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When Tamarama rolled into town for STAND Canada’s latest Darfur benefit concert, they encountered a mob of fawning teenagers and twenty-somethings. Indeed, the transplanted Australian-American reggae-rockers found a half-capacity, albeit captive, audience at Toronto’s Berkeley Church last week. And the reason for all the wide-eyes and short-shorts in the room? Reality television.

The conflict in Darfur, soon to be entering its seventh year, remains as catastrophic as ever. A few young Torontonians are fighting the good fight against apathy toward it, and we had the good fortune to catch up with one of them.