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Article: In tents activity: campaigners take to the canvas to show solidarity.(DARFUR)(Tent of Hope)
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- New Internationalist
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- October 1, 2008
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The ongoing suffering of the people of Darfur, still displaced from their homes after several years, can too easily be forgotten. But a simple idea--pitching a tent in a community as a focal point for awareness and action--has caught people's imagination in the US, and is now spreading across the world.
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The first 'Tent of Hope'--simulating the kind of refugee camp tent in which millions of Darfurians now live-was erected last year by a group of neighbours, families, and local activists in the grounds of a San Francisco church. They began decorating it with their messages to the people of Darfur, which other members of the community ...