Word: sudan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Currently, Senior Gift volunteers are under siege by an organization that will withhold gifts until Harvard divests from PetroChina, a company that invests in Sudan. Recently, they’ve co-opted the Senior Gift name, confusing our classmates and distracting attention from the causes of financial aid, college improvements, and giving back to Harvard. It’s difficult to talk to busy seniors, and it’s always awkward to ask for money, but we’re now also being painted as supporting the Sudanese genocide. Rather than allow two important issues to be debated...
...Last Tuesday, we, like many members of the senior class, read about the doubling of Harvard’s investments in PetroChina. After being challenged to think critically about the meaning of the Senior Gift, we felt compelled to act. For us, this campaign is about the genocide in Sudan and what we as students can do to affect change. This is not a question of social policy or service; it is a question of human life. Hundreds of thousands are already dead...
Senior Gift PLUS (SGP) works to ensure that our contributions to Harvard realize their full symbolic potential. Harvard is currently invested in companies that help underwrite the ongoing genocide in Sudan. SGP holds Harvard accountable for its complicit support of the Sudanese government and guarantees that Harvard’s investments do not strengthen Harvard’s financial stability at the expense of its fundamental principles...
...Senior Gift. If, however the University fails to divest, we will contribute to Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights—an example of one part of the University that is working to end genocide. To be sure, giving to worthy organizations working directly in the Sudan is not mutually exclusive with SGP; we encourage students to donate to Doctors Without Borders from our website. However, donating to these organizations aids the victims, but does little to stop a genocidal regime. Our message is that we cannot in good conscious give a gift given the implications...
...this specific moment to put into action the theories we have scrutinized for the past four years, to actively realize our humanitarian responsibility. We acknowledge that with every action comes a risk. We must learn from the lessons of Rwanda. We know the severity of the situation in Sudan, and we know what the outcome will be if we fail...