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Last Year almost a dozen cities and states divested from their holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. This year, more than 20 sate legislatures will consider divestiture of funds held by state pension plans and similar programs. In a series of interviews last week, leading officials at nearly a dozen organizations working lot divestiture expressed a common anticipation that. With pressure from the Coalition, next year will be even better than the previous...
...appears that local organization did much of the work and were helped by national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts a group called MassDIVEST a coalition of local groups. Spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, say one it was primarily a local effort...
Last year, almost a dozen cities and states divested from their holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. This year, more than 20 state legislature will consider divestiture of funds held by state pension plans and similar programs. In a series of interviews last week, leading officials at nearly a dozen organizations working for divestiture expressed a common anticipation that, with pressure from the Coalition, next year will be even better than the previous...
...appears that local organizations did much of the work, and were helped by national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts, a group called MassDIVEST, a coalition of local groups, spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa. Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, saying it was primarily a local effort...
...cause of the expected debate is a bill now pending in the City Council of Washington, D.C. Introduced by Councillor John Ray, a Democrat, the bill calls for immediate divestiture of the $30 million that the city's pension funds now invests in companies operating in the apartheid state. Washington, D.C.'s pension funds total more than $330 billion...