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Hi I’m the co-president of the Students’ Coalition here at City College. We’re a
student leadership club with the goal of helping to alleviate human needs, domestically as
well as internationally. And this past Tuesday, September 21st was the International Day of
Peace, sponsored by the United Nations, and we did a few things to help celebrate. One
was we had our Shop for Peace market place, selling fair trade items from all over the
world. We had that out on West Campus, and we’d just really like to say thank you to
all the student body that came out and supported that. And we also had these pictures on display
in the library. They’re drawn by children in the refugee camps in Darfur. And we got
these pictures from a woman named Rebecca Tinsley, and she’s an amazing woman. She
writes for the BBC and the Guardian. She’s spoken in front of Parliament. She’s a board
member for Network for Africa. She’s erected memorial sites in Sudan. Plus, she’s started
the refugee rehabilitation center and she’s done a lot of aid work in Sudan. And she actually
got these pictures while she was doing that aid work. She was working with the women and
the children were running around playing, so they gave them paper and crayons to color
with, and they actually ended up drawing the history of Sudan, and what happened in their
villages and where they came from. And Becky’s now taken these pictures to the International
Criminal Court and they’re being used as evidence in the War Crimes Tribunal. And if
you’d like to learn more about the Students’ Coalition or what’s going on in Darfur,
or Becky’s work, we really encourage you all to come out in mid-October to see her
speak. She’s coming from England to City College to talk about her work.