Mia Farrow will be webcasting a daily report from the Darfurian refugee camps during the Olympics to educate people about the ongoing genocide occurring in Darfur.
You can tune into The Darfur Olympics with Mia Farrow at http://www.darfurolympics.org from August 9 to 16, 2008. There will be new content every day at noon EST in the US regarding the crisis in Darfur and opportunities to take daily action.
In addition, there will be an alternative opening ceremony on August 8 at 8:08 am EST in the US / August 8 at 8:08 pm in Beijing, that can be watched at http://www.darfurolympics.org
REM, Talib Kweli, Bette Midler, Carly Simon, 420 Funk Mob Featuring Special Guest George Clinton, and others have donated songs to the Alternative Opening Ceremony.