Tommy Calvert of the Pan-African Alliance at a Boston rally, Dec. 3. He said teachers should demand their pension plan drop investments in companies doing business in Sudan.
Activists say Sudan condones slavery.
For more, click on the Slideshow icon. Leading U.S.-based pension funds have dropped their shares in a stock allegedly linked to slave trading in Sudan, after protests and complaints about ownership of the shares. Talisman has a 25 percent stake in a controversial oil pipeline in Sudan that is currently producing about 160,000 barrels of oil per day. The project's ties to the Sudanese government have led to the divestment campaign. The U.S. government, among others, has accused Sudan's rulers of sponsoring international terrorism and human rights violations such as slave-taking and killing civilians.