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PBS, WXXI Need to Know Programs Focus on Salva Dut, Sudan Referendum


In response to the upcoming Sudanese referendum* on January 9 and MCC alumnus Salva Dut’s work through Water for Sudan, Inc., the national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) made an MCC connection. Tune into WXXI-TV this Friday evening, January 7 to watch PBS Need to Know. The program will feature a segment on Salva and how the referendum may affect Water for Sudan’s efforts to build wells in Southern Sudan.

The program will be preceded by Need to Know Rochester, produced locally by WXXI, featuring an interview with MCC Assistant Professor of English Angelique Stevens. Angelique will provide additional insight as to her efforts to educate and motivate students to learn and take action to protect human rights in the classroom and through the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project. Angelique is a member of the Water for Sudan Board of Directors. To date, MCC students have raised more than $40,000 in support of Water for Sudan.

January 7 on WXXI-TV (Channel 21/Cable Channel 11)
Need to Know Rochester
Featuring an interview with Angelique Stevens
8:30 pm

PBS Need to Know
Featuring a segment on MCC alumnus Salva Dut
9:00 pm

* On Sunday, nearly four million Sudanese voters will decide if Southern Sudan will become an independent country. The referendum was part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended Sudan’s 21-year civil war in 2005. Sudan’s current President, Omar al Bashir, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, in particular, for his active knowledge of mass rapes and genocide in Darfur.

Rosanna Condello
College and Community Relations
01/06/2011