| Wake Up Wall Street rally March 28th |
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| Wednesday, 16 March 2005 | ||||
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I am a New York City subway motorman, the father of three, enabled by a homemade website, fightordie.org, and motivated by news reports of the Darfur horrors and no other political interests. I have organized a Wake Up Wall Street rally to take place Monday, March 28, 2005 in front of the New York Stock Exchange, from 8 am to 2 pm. The goal of this rally is to call the world financial communitys attention to the divestment campaign advocated by, among many others, Smith College professor, Eric Reeves (see http://www.sudanreeves.org) In plain terms, the economy of the world is fed by the digestion of horizons, tapping as yet unexploited resources. It is growth that feeds this system. Corporations seeking new horizons have gone over the world with a fine-toothed comb several times, and found virtually all there is to exploit. In this highly competitive world economy, they must go back again and search harder. It is in times like these that such companies find a country like Sudan, with bountiful natural resources, as yet not tapped to their potential due to political instability, and they reassess. They then throw money at the government of thugs in order to get in the country and begin building the infrastructure (electrical, telecom, oil processing, etc...) that will be profitable years from now after the government of thugs is gone. The government of thugs takes that money--which is from investments we make through the stock market, mutual funds, pensions, endowments, etc...--and purchases guns and warplanes, attack helicopters, and other methods of war and murder that will keep their regime propped up against the will of the nation's own people, and enable the ongoing genocide. Years on, after a new government is installed, the nation's industries are owned by these great corporations, our stocks are paying off, and an oil-rich nation boasts a few clean cities and rural poverty from border to border. Several key companies have been identified as crucial to Khartoum's support: Siemens AG (Germany,) NYSE symbol; SI PetroChina (China,) NYSE symbol, PTR; Alcatel SA (France,) NYSE symbol, ALA; ABB Ltd. (Switzerland,) NYSE symbol, ABB; Tatneft (Russia,) NYSE symbol, TNT. I invite your readers to join us on Wall Street on the 28th as responsible world citizens to beseech the world financial community to divest of these five targeted stocks--for the people of Darfur, and to chart the future moral integrity of investment in all oppressed nations like the Sudan. We hope that by taking the financial footing out from under Khartoum, it will stumble, in the same way the South African government did when divestment was introduced as an issue a little over 20 years ago. We unite together under NO particular political stripe, certain that the injection of contentious world politics into this crucial, life-and- death matter can only further slow what has been a world response at the pace of a death march. Peace! Mark Crane 2830 Sedgwick Ave. #6E Bronx, NY 10468 718-432-2674 917-913-2029 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it To the Editor: The current genocidal situation in the Darfur region of Sudan persists, despite widespread world media attention. Political activism offers no hope for change in any reasonably short scope of time. Politicians are well aware of the genocide, but are powerless to act due to international political factors clearly well beyond their grasp.
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