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Citing these reports, as well as evidence that Coca-Cola has devastated the environment near its bottling plants in India, Swarthmore student activists lobbied for the passage of a Student Council resolution calling for administrative action. Students also circulated a petition that garnered hundreds of signatures.
One hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly...
In 2002, President Lawrence H. Summers infamously remarked that a petition for divestment from companies operating in Israel was “anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.” Outrageous as many, myself included, found the accusation to be, what was most surprising was that an immensely...
As a signatory to that petition, I think none of us expected Harvard to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The petition represented the loosest kind of divestment demand: a blanket statement of general responsibility and a request to take a strong but vague moral stance. Historically, Harvard does...
The first type of divestment demand is first and foremost a tactic used by organizers to manufacture an opportunity to talk about the actual issues. In this light, Summers did the petition-circulators an immense favor: he catapulted a hopeless divestment call from obscure e-mail lists to the pages...