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Nov212004
Divest Sudan
Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 02:28AM
Black activists and lawmakers ramped up their campaign against the
wholesale murder and displacement of millions of Black Sudanese this
week, introducing a measure requiring divestment of U.S. pension funds
invested in companies with holdings in oil-rich Sudan.
New Jersey State Assemblyman William Payne (D-29), brother of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), has introduced legislation to require the state to divest itself of its portion of the $91 billion in U.S. investments in companies, banks and financial institutions that have dealings with the Khartoum administration. The bill is the first of many, which the Sudan Campaign and the Congressional Black Caucus hope will flood state assemblies throughout the nation as part of their push to check the Sudanese government, under whose auspice Arab militias burned, pillaged, raped, tortured and decimated villages of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes, which are Black. [more]
New Jersey State Assemblyman William Payne (D-29), brother of U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), has introduced legislation to require the state to divest itself of its portion of the $91 billion in U.S. investments in companies, banks and financial institutions that have dealings with the Khartoum administration. The bill is the first of many, which the Sudan Campaign and the Congressional Black Caucus hope will flood state assemblies throughout the nation as part of their push to check the Sudanese government, under whose auspice Arab militias burned, pillaged, raped, tortured and decimated villages of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes, which are Black. [more]