I take it they are targeting Chinese, right?
Divest to save Darfur. Absurd. We’ve allowed the Islamists to sodomize all Sudan, carry out slaughter and mayhem for years. To press for sanctions now, is shameful. It serves little but to make Westerners feel good about themselves and flatter their vanity.
Shouldn’t be too hard to dump their Petrochina stock. And I can’t think of a good reason not to.
Any company doing business in Sudan should be off the list.
a boost to a bill that failed last legislative session despite bipartisan support. Members of the Legislature wanted to take a stand against genocide in Darfur by banning state investments in companies that support the government of Sudan. An effort to do that failed last year after top state investment managers balked at the restriction and some Republican legislators stopped a divestment bill in committee... "It should be fundamental that we don't support regimes such as this," said Rep. Beth Kerttula, D-Juneau, who is a sponsor of one of the divestment bills this year.