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