{"id":481,"date":"2012-11-29T19:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/?p=481"},"modified":"2012-11-29T19:50:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:50:45","slug":"great-coverage-campus-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/great-coverage-campus-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Coverage Campus Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We just got some great coverage for the campaign in <a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/articles\/students_push_for_divestment_from_fossil_fuels_at_universities_across_\/\">Campus Progress<\/a>, one of the leading voices for youth organizing in the country. Check out the article below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Students Push for Divestment from Fossil Fuels at Universities Across the Nation<br \/>\nby Candice Bernd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students across the nation are pushing their universities to divest their endowments from fossil fuel companies in a coordinated strategy that hits dirty energy corporations where it matters most\u2014their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Last week students at Harvard University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.350.org\/en\/about\/blogs\/72-harvard-students-vote-divest-fossil-fuels\">voted 72 percent in favor of divesting<\/a>\u00a0Harvard\u2019s $30.7 billion endowment from fossil fuels in the first student-wide referendum of its kind.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/justandstable.org\/\">Students for a Just and Stable Future<\/a>\u00a0have been organizing the campaign since September, pressuring the university to withdraw their investments from the top 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/campus_files\/uploads\/images\/claremont.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/>\n<p>Students gathered hundreds of signatures to get the referendum question on the ballot during the Harvard student government elections and were the first student group to do so in six years. The referendum makes fossil fuel divestment the official position of the Harvard College Undergraduate Council\u2014 but is not a binding vote that has the power to change the structure of the university\u2019s endowment. Alli Welton, an organizer with Student for a Just and Stable Future helped gather the more than 1,000 petition signatures that made the ballot referendum possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents don\u2019t have control over how Harvard invests its money,\u201d Welton told Campus Progress. \u201cIt\u2019s a very clear mandate from the undergraduate student body for our campaign to go ahead and continue trying to get the administration to talk with us about this issue, which they\u2019ve been pretty reluctant to do so far \u2026 It seems like [the administration has] not taken the result of the referendum very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welton says Students for a Just and Stable Future are pushing for a meeting with Harvard President Drew Faust to take the next step toward concrete divestment from dirty energy.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s divestment campaign is supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterfutureproject.org\/\">Better Future Project<\/a>\u00a0and 350.org\u2014 and is just a one piece the divestment movement that has spread across\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/petitions\/\">more than 50 campuses,<\/a>including well-developed campaigns taking shape at Tufts, Syracuse, Brown, Cornell, and Amherst. The organizing effort is in conjunction with 350.org founder Bill McKibben\u2019s ongoing \u201cDo the Math\u201d 21-city tour which is actively promoting divestment from fossil fuel companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/articles\/students_push_for_divestment_from_fossil_fuels_at_universities_across_\/\">Click here to go to Campus Progress and read the entire article.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just got some great coverage for the campaign in Campus Progress, one of the leading voices for youth organizing<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}