In addition, the wide financial holdings of these institutions generally provided divestment campaigns a list of stocks upon which to base their calls for divestment.

The goal behind the divestment campaign was simple: to engage students to pressure their universities to withdraw investments providing revenue to Sudanese government.

In May 2013, university student activists launched a divestment campaign against Duke Energy and other coal plant operators.

Students at about 40 colleges have organized a divestment campaign against Israel, creating more tumult.

Resolutions adopted during the conference included a commitment to the divestment campaign and an affirmation of the movement's claim that "Zionism is racism."

Some hold that divestment campaigns are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how equity markets work.

They planned to start the divestment campaign last fall, and Hillel and other national organizations for Jewish students began planning their own protests in opposition.

He started a divestment campaign that spread to other denominations and American public and academic institutions.

The answer to both questions is complicated but may be yes, and that's one reason a divestment campaign is gaining strength around America and abroad.

In line with a movement modeled after the anti-apartheid corporate divestment campaign directed at Apartheid South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.