Word: sudan
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According to Jesse A. Sage ’98, associate director of the American Anti-Slavery group, $1.4 billion of the Massachusetts Pension fund has already been invested in companies doing business in Sudan...
Ryan said at the rally that he was stunned when he learned that part of his retirement fund was invested in companies doing business in Sudan. “I want my hands washed clean of the blood and rape occurring in the Sudan,” Ryan said...
Yesterday, Massachusetts state senator Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr. announced that he will file legislation in March requiring the Commonwealth to divest its pension funds from international companies doing business with Sudan...
...Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating in a joint venture with the Sudanese government, providing Sudan with cash spent on a brutal war being waged against its own people in the southern region of Darfur. While we strongly support calls for Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina, we cannot support Mahan and Terry’s boycott of the Senior Gift...
...Darfur is ludicrous and forces an unfair and unnecessary choice on Harvard seniors. The Senior Gift’s mission is an intensely positive one, and its goals need not be jeopardized for the sake of attempting to achieve the positive end of Harvard’s divestment from Sudan...