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Divestment

Divestment and Financial Illiteracy

M. Todd Henderson | Posted 05.21.2013 | Business
M. Todd Henderson

Colleges should devote more time to teaching economics and elementary finance to their students. Armed with some basics, these well-meaning students would be able to make a much bigger impact on our world.

350.org, Student Activism and the End of Reason

G. Benjamin Bingham | Posted 05.15.2013 | Green
G. Benjamin Bingham

There were many reasons I took a leave of absence from Yale in 1970 after the National Guard lined the streets looking like aliens with their gas mask...

RISD Students Stage Nation's First Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In

Jamie Henn | Posted 04.29.2013 | Green
Jamie Henn

RISD students have been pushing for divestment since January, but after an initially positive response, the Board of Trustees has now refused to move any proposals forward despite large amounts of support from students and faculty.

Aaron Sankin

San Francisco Takes Historic Step Against Big Oil

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.26.2013 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday urging managers of the city's public employee retireme...

Do the Math Documentary Premieres on Earth Night, April 21

Jamie Henn | Posted 04.17.2013 | Green
Jamie Henn

Now, our team here at 350.org is hoping to spark a new wave of not just concern, but action, with a new documentary called Do the Math about the growing movement to take on the fossil fuel industry.

Using Your Power as a Consumer

Dedrick Muhammad | Posted 04.05.2013 | Black Voices
Dedrick Muhammad

Give thought to how the decision you make with your money could be the impetus to change that can have perhaps a much longer lasting impact.

'You Can Fool Some People Sometime': BS Gets BDS a Win at UC Riverside

Philippe Assouline | Posted 03.25.2013 | World
Philippe Assouline

The student senate at UC Riverside voted on March 6 to divest from companies doing business in Israel.

Put Your Money Where Your Future Is: College Students Lead the Way on Fossil Fuel Divestment

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 04.23.2013 | Green
Mary Anne Hitt

While I loved every one of the thousands of faces I saw at Sunday's massive Forward on Climate rally in Washington, D.C., I was especially inspired by...

Shut Down the Merchants of Death -- A Divestment Strategy to Stop Gun Violence

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics
Peter Dreier

Around the country, Americans are not only lobbying their Congressmembers to support legislation to reduce gun violence, they are also voting with their dollars -- through pension funds, government purchasing policies, and university endowments.

Climate Protests Erupt Across the Nation -- Expect More

Adam Greenberg | Posted 03.12.2013 | Green
Adam Greenberg

Over the past months, the youth climate movement and its allies have been raising the stakes. In its first month alone, the fossil fuel divestment movement reached 192 campuses, and even spread to the city of Seattle. But we're not going to stop there.

Divestment Proponents: Our Math Is Sound

Martin Bourqui | Posted 02.22.2013 | Green
Martin Bourqui

Talking about fossil fuels solely within the sphere of the policy approach or as a "good" or "bad" investment ignores the realities of extraction on the ground.

Divestment and Image Concerns Drive Big Changes in Gun Business -- And Offer Activists a Major Opportunity

Rob Kall | Posted 02.20.2013 | Business
Rob Kall

Divesting a major company from an investment portfolio is a huge move. This quick development, just days after the massacre, demonstrates the incredible power that large investment funds hold when they even mention the consideration of divestment.

Chicago Universities Not Yet on Board With National Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign (VIDEO)

John V. Santore | Posted 02.02.2013 | Chicago
John V. Santore

Climate change activist Bill McKibben has been touring the nation and promoting the idea that universities need to stop supporting fossil fuel companies. But officials at Chicago's leading universities are not yet willing to comment.

Problems With the Math: Is 350's Carbon Divestment Campaign Complete?

Christian Parenti | Posted 01.29.2013 | Green
Christian Parenti

I am all for dumping carbon stocks, if for no other reason than a sense of decency and honor. And the spectacle of targeting the enemy -- giving them a name and an address -- is great, but it needs to be linked to other forms of leverage.

Do the Math: Invest While We Divest

Brendan Smith | Posted 01.13.2013 | Green
Brendan Smith

Do you want your college tuition or tax dollars invested to increase droughts, storms, forest fires, and crop failures -- and an unending series of Katrinas and Sandys?

Bank Of America Just Lost A $170 Million Customer

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.09.2012 | Business

Bank of America may have millions of customers, but the government of Brockton, Mass., is no longer one of them. Brockton is divesting its municipa...

Palestine's Investments Require Divestment

Sam Bahour | Posted 09.24.2012 | World
Sam Bahour

Over the years, not only has Israel prohibited the emergence of a new Palestinian economy -- it structurally and systematically has made certain that even the buds of such a productive economy would never see the light of day.

Presbyterian Boycott Vote a Victory for Human Rights and Justice

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 09.15.2012 | Media
Phyllis Bennis

The mainstream U.S. press wrote quite extensively about last week's Presbyterian campaign for corporate social responsibility. Virtually all the headlines focused on the decision not to divest from corporations profiting from the Israeli occupation.

Targeted Boycotts and Divestments Are Pro-Israel

Michael Zigmond | Posted 09.11.2012 | World
Michael Zigmond

At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA, the commissioners emphasized the importance of alleviating suffering through the establishment of a just, peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- a profoundly pro-Israeli position.

A Success Worse Than Failure? Lessons From Activist Campaigns in South Africa and Sudan

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 06.04.2012 | Impact
Stephanie Rudat

For activist movements seeking positive change, there is only one thing worse than obscurity: the infliction of unintended negative consequences on those you are trying to help.

Lila Shapiro

Walmart Dumped By Pension Fund Over Poor Worker Conditions

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 01.05.2012 | Business

A major pension fund and longtime investor in Walmart has blacklisted the retailing behemoth, citing poor labor practices and the company's anti-union...

Los Angeles Launches Nation's First Israel Divestment Campaign

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Linda Milazzo

On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brow...

Let Us Join Those Who Refuse

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Rebecca Vilkomerson

Tisha B'Av fell on the same day as the first TIAA CREF annual meeting since Jewish Voice for Peace initiated a campaign to get TIAA CREF to divest its holdings from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.

An Open Letter to UC Berkeley Students -- Passing the Israel Divestment Bill

Mustafa Barghouthi | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Mustafa Barghouthi

I have lived my entire adult life under this occupation. I have worked this entire time -- over 40 years -- to bring about an end to this system of Israeli rule and Palestinian subjugation.

Divesting From Injustice

Desmond Tutu | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Desmond Tutu

Students are helping to pave a path to a Middle East peace, and I heartily endorse their divestment vote, encourage them to stand firm on the side of what is right, and urge others to follow their lead.