The bill appears to target Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, and other religious groups as well as colleges, labor unions, and others who have supported or could potentially support boycotts or call for divesting from companies supporting the occupation and settlements even if they do not endorse boycotts of Israel itself.
Is there a deadline for divesting himself of the Bronx bombers and the ringside seats?
There are other good reasons for divesting from ICBC.
The process of preparing for, implementing, and responding to this scope change has significant ramifications for divesting firms, especially in the area of organization design.
In 2012, for example, 72percentt of Harvard's students voted for divesting its $30 billion endowment from these corporations.
They want West uninvited to the May 3-4 meeting because of what they describe as his offensive criticism of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and his support for universities to divest holdings from companies that do business with the Israeli military.
Resolutions in support of universities divesting from Israel have passed on seven campuses this year and been rejected on eight others.
While the Obama administration and US intelligence agencies last year supported divesting the NSA of its domestic phone metadata collection, a bill to do so failed in November.
The gutting of public higher education throughout the nation, the destruction of America's parks and recreation facilities, and now the proposed foreclosure on Sesame Street is part of a larger movement to divest public support for the very institutions utilized by the middle-class, the working-class and America's poor.
OO Clean Energy Investment in Non-G-20 Countries Grows to 8% of Global Total - says a PEW report, finding that the shift to emerging markets creates an export opportunity for the U.S. OO France's Largest Insurer Divesting of Coal Companies - Axa broadens support for the fossil-fuel divestment movement to a major mainstream investor.
