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The Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) began circulating an online petition in early March in support of their "targeted divestment model," a criteria-based approach that questions the ethics of investing in more than 20 companies accused of helping to finance the genocide in Darfur.
Yet, this seething mass of clashing clothes and conflicting interests is what Hong Kong democracy now looks like. With the territory's leadership widely castigated over its lack of accountability -for example, ignoring public calls to rein in rapacious property developers and combat environmental degradation, to name just two examples...
The CCSR also addressed a proposal from a concerned student organization, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), which had garnered over 1400 petition signatures and sent letters to Interim President Derek C. Bok and President-elect Drew G. Faust regarding its proposed divestment model.
The former Rocky Flats workers had hoped that the board would approve Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) for all workers at the plant, meaning expedited access to compensation. Instead, the government panel approved that status only for workers employed at Rocky Flats from Jan. 1, 1959 to Dec. 31, 1966, saying...
About a dozen students collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition calling on Harvard to end its use of eggs from chickens that spend their days in 67-square-inch “batterycages.”