Devil, HOPE and Tents of Hope
Monday, March 10th, 2008A great example of how community groups are incorporating The Devil Came on Horseback into the Tents of Hope Project!
(reprinted from: http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/feb/28/ut-arlington-freshman-leaders-host-community-aware/)
UT Arlington freshman leaders to host community awareness project on Darfur genocide
ARLINGTON—Freshman leaders at The University of Texas at Arlington are working to call attention to the crisis in Darfur with a month-long set of programs from March 3 to April 3.
The group Freshman Leaders On Campus (FLOC) has designed the set of programs to parallel the history of the Darfur crisis, which commenced in March 2003 when fighting broke out in the Darfur regions of western Sudan. The April programming corresponds with the April 2003 time period when refugees began arriving in Chad to escape the conflict and became internally displaced persons.
The goal of the month-long event, which will include related events, such as a documentary film screening, panel discussion, service projects and a gallery display—are two fold: Education (“Give people hope, ask me how”) and Action (“Now you know; what will you do?”).
The inspiration for the programming came from this year’s OneBook theme: prejudice. OneBook is a program for all UT Arlington freshmen, who will study, discuss, and write about the same book in their first semester English composition classes, freshman seminars, and selected other classes. FLOC wanted to bring to light a contemporary instance of prejudice to aid students in understanding how to confront these challenges in their own world and take action.
The month-long event commences at 7 p.m., March 3, in room 100 of Nedderman Hall, 416 S. Yates St., with a documentary film screening of The Devil Came On Horseback—an award-winning 90-minute documentary film that exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle. (more…)