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  • Activists Urge Sudan Divestment ("Terrorism Investments of the 50 States")

    03/04/2006 7:47:18 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 11 replies · 677+ views
    MorningSentinel ^ | Saturday, March 04, 2006 | By CHUIN-WEI YAP
    WATERVILLE -- Mainers should push the Maine State Retirement System to divest $50 million of its investments in international companies operating in war-torn Sudan, a group of activists said Friday. A bill currently in the Statehouse to force the divestment, L.D. 1758, hangs in the balance, said Wells Staley-Mays, an adviser to the Fur Cultural Revival. He was speaking at a Colby College event alongside three Sudanese refugees. "Fur" refers to a major non-Arab tribe in the Sudanese region of Darfur -- an area the size of Texas, whose name literally means "home of the Furs" -- now threatened with...