ACT NOW on Darfur!
posted in News & Events, Action Alert | | | View blog reactions | Print This PostThe Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act (H.R.180)
It was supposed to be voted on yesterday, it got rolled over until today, though it can be postponed further; so either way, you still have time to act.
Call your Representative and Senators this morning and urge them to support this bill.
An article summerizing the bill. From the article:
Under the legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission would compile a list of companies lon the New York Stock Exchange with ties to Khartoum, prohibit them from receiving federal contracts, and make it legal to divest from such companies, removing the threat of lawsuits in the case of pension and other fund managers.
House financial services committee chairman Congressman Barney Frank says the Darfur measure, and a similar one for Iran, does not compel divestment.
“What these bills do is to make it clear, as I think they will once they become law, that the opposition to the genocide in Sudan, to the nuclearization, the weapons nuclearization in Iran, are widespread throughout this country,” he said.
I wish the bill compelled divestment by all American intities. But this is the best were going to get for now.
Please make those 3 quick phone calls.
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