Eye Level Pasadena

This post isn’t specifically Pasadena-related, but Pasadena has a lot of citizens who care about what is going on in Darfur, and a lot of bloggers, and I’m guessing a lot of people who like John Lennon’s music. If that describes you, this post is for you.

My friend Marilyn and I started Bloggers for Darfur over a year ago as a resource for bloggers who want to call for an end to the horrible violence in Darfur. We got an email from Amnesty International this week announcing that they’d released an album of John Lennon’s music performed a bunch of different musicians called Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. They also made neat music player widget that people can add to their blog sidebars to play samples of the songs — and to call attention to the situation in Darfur. (It works for most blogs, except wordpress and livejournal — otherwise I’d show you a sample.) Check the widget out, though, and check out the album website.

Sebastian Zacharia of Woodbury University will discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan this Wednesday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pasadena Central Library.

Pasadena Central Library Auditorium
285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena
April 18
7:oo p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

By way of Pasadena Community Calendar and the Pasadena Weekly.

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Adopted virtual neighbor Marilyn of California Fever and I started Bloggers for Darfur in 2006 as a way to raise awareness of the killing taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan. (I should note here that Marilyn deserves the credit for keeping the site going and for doing the blogging ever since.) We started it last year to coincide with last year’s Global Day for Darfur, and, as Marilyn points out, there has been no real progess in Darfur in the last year. It’s pretty overwhelming to me. This year, Global Days for Darfur will take place between April 23 and April 30. (Different places will observe it on different days in April.) Marilyn has a post up this week about Google Earth’s new satellite images showing the destruction there.