Well I'm fresh out of good ideas. So today I'd like to ask our readers for tips on how they think we can creatively get the word out. You can post your idea as a comment.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Spread Uganda-CAN Week -- by making our voices heard we are ensuring that this war is NOT forgotten!

Del.icio.us is a great site for finding 'random cool stuff'. I think Uganda-CAN qualifies as random cool stuff, and I think Del.icio.us users might be interested in what's going on in northern Uganda.

So if you already have a Del.icio.us account, please take a moment to bookmark us!

If not, (if you have the free time and inclination) you can sign up for Del.icio.us first, and then bookmark us.

If enough people bookmark us, we will start getting an avalanche of new visitors.

Come back tomorrow for the grand finale!

Not everybody has the time to read and digest the news coming from northern Uganda everyday. That's why signing up for Uganda-CAN's biweekly email newsletter is so important. You'll not only stay informed about the situation in northern Uganda, but also about the international movement to end this war - and what you can do to help.

So sign up for our newsletter today. (Already signed up? How about convincing a friend to?)

Again, Check back tomorrow for another tip!

WBFO, Buffalo, NY's public radio station, has featured a listener commentary by Uganda-CAN's regional coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic region, Courtney Howard. Courtney, a high school global studies teacher at Cuba-Rushford High School in western NY, talks about her recent trip to northern Uganda and her efforts to organize a GuluWalk and benefit concert in Buffalo this April 8th. Click here to listen to or read Courtney's commentary.

Welcome to Day 2 of Spread Uganda-CAN Week! Today's tip:

Have a blog? Why not give Uganda-CAN a little mention or a link?

No blog? How about adding our site's link to your MySpace or Facebook profile?

Can't do any of the above? Well I guess you get the day off then. Well, you could at least leave a friendly comment!

p.s. Check back tomorrow for another tip!

Hi folks. We need your help. Since launching Uganda-CAN, we've been amazed by the support, generosity, and ideas generated by you, our community of supporters. To continue to build the momentum, we're trying to expand the number of voices crying out in unison about this conflict. Of course, the most effective way to promote Uganda-CAN is to let people who care about our cause help spread the word... so with your co-operation we're kicking off Spread Uganda-CAN Week!

Each day this week we're going to ask every Uganda-CAN reader, team member, and supporter to do one very small thing to help get the word out.

Today, you can help us out and tell one friend or family member about Uganda-CAN. One of the worst contributing factors to this long, drawn-out war is apathy--so buck that trend in a small way! Even if you tell one person, that is one more voice expressing outrage about the situation in northern Uganda. If there's anything the Darfur movement has taught us, it's that it's amazing what a hundred voices singing the same tune can achieve. So get at it!

p.s. Remember to check back tomorrow (and every day this week) for more "assignments" to help spread the Uganda-CAN message!

Uganda-CAN co-founders Peter Quaranto and Michael Poffenberger participated with GuluWalk co-founders Adrian Bradbury and Kieran Hayward in a joint press conference Tuesday at the Refugee Law Project in Kampala. Quaranto began, "We are united today by the work of building an international movement for peace in northern Uganda. I am happy to report to you that the movement is growing." Poffenberger followed, "We are calling for the international community, especially the US and UK, to help arrest LRA leadership and ensure ICC arrest warrants are served. We are also calling for the Government of Uganda to guarantee the people of northern Uganda secure return to their land." Bradbury remarked, "The [current] protection strategy of camps is not protection if 1000 people are dying per week. That's not security. That's not protection." The press conference came at the end of a 2-week fact-finding trip of GuluWalk and Uganda-CAN in northern Uganda.

The Refugee Law Project, one of Uganda-CAN's partners, will be hosting a forum and discussion in Kampala today to discuss the role of the international community in supporting a peaceful resolution to the 20-year-old conflict in northern Uganda. Participants will include peace advocates from GuluWalk and Uganda-CAN, including: Adrian Bradbury (GuluWalk co-founder/director), Kieran Hayward (GuluWalk co-founder), Peter Quaranto (Uganda-CAN director/co-founder), Michael Poffenberger (Uganda-CAN advocacy director/co-founder), and Stephen Okello (Uganda-CAN Uganda director).

Bradbury and Hayward spearheaded the October 22nd Global GuluWalk Day of last year, in which 15,000 people in 38 cities around the world walked in solidarity with the children of northern Uganda. They are currently visiting Uganda with Uganda-CAN co-directors Peter Quaranto and Michael Poffenberger. Stephen Okello is Uganda-CAN's director of operations in Uganda.

The forum will take place at the Refugee Law Project's offices at Plot 9 Perryman Gardens, Old Kampala (opposite Old Kampala Primary School) at 3:00pm Tuesday, March 21st. The event is open to the public and media. For more information or to RSVP, please contact:

Peter J. Quaranto
Uganda Conflict Action Network, director
pquaranto@UgandaCAN.org
0782-682-849

Michael Poffenberger and Peter Quaranto, co-directors of the Uganda Conflict Action Network, are currently in Gulu and continued their tour of the region this morning. Quaranto was interviewed today by MegaFM, a Gulu-based radio station, with Adrian Bradbury, director of GuluWalk. The two men discussed current international advocacy efforts directed at resolving the twenty year old conflict in northern Uganda, Africa's longest running war. Poffenberger and Quaranto will join members of the GuluWalk delegation this evening to play in a football match against a local youth team.

A recent interview given by Peter Quaranto, Uganda-CAN director, is being highlighted on ourWorld's website, an online community for alumni and friends of the School for International Training. Quaranto, who studied in Uganda with SIT Study Abroad in Spring 2005, was interviewed on the public radio program "Here on Earth" and the broadcast was named Wisconsin Public Radio's podcast of the week. You can access the interview here.

As part of its ongoing effort to highlight and support Ugandan voices calling for peace and justice in northern Uganda, Uganda-CAN is launching a series of interviews with Ugandan peace activists and other parties involved with the crisis in northern Uganda. The interviews will seek to emphasize local perspectives on peace efforts and encourage debate about important issues related to the conflict.

Stay tuned to Uganda-CAN's blog for more interviews in coming weeks. HTML and PDF versions of the interviews will be available soon by visiting Uganda-CAN's Resources Web page.

Read below for a discussion between Uganda-CAN and Judy Adoko of the Land and Equity Movement in Uganda (LEMU), the first interview in the series.