Word: divestment
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BOSTON—Overlooking a crowd of about 50 people with lighted candles, two Harvard students spoke from the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Friday evening and urged the University to divest from companies that do business in Sudan...
Somerville lawmakers resoundingly rejected a proposal last night to divest the city’s funds from Israeli holdings, effectively ending a debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that had sparked controversy in recent weeks...
...vote by the city’s Board of Aldermen came five weeks after the proposal drafted by Somerville Divestment Project was first introduced. The proposal had called on the city to divest its pension fund from Israeli bonds and withdraw investments from American corporations providing military products to Israel...
...resolution drafted by Somerville Divestment Project, a volunteer group formed in early 2003, urged the city to divest its retirement fund from an Israeli bond worth $250,000 and withdraw investments in companies holding defense contracts with the Israeli army...
...fact that an entire city would agree to divest would set the precedent for other universities and other groups to do the same,” he said. “There is a very good opportunity for it to spread...