WASHINGTON, September 26, 2006 — The Genocide Intervention Network [1] commends the state of California and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for divesting California’s three largest public shareholders from companies funding genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The Sudan Divestment Task Force [2], a project of GI-Net which mobilized thousands of California activists in support of the measure, will host a web conference tomorrow describing how individuals can screen their own mutual funds for companies funding the genocide. Joined at a ceremony yesterday by George Clooney, Don Cheadle, former US Secretary of State George Shultz and members of the California State Assembly, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the divestment bills into law and declared, “Today I am signing two bills that will send a clear message across the globe: California will not stand for murder and genocide.