Rev. Danny Fisher

Please follow this link to send a letter to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), chair of the Senate Banking Committee, asking him to make sure the Sudan Divestment Authorization Act comes to the Senate floor for a vote without further delays.

A recent mass email from Colleen Connors of the Save Darfur Coalition continues:

Fifteen courageous states have already passed their own divestment policies in an effort to stop the violence in Darfur. The Sudan Divestment Authorization Act would protect these and other states’ rights to divest from challenges by the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), an organization which has already successfully challenged Illinois’ divestment policy and aims to challenge others.

For more on divestment as a response to the crisis in Darfur, I would refer you to a recent post of mine.

In a follow-up to a story posted on Tuesday, truthout‘s Jason Leopold reported that the anti-semitic tracts formerly available on Fort Leavenworth’s website had disappeared.

This was something I had noticed in my post from Tuesday. Readers may recall that I wrote:

The hyperlinks in the article, which presumably worked when it was written, now lead to 404 error pages on the U.S. Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth’s official website.

Leopold, though, has more information on the removal of this content. In the piece, he continues:

Janet Wray, spokeswoman at Fort Leavenworth, confirmed that the bible study guides have been removed from the chaplain’s section of the website and said that officials at the army base were reviewing the materials. When contacted over the weekend about the study guides and the apparent anti-Semitic content contained in the documents, a person who answered the telephone at the Fort Leavenworth chaplain’s office refused to disclose his name when asked for comment. The individual, a male, said there have not been prior complaints about the Bible study guides and that “I would not characterize the material as anti-Semitic.”

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The Bible study guides were discovered last week by researchers at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a government watchdog group. The group’s founder, Mikey Weinstein, said in an interview Tuesday that scrubbing the web site does not adequately address the problem of rampant evangelical Christian fundamentalism that continues to ripple throughout the military. Weinstein, a former White House counsel under Ronald Reagan, still intends to file a lawsuit against the US Army for alleged constitutional violations.

Attachments containing the complete study guides can be downloaded from Leopold’s latest article. They were also made available in the comments section of my post on Tuesday by “markbyrn”.

Many thanks to Kobutsu Malone for keeping me abreast of developments in this case.