On 5/16/07, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Divestment campaigns are almost a clear sign of someone who doesn't know
what they're talking about. I meant to pass this on earlier this week;
hedge fund manager Cody Willard talking about the Darfur divestment thing.
Some of it will be rather grating to a pen-l audience in that he is quite
unsentimental about making money out of other people's misfortune. But his
underlying economic point is IMO very sensible; if you persuade Shell to
divest from Darfur then voila - a $200bn economic entity that no longer
cares about Darfur.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bda5df12-f4ce-11db-b748-000b5df10621,dwp_uuid=d8e9ac
2a-30dc-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html
apologies for the mammoth URL by the way
The Darfur divestment campaign has been going on longer than the Iran
divestment one. Has it even had any financial impact at all on
Sudan's government? I've been wondering if it's not so much intended
to actually have a big impact on politics in Sudan as to keep the
issue alive here in the USA, the UK, and the rest of the West.
--
Yoshie
