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Virtual Vigil: 24-Hour Name-Reading Led by Duke Students

TIME: 12AM ET / 9PM PT | PLATFORM: Zoom | REGISTER: tinyurl.com/dukecpm2020

The Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM) is a student organization at Duke University that aims to remember and recognize survivors and victims of recent mass atrocities. It was founded in 2012 by David Estrin who expanded CPM into what is now the global #TogetherWeRemember movement!

Every year, CPM hosts a 24-hour Name Reading Ceremony for victims of genocide and mass atrocity on Duke's campus. Our ceremony will be online this year due to COVID-19 - and we would love all the help we can get! We are asking 288 individuals to sign up to record and share a video of themselves reading names for just 5 minutes each. We will provide all names through the TWR app and stitch together all individual videos into a 24-hour film to broadcast on YouTube on 4/19/2020. If you're interested in taking 5 minutes to do something meaningful in this uncertain time, please participate!

Instructions: tinyurl.com/namereading20

Register: tinyurl.com/dukecpm2020

Email jkj15@duke.edu with any questions.

It is more important than anything in times like these to come together as a community and raise our voices for those who can't speak.