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DIVESTMENT RISING: Student #FossilFree Movement Demands 230 Campuses #DivestNow

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Posted on February 4
by Mary Schellentrager, Divestment Campaign Coordinator, Energy Action Coalition

Fossil fuel divestment campaigns on over 230 campuses kicked off 2013 with unprecedented energy and power.  Our movement's rapid growth has inspired endorsements from university presidents, proposals for pension funds, churches, and cities to divest, and even has the fossil fuel industry on the defensive. 

On campuses nationwide, thousands of students have returned from winter break with greater passion and determination to win.  They are holding teach-ins, winning endorsements, rallying, and petitioning their Trustees with unparalleled momentum - and the national media is taking notice.

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Campus Action & Sustainability
american university, bowdoin college, brown university, college of the atlantic, divestment, georgetown university, Harvard University, haverford college, middlebury college, northwestern university, ohio university, sewanee: the university of the south, swarthmore college, uc berkeley, University of New Hampshire, university of north carolina, Washington University in St. Louis, yale university

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