Word: divestments
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After Providence, R.I. became the first American city to divest from companies linked to Sudan last week, a student at Brown University—who helped organize the city’s divestment movement—said he hopes the decision will prompt other cities to do the same.The national drive towards divestment was ignited in 2004 by Harvard’s campaign for University divestment from the oil stock PetroChina, a company involved with the Sudanese government’s ongoing genocide in the western region of Darfur. Since then, other universities and even states have pulled their funds...
Murder and genocide are categorically intolerable. Ultimately, it was that maxim that led Harvard to divest itself of its holdings in Sinopec, and it is why we resoundingly support and applaud Harvard’s announcement last month that it will sell its Sinopec shares...
Pressure mounted on Harvard to cut its remaining ties to Sudan this past week, as the University of California system moved to divest from the oil firm Sinopec and over 1,100 students, alumni, and professors here pressed Harvard to do the same...
...Regents’ vote marked the first move by a public university to divest from Sudan in the wake of genocide allegations against that country’s regime...
Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Yale have also moved to divest from Sudan...