Word: divestments
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...Harvard alumna, now a Illinois State Senator, will present a bill this week that would require banks, pension funds, and the retirement system in Illinois to divest from companies with ties to the Sudanese government...
Senator Collins’ legislation, if successful, would send an “unambiguous message” to the Sudanese government, Benjamin B. Collins ’06, the co-founder of an online petition calling on Harvard to divest its shares of PetroChina, wrote in an e-mail. Benjamin Collins is not related to Senator Jacqueline Collins...
...refusal to divest says that we care more about making the return on four million dollars than about genocide.” Terry said. “It’s all about money, and that’s offensive...
...Faculty members question Summers’ comments at a Morning Prayer in which he called demands to divest University funds from Israel “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...
Just as participation in the Senior Gift signifies student confidence in Harvard, SGP indicates to our community and to the world that we value human life, and positively contributes back to Harvard. Upon Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina, all SGP funds will be contributed in their entirety to the Senior Gift. If, however the University fails to divest, we will contribute to Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights—an example of one part of the University that is working to end genocide. To be sure, giving to worthy organizations working directly...