Campus Action & Sustainability

There is something stirring in North Carolina. Summer break is here; everywhere you turn there are festivals and post-exam parties lighting up the atmosphere. Students are recuperating from a hard year of work, and it’s expected that we spend this time off relaxing with friends and family in the sunshine.

What's not expected is that student climate organizers from seven schools across the state would come together during the first weeks of the summer with the incredible vision of mobilizing our campuses around energy issues on a scale never before seen in the Tar Heel state.

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ALIVE IN ACTION BRAZIL - WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE 

Students at the College of William and Mary assembled at a Bank of America location in Williamsburg, VA on May 1 to protest the bank's funding of mountaintop removal. Alongside local activists, the students waved signs and chanted outside the building, while participants with Bank of America cards went inside to close their accounts. A couple members of the group simulateneously handed out fliers at nearby businesses. As the location was along a major thoroughfare, the protesters frequently heard supportive honks from passing cars and observed locals curiously reading their signs.

What’s worse than being the #1 financier of the coal industry? Fleecing students and young people 1 trillion dollars in order to fund it. Yesterday, student debt topped an astonishing 1 trillion dollars. It’s not only the largest financial crisis ever, it all rests on our generation. What did we do? We took to the streets for 1T Day to take back our education from the clutches of Big Banks.

Yesterday was also a day when one of the worst banks saw a well-deserved day of action. Bank of America felt the ire of students across the country in the National Day of Student Action on Bank of America, and heard the demands of young people calling for an end to coal financing, home foreclosure, and crushing student debt.