Word: divestment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Divestment has been a big issue on campus this semester—but last Thursday, students weren’t calling on Harvard to divest from Israel. This time, their target was Coke...
...Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Coca-Cola. HAC has called on Harvard to use this influence, particularly its shares and contracts, to effect change in Coke’s health coverage policies. If Coke doesn’t change, the protesters have asked the school to divest from Coke and terminate its contracts with the soft drink company...
...Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, petitioners for Harvard to divest from Israel are “bigots.” For University President Lawrence H. Summers, recent petitions “are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” This demonization of the divestment drive by a pair of Harvard’s most powerful figures is unjustified...
During those remarks, Summers cited calls for the University to divest from Israel as an example of recent developments on campus that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...
...petition, which calls for Harvard and MIT to divest from Israel and from American companies that sell arms to Israel, also calls for the U.S. government to stop supplying weapons until four specific conditions are met by the Israeli government...