Date: April 5, 2007
Location: Lawyer’s Mall, Annapolis, MD
Event time: 9:30am
Description: This Darfur rally will feature Senator Benjamin L. Cardin and Maryland Senator Verna Jones, Chair of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus.Senator Cardin has called for galvanizing U.S. support for additional funding for the African Union/UN Peacekeeping forces in Darfur and serves on the Senate Subcommittee on Africa that will be reviewing sanctions against the government of Sudan. Maryland State Senator Verna Jones, Chair of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus, has worked for passage of a measure in the Maryland General Assembly that would restrict the investment of state funds in companies or entities that do business with the Sudanese government.
Contact: Mark Clack @ Mark_Clack@cardin.senate.gov
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