{"id":12647,"date":"2010-02-01T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T19:03:23","slug":"aidan-macdonald-carleton%e2%80%99s-war-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12647","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Macdonald: Carleton\u2019s War Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Students Demand Divestment from Apartheid<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Macdonald, The Bullet, 1 February 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>General Dynamics. Shell. Apache Corporation. Philip Morris. Pfizer. These are weapons manufacturers, oil companies, mining corporations, tobacco companies, and pharmaceutical giants. Notorious war profiteers, environmental destroyers, and human rights violators. Morally and ethically, these are not the types of firms with which one would expect Ottawa&#8217;s Carleton University to have any sort of affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, despite Carleton President Roseann Runte\u2019s characterization of the university as an institution that is \u201cengaged in solving real-world problems,\u201d and her proclamation that it emphasizes human rights and social justice, Students Against Israeli Apartheid \u2013 Carleton (SAIA) has discovered that the Carleton University Pension Fund has tens of millions of dollars invested in these and other companies, which are willing contributors to the litany of social and political ailments that plague our global community. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistproject.ca\/bullet\/302.php\">Read the report<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.saia.ca\/\">More info<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Demand Divestment from Apartheid Aidan Macdonald, The Bullet, 1 February 2010 General Dynamics. Shell. Apache Corporation. Philip Morris. Pfizer. These are weapons manufacturers, oil companies, mining corporations, tobacco companies, and pharmaceutical giants. Notorious war profiteers, environmental destroyers, and human &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}