{"id":103,"date":"2006-06-21T19:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T02:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/21\/investment-not-divestment\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T19:36:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T02:36:58","slug":"investment-not-divestment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/21\/investment-not-divestment\/","title":{"rendered":"Investment, not Divestment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetprophets.com\/\">Good:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/\">The Presbyterian Church (USA), <\/a>which previously had called for divestment from companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine, adopted a different strategy of engagement in the Middle East today with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/21\/AR2006062101687.html\">decision to back selective investment in companies<\/a> committed to peace in the conflict between Israel and their Palestinian neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/ga217\/index.htm\">General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)<\/a> is meeting this week in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucc.org\/\">United Church of Christ<\/a> adopted a similar policy to the one adopted this week by the Presbyterians and just this month the UCC and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disciples.org\/\">Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)<\/a> released a <a href=\"http:\/\/chuckcurrie.blogs.com\/chuck_currie\/2006\/06\/innovative_ucc_.html\">new guide book for churches committed to peace<\/a> in the region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good: The Presbyterian Church (USA), which previously had called for divestment from companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine, adopted a different strategy of engagement in the Middle East today with a decision to back selective investment in companies committed to peace in the conflict between Israel and their Palestinian neighbors. The General Assembly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-and-palestine","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}