Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Queen's Board of Trustees is divesting both its pooled and endowment funds of PetroChina and China Petroleum. The pension committee meets in a few weeks to discuss applying the same targeted divestment to the pension fund. Queen's is the first university in Canada to take such action.

Tomorrow, the Massachusetts legislature will hear Senate Bill 1474; the state’s targeted divestment legislation. Actress Mia Farrow, Sudan researcher Eric Reeves, and many community and religious leaders will testify in the proceedings. Today, US Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and all ten Massachusetts Congressmen sent a letter in support of Senate Bill 1474 to the Joint Committee on Public Service, the committee considering the bill, and State Senate and House leadership.

Sudan Divestment Oxford is contributing to a worldwide campaign to bring an end to this crisis through the use of targeted divestment. Within Oxford University we are putting pressure on colleges to divest from companies who are funding the Government of Sudan. Through this financial pressure we hope induce the Sudanese government into changing its actions in Darfur.