Genocide Awareness Week 2009 Schedule

USC Fight On For Darfur Presents:

GENOCIDE AWARENESS WEEK 2009

Join us for:
CAMP DARFUR (http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur/information) - A simulated refugee camp running all week on McCarthy Quad and…

Monday April 13th:
- ASA Presents the film “Screamers” by Carla Garabedian(http://www.screamersmovie.com/)
6:30PM
- Me To We Speaking Tour
8:00-9:30PM in THH 101
(http://www.metowe.com/main/)

Tuesday April 14th:
- "Blessed is the Match" Film Screening and Discussion
5:30 pm-8:00pm in SGM 123 (http://www.blessedisthematch.com/)

Wednesday April 15th:
- Reading of Rwandan Testimonies at Camp Darfur at 7:00pm

Thursday April 16th:
-"War Child" Film Screening and Discussion (http://www.warchildmovie.com/)
7:00pm-9:30pm in SGM 123
- Jewish World Watch Day of Action at Camp Darfur (http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/)

Blessed Is The Match Movie Showing

PLEASE COME AND WATCH AT 5:45PM APRIL 14TH, SGM 123



















WATCH THE TRAILER

WINNER, Audience Award, Best Documentary:
- Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival (2009)
- Denver Jewish Film Festival (2009)
- San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2009)
- Tucson Jewish Film Festival (2009)
- Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (2009)
- Washington Jewish Film Festival (2008)
- Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival (2008)
WINNER, Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival (2008)

Directed by Roberta Grossman and Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews along with 31 other Jewish-Palestinian parachutists in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.

With unprecedented access to the Senesh family archive, and through interviews, eyewitness accounts and the prolific writings of Hannah and Catherine Senesh, Blessed Is the Match recreates Hannah's mission and imprisonment. The film explores Hannah's childhood against the backdrop of significant historical events resulting in a rich portrait with several interlocking strands.

The film shows British-controlled Palestine and explores how the Kibbutz Movement drew Hannah and other idealistic Jews there in the hopes of building a Jewish state. Israeli President Shimon Peres, who knew Hannah as a young pioneer in the 1940s, appears on camera.

Finally, through Hannah's diary entries and poetry - and through her correspondence with her mother - Blessed Is the Match looks back on the life of a uniquely talented and complex girl who came of age in a world descending into madness. 'God, may there be no end,' Hannah writes in her 1942 poem Eli Eli, ...to sea, to sand, water's splash, lightning's flash. The prayer of man.'

If You Are Interested Further:
Please Look at Eitan Senesh's Book About His Aunt, Hannah and Her Courageous Story

Also Please Click Here to Access the 'Blessed Is The Match' Study Guide



Have a Blessed Passover and Easter

Volunteer at CAMP DARFUR @ USC, April 13-17, 2009

We are holding our second annual Genocide Awareness Week '09 April 13 - 17, 2009, across the USC campus.

We want YOU to get involved! Each night of the week, we will be having student volunteers camp out at CAMP DARFUR, a simulated refugee camp, on McCarthy Quad.

CAMP DARFUR is an interactive awareness and education event that brings attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and gives individuals the opportunity to discover their own power to make a difference. Camp Darfur raises awareness and examines Sudan’s Darfur region and its humanitarian crisis – genocide. A deeply concerned world community must come together united as one voice to remember the victims of past genocides and to make a call to action to end the genocide in Darfur today. Find out more here:
http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur/information.

From set-up Sunday night (4/13) to break-down Thursday evening (4/17), we will need volunteers to man Camp Darfur 24 hours a day. Whether you want to help out between your classes or curl up with a sleeping bag at night, your help and support would be greatly appreciated!

Volunteering at Camp Darfur is easy, as the camp pretty speaks for itself. Each tent is filled with photos and testimonies from five major modern genocides -- Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur. You will only be required to hang out at the camp and encourage visitors to check out the tents and find out more about the atrocity of genocide. Even if you don't know much about the genocides represented at the camp, volunteering is a great opportunity for you to become more aware yourself.

Feel free to invite your friends to volunteer with you! Not only will you be sharing this great experience with them, but you will be recruited another USC student to stand up against genocide and show their support.

If you would like to be involved with this powerful awareness event, please email USC Fight On for Darfur at fightonfordarfur AT gmail.com. We would love nothing more than to see as many diverse student groups at USC as we can come together in support of the people of Darfur.

Thanks so much for your support -- we look forward to seeing you at Camp Darfur!!