{"id":970,"date":"2013-02-05T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/?p=970"},"modified":"2013-02-05T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:27:25","slug":"divestment-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/divestment-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Divestment Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&#8217;s a great roundup of what&#8217;s been going on at the 234+ campuses demanding divestment, from Mary Schellentrager, Energy Action Coalition&#8217;s divestment campaigner.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wearepowershift.org\/sites\/wearepowershift.org\/files\/imagecache\/blog_post_300\/yale%20fists_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fossil fuel divestment campaigns on over 230 campuses kicked off 2013 with unprecedented energy and power.\u00a0 Our movement&#8217;s rapid growth has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/president-of-2-prestigious-colleges-explains-why-divestment-makes-urgent-sense\/\">inspired endorsements from university presidents<\/a>, proposals for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100420292\">pension funds<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20130109\/fossil-fuel-divestment-movement-climate-change-global-warming-bill-mckibben-american-churches-oil-coal-natural-gas\">churches<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2012\/12\/23\/1374201\/seattle-mayor-calls-for-divesting-city-pension-funds-from-fossil-fuels\/?mobile=nc\">cities to divest<\/a>, and even\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/firstheretheneverywhere.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/23\/petroleum-industry-seeks-to-counter-fossil-fuel-divestment\/\">has the fossil fuel industry on the defensive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On campuses nationwide, thousands of students have returned from winter break with greater passion and determination to win.\u00a0 They are holding teach-ins, winning endorsements, rallying, and petitioning their Trustees with unparalleled momentum &#8211; and the national media is taking notice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearepowershift.org\/blogs\/divestment-rising-student-fossilfree-movement-demands-230-campuses-divestnow\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great roundup of what&#8217;s been going on at the 234+ campuses demanding divestment, from Mary Schellentrager, Energy Action<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gofossilfree.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}