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By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

In that same time, he wrote, the coalition’s e-mail activist list more than quintupled in size.

Online fundraising for the campaign consisted of three powerful e-mail blasts to the organization’s e-mail address list. The first — Subject: I need your help today in Darfur! — was signed by actor Don Cheadle, who has been vocal in opposition to the atrocities in Darfur since he starred in Hotel Rwanda, which chronicled events surrounding the genocide in the east-central Africa Republic of Rwanda. The second — Subject: Darfur genocide is a shame to mankind; help stop it — was sent from Paul Rusesabagina, the person on whom Cheadle’s character in Hotel Rwanda was based. And the third — Subject: I went to jail to help stop genocide — was signed by Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern, who was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington D.C. during a Save Darfur Coalition protest.