But actually, the room where it's happening has moved to the private sector, to private equity or privately held corporations, and we may still to divest from energy corporations, I'm curious about why this is dangerous in your opinion and maybe even how this can inadvertently
But actually, the room where it's happening has moved to the private sector, to private equity or privately held corporations, and we may still to divest from fossil fuel organizations.
And I told him, I can tell the story, or your story, or these people can tell your story, or you can. He divested of anything having to do with the Blackhawks.
A comment that's been attributed to him is he's sort of said your margin is my lunch. But CBS divested outside of the core business, it bought The New York Yankees baseball team, it bought a toy business, it built
So as the tundra begins to thaw, there is methane locked up in it and it's released through the atmosphere, and that is a positive feedback on the system. Instead of talking about divestment, we could also talk about the investment.
positions or sell businesses that did not have market leading positions. So he began to aggressively divest those businesses that had weaker positions. So he ended up selling off a large chunk of the company.
2000 nice impressive number on less than a million phones sounded like good growth AT&T decided to divest the cell phone business in the early ' 80s based on U this expensive study they paid for there were 109 million phones um and so I looked into why why
Right. Well, we've got live guests. And so now we're divested of anything that's traditional print because who in here is reading a magazine or a newspaper?
And just reading about it, I remember everything was just coming to an halt. And right before then, the whole anti-apartheid movement which I was part of and made Smith divest from South Africa. So it all sort of showed me that no matter what, in the social ills the world that has,
because it won't lead to our freedom. So net neutrality for me is not only an opportunity to divest from that kind of corporate power. It's also an opportunity to invest in black speech, in black-- in a different kind of black power, 21st century
We've been doing fine for the last however many years. You either invest in white supremacy or you divest from it.
So again, pretty impressive solar contribution. I'm sure various of you have heard about the divest of fossil fuels movements that have been sweeping various university campuses. I think that these universities are great examples of how they could-- universities can be investing in sound alternatives
And people yeah, you're right. So I started writing poems about South Africa and divestment, and I started performing them at rallies, at schools and stuff.
they still get to have that levity. The great news is that the Irish government has recently divested all of their money, which is amazing.
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. It was right around the time of South African divestment, and a lot of students were protesting and they built like this big shantytown on the green at Dartmouth and the really like
And people yeah, you're right. And at the time our school was-- there was a movement at the school to divest from South Africa.
So as the tundra begins to thaw, there is methane locked up in it and it's released through the atmosphere, and that is a positive feedback on the system. We talked before we sat down a little bit about this idea of divestment, which has been-- there's been pressure at campuses
Here was a riddle to put all others to shame. Tristan's enthusiasm was infectious, and I could not divest myself from it. Having no other responsibilities, I became as preoccupied with his project as he was himself.
So as the tundra begins to thaw, there is methane locked up in it and it's released through the atmosphere, and that is a positive feedback on the system. But on the other hand, there are some things you probably could divest from.
they still get to have that levity. Like big, big countries or corporations or universes or whatever divesting their money from, say, like fossil fuel funding of fossil fuel
We've been doing fine for the last however many years. Working with local coalitions, working where people are, and divesting from white supremacy.
and philosophy of Parivaar. But right now, there is a very, very divested thing, you know, famine in Marathwada region in Maharashtra where 10 farmers each day are committing suicide.
And so he end selling that business. So the company, at the end of this series of divestitures, was less than half its size. And meanwhile, he'd been optimizing the businesses, so he generated enormous cash from improved operations and from these assets sales.
I think, for me, really the big thing was, 1987, that was the first financial crisis I experienced. And I remember everything was just kind of coming to a halt, and right before then, the whole anti-apartheid movement, which I was part of and made Smith divest from South Africa. So it all sort showed me that it can be solved if you actually took on the most powerful system, which is the financial system.
they still get to have that levity. And I was kind of like, OK cool, you can petition your government to divest .
really big, unless you're a number one or two market share, I'm going to divest you.
So as the tundra begins to thaw, there is methane locked up in it and it's released through the atmosphere, and that is a positive feedback on the system. around the country, a lot of pressure at Harvard, to divest from companies that burn a lot of fossil fuel.
been asking questions on the air, but reflectively and reflexively thinking about these questions and maybe ruminating and mulling on them perhaps more than one should divest one's consciousness
It's just wrong. And so I am pushing them as hard as I can with all of my powers and duties and persuasive skills to get them to divest .
Iran's gross domestic product. It's a very small, tiny percentage of their investment portfolio. They could easily divest here.
And so, of the 1300 insurance companies, I have gotten over 750 to agree to not only voluntarily divest , but to not invest in any new investments in Iran in the future.
So great question. I don't know if everybody is familiar with BDS, Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, which is really an anti-Israel movement.
they still get to have that levity. Anyway, we did this issue, we did this episode about divestment.
And they all thought he was fooling, because it never happened in the history of G.E. And he divested about a third
And so, occasionally, that mindset would give them conviction around some sort of an action. It could be stock repurchase, a large acquisition, or a large divestiture. And when they had that, they were prepared to move forward because they, themselves, had the conviction coming out of their own thinking,
So as the tundra begins to thaw, there is methane locked up in it and it's released through the atmosphere, and that is a positive feedback on the system. We're probably going to stage to debate at MIT, probably internal to MIT, but maybe streamed out, on this divestment issue, because it
And we think about poor Judge Green, running the communications network of the United States from his chambers after the AT&T divestiture case