Word: petrochina
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...March, Adjah joined the cast of characters pressing Harvard to sell its stake in PetroChina, the Beijing-based oil firm with links to the Sudanese government. At a brainstorming session in Adams House, Adjah and 20 other undergraduates formed the United Front for Divestment, a group modeled after a similar student-led coalition that protested Harvard’s financial ties to South Africa’s apartheid government in the early 1980s...
Unbeknownst to the protesters, the CCSR’s three members already had voted to sell Harvard’s stake in PetroChina. And it fell to Adjah to announce the decision to the crowd...
...February, student activists turned the spotlight away from the Yard and toward conflict in Sudan. Calling their campaign Senior Gift Plus, they asked classmates to withhold donations to the annual fundraising drive until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. In an unusual move, the Harvard Corporation agreed in April to divest...
Terry and former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 formed the campaign after learning that Harvard had doubled its shares in PetroChina during the final quarter of 2004, even in the face of widespread anger over the investment. By February, over 80 professors and 600 students had signed on online petition calling on Harvard to divest from the company...
This month, Stanford’s Board of Trustees will consider a student-faculty panel’s recommendation that the University sell its shares in PetroChina, Sinopec, Tatneft, and a fourth firm, the Swiss-based power company...