Members of the Save Darfur Club attended their first rally of the year outside the Sudanese Mission to the U.N. last Friday. Chanting demands for justice and waving homemade posters emblazoned with �Stop Genocide Now� students stood in solidarity with over a thousand other student protestors, club members said.

The club joined ranks with busloads of students from all along the East Coast, including 1000 Amnesty International representatives from Boston, to mark the fifth anniversary of atrocities in Darfur.

�It was heartening to see so many students at the rally,� Club co-President Rachel Ruskin (12) said. �Looking towards the future, it�s nice to know that young people are involved.�

Students comprised the majority of the protestors, who gathered en masse in the Dag Hammersjkold Plaza outside the Sudanese Mission to the UN for the hour-long rally, faculty advisor Rachael Myers said.

Students passed out the words to chants, such as �Hey, hey, ho, ho � impunity has got to go,� and then called the crowd into a single voice to express their cause, Ruskin said. In between waves of the shouting, cars honked in support, pedestrians gestured encouragingly, and the crowd whooped with newly validated fervor, she said.

Police kept protestors off the roads and began ordering people to find new areas to rally after forty minutes, Ruskin said. The club members, in a moment described by Helen Feldman (10) as �sticking it to the man,� asked an officer to take a photograph of the rally before dispersing.