Word: sudan
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...security, a little peace. There's a potent moment in Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born -the Italian film that shares the Lumiere theater with Sith today -when a boat load of the dispossessed each give, in closeup, their name and home country. Montenegro, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bosnia, Sudan... The list of trouble spots could be endless; the wretched refuse numbers in the tens of millions; each face on that boat of illegal immigrants is a map of human misery and resolve. They wouldn't be there if they didn't think they could survive and thrive far from...
...letter, which was written by members of the ICG and carries Power’s signature, cited Harvard’s recent divestment from PetroChina as a model for other universities that may wish to reconsider their economic links to Sudan...
...publicly announced review of your investment portfolio, to see if action similar to Harvard’s is appropriate at this time, would send a clear message to the companies involved and to the Government of Sudan that you will not support those who profit from the atrocities committed in Darfur,” the ICG wrote...
Colin S. Thomas-Jensen, media and advocacy assistant for Africa at the ICG, said that in an age of globalization many universities may unknowingly be linked to Sudan through their investments in hedge funds and mutual funds. According to the ICG, divestment from these holdings serves as a symbolic condemnation of the Sudanese regime...
Benjamin B. Collins ’06, a co-writer of the petition for Harvard to divest from Sudan, said that Power’s letter will also give more leverage to student groups trying to veer their universities in the direction of divestment...