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Speaking in Jerusalem this past December, Summers revived his criticism of campus activists who two years prior had called on the University to divest from companies conducting business in Israel...
Following Harvard’s lead, Stanford University last week became the second major institutional shareholder to divest from oil company PetroChina in protest of the Beijing-based firm’s role in funding the ongoing genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...
...Stanford’s decision to divest generated significant media coverage in news outlets throughout California,” wrote Thomas-Jensen, who says that the primary aim of divestment movements is to keep international attention focused on the Darfur crisis...
Meanwhile, the Stanford chapter of “Students Taking Action Now: Darfur” (STAND), the activist group that pressed the university to divest, has not called on the school to sell its stake in two other firms that carry on joint ventures with the Sudanese government–French communications company Alcatel and German engineering giant Siemens...
...deadly civil war in southern Sudan languished out of the limelight for more than two decades. But Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina grabbed headlines both locally and in far-flung papers—from Singapore’s Straits Times to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...