Yesterday, the Green Man reported that students had begun a sit-in protest at Tulane University, pressuring the university’s administration to take endowment funds currently invested in fossil fuel extraction and invest them elsewhere. The idea is for universities to use their collective endowment weight to leverage change and make the energy sector more responsive to environmental concerns.
It turns out that Tulane isn’t the only American university at which divestment sit-ins are happening. At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, students are sitting in to exert pressure on their President Faust right now.
And University of Mary Washington students just had their amazing 21 day sit-in ended when the police came to haul them away. 21 days — that’s commitment:
What other sit-ins do you know about? Magnify the effectiveness of these students’ protests. Spread the word.
