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Activists at several academic institutions—including Stanford University and Amherst College—have convinced their schools to divest from Tatneft along with other companies linked to the Sudan...
...that percolate in Berkeley today end up being conventional wisdom in the rest of the country tomorrow." Berkeley, after all, was the first city to start curbside recycling, ban Styrofoam and desegregate its public schools without a court order. Berkeley also took the lead in calling for municipalities to divest from South Africa during the apartheid...
...befall them at the hands of Janjaweed militias: rape, kidnapping, murder. Susana Ruiz, a University of Southern California student who helped design the game, which is backed by college channel mtvU, hopes it will inspire players to take real-world action by writing President Bush or lobbying schools to divest holdings in firms that operate in Sudan, as the University of California system resolved to do in March: "We want to motivate people to do something right...
...city of New Haven has divested its pension funds from companies tied to the Sudanese government. Earlier this year, Yale University, located in New Haven, divested from seven companies that do business with Sudan. New Haven’s divestment comes on the heels of a similar decision in Providence, RI. For New Haven, the move is not unprecedented, as city officials took a similar measure in the early nineties, divesting from businesses involved in South African commerce during the era of Apartheid. The measure, passed by New Haven’s two pension boards, prevents the city?...
Earlier this year, the council was one of 12 student organizations supporting a campaign to divest from the Sudan-linked oil company Sinopec. The council also coordinates graduate social activities and acts as the official conduit between University administrators and graduate students. The officers are scheduled to assume their positions on June...