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...Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, the co-founder of the website HarvardDivest.com that hosted the initial petition targeting PetroChina and the more recent anti-Sinopec effort, called today’s announcement “a welcome step.” In an e-mail, he wrote that “Harvard’s divestment still remains the most limited in scope compared to divestment decisions of other universities...
...petition’s organizers. “But I think that Sinopec made it very clear that there needs to be more done in terms of divestment at Harvard.” The original petition for divestment—conceived in October 2004 by Collins and Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06—called upon Summers to publicly pledge that Harvard “will not invest in any corporation that conducts business with the Sudanese government for as long as Sudan is in violation of international norms of human rights.”Around 800 students...
...situation,” Morse wrote. “We look forward to working with Bok with an open mind and hope that he will do the same with us.”One of the founders of the divestment wing of the Darfur Action Group, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, wrote in an e-mail last night that because the PetroChina divestment last year “established a precedent and set criteria for divestment” that he thinks Sinopec meets, Bok’s views are irrelevant.“Bok’s objection...
...Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 is a Sanskrit and Indian studies and government concentrator in Eliot House. Benjamin B. Collins ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Both are members of the divestment wing of the Harvard Darfur Action Group...
Last semester, two Eliot House juniors, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, began an online petition for divestment which collected thousands of signatures from students and Faculty. Their efforts stimulated much-needed awareness of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, where state-sponsored murders are responsible for an estimated 400,000 deaths. A couple of months later, two Harvard seniors launched a controversial campaign, Senior Gift Plus (SGP), and the divestment debate was in full swing...