Thank yuo for sharing Karamba's sentiments. After having read the whole writeup i can 't help my self wandering for how long penny scarced Gambians will continue to pretend to be able to sustain families of victims of the system back home? 
 
The sooner the fundraising is channeled to the total and final defeat of the system the better for us all. Only this way then we shall channel our energies and fundraising skills to other spheres of national and community interests.
 
Bailo

--- On Wed, 4/21/10, bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


From: bailo jallow <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: An appeal to Gambians by Karamba
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 3:14 PM







"Turn your justified anger at the current terrible regime and its excesses into an opportunity to shape a better future by mobilizing your family friends and making them an instrument of change. 
Urge them to register and ensure that they vote." (Karamba Touray)


The above and following is extracted from the online newspaper: The Gambia Echo.


I share Karamba's sentiments. Please read on.



Bailo

           
Karamba Touray Urges Gambians To Be Patriotic, Keep Femi Peters' Democratic Dream AliveFriends of Gambia’s jailed civil rights activist,
Femi peters 

Femi Peters, Gambia's prisoner of conscience 
I am writing in my capacity as an ordinary friend of Mr. Femi Peters and having fielded several calls expressing outrage at his political persecution and pledges of solidarity on this critical battle for the very essence of our country. The principled stand taken by all in this ongoing fight for justice vindicates the very ideals for which Mr. Peters has staked his personal liberty for the sake of our nation and it's people. It reminds all of us that The Gambia and its true future lies not in the hands of the bloody tyrant or those who eagerly line up to auction their souls to him or to his munions. It is men and women who know what is right and just and persist in it's pursuit no matter what the price that will restore the country to the values worthy  of it's people. Members of Mr. Peters Party, the UDP have been murdered, tortured, disappeared, exiled, unjustly imprisoned over the years, but they have persevered because of the righteousness of the
 cause they have embarked on. Political parties and individuals with demonstrable records of fighting for the Gambian people deserve our ongoing support. 
I appeal to all of you good folks out there to consider assigning yourself some responsibility in the national endeavor to build a just and democratic nation. It wouldn't take much but it would surely make a huge difference if most of us choose to participate in our own limited way in the political process. We can't choose to consistently make it the sole responsibility of frontline politicians to build our democracy for us. It’s us who have to shape our democracy and in the process retain control of the politics and the politicians. Turn your justified anger at the current terrible regime and its excesses into an opportunity to shape a better future by mobilizing your family friends and making them an instrument of change. 
Urge them to register and ensure that they vote. It is simple and for those of you for whom under stably fear is of some concern to you, organising your family and friends will attract no attention to you or them. It is simple and effective. What is also simple but ineffective is to the make calamitous democratic dispensation of Gambia someone else’s problem on the grounds that it hasn't affected you so far. All available evidence suggests all Gambians face the same dangers to their lives and liberties under Yahya Jammeh.
           
For those of you who wish to help Mr. Peters and his family in addition to your much appreciated expressions of solidarity, we have set up an adhoc arrangement here in the United States .To help coordinate all direct financial aid to Mr. Peters and his family ,Ms Maimuna Ceesay has volunteered to collect and remit all donations directly to the Peters family.  Maimuna can be reached at





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