If you have ever been to the West Mall on a Thursday you would know about how the White Rose Society is working to stop the genocide in Darfur. You would have noticed that we already successfully lobbied the State of Texas to divest over half a billion dollars from companies in Sudan with the Stop Darfur Genocide Act. You might know that the UT Investment Company is right now analyzing the exposure of its investments to companies that support the Government of Sudan which directly supports the militias committing genocide with funding, weapons, bombing and helicopter attacks. You did not know that Sen. Ellis, Rep. Van Arsdale and Rep. Burnham wrote to Jeff Huffines of UTIMCO to urge him to develop a targeted divestment policy. You should know that we have sent $6,000 to AJWS to feed refugees in Chad, and helped raise $400,000 nationally to provide funding for civilian protection by African Union peace keepers.
Those that don't care about any of this simply are not aware. I invite anyone to meet me for coffee at the San Antonio Street Cafe at Texas Hillel to see the drawings made by refugee children from Darfur in Chad and discuss the Darfur movement and the call to action. I'm not a "peacenik" and I don't sing or dance for Darfur. I am an American taxpayer, and my vote counts. I called 1-800-GENOCIDE to tell my Senator to support the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, and I emailed him as well. You can, too.
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Re: Globalizing sympathy (and little else)
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