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And students have responded to the paper’s call for local action. Just last week, two students launched a website that urges Harvard to divest its endowment holdings in Chinese energy firm PetroChina. PetroChina, which has a long history of oil exploration and production in Sudan, lost billions...
The University’s holdings in PetroChina have drawn criticism from human rights activists who say the company’s close links to oil ventures in Sudan have helped finance that government’s slaughter of its own people. A petition calling on Harvard to divest its...
Benjamin B. Collins ’06, who helped found the petition to divest from PetroChina two weeks ago, said several professors had signed on over the weekend.
Collins said they planned to solicit individual faculty—including “more high-profile” professors—in coming weeks. The petition is online at www.harvarddivest.com.
Wes Boyd, 44, and Joan Blades, 48, a husband-and-wife team of software entrepreneurs, started MoveOn in 1998 as a petition drive urging Congress to censure President Clinton and then "move on." In the 2000 election they promoted candidates for Congress to replace those members who had been supporters...