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Almost 100 demonstrators came to show support for a House bill that would force the state’s pension system to divest from companies with operations in Myanmar, formerly Burma. The bill, introduced by State Representative Byron Rushing ’64 (D-Boston), is presently being debated by state legislators...
...Summers divided much of the campus in September 2002 when he said that Harvard and MIT professors who advocated that the universities divest their endowment holdings from Israel were "anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent...
...believe that complicity in genocide is an academic value," Bakker said, also adding that he was skeptical about the CCSR's decision to add the Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC) to its list of companies to divest from...
...Crimson had reported in January that, despite the decisions to divest from PetroChina and Sinopec—two Chinese oil firms with ties to Sudan—Harvard still maintained indirect holdings in these firms worth more than $16 million through investments in other funds...
Although Harvard's decision to divest from PetroChina in April 2005 set a precedent as the first university to divest from a company because of its involvement in Sudan, Millenson said that the CCSR report indicates a disappointing change of heart in the University's investment decisions...