Word: divesting
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Last year on this day, 5000 people filled the Yard to hear the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson speak against apartheid in South Africa and call upon Harvard to divest. The Jackson rally launched last spring's divestment protests...
...Divestment was an opportunity for Boston to send a very clear and decisive message that that kind of injustice against a group of people, on the basis of race, was unconscionable. It's not that I don't have enough to do in the city of Boston. I work every waking hour filling potholes. That's my job. I love filling potholes...But there's a more powerful message than merely dollars and cents, and that is human rights, people's lives, and injustice...I would urge Harvard to divest." (Mayor Ray Flynn quoted in Ben Bradlee Jr., "Two Views...
...contention on which the internship program rose and fell was that it represented what Black South Africans wanted us to do to help them. The University has also made this claim about its refusal to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. In both cases, the claim is specious...
...desire to send interns to his country was the arrogant and paternalistic way in which Harvard conceived and established the program without regard for the views or concerns of those the program was supposedly designed to help. It is the same paternalism that bolsters Harvard's decision not to divest. And instead of helping Black South Africans in a way that many of them have requested, the University decided it knew better. It didn't, and it doesn...
Defending the university's decision not to divest, Bok wrote that the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) takes the position that companies can improve the lives of the their own employees in South Africa. As an investor, the university can exercise leverage and ensure that positive steps are taken toward aiding Black South Africans, Bok wrote...