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...Pressure Harvard to Divest” (news) provided a good profile of our Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) campaign in its aims and momentum. We want to clarify how our position would affect Harvard’s various investments, however, which was not stated in the article. Our targeted divestment plan asks Harvard to divest only where reasonable alternatives with similar risk and returns currently exist. This includes: direct securities holdings (there are other Chinese and Malaysian oil companies who do not do business with the Sudanese government), exchange-traded fund holdings (these are index funds bought together to look...
More than 400 students have signed an online petition calling on Harvard to shed its $13 million of indirect holdings in companies that do business with Sudan. The petition comes nearly two years after the University announced it would be divesting from Chinese oil firm PetroChina because of its dealings with the Sudanese government and one year after Harvard announced that it would sell its holdings in Sinopec, another company accused of helping to finance genocide in the Darfur region of the country. On March 1, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), with the support of more than 20 University...
Three key players in formulating Darfur divestment policy debated last night at the Barker Center, adding national scope to calls for the University to pull its investments of more than $13 million from companies that deal with the Sudanese government. Hosted by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the panel’s lone opponent to divestment faced tough grilling from both spectators and fellow panel members for his opinions. “States can’t make foreign policy,” said J. Daniel O’Flaherty, vice president of the National Foreign Trade Council.O...
...poppy industry supports drugs, terrorism, inner-city crime, and civil war in Latin America,” Pinker said, his voice drowned out as the room erupted in guffaws. He called on the latke lovers to sign his petition calling on Harvard and MIT to divest from companies that buy or sell poppy seed hamantashen...
Princeton STAND activists praised the university’s decision, saying they are “pleased that the University had decided to divest from the government of Sudan, because it does help to send a signal that the University recognizes that atrocities are being committed in Darfur,” according to the Princetonian...