If
spending
money
is
akin
to
voting,
divestment
is
how
institutions
boycott
causes
they
don’t
believe
in.
Harvard’s
divestments
have
been
on
the
right
side
of
history
—
a
partial
divestment
from
apartheid
South
Africa
in
1986,
tobacco
stocks
in
1990,
and
functional
divestment
from
fossil
fuels
in
2021
after
years
of
pushback
from
their
law
students.
HLS’s
current
student
body
is
pushing
to
get
the
school
to
divest
from
companies.
The
Crimson
has
coverage:
The
Harvard
Law
School
Student
Government
has
scheduled
a
student-wide
vote
in
March
on
a
referendum
to
divest
from
companies
involved
in
Israel’s
war
in
Gaza.The
referendum,
which
will
be
administered
to
the
student
body
from
March
11
to
March
13,
urges
students
to
vote
in
favor
of
Harvard’s
divestment
from
companies
“aiding
violations
of
international
humanitarian
law”
—
including
those
that
have
provided
support
for
the
war
in
Gaza,
which
the
referendum
refers
to
as
a
genocide.
I
think
referring
to
what
is
happening
as
a
genocide
is
a
given
at
this
point.
Let’s
be
honest
—
the
presidential
AI
slop
about
how
great
of
a
travel
destination
Gaza
will
be
after
it
gets
seized
by
America
reads
a
lot
more
like
an
advertisement
for
ethnic
cleansing
than
it
does
cutting-edge
conflict
stratagem:
It
is
too
early
to
evaluate
the
efficacy
of
the
referendum.
Even
if
the
vote
comes
out
overwhelmingly
in
favor
in
divestment,
Harvard
President
Alan
Garber
has
already
voiced
his
refusal
to
divest
from
Israel.
It
would
also
be
a
huge
180
to
go
from
punishing
students
and
faculty
for
studying
or
praying
for
a
ceasefire
to
divesting
just
a
couple
of
months
later.
That
said,
the
vote
could
influence
a
divestment
at
a
later
date,
much
like
with
fossil
fuels.
For
more
information,
you
can
go
to
HLS’s
Student
Government
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGlxoBFPnqC
HLS
Student
Government
Says
Divestment
Referendum
Voting
Will
Begin
in
March
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Crimson]
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Chris
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became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
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He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
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