Darfur Protest Leads to Arrest of U.S. Representatives

Way to go, Congressfolk. Georgia's own civil rights hero turned U.S. Representative John Lewis along with Reps. Jim McGovern, Donna Edwards, Keith Ellison, and Lynn Woolsey, were arrested this week for protesting outside the U.S. Embassy for Sudan. Sudan is the home of Darfur, where genocide has been ongoing for years. On March 4, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir expelled humanitarian groups from Darfur after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
John Lewis isn't the only Georgia public servant on the love train; Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law Wednesday a measure discouraging trade with Sudan while the genocide continues.
According to the bill's sponsor, state Senator David Adelman, “Companies are going to have a choice. You can either do business with the war criminals who are perpetrating the genocide in Darfur, or you can do business with Georgia. This bill ensures no Georgia taxpayer money will in any way support a regime that is supporting the genocide in Darfur.”
Thank John Lewis, thank David Adelman, and thank Governor Perdue. While you're praising, remind them that justice matters for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis who was denied a new trial to consider mountains of evidence that he may be innocent and whose execution may come very soon.