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...Darfur Action Group is also promoting an effort to get Harvard to divest from companies that conduct business with the Sudanese government. According to organizers, approximately 350 members of the Harvard community have signed a petition asking the University to selling its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with links to Khartoum. The University’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that stake is worth $1.8 million...
Enraged students, enraged professors and a call for action are the primary ingredients in a successful divestment campaign. But know whether other endowments or shareholders have divested and whether Congress has raised the issue. Find a specific, compelling reason why Harvard should divest rather than express its concerns in shareholder proxy votes (e.g., your money supports a white supremacy...
Make the issue an issue by gaining the support of the public and publicly respected Harvard professors. Intellectual celebrities help legitimize and strengthen students’ complaints in the eyes of the bureaucrats upstairs. (For example: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu wants you to divest, too. We’ll sit in this doorway until you notice...
...Make Harvard divest...
...professors, public intellectuals, students and Committees on your side and the University just may divest...