Jeff Livesay
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
February 22, 1988
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Prepared comments by Sociology professor Jeff Livesay to deliver at Colorado College faculty meeting in support of a resolution to reaffirm the faculty’s position that the Board of Trustees should divest from all companies doing business in South Africa. Livesay makes two points. First, the purpose of divestment is political and symbolic, not financial; it is intended to strengthen pressure on the U.S. government to advocate comprehensive, multilateral sanctions against the South African government. Second, the Board of Trustees’ current position is not to divest from companies that have signed the Sullivan Principles. However, Rev. Leon Sullivan has himself abandoned these...
Prepared comments by Sociology professor Jeff Livesay to deliver at Colorado College faculty meeting in support of a resolution to reaffirm the faculty’s position that the Board of Trustees should divest from all companies doing business in South Africa. Livesay makes two points. First, the purpose of divestment is political and symbolic, not financial; it is intended to strengthen pressure on the U.S. government to advocate comprehensive, multilateral sanctions against the South African government. Second, the Board of Trustees’ current position is not to divest from companies that have signed the Sullivan Principles. However, Rev. Leon Sullivan has himself abandoned these principles, so the Board is in an “ethically even more tenuous position now than it was a year ago.”
Colorado College Community Against Apartheid
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