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While Harvard announced last week that it will divest from PetroChina, the University has maintained investments in other companies that have drawn fire from activists for alleged ties to human-rights abuses, including oil and gas company Unocal Corp...
...campus, the Burma Action Movement (BAM) released a statement yesterday calling upon the University to divest from Unocal...
...would like to hope that a university leading human-rights initiatives and teaching its students to become responsible global citizens would divest from companies complicit in crimes against humanity,” read a statement provided by group President Ohnmar Khin...
That this protest follows the incredibly effective and appropriate social movement to divest from PetroChina is ironic. The grass-roots organization and dedication of the Darfur Action Group, and the Senior Gift Plus group shows that there is, indeed, great potential for peaceful student movements and protests in progressive politics. Both the Darfur Action Group and Senior Gift Plus focused upon researching and further educating the Harvard student population on an issue. Neither group sought to silence political discourse. The difference between these student movements and the protest staged before the counterterrorism panel is that the former is made...
...University of California, Berkeley, sidewalk vendors selling cappuccino and sukiyaki did a brisk business as some 3,000 well-behaved protesters assembled in front of Sproul Hall to demand that the university divest itself of holdings in companies with investments in South Africa. At Columbia University in New York City, hundreds of students held a similar antiapartheid demonstration by blockading a campus building. At the University of Colorado in Boulder, 450 demonstrators were arrested while attempting to disrupt CIA recruitment interviews. To oppose military research at the University of Minnesota, ten students staged a "kill-in" by opening a canister...