The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced their decision to join the divestment movement last week, pledging to sell assets tied to fossil fuel companies from their portfolios and to continue investing ...
A s campuses come back to life this fall, many pro-Palestinian students will resume their protests from the spring against Israel’s war on Hamas. Once again they will demand that their colleges divest ...
Most of you probably know that governments must soon change to cleaner and greener energy sources to prevent people from suffering or dying from the damaging effects of pollution and severe ...
College campuses can sometimes plant the seeds for dramatic shifts in public policy. This was most evident in the 1980s, when students across the country protested apartheid in South Africa. By ...
Green Mountain College today announced that it is divesting its $3.1 million endowment from fossil fuel companies, making the Poultney liberal arts school the fifth college in the nation — and the ...
South African social activist Desmond Tutu has called climate change “the human rights challenge of our time.” Within the UChicago Climate Action Network, we agree. We also believe solutions to ...
Last month, Rhode Island School of Design Students for Justice in Palestine presented an Israel divestment proposal to members of RISD’s Board of Trustees. The board plans to “share their thoughts” on ...
While university divestment continues to provoke debate on campuses across the nation, Boston University Students for Israel faculty advisor Richard Landes, a History professor in the College of Arts ...
A pro-Israel group at the University of Pennsylvania, the Think Peace Coalition, expressed concern over a campaign called “Penn Divest from Displacement,” a divestment movement at the Penn campus, The ...