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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...
...which protested University investment in PetroChina, a company with ties to the Sudanese government. This rift fostered concerns among students about exactly how their donations were being spent, and the campaign registered its lowest participation rate since 1999. This year, however, following Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina and a second oil firm tied to the Sudanese government, Sinopec, campaign planners are confident that their effort will be controversy-free. After the first weekend of the competition, Qunicy House is in first place with 24 percent participation, followed by Currier and Mather Houses, with 16 percent...
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...
...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...