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That this protest follows the incredibly effective and appropriate social movement to divest from PetroChina is ironic. The grass-roots organization and dedication of the Darfur Action Group, and the Senior Gift Plus group shows that there is, indeed, great potential for peaceful student movements and protests in progressive politics. Both the Darfur Action Group and Senior Gift Plus focused upon researching and further educating the Harvard student population on an issue. Neither group sought to silence political discourse. The difference between these student movements and the protest staged before the counterterrorism panel is that the former is made...
After reading about the investment in PetroChina in this paper, two undergrads, Benjamin B. Collins ’06 and Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, started working on a petition with Darfur Action Group (DAG), a University-wide effort. They toiled behind the scenes: figuring out who had influence over the Corporation, hand-delivering letters, making presentations to boards and committees and making the case to University President Lawrence H. Summers himself...
Then, in February, Harvard doubled their investments in PetroChina. Outraged, former Undergraduate Coucil and Black Men’s Forum Presidents Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 wrote a letter to the Senior Class asking them to boycott the Senior Gift. When their letter received a mixed response, they convened an ad hoc group of students and came up with Senior Gift Plus (SGP), an alternate pool of money that would be contributed to the Senior Gift only if Harvard divested from PetroChina. Working with Collins, Bhatnagar, members of the Senior...
...brought them together for a silent protest outside the meeting of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. It was during this protest that the movement, represented by hundreds standing together in black in front of Loeb House last Monday, received the news of Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina...
Finally, the movement was single-minded in its goal and committed to achieving it. Petition for divestment. Boycott for divestment. Protest for divestment. Divestment from PetroChina was the goal, no matter what the tactic or the group. I even saw an e-mail from one of the primary organizers for the silent protest that firmly requested that all those involved ensure that only divestment signs were held at the protest, a far cry from progressive rallies that often result in cries for a potpourri of leftist causes...