Columbia Has Divested Before: Here's What Happened | WSJ
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At Columbia University, protesters are pressing for the sale of holdings tied to companies allegedly profiting from Israel’s actions like Google, Amazon and Airbnb. At Yale and Cornell, students have called for their schools to divest themselves of weapons manufacturers involved in Israel’s campaign. But how does divestment work at universities?
WSJ explores the history of divestment movements at schools and the challenges involved in modern divestment initiatives.
Chapters:
0:00 Protesters calling for divestment
0:35 Divestment, explained
2:22 Past divestment initiatives
4:04 How endowments work
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Columbia University cancels main commencement ceremony after protests: on.wsj.com/3QVKZjh
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Why are American universities even investing in weapons manufacturers? Am I the only one thinks this is insane????
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I didn't realise Matt Damon was so involved in economic sociology
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Let's not revise history, WSJ. As a result of divestment and sanctions, the value of the South African rand dropped dramatically during the 1980s. That economic pressure did help to end apartheid. The citation at 5:44 is misleading. The study's focus is narrow, examining whether specific acts of divestment made a dent in economic valuations. But the divestment campaign's success was cumulative . The successful divestment protests created a political environment that facilitated capital flight from South Africa, as doing business with South Africa became a toxic PR nightmare and the political support for government sanctions grew. The value of the rand didn't drop for no reason, and capital didn't gush out of South Africa for no reason.
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anyone remember when university's invested in prisons
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"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power." — George Carlin
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Why are we listening to Charlie Eaton? This guy has no idea what he’s talking about. What credibility does he have besides being a professor at one of the worst UC’s in California. Merced is the school students usually put at the bottom of their fall back colleges.
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They are investing in arms companies so we, in the West (including Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), can live in freedom and be ahead of our adversaries. Study what we want, and love who we want. You can take all that for granted but it is not a given.
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"Columbia has been divested before" Yeah even back in 1912, ask Comstock
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What about they stop using Amazon and Google themselves.
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One of the better cracks at outlining this that I've seen but still murky as they don't shed any light on what Columbia's current investments in Israel actually are.
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Matt Damon looks good with glasses.
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Israel as a country factor exposure on their portfolio would be around 0.5% which is nothing. This will change nothing.
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They want to divest from “companies profiting from the war in Gaza,” but don’t include any Qatari companies?
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Such an Shameful act that University place where Education and knowledge is imparted is taking money from weapons manufacture and lobbyist and profiting from colonial occupation and supporting Apartheid It seems Money is more Important, rather Upholding Justice and Law
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universities should not be invested in weapons manufacturers
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Matt Damon is just great
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This video is so contradictory so the investments are very small but they can’t do it because it’s to complicated what???
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No word on the hypocrisy of calling to divest Israel but leaving China, Iran, Syria, Russia all in?
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I didn't realize D9 militarized bulldozers could be considered "tractors"
