[Vision2020] Idaho and Sudan

[Debbie Gray]

A friend sent this and I thought some of you might be
interested...  Debbie

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> I've just signed this on-line petition and I hope
> you will too. The
> paragraphs below explain it a little. Even though I
> don't have a lot of
> confidence in either petitions or on-line activism
> really reaching decision
> makers, this whole situation with state money in
> Idaho retirement funds
> continuing to blindly be invested in any warmonger,
> including Sudan related
> businesses, is aggravating enough to do something --
> even if minor. Please
> consider the steps with this website :
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JLS1945/petition.html
> 
> 
> 
> [prerecorded message] I know we're all terribly
> concerned about the genocide
> in Darfur .
> There's a very successful movement across the
> country asking big investors
> (like state retirement plans) to divest from
> companies that have clear
> connections with the Sudanese government committing
> the atrocities. The goal
> of
> this campaign is to apply maximum economic pressure
> on the Sudanese
> government
> to permit UN peacekeepers into the country.  Other
> states -- Oregon,
> Illinois, Maine, California, New Jersey, and
> Connecticut -- have passed
> divestment legislation, and many other states are
> moving in that direction
> with
> bipartisan support.
> 
> 
> 
> Now it's Idaho 's
> turn. Our state can help change the situation in
>   Sudan .  The PERSI Board will
> consider divestment on March 27. Please take a
> moment now to go to the
> website,
> sign the petition, and forward this information to
> your
>   Idaho friends.
> John McCarthy
> Boise, Idaho
> USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 



 
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