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Posted Wed Dec 5 2012: from New York Times:
To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1354751988
... In recent weeks, college students on dozens of campuses have demanded that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks. The students see it as a tactic that could force climate change, barely discussed in the presidential campaign, back onto the national political agenda. ... Students who have signed on see it as a conscious imitation of the successful effort in the 1980s to pressure colleges and other institutions to divest themselves of the stocks of companies doing business in South Africa under apartheid.
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'Doc Jim says:
Nice metaphor: instead of whites vs. blacks it's people vs. nature.

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