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Local Relief Agency Assists Families in Sudan
A second group of medical
v o lu n teers w ith N orthw est
Medical Teams is now caring
for suffering families camped in
makeshift shelters in conflict-
ridden Sudan.
The medical workers are in
the West Darfur region w here
nearly 1.5 million people struggle
to survive in temporary housing.
The camps have little food, no
medicines and scarce water
supplies.
Another team of volunteers
from the local relief agency just
returned from a four-week as
signment.
"The last 18 months have
been horrific for the people of
Sudan,” says Bas Vanderzalm,
president of Northwest Medi
cal Teams. "The ongoing vio
lence and fear have caused hun
dreds of thousands of families
to be uprooted, losing crops, live
stock and their very livelihoods.
Our volunteers will bring medi
cal care and hope to people who
are traumatized physically and
emotionally.”
The volunteers have been
assigned to provide healthcare
Participate in
Democracy:
in three local clinics and to
teach S u d an ese h ea lth c are
providers in a regional hospital
near El G eneina. The U.N.
estim ates that re lie f efforts
w ill be needed at least through
late 2005.
To contribute to Northwest
Medical Teams Sudan Disaster
Relief Fund, call 1-800-959-
4325. Donations can also be
made at any US Bank office.
Dr. Mike Pendleton, a
Northwest Medical
Teams volunteer,
assists families
camped in shelters in
Sudan. The physician
ju st returned to Or
egon from the conflict-
ridden country.
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Moore Blasts Republican Priorities
(AP)— Michael Moore shot back
at Republicans afterthey requested
that the filmmaker be prosecuted
for offering underwear and food to
Michael
college students in exchange for
Moore speaks
their promise to vote.
to a crowd
“It’s ironic that Republicans
Oct. 4 at the
have no problem with allowing as
University of
sault weapons out on our streets,
Florida in
yet they don’t want to put clean
Gainesville.
underwear in the hands of our
(AP photo)
slacker youth,” Moore said. “The
Republicans seem more interested election law provision that prohib this year, saying they could make
in locking me up for trying to en its a person from contracting with the difference in the presidential
courage people to participate in our another for something of value in race.
During each program, habitual
democracy than locking up bin exchange for agreeing to vote.
nonvoters
are invited on stage to
So
far,
no
prosecutions
have
Laden for his attacks on our democ
pledge
to
vote.
First-time student
been
announced.
racy.”
Moore is touring the country voters are offered gag prizes such
The Michigan GOP asked four
county prosecutors Oct. 5 to file and imploring "slackers” who usu as clean underwear.
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