Word: divestments
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...subject of race to the point at which it becomes completely divorced from both historical and present context. Some students may feel that the best policy is to look at the subject of race from a purely historical and intellectual standpoint—perhaps with a genuine wish to divest racial thinking of its power—while ignoring the very real and very present societal and emotional consequences of the subject at hand. However, this is often the very thought process that contributes to the type of barefaced insensitivity that was on display in my Af-Am class...
...Remembrance for Victims of Industrial Disasters and Pollution.” The resolutions were formulated by the Greater Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, a group of representatives from human rights and India-focused organizations. One resolution calls for the city’s retirement funds to divest from Dow. The other requested the city manager to assess whether the city uses Dow products. Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Bhopal, where she has relatives, is still severely polluted from the spill of heavier-than-air toxic...
Harvard’s Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, who supported the Harvard-MIT petition to divest from Israel in 2002, was present at the event...
While Harvard has divested from Petrochina and Sinopec—two Chinese companies that do business in Sudan—it has thus far resisted calls to divest from Tatneft...
Activists at several academic institutions—including Stanford University and Amherst College—have convinced their schools to divest from Tatneft along with other companies linked to the Sudan...