Word: divest
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...years after Harvard rejected calls to divest University funds from Israeli holdings, an activist group in nearby Somerville is reviving the debate...
Rekindling a rancorous two-year-old campus debate, University President Lawrence H. Summers published an op-ed last month reiterating his stance that a faculty-led drive pushing Harvard to divest from Israel-linked companies was “anti-Semitic...
...petition to divest University funds from companies that do business in Sudan makes the point that Harvard should not invest in any company that does business in Sudan “for as long as Sudan is in violation of international norms of human rights.” It is quite clear that our own country is in severe violation of all decent standards of human rights and the rules of war, and it is our responsibility to bring attention to this fact. Before we as Americans can preach peace and reconciliation to the world, we must make sure...
...regarding Harvard’s investments in companies associated with Sudan take an overly simplistic perspective on the matter. It’s easy to hear about the horrible genocides in Sudan and decide, in knee-jerk fashion, that Harvard is morally obliged to divest from anything that even remotely offers them any support...
...Darfur Action Group is also promoting an effort to get Harvard to divest from companies that conduct business with the Sudanese government. According to organizers, approximately 350 members of the Harvard community have signed a petition asking the University to selling its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with links to Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that stake is worth $1.8 million...