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Column: Resisting corporate power

(04/17/03 4:00am)

Labor and human rights organizations are always asking the public to boycott certain corporations for one reason or another. Practicing everything from sweatshop and child labor to discrimination and money laundering, corporations are always being exposed for their irresponsibility. It's almost impossible for even the most socially conscious consumer to keep track of which companies are being targeted at any given moment, and even harder to be sure which products and sub-contractors have connections to those specific corporations. People often feel like their own personal boycotts, and even mass collective boycotts, don't have any significant effect on the corporations they target.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/04/column-resisting-corporate-power

Column: Divest from injustice

(02/06/03 5:00am)

There is only one state where over $2 billion a year of U.S. military aid goes to fund the systematic violation of the human rights of an entire people. The United States gives more military aid to Israel than to all other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined. These billions of dollars are vital to the maintenance of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, and this money is coming directly from us. Our role as global citizens, and specifically as members of the Duke community, requires that we demand that our money be spent in socially and environmentally responsible ways. Investing in companies that deal arms to a state that is responsible for the oppression of millions is not responsible social policy. Duke should divest from military ties to Israel until we know our money will not be spent to maintain illegal control over occupied lands and people.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2003/02/column-divest-injustice