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Mass. Green-Rainbow Party on the Wrong Side of Genocide  by
                                                                                                           
From : David Rolde < davidrolde@comcast.net>
To : bostonanarchists@lists.riseup.net

Testimony of David Rolde representing the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts in opposition to Senate Bill 1474: 'An Act Relative to Pension Divestment' and in opposition to House Bill 2556: 'An Act Regulating Divestment in Sudan'

March 29, 2007

The Green-Rainbow Party opposes Senate Bill 1474 (Docket Number: SD01591 filed by Harriette Chandler), House Bill 2556 (filed by Denis Guyer) and all other bills calling for divestment from Sudan that are before the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court.

We oppose the bills not only because divestment would deprive Sudan of revenue and thus be harmful to the people of Sudan, but also because the bills are based on an unjust and offensively racist demonization of the government and people of an African country whose people have suffered greatly from years of US economic warfare and overt and covert US military warfare against them.

Unjust and Hypocritical Demonization of Sudan

US imperialist and Zionist organizations have spent millions of dollars on an anti-Sudan propaganda campaign to vilify the Sudanese government and Sudanese people and to try to convince Americans that the Sudanese government is committing genocide against the people of Sudan's Darfur region. In reality there is no genocide.