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CWR co-hosts Bill Baue and Francesca Rheannon speak with Eric Cohen, chairperson for Investors against Genocide and Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management and immediate past chair of the Social Investment Forum, about the campaign promoting targeted divestment by mutual funds from companies supporting the Khartoum regime in the Sudan.
Smith, who helped pioneer the practice of shareholder activism encouraging companies to adopt more sustainable and responsible practices as a founder of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, discusses the novelty and efficacy of engaging mutual funds, which has rarely been practiced until now.
edited transcript of this interview on SocialFunds.com
Fidelity Confirms Vote on Genocide-free Investing
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
July 5, 2006 edition of CWR: “Sudan Divestment”
May 22, 2007 SocialFunds article: “Fidelity Divests Large Chunk of Sudan-Related Holdings”
Bill Baue speaks with Eric Reeves, professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and host of SudanReeves.org, about the campaign he helped initiate to divest from international companies doing business with the genocidal regime in Sudan.