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Written by:
Jim Hansen
Monday, July 23, 2007
Please join Idaho activists who want to help people make the connection between corporate investments and social and environmental justice. Trillium Asset Management is offering a workshop on skills and strategies:
In Southwest Idaho:
Wednesday, July 25 - 11:45 am to 1:30 pm.
Lunch will be provided!.
at the Banner Bank Building in Boise
(950 W. Bannock St., 2nd Floor)
In the Wood River Valley:
Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 7 pm
Refreshments will be provided.
at Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum
(191 5th Street)
Please RSVP to Lauren McLean at 387-0777
Idaho is fortunate to have Dan Millenson, National Advocacy Director for the Sudan Divestment Task Force in Boise this week to help us understand how we can include investment activism in our work, with a special focus on the most offensive of corporate investments: those supporting genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Despite sanctions and threats from the international community, the Sudanese government continues to commit atrocities against the people of Darfur. At least 400,000 people have been brutally killed and another 2.5 million more are refugees. 90% of Darfur’s villages have been destroyed. Our government and major corporations are moving too slowly so activists and organizations all over the US have launched a Sudan divestment campaign. So far, 18 states have passed laws mandating divestment (with another 19 under considering it), 54 universities have divested (with another 47 pending). Cities, public, private, and religious institutions -- along with many, many individual investors -- are demanding their investments do not include companies with strategic revenues flowing to the Sudanese government.
In Idaho, those of us with funds in our state employee retirement program (PERSI) have demanded divestment as well. The legislature balked, but the pressure is building to do a full court press next session. The skills we gain on this divestment campaign, gives puts us in a stronger position on future campaigns.
If you cannot make it to the lunch workshop on Wednesday, plan to meet Dan Millenson on
Thursday, July 26, 2007, 5:30 PM
at the Banner Bank Building, Boise
(950 W. Bannock St., 2nd Floor)
For more information these events or on divestment please contact:
Lauren McLean at Trillium Asset Management, laurenmclean@trilliuminvest.com, (208) 387-0777
The Sudan Divestment Task Force at info@sudandivestment.org
Also, please check out a great guide to Mission Related Investing prepared by Trillium Asset Management. Lisa, Deb and Lauren at Trillium are a great asset to the social change movement in Idaho. We are fortunate to have them.
See you on Wednesday or Thursday!
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