PROTEST AT SUDANESE EMBASSY: TRANSAFRICA PRESIDENT NICOLE LEE WILL JOIN GEORGE CLOONEY IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 10:09AM 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 16, 2012
PROTEST AT SUDANESE EMBASSY TO STOP SUDAN’S WEAPONS OF MASS STARVATION
TransAfrica President Nicole Lee will Join George Clooney, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Martin Luther King III and Rep. Al Green in Civil Disobedience
Washington, DC: Today at the Sudanese Embassy, 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, TransAfrica President Nicole Lee will join actor and activist George Clooney who just returned from a trip to Sudan and NAACP President Ben Jealous, human rights advocate Martin Luther King III and Representative Al Green to demand immediate action to stop Sudan’s use of food as a weapon.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is blocking food and humanitarian aid from reaching half a million people in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions where they are at grave risk of starvation.
Hundreds of activists are demonstrating at the Sudanese Embassy this morning starting at 10am ET
WHO: Nicole Lee, President, TransAfrica
George Clooney, Actor and Activist
Tom Andrews, President, United to End Genocide
Nick Clooney, Journalist
Bishop Andudu Adam Elnail, Anglican Bishop of Kadugli, South Kordofan
Rabbi Steve Gutow, President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Ben Jealous, President, NAACP
Martin Luther King III, Human rights advocate
Fred Kramer, Executive Director, Jewish World Watch
Congressman Jim McGovern, Representative from MA
Congressman Jim Moran, Representative from VA
Congressman Al Green, Representative from TX
TransAfrica is the oldest and largest African American human rights and social justice advocacy organization in the United States. It promotes diversity and equity in the foreign policy arena and justice for the African World. www.transafrica.org
