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SRI Conference Report!!!



>Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:04:05 -0500
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>From: jrm20@xxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Ralph Mawdsley)
>Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:04:39 -0500 (EST)
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>Subject: SRI Conference Report!!!
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>Hey NY-SEACers!
>
>This past weekend, over 100 students from colleges and schools around New 
>York State and from as far away as Maine, Wisconsin, and Colorado met at 
>Cornell University to discuss socially responsible investing by our 
>colleges and universities.  Schools around the country invest billions 
>and billions of dollars annually with little or no thought given as to what 
>corporations these dollars are supporting.  
>
>Fifteen workshops covered topics ranging from what is socially 
>responsible investing to creative direct action, from stories of successful 
>SRI campaigns at various schools to whether or not SRI was simply 
>strengthening the capitalist system.  The keynote address was given by 
>Professor Tom Hirschl of Cornell, who was active in the South Africa 
>divestment campaign at the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the 
>1980s.
>
>Folksinger Dana Lyons entertained us Friday night with an incredible 
>concert, and the presence of Cornell's Board of Trustees (most of whom 
>are CEOs of major corporations) on campus gave rise to several 
>demonstrations.  These demonstrations had an almost immediate effect, as 
>senior Cornell administrators pledged to revive the university's proxy 
>committee, which has been inactive for over a decade.
>
>The next NY-SEAC conference will be our big statewide conference the weekend 
>of November 13-15 in beautiful BUFFALO, NY.  Watch for an email message 
>about the Buffalo conference over this list VERY SOON!!!
>
>To get more involved with the SRI campaign, join the SRI-L listserv.  
>Just send an email to: listproc@xxxxxxxxxxx with the following message: 
>subscribe SRI-L@xxxxxxxxxxx <your name>.
>
>For the Earth,
>
>Jonathan Mawdsley,
>NY-SEAC Coordinator
>
>
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