Vigil/Demonstration outside Chinese and Sudanese Embassies

Vigil/Demonstration outside Chinese and Sudanese Embassies

Date: May 20, 2008
Times: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

At 9 a.m., on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, Catholic Workers will
vigil outside the Chinese Embassy at 2201 Wisconsin Ave, NW in
Washington, DC wearing t-shirts and holding signs urging China to stop
supporting genocide in Darfur. The signs include photographs taken by
the Catholic Workers in Darfur. The shirts say, "China's Support of
Sudan is an Olympic Mistake" on the front and "STOP GENOCIDE IN
DARFUR" on the back. At about 10 a.m. the group will march solemnly to
the Sudanese Embassy at 2210 Massachusetts Ave, NW (a walk of about
1.5 miles) for a vigil until noon.

Anyone interested in joining this event should contact Scott
Schaeffer-Duffy at The Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker,
theresecw@gmail.com. Additional t-shirts and signs are available, as
is transportation (free of cost) from Worcester, Massachusetts and
Hartford, Connecticut to Washington, DC.