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As you all know I got pretty into this whole Darfur thing. A high schooler I know named Ben asked me to tag along with some high schoolers to this thing called Lobby Day. We were lobbying to get the council members that have not co-signed our bill to get a divestment and give the money to Darfur. I was really scared and nervous. I’m a 13 year old talking to a very important council member. But I definetly wanted to go. I actually was really suprised. I really felt like my say could make a difference to the council members minds. I am really positive that this divestment will work. If you are reading this try to get a divestment from your county (unless you live in my county). If you don’t know what a divestment is then, divestment really just means to take away. What we would do is take money away from montgomery counties money bank and give it to the people in Darfur.

Frederick Douglass is a freed slave that after he escaped he learned how to read and write and everything. He had a very hard life. He watched while his family member( or close friend i can’t remember =0). He changed Masters a bunch of times, everything. When he got sold to a different plantation that plantation was better. It had a buisness sort of feel to it. Except for one person. Mr.Severe. He went with his name. He was the worst overseer of them all. He would beet anyone who did not hear the waking horn. He was horrible. But someone else took his spot. I can’t really remeber his name (Mr.Mayo wouldn’t let us take the book home). He was alot better then Mr.Severe. Except for one day. A  slave was in the river, the new overseer said “If you don’t come out in three calls i’ll shoot you.” One call, the slave stood his ground. The second and third call came, no movement from the slave. This man took out his gun and shot the slave. Next thing you know, a dead slave in the water. This murder was not recognized.  

Our Darfur Day is coming up. And we still want more comments. So far 21 teachers have signed up to get there classes to comment. That is 500-1,000 comments easy. Our goal is to help these people and to spread awareness.  Comment on March 6th PLEASE.

Last night I skyped with some teachers and other students to promote our project. It was really fun. It was cool how teachers and other students were on the same place from all around the world. We had some serious conversations and it wasn’t just a big lecture. Me and this other student would not back down on our argument. I really want to do it again.

Mr. Speilberg, the film director, withdrew from helping the China government with advertising the 2008 olympics, and also the opening and closing ceramonies for the people in Darfur. Know its Bush’s turn to help. Since 2003, when Sudans-Arab government retaliated againts rebels in Darfur, more then 200,000 people have died, and 2.5 million displaced. Please don’t watch the 2008 olympics and help the rest of the people in darfur.Thank You

The father of the civil rights movement rose through determination and brilliance to shape americas nation. Mr. Douglass dedicated his whole life to gaining justice for America. In particular, African-Americans, Women, and minority groups. Frederick Douglass freed himself from slavery, and became the leading African-American voice of the nineteenth century. At an early age, he realized that, how he could read, was his one-way ticket to freedom. All of his efforts from then on was to gain freedom. As a young man, he came in contact with Black preachers, and taught in a Sabbath school in Baltimore. He married Anne Murray Douglass and setteled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. While in New Bedford he joined the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass was a big voice in the slavery movement. Douglass worked with abolitionist such as, Wendell Phillips and Abby Kelley. He also has a close relationship with John Brown. Together with abolitionist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Douglass signed the decleration of Sentiments that became the movement’s manifesto.