Divest for Darfur Campaign

This week marks a new phase in the campaign to end the ongoing genocide in Darfur.  Representatives of the Divest for Darfur campaign went to Wall Street this morning, to emphasize how seemingly innocuous investment decisions can end supporting murder.  The campaign specifically targets Fidelity and Berkshire-Hathaway, but the larger point about how we should watch where our money goes is important.

Trace any investment all the way through, and you'll find something unseemly.  Helen and I are longtime investors in the Pax World Funds, one of many socially conscious mutual funds. Sometimes I wonder why we make the extra effort, since all money is dirty. 

But in most cases, at least, money isn't filthy. In  Darfur it is. 

So much success, and God speed, to the Divest for Darfur campaign.