachusetts will "carry the torch" for the people of Darfur at a rally at Government Center.
Sunday, October 7 at 3:30 PM
Boston Government Center
Prior to the 3:30 PM gathering, Olympic-style torches will be lit and torch relays will be run throughout Massachusetts. The relays will all come together at the Boston Government Center for a torch lighting ceremony.
Featured Guests for the Culminating Torch-Lighting Ceremony include:
= Archbishop Vicken Aykazian, President, World Council of Churches, who will be accompanied by an Armenian Genocide survivor
= Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MD, Co-founder, My Sister's Keeper
= Jill Savitt, Director, Dream for Darfur Campaign (Jill just returned from the International Torch Relay event in Yerevan, Armenia.)
= U. S. Congressman John F. Tierney (D-MA-6)
.....and other special guests
Less than one year before the much-anticipated Beijing Olympic Games begin, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, and prominent human rights activists pointedly connected the government of China to the first genocide of the 21st century in a torch lighting ceremony at Dzidzernagapert, the site commemorating the first genocide of the 20th century.
On September 25 2007, Dream for Darfur hosted a symbolic Olympic Torch lighting at the Genocide Memorial site in Yerevan. The torch was lit from the eternal flame and passed among survivors of genocide and other Darfur advocates.
The torch that was lit in Yerevan will be arriving to Boston on Sunday, October 7.
For more information please visit http://www.madreamfordarfur.org/
This event is free and open to the public.
Armenian American organizations sponsoring this event include the Armenian National Committee of America and the Armenian Assembly of America.
