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One Minute Way to Help End Genocide in Darfur

Posted on | June 11, 2007 | Comments Off

This was forwarded to us by our good friends Aaron and Katie. This campaign refers to the tactic of divestment, i.e. withdrawing business investment, from a government or country supporting genocide, like in the Sudan.

Signing an online petition like this is a 1 minute way to help contribute your voice to efforts to end this problem. Other advocacy groups, like the One campaign, have been effectively using internet based petitions like this to influence policy makers and decision makers with influence over these events.

Here is the link: http://ga6.org/campaign/fidelitydivestment

Here is an excerpt explaining what this advocacy group is doing:

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 who are
supporting the genocide in Darfur by doing business with the
government of Sudan.

Join me in fighting the genocide by urging Fidelity and other
investment institutions to divest their holdings from any and
all companies doing business with the government of Sudan.

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!
http://ga6.org/campaign/fidelitydivestment

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.

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