On Sudan: A Call for Divestment from Genocide
Jacqueline Collins, Edward Petka Wednesday, 1 March 2006
Illinois' politics are fractious and often divisive. In the General Assembly individuals from all perspectives and walks of life work to advance their agendas. Complex negotiations and distribution formulas are used to maintain a balance between different regions of the state. Layered over ideological and regional differences are the familiar issues that are perennially debated by partisans in today's "culture wars." And in the legislature partisans dutifully line up on their respective side of the debate.
There are times, however, when those who are divided by some issues must put aside their differences in reaction to world historical events. The crisis in Sudan is precisely such an event.
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