We’re on the radio! Have a listen.
This American Life airs on more than 500 stations around the country and reaches 1.8 million listeners. Last week’s episode on climate change was great news for both the broader conversation around climate change and the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels.
The home of tennis star May Sutton, astronaut Sally Ride, and actor Glenn Ford is divesting from fossil fuels.
We’d been hearing rumors for a couple months that Santa Monica had divested from fossil fuels, but it’s only in the last few weeks that we’ve gotten all the details on the lengths this sunny, sea-side California city has gone to clean up its portfolio. Last November 27, just weeks after we kicked off the national fossil fuel divestment campaign with the Do The Math tour, Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown brought forward a resolution directing city staff to “evaluate how best to divest fossil fuel investments from the City’s portfolios, and return with policy options as part of the February mid-year budget review.”
In February, city staff presented the council with their findings. Santa Monica didn’t currently invest it’s city funds in the fossil fuel industry, so there was no money there to divest. The city’s pension fund was tied up in CalPERS, California’s mega pension plan, so while the city could help push for divestment at the state level, there was no immediate step they could take on that front, either. There was one city fund that did have a substantial amount of money that could be divested, however: the Cemetery and Mausoleum Perpetual Care Fund.
We just got the news that the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City has become the first Unitarian congregation in the country to commit to fossil fuel divestment! Rev. Tom Goldsmith told the Salt Lake City Tribune yesterday, “We did the math,” he said, “and we realized that the difference between green investments and fossil fuels is miniscule.”
First Unitarian members met over the weekend to explore the question: “What would Jesus divest?” They then voted unanimously to make sure their $700,000 endowment was free of fossil fuel stocks.
A 350.org Rally in Salt Lake City
As Bill McKibben has said in the past, it makes no sense for religious institutions to be investing in companies that are, in effect, “running Genesis backwards.” In their proposal to divest, the “socially conscious” First Unitarian Church wrote, “Since our congregation fits that description and most members and friends are acutely aware of climate change and the environmental destruction caused by the burning of fossil fuels, it represents an opportunity to do our part in an effort to preserve a livable planet for ourselves, our children and grandchildren.”
Salt Lake City has a long and proud history of climate activism. It was the home of one of 350.org’s first big climate rallies, back when we were the Step It Up 2007 campaign. It’s also the home of one of our favorite allies, Peaceful Uprising, and climate justice activist Tim DeChristopher, who recently got released from 18 months in prison after disrupting an oil auction in Utah (to learn more about Tim’s story, check out the new Bidder 70 film that is in theaters now).
The congregation at First Unitarian know that their action alone won’t solve climate change, but that their leadership can inspire more congregations, universities, cities, and other public institutions to also divest. As Joan Gregory, who leads the congregation’s environmental ministry, told the Tribune, ”It is one piece of the puzzle. It is a way to walk our talk.”
Last week, while the end of the semester passed and most students were packing up and graduating, Fossil Free AU came together and pulled off an awesome week of actions around Commencement and the Board of Trustees Meetings! Over the Commencement weekend, graduating seniors wore small green dots to make a big impact, and symbolize witholding any donations to AU until the university divests. Student leaders also met with Commencement speaker Lisa Jackson, the former director of the EPA, prior to her speech to explain our campaign. Following the meeting, Jackson endorsed our campaign!
Our campaign culminated on Friday May 17th, with an Open People’s Board Meeting just outside the room where our Board of Trustees was considering our divestment proposals and support we’ve gained over the last few months. After the Board refused to let a representative from our campaign present, Fossil Free decided the best way to get our message across would be to hold this open meeting, allowing for the opportunity for all AU voices to be heard. We had previously been told that a voice through Student Government leadership was our only option for communicating the urgency of this issue.
American University students and alumni, along with organizers and supporters from throughout the DC community, rallied at the Open People’s Board Meeting to envision what their endowment could look like if the Board had permitted representatives from American University Fossil Free to present on their campaign work.
During the Open Meeting, the case for divestment was presented to student representations of Board Members, Jeffery Sine and Gary Cohn, COO of Goldman Sachs. They also heard students of AU Fossil Free, the President of AU College Democrats, alumni supporter Mary Schellentrager ‘10 with Energy Action Coalition, and Lili Molina, an environmental justice advocate who worked with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization on the 10-year campaign to successfully close the Crawford & Fisk coal plants in Chicago. At the end of the speeches and presentations, our student board members decided the evidence was clear, and “fake” divested our endowment from fossil fuels while reinvesting our money into clean energy technology. More…
Written by Guest Blogger and UCSB Students and Fossil Free Organizer Theo LeQuesne
It is five o’clock in the afternoon and we are carpooling home to UC Santa Barbara from Sacramento. Behind us is a car full of students from Cal Poly San Luis Obisbo; comrades from USF and UC Berkley and UC Santa Cruz are already home. But we are here, crammed into the backseat, sticky in the heat of the late afternoon sun, and contentedly exhausted from the day’s exertions. We are listen quietly as our driver talks of his days in the South African divestment movement of the 1980s. Hazily, as the heat of the day begins to take its toll, my mind meanders through the history being written about own divestment movement, the movement to free our generation from the bonds of the fossil fuel industry. If my experience yesterday reflects even a little of what’s happening everywhere, I believe that we will win.
Yesterday marked yet another remarkable milestone in the Fossil Free Movement’s short but vibrant history. In Sacramento, on Thursday May 16th, dozens of students from colleges throughout California converged upon the University of California’s quarterly Regents’ meeting. Our purpose: to show the Regents our power and to insist that fossil fuel divestment be placed on the Regents’ agenda for their meeting in September. We garnered more success than we were prepared for.
It started at 5:30am when students, some who had only met the night before, began to gather our props, hammers, chains, locks, and letters to the regents. As we sipped coffee in the park and put the final touches on our 12 foot oil derrick, we wondered if we’d actually run into any Regents. By 8am a bevy of Fossil Free UC students and partners were staged an impassioned demonstration right in front of the entrance to the Regents quarterly meeting in Sacremento – a far cry from where we’d come from. More…
By Jock Gilchrist, Senior with Fossil Free UD
Fossil Free UD finished out the spring semester with a bang. On the National Divestment Day of Action on May 2nd, the group administered a poll and had 95% of students surveyed say they support socially responsible investing. 89% said they support fossil fuel divestment and reinvestment in carbon neutral or clean energy companies. To formalize this widespread support, the group submitted a StUDent Government Association proposal on May 4th.
The proposal was finally presented on May 14th. After a few questions and brief discussion, about 15 student Senators voted for the proposal, none against it, and about 5 abstained. With the passing of this resolution, the University of Delaware joins the ranks of a few other world-class universities whose student governments have taken action on divestment and made strides towards a more sustainable future. The proposal, now adopted by SGA, urges administration to make divestment a real priority. More…
An exciting update from Bob and Joan Holt about their divestment efforts in Cape Cod, showing us it’s never too late to start working for the climate.
Bob and Joan Holt
We are aging activists who live in Truro, MA on Cape Cod. Bob has been researching energy and climate issues for years. Joan shied away from getting actively engaged out of fear of feeling overwhelmed and discouraged. But on Bob’s 95th birthday in December 2012, when he told the family that he intended to devote what remains of his life to work on the Climate Crisis, Joan finally screwed up her courage and read Bill McKibben’s “Terrifying New Math…” Together we entered “save the planet” mode. More…
The divestment movement has been making headlines this year, and this week we have another one for you from the deep green mountains of Poultney, VT: the Green Mountain College Board of Trustees has voted to divest!
Green Mountain College students at Mountain Justice Spring Break March 2013
The decision came from the President and the Board on Friday, May 10th, months after students started organizing for divestment at the college. After a semester of pushing and staying on message, the administration agreed that the divestment team had the whole school behind them, and made the obvious choice for the famously sustainable liberal arts college. Here is what went down:
In late February 2013 students from Campus Activism (Green Mountain College’s Climate Justice group) joined the student chorus for divestment in Vermont by kick-starting their own campaign. They came out with a bang, hosting a teach-in asking students to “make GMC put its money where its mouth is”. In early March, excited about the buzz the teach-in created on campus, students attending Mountain Justice Spring Break decided to put their heads together to figure out their strategic next steps for a divestment win by the end of the semester. More…
Here’s some exciting news from American University:
WASHINGTON D.C. — At this morning’s graduation ceremonies for American University’s School of Public Affairs Lisa Jackson, the commencement speaker and former head of the Environmental Protection Agency commended American students for their hard work on their fossil fuel divestment campaign, “I salute this school and it’s students for facing head on the issue of investments in fossil fuels and what that means to your individual futures.”
Following Jackson’s speech, many AU graduates accepted their diploma and shook President Neil Kerwin’s hand while wearing a small green circle on their commencement robes symbolizing their withholding of Alumni donations until American University commits to fossil fuel divestment.
Students at American University are part of a national movement of over 300 universities and institutions looking to divest their endowments from fossil fuel holdings in order to weaken the power of the fossil fuel industry and build the space for political action. American’s divestment campaign demands that the University immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuel companies by putting a negative screen in the university endowment and second, establish an official dialogue with all university community members on divesting the endowment from current holdings in fossil fuel companies within the next five years.
Over the last year, the divestment campaign has had great success building support on campus: 15 different student groups have joined a coalition to push for divestment; 80% of students, over 2000 people, voted in favor of a fossil fuel free endowment; the Student Government unanimously endorsed the campaign, and the Faculty Senate passed a resolution in support of divestment, and more than 100 alumni have pledged not to donate to the endowment until the school divests.
Fossil Free AU hopes that Lisa Jackson’s endorsement will further push the University to change their investment policies. The Board of Trustees meets this upcoming Thursday and Friday to discuss financial policy, and despite repeat requests, Fossil Free AU has not yet been granted an opportunity to present their case. The group will be holding a Community Board Meeting on Friday Morning, May 17th at 9am on the Main Quad, where they will present the case for divestment to the campus community.
by Katie MacDonald and Lauren Ressler
As climate activists, we know what its like to face powerful opposition. We are fighting the most powerful industry in the world, and with that comes an understanding that we have a long road ahead of us. Over the course of the semester, college students have been proving to themselves and this movement that they will stand firm against powerful interests on their campuses no matter what comes their way. Their resolve has sparked a truly historic groundswell of action, dedication, and fearlessness. As we head into a fearless summer, we thought we would share a unique story that inspires us to keep fighting.
Amherst College in Western Massachusetts is a campus with a story worth telling. This semester, a group of students leading the Amherst Coal Divestment campaign accomplished a herculean feat by overcoming a campus culture that is resistant to activism and orchestrating one of the largest demonstrations of electoral student support in years, all with a team of new student organizers. This is how it unfolded. More…
Today marked the opening action day of the Fossil Free campaign in the United Kingdom, to coincide with the launch of a disgraceful new partnership between Shell and the University of Oxford – one of our most prestigious higher education institutions. Louise Hazan explains how US students’ rallying call for fossil fuel divestment has been taken up by the country’s largest student activist network, People & Planet.
This afternoon I joined dozens of Oxford alumni, staff and students, at a protest outside Oxford University’s Earth Sciences department to denounce a new £5.9 million partnership and the growing influence of big oil companies over the research agenda of UK universities. Far too many of the 160 British universities support the continued extraction of fossil fuels, not only through their endowments being invested in companies like BP and Shell, but also through research partnerships and their role as de-facto recruitment agencies for the industry.
Shell is a particularly inappropriate and unsavoury choice of funder for a new Earth Sciences laboratory in Oxford, not least because Oxford’s own climate scientists are warning us that we need to leave the majority of known fossil fuels in the ground. Many of these scientists were among the 100 high profile alumni and students who signed a letter publicly denouncing the Shell partnership in today’s Guardian newspaper. Shell’s core business activities and political lobbying are pushing us towards a future with a global temperature increase well in excess of 2 degrees and yet many of the new studentships funded by today’s deal specifically focus on the extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons such as shale oil. More…
by Jess Grady-Benson, (Pitzer 2014)
It all started with three of us, Meagan Tokunaga (Pomona ’15), Kai Orans (Pomona ’14), and myself. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it was time for urgent action against climate change. Though the Claremont Colleges (5C’s) tout superior campus sustainability and a strong Environmental Analysis program, the 5C’s remain invested in the fossil fuel industry, thus implicitly endorsing climate change, the greatest social justice issue of our generation. It was time to take a stand for our future and divest our colleges of the fossil fuel industry.
On November 11th, 75 Claremont Colleges students marched on the UCLA campus chanting, “from East to West, we must DIVEST!” Inspired by the words of Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, Desmond Tutu, and other speakers of the Do The Math Tour, we returned to Claremont ready to kick off our campaign.
Candlelight March – Dec. 3, 2012
Back on campus we ignited our campaign with a candlelight march to deliver official “Requests to Divest” to all five presidents of the 5 Colleges. We were gaining power quickly through student and faculty support. Soon we had built a five-college team of about 60 students.
The second semester began with a meeting with Pitzer President Skandera Trombley and Treasurer Lee, during which President Trombley stated, “I think your campaign is a worthy one; I think that you have very admirable principles. You are doing what I think is consistent with the values of Pitzer College.”
Victory One:We were granted the opportunity to present to the Trustee Investment Committee two weeks later and asked to submit an official report on the financial impacts of divestment at Pitzer in three days. Despite this challenge, we successfully published our first report for Pitzer, held a panel where I spoke against the 5C’s most vocal divestment opponents, and presented before Pitzer’s Trustee Investment Committee. On top of all of that, we passed a resolution in favor of divestment through Pitzer Student Senate! More…
Here’s an update from Dan Jubelirer at Tufts:
Over the course of the past two semesters, Tufts Divest has been involved in ongoing talks with the administration and Board of Trustees about divestment. We are committed to working respectfully with the administration, as long as we are making progress towards creating a more sustainable endowment and a better Tufts. Today, we are pleased to say that the Tufts administration is making progress by starting a formal process to look into divestment and other ways the school can address climate change.
President Monaco has requested that a working committee form to review several issues, including divestment and other steps Tufts can take to address the climate crisis. The committee will have its first meeting next week! Below is the official announcement from the Administration.
Working Group Regarding Socially Responsible Investments and Climate Change
A growing and active group at Tufts has joined a larger movement to advocate for divestment of fossil fuel companies from the Tufts Endowment Fund. This group, known as “Tufts Divests: Students for a Just and Stable Future”, has shared a written paper and presented to the Board of Trustees Investment Committee its position that Tufts should, over a five year time period, divest from all holdings in fossil fuel companies in its endowment. The Board has indicated an interest in continuing dialogue with students to explore what proactive actions Tufts can practically take with its investments to help mitigate climate change.
In response, President Monaco has requested a small working group be established to address the issue of socially responsible investments and climate change. The group will be comprised of three trustees, three students, three faculty members and one representative from university administration. Trustee Laurie Gabriel will chair the group. The purpose is to explore opportunities for Tufts to engage in effective and financially reasonable efforts to combat global climate change. This work would include three identified areas:
- Creating an understanding of what is involved in divesting from fossil fuel companies, including the financial and structural impacts , while respecting the limitations on disclosure of specific investment information;
- Exploring the possibility of establishing a fund with a commitment to socially responsible investing;
- Considering what other advocacy efforts Tufts can undertake or support to encourage public policy that will limit climate change and global warming.
By Peter Nichols Organizer for Cal Arts Divest to Impress Campaign
The Cal Arts Fossil Fuel Divestment movement got its start during the bizarre climate silence of the 2012 Presidential race. Left without any reason to believe in the competence of our national leaders, we took it upon ourselves assert Bill MicKibben’s dictum “if it is wrong to wreck the planet, it is wrong to profit from that wreckage.”
Pretty soon, however, we changed our argument. Turns out it isn’t profitable to wreck the planet. All arguments to the contrary are premised upon externalizing costs, i.e. exploiting and sacrificing communities and resources. We call that practice “false economy” because it is doomed, on a finite planet, to collapse.
We started a petition to gain support for our demand to immediately freeze new fossil fuel investments and to fully divest from fossil fuels within 5 years. It grew in size. It turned into a scroll. It now has well over 800 signatures on it (there are 1441 students).
By Sachie Hayakawa & Swarthmore Mountain Justice
Today nearly 200 Swarthmore students, alumni, faculty, and staff allies entered the open Board of Managers meeting to deliver a statement: We will no longer tolerate business as usual. What arose was a powerful collection of voices calling for greater administrative accountability, student access to decision-making structures, and transparency within board business. Students shared stories of being intimidated, silenced, and disempowered in spaces across campus. This student-controlled forum challenged the long-standing power differential within these spaces and provided a platform to elevate a chorus of student voices.
Inside the Board of Managers meeting after they had been surrounded by 200+ students.
During this meeting Swarthmore Mountain Justice delivered a timeline and ultimatum for fossil fuel divestment. We recognize the divestment is not simply a finance issue, but it is an issue of values, priorities, and justice. It is an issue of transparency, accountability, and decision-making processes. It is an issue of environmental and climate justice, which means creating safe, healthy, and liveable communities on-campus and off.
To the Board of Managers,
Over the past two years, Mountain Justice has had 25 closed-door meetings with administrators and the Board of Managers. These have largely been unproductive; and the only result of these meetings is a verbal, non-binding commitment to have an educational panel in September.
We have presented information about climate change and divestment to the Board multiple times: May of last year, December of last year, this February, this past week.
You have been educated; you cannot justify your inaction with ignorance. The time for education has past, now is the time for divestment.
Timeline:
Between May and August 2013:
Commission a report on what the process of implementing our proposal would look like.
If necessary, call an ad-hoc board meeting to address any concerns about report. There is precedent for calling such a meeting – in 2001, when Swarthmore was discussing the future of football and wrestling at the college, an ad-hoc Board meeting called because it was an urgent issue. Climate change and environmental justice are certainly urgent issues..
By September 1, 2013:
- Publish the report on Swarthmore’s website and in campus press.
At the Board Meeting of September 27-28, 2013
- Have divestment interests represented in the teach-in addressing climate change.
- Make the decision to take action on climate change in light of report and panel by announcing plans to divest
At the Board meeting of December 6-7, 2013
- Demonstrate that Swarthmore has taken first steps toward divestment.
Ultimatum: If the Board of Managers does not agree to this timeline, then we will intervene in business as usual. We will intervene in business as usual because business as usual is not working, as Swarthmore is not acting on global issues and issues critical for this community.
video of the action: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174196/swarthmore-students-board-managers-no-more-business-usual
Written by David Katz, student organizer at Skidmore College; Re-posted from WeArePowerShift.org
The Environmental Action Club (EAC) at Skidmore College has always been a hotbed for activism and change at the school, a gathering place for the most committed students. For the past 2 years students involved with the Environmental Action Club have tried to shrink Skidmore’s carbon footprint. Several efforts were made to get the President of the College to sign a Campus Climate Commitment that would do just that, reduce the schools carbon footprint. After nearly a year of meeting after meeting no agreement was reached as the administration perceived the goals to be unrealistic.
With the establishment of a new Student Government Association (SGA) Sustainability Committee (SuCo) the political climate at Skidmore changed. For the last year EAC and SuCo have created a strong student alliance to institutionalize Skidmore College. This semester students have used this alliance to push for divestment at Skidmore.
After initial efforts to call on the school’s Chief Financial Officer to begin the divestment process were rebuffed, students got political. A joint group of students from EAC and SuCo drafted a divestment resolution in hopes that the Student Government Association would adopt it. After a long revision process, and a petition with over 500 signatures, the resolution was passed unanimously on Tuesday, April 30th.
The passage of the resolution is particularly exciting because it represents a unified movement of students committed to protecting our future from climate disaster. Furthermore, by passing the resolution SGA and EAC are both calling on the administration to make an institutional shift. The passage of the resolution gives student activists a lot of clout as the divestment movement move ahead. Supplementary to the passage of the resolution Skidmore has a storied history of divestment.
There is of course at least one example, the divestment from companies involved in the South African Apartheid regime. Skidmore students discovered the use of South African mined steel in one of the academic buildings on campus and began a divestment campaign that is now enshrined on a plaque in the aforementioned building.
Many people, including the administration at Skidmore College, find the goal of divestment to be unrealistic or lofty- but not the students. On May 2nd, a group of student activists delivered the divestment petition containing over 500 signatures to the President Glotzbach’s office, sending a clear message to the administration that students will see divestment through to the end. As a part of the ever-growing national divestment movement there is a growing sense on the Skidmore campus that anything is possible.
Onwards!
This guest post was written by Alex Leff, filmmaker and recent Hampshire College graduate. You can connect with the ‘Students & Goliath’ project on Facebook here.
The world faces accelerated climate catastrophe. If the fossil fuel industry has the most to gain, the youth have the most to lose. But as the fossil fuel industry profits, students nationwide are taking on the fossil fuel industry head on.
Based in Amherst, Massachusetts, Students & Goliath follows the divestment campaigns of five schools: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. Eight students lockdown and are arrested inside an energy company’s office to protest a devastating pipeline proposal. 40,000 gather in Washington DC to demand action. Students & Goliath is the story of a generation waking up, becoming empowered, and taking the climate crisis into their own hands.
Over 50 events are planned on college campuses across the country today to highlight the growing fossil fuel divestment movement that has spread to more than 300 colleges and universities over the last semester.
One of the day’s largest events will take place at San Francisco City Hall, where students from across the city will rally with 350.org founder Bill McKibben and city supervisors who recently voted unanimously to push the city’s pension fund to divest $583 million from the fossil fuel industry. San Francisco was inspired to work towards divestment because of the student movement — now, they’re helping students push their universities to divest!
Other events include students at Colorado College camping out on campus to call for divestment, students at Northern Arizona University dropping a big banner over a campus building, students at Cornell University hosting a die-in to symbolize the human cost of climate change, and students at Wellesley College meeting with their boards of trustees to push for divestment.
Based on the anti-apartheid divestment campaigns of the 1980s, the current fossil fuel divestment effort has spread to over 300 colleges and universities in the last six months. Four colleges, Sterling, Unity, Hampshire, and College of the Atlantic have committed to divest their endowments. Students have met with their boards of trustees to push for divestment on over 50 campuses and passed student body resolutions supporting the move on more than 30 campuses. More board meetings are scheduled for the coming weeks.
The action on campus has sparked some incredible progress off-campus, as well. Last week, 9 mayors across the country joined San Francisco and Seattle to announce that they would be pursuing fossil fuel divestment. The cities include: Eugene, OR, Berkeley, CA, Richmond, CA, Boulder, CO, Santa Fe, NM, Bayfield, WI, Madison, WI, Ithaca, NY, and State College, PA. There is still much more work to do: each of these cities will need to follow through with their commitment to keep their city funds out of fossil fuels and push their state pension funds to fully divest, but these Mayoral commitments are a great start, it shows that the divestment campaign is beginning to gain the political support we need to make a real impact.
We’ll be sharing photos and updates from the #FossilFree Day of Action throughout the day today. Make sure to follow the hashtag on Twitter for breaking news from around the country.
By Ben Breger, Bates College
A market in Kandy City, Sri Lanka. Photo by Ben Breger.
In the struggle to reverse catastrophic global climate change it is the most vulnerable people who often don’t have a voice in the fight. I’ve been in Sri Lanka studying abroad for 3 months and this is my attempt to speak for them. While not even intending to analyze the shock a warming world would have on this beautiful, crowded island, the future and present effects are so apparently disastrous that I can’t go anywhere without thinking of how much trouble this island, the people and environment, face. My study abroad experience here was meant as my break from climate activism but my mistake, there is never a break to be had in this business. More…
Written by Nicole Harbordt, student organizer with Divest SU and ESF; Re-posted from WeArePowerShift.org
We’re ending the semester strong. The Syracuse University/ SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign had a huge victory last Tuesday evening as the ESF Undergraduate Student Association (USA) unanimously passed in favor of our resolution to divest the ESF campus endowments from fossil fuels.
Standing in front of the USA as they discussed the key points of our final resolution was daunting. The voting began and the room quickly filled with the voices of those in favor. When asked for all opposed, a feeling of pure excitement and overwhelming relief swept over our group as the room fell completely silent. The vote was unanimous. The resolution had passed.
The SU/ESF campaign has been pushing hard on both campuses these past two semesters to make students, faculty, and administration understand the importance of divesting our campuses’ endowments from fossil fuels.
Whether it was getting roughly 1,000 petition signatures combined, the support from 57 SU faculty and five ESF/SU clubs, organizing a teach-in and two campus marches, meeting with administration, or simply just spreading the word to everyone and anyone – our campaign has been persistent.
It has been such a privilege to work with all those involved in this campaign. Everyone has a reason for this fight and have all shown great passion and determination for the cause. Working jointly with the two campuses has allowed for greater collaboration, helping to give us a stronger presence in the Syracuse community.
The SU Student Association resolution is scheduled to be voted on next week. We are hoping for another grand victory there as well. Even with summer fast approaching and the semester coming to a close, our campaign is not finished just yet. We are looking forward to continuing to push even harder in the Fall.
UPDATE: The Syracuse University Student Association passed their resolution with a 28-2 vote on Monday 4/29!
Members of our campaign at the ESF Activities Fair during Earth Week.
Speaking at our Divestment Teach-In.
Marching around the ESF Quad during Earth Week.
