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Finally the Corporation has for a year effectively ignored the ACSR's recommendation to divest from the Carnation company which for three years running has failed to meet the basic requirements of the Sullivan Principles a set of fair labor and equal opportunity guidelines for U.S. firms in South Africa. The Sullivan guidelines are far from perfect, they have been widely attacked as a figleaf to cover up the sins of corporate involvement in the country. But they are the closest thing there is to reasonable standards of behavior for U.S. firms, and Carnation has not shown the least indication...
Hours after a group of students ended their hunger strike calling for Harvard to divest from companies that do business in South Africa, a Black student organization pledged to continue the protest with a series of weekly fasts...
...included remarks from Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King and State Sen. Jack H. Backman. But Shaw said the weekly fasts will seek to involve and educate students rather than following the tactics of the earlier hunger strikers, who sought to attract outside attention. "The only way Harvard will divest is if students take up the issue," he added...
More than 100 labor, religious and civil organizations in the Mass. Divest coalition joined Rep. Mel King and myself in sponsoring this bill...
These are the reasons why we as lawmakers from around the nation strongly support the divestment. We do not share the confused notion of some of our government and university leaders who argues that divestment is not justified. We must question the sincerity of your action as President of Harvard, when this week you moralized about ethics, justice and responsibility among. Harvard lawyers while you rejected place to divest Harvard investments from corporations that feed the University through profits made in the exploitation of the South African Black population...