PROTEST AT SUDANESE EMBASSY: TRANSAFRICA PRESIDENT NICOLE LEE WILL JOIN GEORGE CLOONEY IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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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