Article from the newsletter AMBO about a petition submitted to the Board of Trustees of Virginia Theological Seminary advocating that the seminary divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The article reports that the Seminary's board of trustees accepted the student petition in their recent meeting and voted to review seminary policy with regard to divestment in South Africa at its May 1989 meeting. The article discusses the Episcopal Church General Conventions in 1985 and 1988, withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa, an economic boycott, Mobil, apartheid, Dean Allan Parrent, disinvestment, the Sullivan Principles, the South African economy, Charlie Price, Archbishop...
Article from the newsletter AMBO about a petition submitted to the Board of Trustees of Virginia Theological Seminary advocating that the seminary divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The article reports that the Seminary's board of trustees accepted the student petition in their recent meeting and voted to review seminary policy with regard to divestment in South Africa at its May 1989 meeting. The article discusses the Episcopal Church General Conventions in 1985 and 1988, withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa, an economic boycott, Mobil, apartheid, Dean Allan Parrent, disinvestment, the Sullivan Principles, the South African economy, Charlie Price, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African resolutions, and the Committee on Investment Responsibility.
