Word: divesting
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...charge of irrelevance is especially curious in light of the fact that the Crimson had run a staff editorial on the previous day calling for Harvard to divest from Shell Oil. This editorial mentioned a Council resolution, passed week and a half before, which calls for divestment as well. It is difficult to conceive that the Crimson did not consider this, the subject of their own staff editorial, relevant. Spirit Week and related events may not enhance our relevance, but they have consumed relatively little of the Council's time, energy, and money this semester...
...Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...
Leading the student movement is Hafsat D. Abiola '96, daughter of the imprisoned Nigerian president-elect. Last week, Abiola convinced the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution asking the Board of Overseers to divest from oil companies investing in Nigeria...
Some council members said they were concerned that to divest from Nigeria would send the wrong message to Shell...
Some speakers at the event also called on Harvard to divest its stock in the Shell oil company, which Saro-Wiwa had criticized for exploiting the Ogoni people and polluting their land with oil spills...