As you know, the students at Danbury High School are very involved in being awareness to the genocide in Darfur.

My Left Nutmeg writer Saramerica wrote this piece on the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act.

Here are the details behind this VERY important bill.

SADA can ensure that your tax dollars don’t go to companies that support the genocidal Sudanese regime: Over the last few years, a number of states and universities have chosen to divest their financial holdings (made up largely of your state tax dollars) from companies doing harmful business with the Sudanese regime. But certain parties have tried to overturn these state divestment laws.

Now that you're up to date, here's Saramerica's call to action.

The Enough Project sent me an action e-mail on the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act. Please join me in calling the White House to tell Bush to sign this into law. Putting economic pressure on South Africa helped to end apartheid. Now we need to use this tool to help stop the genocide.

Here's what the Enough Project wants us to do:

We've been working for months to get Congress to pass crucial legislation that will protect state and local governments' rights to divest from companies that help fund genocide in Darfur.

Thanks to you and hundreds of thousands of Darfur activists around the country, the Senate unanimously approved the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act last week, and Tuesday, the House of Representatives followed suit.

Now President Bush has 10 days to sign SADA into law. Call the White House today and urge President Bush to sign the bill into law.

In his first year in office, in the margins of a memo on the Rwandan genocide, President Bush wrote, "Not on my watch." Make sure he remembers his promise by protecting states' and local governments' rights to divest, and making sure our tax dollars don't go to contracts with companies that help fund genocide.

Just follow the steps below:
Call the White House Comment Line at 202-456-1111.
Tell the staff person who answers the phone that you are urging the President to sign the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act and take all steps necessary to implement it.
Report your call at www.1800genocide.org (bottom half of the page).
Call President Bush today to make sure he protects the right of states and local governments to divest for Darfur and stops our tax dollars from going to contracts with companies that help fund genocide!

Your support is critical to make sure that American dollars do not enable the genocidal regime in Khartoum.

Let's help make "Never Again" a reality instead of a trite political phrase uttered by president after president on Holocaust Remembrance Day, followed by pathetic inaction in the face of the genocides in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and now Darfur.