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… latest issue of Harper's Magazine provides a detailed and fascinating report about the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against SodaStream, a kitchen appliance made by an …

… Michael Sean Winters' remarks on my previous post concerning Methodist initiatives to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Mr. … question of how they, as ordinary U.S. church people, can leverage peace in the region. Their divestment initiative does not target a specific community but corporations for making products … lobbed at Israelis or instruments of torture used by Hamas, I feel confident they would divest. In the meantime, why should they -- or any people of faith, for that matter -- fund …

… Stephen Zunes … A growing movement has emerged on college campus calling for divestment from companies that support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. It is part of broader international campaign initiated by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its occupation of territories seized in the … war. The activists hope to emulate the success of a similar movement in the 1970s and '80s to divest institutional stockholdings from corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa. In …

… … My colleague, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, reports on the decision by more Methodist groups to divest themselves from companies that in some way support the Israeli occupation of the … be tentative.  What is most insidious in the Methodists' decision is the comparison with divestment in South Africa. The circumstances of the two countries could scarcely be more …

… (UMC), concerned about Palestinian rights, seem to be applying that strategy in their push to divest their church's pension funds of companies involved with the Israeli occupation of the … Kairos Response , a global grass-roots network of clergy and laity spearheading the Methodist divestment campaign. The four U.S. conferences join five others that have taken similar action, … applied the tactic to push for social change in the United States and abroad. In 1988, the UMC divested $77 million from companies supporting apartheid in South Africa and in the 1990s dropped …

… for climate resiliency upgrades. As for international efforts, the president urged a global divestment from coal-fired power plants and a recommitment to negotiations to bring all countries …

… face-to-face encounter must "include gestures of justice, generosity and sacrifice" and be divested of "prestige and power," Imperatori-Lee said. These postures have not always been …

… fuel companies’ stocks fell like a high diver jumping off an Olympic board. Universities divested from anybody who was going to do harm to the planet and reinvested their stocks in the …

… is urging municipalities, universities, pension funds, religious groups and individuals to divest themselves from stock in companies that mine fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas). The … there. Bill McKibben, head of 350.org, says he was once challenged about this campaign for divestment by someone who said, "Look, you can't win; this is like David taking on Goliath." … "I know how that story ends! I used to teach Sunday school." And many of us remember that a divestment campaign helped to bring down the apartheid of South Africa. Catholic groups, …

… Recent campaigns have included urging universities, municipalities and organizations to divest from fossil fuels, and organizing rallies against the construction of the Keystone XL …