Here’s how:

1) WATCH: Become a peace monitor by visiting the Satellite Sentinel Project where near real-time satellite imagery and analysis, combined with video dispatches and crowd-sourced reports from local voices on the ground, will allow you to monitor potential threats of mass violence to civilians. While you’re there, you can check out other ways to stand with the people of Sudan.

2) FOLLOW: Start following @SudanSentinel on Twitter for breaking updates and alerts on Sudan so you can be the first to tell your friends what’s happening and how to take action.

3) JOIN: Sign STAND’s Pledge to Protect and join students nationwide in solidarity around the fight for lasting peace in Darfur and southern Sudan. Make your pledge to protect to show President Obama and his administration you stand in solidarity for peace.

Sudan365′s first video, “A Beat for Peace,” showed a drumbeat being passed around the world, beginning in Sudan and featuring drummers like Phil Selway from Radiohead, Stewart Copeland from the Police, and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, as well as musicians worldwide from countries like Australia, Ghana, and Egypt. Today, they’ve released a second video including Coldplay’s Will Champion and the legendary South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, which you can watch below and share with your friends.
 

 
To find out more ways to get involved check out Sudan365′s site.
Click here to add your voice to the campaign’s petition. Follow the campaign on Twitter @sudan365.

Send a letter to President Obama encouraging him to make the right choices on Sudan at Sudan Action Now’s site.

Check on your representatives in Congress

Educate

The More You Know, The More You Can Do
Read up on what’s happening in Darfur
Download this week’s Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast to get the latest updates
Get the most current Darfur news
Learn about the effects of divestment

Advocate

Organize On Your Campus
Order your own copy of Translating Genocide, mtvU’s documentary about three students’ journey to Sudan
Start a Sudan group on your campus
Join an Amnesty International Student Group
Jumpstart your own awareness campaign

Take U.S. Political Action
Phone 1-800-GENOCIDE to tell your representatives to help put an end to the atrocities in Darfur
Find out if your representatives in Congress have worked to end genocide
Find out what U.S. legislators have done to end the genocide, and urge them to take action today.

Donate

Fund the fight against genocide
Find more organizations making a difference in and for Darfur
Save Darfur Coalition

Support

Wear Your Support
Wear the cause on your sleeve – Students Against Genocide have designed t-shirts protesting the genocide in Sudan. Buy ‘em in bulk, sell ‘em on campus, and raise money for the cause.
Shop the Save Darfur store

Inspire

Encourage Others To Get Involved
Send this page to a friend – Encourage others to take action on Darfur!
Send mtvU your footage or tell us what you’re doing – We want to air what you are doing for the cause. Send your name, school, and description of what you’re doing to sudan@mtvstaff.com.

Organizations

Action Against Hunger
Africa Action
Amnesty International USA
American Jewish World Service
CARE
Enough
Eric Reeves
Genocide Intervention Network
Human Rights First
Help Darfur Now
Hillel
Human Rights Watch
International Crisis Group
International Rescue Committee
Islamic Relief
Jacqueline’s Human Rights Corner
Physician’s for Human Rights
Save Darfur Coalition
Save the Children
STAND
STAND Blog (for updates on Darfur news and campaign)
STAND Darfur education page
The United Nations World Food Programme
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Music With a Purpose

Artists and musicians are clamoring to make an impact on the crisis in Darfur – diverse performers have come together to create albums to support humanitarian relief work in Sudan. Check out a few of the albums below, and maybe even order one…

Amnesty: Music for Human Rights
Donating to Amnesty International gives you exclusive access to Amnesty’s Music for Human Rights CD. Featured artists include Coldplay, Radiohead, Ryan Adams and Badly Drawn Boy. Note to students: if you donate $15 or more you are officially an Amnesty International member.

Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur
Instant Karma seeks to mobilize millions by combining the power of John Lennon’s music recorded by some of today’s best-known artists. The full album includes U2, Green Day, Aerosmith, Black Eyed Peas, Snow Patrol, R.E.M., Postal Service, Christina Aguilera, Regina Spektor and more. Proceeds will benefit Amnesty International’s global campaign for Darfur.

We Are All Connected: Berklee College of Music Reaches Out to the Women of Darfur
Members of the Berklee College of Music community wrote, performed, and produced We Are All Connected, a collection of R&B, soul, jazz, pop, world, and gospel songs, to raise awareness of the plight of women and children affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. The recordings include music contributed and recorded by Darfurian women in refugee camps. Proceeds will benefit the Mercy Corps Darfur Fund.

Modiba: ASAP: the Afrobeat Sudan Aid Project
ASAP: the Afrobeat Sudan Aid Project features Afrobeat music contributed by top African artists to raise funds and awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. All proceeds go to Kebkayiah Smallholders Charitable Society, an Oxfam-sponsored humanitarian campaign in the Sudan.

Living Darfur
Living Darfur is the first single ever to have been recorded in a war zone by an international artist. The single by UK duo Mattafix was filmed in the refugee camps on the Chad/Darfur border where over 200,000 people have been killed over the last four years. All artist royalties from this single will be donated to Oxfam, Crisis Action, and the Save Darfur Coalition.

Waxploitation: Genocide in Sudan
Waxploitation Records has released the Genocide in Sudan CD to benefit the United Nations Relief Agency and UNICEF. Genocide in Sudan includes tracks generously donated by System of a Down, Gorillaz, Jill Scott, Jurassic 5, Kinky, and X-ecutioners. Buy this CD.

Divestment occurs when people sell off their investments in firms, industries, or countries to protest the social or political choices of those institutions. Divestment shows leaders that you’re morally or philosophically opposed to their policies and are willing to detach yourself from potential profit made from something you disagree with. For students, who do not necessarily invest directly themselves, the divestment movement is more about encouraging politicians and university heads to make political and social reforms in their investments.

Divestment in Sudan

In addition to mobilizing student communities to advocate for peace and human rights in Sudan, the Sudan advocacy community launched a successful advocacy campaign to leverage economic pressure on perpetrators of genocide in Darfur. The Sudan Divestment Task Force facilitated targeted divestment from 27 states, 20 cities, and 61 universities, including the University of California university system, Stanford University, and Duke University. In 2009, the Sudan Divestment Task Force was formally incorporated into the Conflict Risk Network, which provides investors with research and engagement services to countries where genocide and/or mass atrocities are occurring. As a membership-based organization, the Conflict Risk Network assists individual and institutional investors in adjusting investment practices in Sudan, as well as other areas of concern.