Thank You Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell
September 10, 2004
The Honorable Colin L. Powell
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We can’t thank you enough for how you came through in the clutch for us and for the suffering people of Darfur with your testimony at the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday. Since first we met with you in 2001 as you began your tenure as Secretary of State, you have been supportive of our efforts to bring an end to the more than twenty years of war in Sudan, to stop the killing and to restore to the people who have been so brutally driven from their ancestral land in southern and now western Sudan. We were so grateful to you when you supported the Sudan Peace Act in 2002 that imposed U.S. sanctions on the Khartoum government and directed the President to appoint an envoy to seek a peace accord between the Sudanese government and the SPLA rebels.
Your characterization of the savage attacks that are going on against innocent men, women and children in Darfur “genocide” is another important step toward our goal of peace and justice for all the people of Sudan. We urge you now make available to the African Union all that it needs in terms of financial and technical assistance to carry out its mandate to intervene in situations like this on the continent.
While it appears that the greed and opportunism of certain nations on the U.N. Security Council will continue to prevent the U.N. from imposing meaningful sanctions on Sudan’s oil industry, we believe that citizens of conscience in the United States can have a decisive role in imposing sanctions of their own. The Sudan Campaign has decided, therefore, to take our efforts to restore peace and justice to the long-suffering blacks of southern and western Sudan to another level. As the enclosed announcement and supporting data indicate, we are calling upon U.S. citizens to demand that about 100 of America’s most prominent public pensions stop investing $91.2 billion of our pension funds, mutual funds and 401 (K) plans in the large, publicly-traded companies hat are propping up Khartoum’s murderous regime.
As with the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980’s, so with us today, we believe that on this matter “We Shall Overcome!” We ask that you call upon that broad coalition of companies of conscience that you catalyzed some years ago in “America’s Promise” to join people of every race, creed, color and political persuasion in our nation in this noble quest.
Sincerely,
Joseph E. Madison, President (The Sudan Campaign)
Walter E. Fauntroy, Chairman (The Sudan Campaign)
www.sudancampaign.com
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The Honorable Colin L. Powell
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
We can’t thank you enough for how you came through in the clutch for us and for the suffering people of Darfur with your testimony at the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday. Since first we met with you in 2001 as you began your tenure as Secretary of State, you have been supportive of our efforts to bring an end to the more than twenty years of war in Sudan, to stop the killing and to restore to the people who have been so brutally driven from their ancestral land in southern and now western Sudan. We were so grateful to you when you supported the Sudan Peace Act in 2002 that imposed U.S. sanctions on the Khartoum government and directed the President to appoint an envoy to seek a peace accord between the Sudanese government and the SPLA rebels.
Your characterization of the savage attacks that are going on against innocent men, women and children in Darfur “genocide” is another important step toward our goal of peace and justice for all the people of Sudan. We urge you now make available to the African Union all that it needs in terms of financial and technical assistance to carry out its mandate to intervene in situations like this on the continent.
While it appears that the greed and opportunism of certain nations on the U.N. Security Council will continue to prevent the U.N. from imposing meaningful sanctions on Sudan’s oil industry, we believe that citizens of conscience in the United States can have a decisive role in imposing sanctions of their own. The Sudan Campaign has decided, therefore, to take our efforts to restore peace and justice to the long-suffering blacks of southern and western Sudan to another level. As the enclosed announcement and supporting data indicate, we are calling upon U.S. citizens to demand that about 100 of America’s most prominent public pensions stop investing $91.2 billion of our pension funds, mutual funds and 401 (K) plans in the large, publicly-traded companies hat are propping up Khartoum’s murderous regime.
As with the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980’s, so with us today, we believe that on this matter “We Shall Overcome!” We ask that you call upon that broad coalition of companies of conscience that you catalyzed some years ago in “America’s Promise” to join people of every race, creed, color and political persuasion in our nation in this noble quest.
Sincerely,
Joseph E. Madison, President (The Sudan Campaign)
Walter E. Fauntroy, Chairman (The Sudan Campaign)
www.sudancampaign.com
Click here and buy the book:
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