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...vote this evening puts the matter to rest as far as the Board of Aldermen,” said Alderman William A. White ’77 last night...
...vote by the city’s Board of Aldermen came five weeks after the proposal drafted by Somerville Divestment Project was first introduced. The proposal had called on the city to divest its pension fund from Israeli bonds and withdraw investments from American corporations providing military products to Israel...
Somerville’s mayor said earlier this month that he would veto a divestment plan, and the manager of the city’s pension fund said a Board of Aldermen resolution would legally have no effect on city investments...
After the vote was taken at Somerville’s city hall, supporters of the divestment plan walked up to the aldermen and began singing an African anti-apartheid song while distributing pro-divestment pamphlets, according to White...
...proposal failed to receive a recommendation from Somerville’s Legislative Matters Committee last night, and will likely be voted down tomorrow by the full Board of Aldermen in favor of an alternate proposal...