Sentence examples for demanding divestment from inspiring English sources
In the spring of 1985, Stanford out of South Africa posted a sign on the door of the president's office once again demanding divestment.
But the young people demanding divestment – as well as the grassroots groups fighting fossil fuels wherever they are mined, drilled, fracked, burned, piped or shipped – have a different definition of seriousness.
From Africa come some of the loudest voices demanding divestment: Desmond Tutu, who watched the effectiveness of the movement a generation ago when it was stock in apartheid-tainted companies that was at issue, has asked us to take up the same tool.
When the class of 2014 has met injustice, we have taken meaningful action: combatting sexual assault on campus, changing our food system and campus landscape, standing up for our workers, marching for need blind, sleeping on Wall Street, demanding divestment, supporting the rights of trans students, and rallying behind African American Studies.
Whether the next school to divest is Harvard University, where 72percentt of the student body voted to demand divestment, or a rural, southern school like Clemson University, both now have plenty of market data to consider.
In February, 1,000 people demonstrated in Oslo to demand divestment.
Since the idea was championed last year by the group 350.org and its leader, Bill McKibben, student groups have demanded divestment on more than 300 college campuses.
Have demonstrators demanded divestment by their parents, or conducted sit-ins against their capitalist uncles?
With regulators demanding significant divestments, Mr. Grainge made a bold chess move to appease the commission and at the same time divide some of his opposition by giving indie labels first crack at $300 million worth of EMI's assets in Europe.
Today, over 35 Harvard students are sitting in at Massachusetts Hall, outside President Drew Faust's office, to demand full divestment from the fossil fuel industry.
