Comments on: UC drops investments in response to activists’ gripes

By: Just Another Disgruntled Citizen

Just Another Disgruntled Citizen — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 19:32:33 +0000

The arguments brought forth by the student activists and their supporters about the alleged merits or lack of same of various public investments and policies is one thing, their determination to control the debate by bullying their opposition into silence or acceding to their demands in another.
Let us not confuse the two.
There ought to be room in this debate for everyone.

By: Schwartz

Schwartz — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:01:40 +0000

Private prisons are more poorly run and have many more human rights violations than their public counterparts. Prisons for private profit is an insane idea, and the implications for more injustice in our already horrible criminal justice system are obvious. How can the ivory tower support this? Just another example of corruption which is now affecting every social institution in America.

By: Flowing Waters

Flowing Waters — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:35:16 +0000

Boycott & Divestment movements work on many levels. We as individuals vote with our pocketbooks of course. First, they educate the public and the boards controlling the funds about their active role in evolution of consciousness about our planet. Most people covered by CalPers, other state, federal and teachers’ employment retirement systems, are not aware of the specific corporations supported by their retirement dollars. If they knew e.g. that CalPers has $800 million invested in Nestle, $500 million each in CocaCola and Pepsi, $53 million in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Holdings (Crystal Geyser) when we are in extreme drought, they might write in requesting divestment. We shouldn’t be surprised if legislators, city and county officials, judges and the governor fail to regulate the water privatization and water bottling industry.They are invested in these corporate water extractors. Major university endowment funds like the UC system should be glad their students and members are vigilant. I hope they will also address water as well as coal, oil, fracking industries.