Os Estados Unidos e a sua comunidade civil e política a fazerem grande política. Pois que também o sabem. Ora leia-se:
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"Dear Madam/ Sir,
Support Divestment!
Ask your Senators to protect the rights of states to divest from companies that support the genocide in Darfur.
Click here to send your message now.
Have you heard of divestment? It's one of the key tactics that was successfully used to end apartheid in South Africa.
It refers to the act of withdrawing investments from companies that support the genocide in Darfur by doing business with the government of Sudan and offers a powerful way to put economic pressure on the Sudanese government to cooperate with international efforts to end the genocide.
The good news is that divestment is already taking place in the United States. Eight courageous states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont) have enacted divestment resolutions that will withdraw the states' pension funds from any companies doing business with Sudan.
The bad news is that the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) is trying to stop them! The NFTC recently successfully challenged Illinois's state divestment law in court, arguing that the state of Illinois was violating the Constitution by trying to conduct its own foreign policy in opposition to federal foreign policy.
Please help secure the rights of states to fight the genocide in Darfur by urging your Senators to support a new bill that would stop the NFTC's attacks. Click here to send a message to your Senators now.
This new bill, the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act, would make clear that state divestment is perfectly in line with U.S. foreign policy, thereby rendering the NFTC's argument moot, and protecting Illinois and other states from similar lawsuits. No state should be obligated to invest its citizens' retirement funds in genocide.
Please help make sure that your state has the right to fight the genocide in Darfur. Click here now to contact your Senators to urge them to support this new bill.
Once you've sent your message, please help us spread the word by forwarding this message to your friends, family and co-workers and ask them to join you.
Thank you again for your dedication to ending the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
David Rubenstein
Support Divestment!
Ask your Senators to protect the rights of states to divest from companies that support the genocide in Darfur.
Click here to send your message now.
Have you heard of divestment? It's one of the key tactics that was successfully used to end apartheid in South Africa.
It refers to the act of withdrawing investments from companies that support the genocide in Darfur by doing business with the government of Sudan and offers a powerful way to put economic pressure on the Sudanese government to cooperate with international efforts to end the genocide.
The good news is that divestment is already taking place in the United States. Eight courageous states (California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont) have enacted divestment resolutions that will withdraw the states' pension funds from any companies doing business with Sudan.
The bad news is that the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) is trying to stop them! The NFTC recently successfully challenged Illinois's state divestment law in court, arguing that the state of Illinois was violating the Constitution by trying to conduct its own foreign policy in opposition to federal foreign policy.
Please help secure the rights of states to fight the genocide in Darfur by urging your Senators to support a new bill that would stop the NFTC's attacks. Click here to send a message to your Senators now.
This new bill, the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act, would make clear that state divestment is perfectly in line with U.S. foreign policy, thereby rendering the NFTC's argument moot, and protecting Illinois and other states from similar lawsuits. No state should be obligated to invest its citizens' retirement funds in genocide.
Please help make sure that your state has the right to fight the genocide in Darfur. Click here now to contact your Senators to urge them to support this new bill.
Once you've sent your message, please help us spread the word by forwarding this message to your friends, family and co-workers and ask them to join you.
Thank you again for your dedication to ending the violence in Darfur.
Best regards,
David Rubenstein
Save Darfur Coalition"
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