Divest for Darfur

[RestoreGore]

Passing this important message on:

Have you heard of divestment? It's one of the key tactics that was successfully used to end apartheid in South Africa and it can help end the violence in Darfur, too.

To "divest" means to withdraw investments from companies that help fund the genocide in Darfur.

Join me in fighting the genocide by urging Fidelity and other investment institutions to divest their holdings from companies that help fund the genocide.

Click the link below to sign the Divest for Darfur petition now and help cut off financial support for the government-sponsored violence in Darfur!

Diplomacy is crucial, but economic pressure may prove an even more powerful way to force Sudan to cooperate with international efforts to end the genocide.

Sudan has been very responsive to economic pressure in the past so we have reason to hope that they will pay heed to the divestment efforts.

Please do not stand by while the violence continues - you can make a difference.

Click below to add your name to the Divest for Darfur petition to Fidelity now.

http://ga6.org/campaign/fidelitypetition?rk=ZpwLdB71e4YZE

Then please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to join you in supporting divestment.

Thank you for your help.
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[RestoreGore]

1. I know Darfur gets no mention here

But the killing and raping there continues, and while this may be a shocker to some this is also about oil, and why I believe why this corrupt government is allowing the genocide to continue. If China is allowed to ravage the oil in this region then the neocons can keep more control over the Middle East. People ARE DYING because of their lust for black gold. Will signing this do any good? Who knows, but I signed it anyway because I simply cannot sit any longer watching all of this go down. When do the people get OUTRAGED enough to stop it? When all of the oil, and the water, and the land IS GONE? How much more blood spilling can we tolerate?

[RestoreGore]

2. Darfur: A Human Rights Catastrophe

http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/02/

[Lurking Dem]

3. Kick and rec.

Thanks for the link, I'm passing it on.

[RestoreGore]

4. Thank you! n/t

[KamaAina]

5. Hawai'i Legislature passed a bill to divest the state retirement fund from Darfur

now we'll see what the allegedly "moderate" repuke governor is truly made of, as there are rumors shey may veto. :grr:

[RestoreGore]

6. Good for the Hawaii legislature

Could her veto be overridden?

[KamaAina]

7. Yes, but they'd have to call a special veto session

I believe that has happened once in the nearly seven years I've been over here.

[Lurking Dem]

8. How politically expedient

could supporting genocide actually be?

What a world we live in!

[RestoreGore]

9. To corporate America it is

As long as their profits go up. What a world indeed.

[RestoreGore]

10. Well, if it is vetoed I hope it happens again n/t