The Darfur rally in New York today

I went down with a total of about a dozen people from my parish to the Central Park “Rally for Darfur” that was going on simultaneously in about forty-five other cities. I think there may have been eight to ten thousand people there.

Here are some pictures – first the podium and the diamond vision screen – the speaker is an Islamic Iman from New York

Part of the crowd. Note the blue hats and berets. People were asked to wear a blue hat to symbolize the blue hats and helmets worn by U.N. peacekeepers.

Here’s a group of Darfurians who were marching around the perimeter – great poster of Bashir (President of the Sudan) and Kofi Annan

Here’s a few of the people who were from Holy Name of Mary. My son Joe did not come down this time (he did go with me to the Save Darfur rally in Washington on April 30th) since he’d spent the whole day before working at the NYS Right to Life Committee convention in Yonkers, and he had schoolwork.

And here’s Maria Abonnel, who did most of the organizing leg work to get us to Central Park.