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UMaine Divests from Coal!

The University of Maine won a victory last January when their campus divested from coal.

On Monday afternoon, January 26th, 2015– the University of Maine System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a measure to divest all direct holdings from coal companies. The historic vote followed a two-year campaign led by students at the University of

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It’s Our Turn

Divest Whitman is ready to get Whitman College to commit to divorcing from the fossil fuel industry.

This blog post was written by Sierra Dickey, one of the seniors in Divest Whitman.  To learn more and to support Divest Whitman’s campaign, please visit and like Divest Whitman’s facebook page and follow them on twitter!  Global Divestment Action (GDA) at Whitman circulated around

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Global Divestment Day at University of Montana!

UM students demand divestment on this past Global Divestment Day 2015.

This Post was written by Amanda Moseman, a student on the Reinvest Montana divestment campaign.  Reinvest Montana is the divestment campaign at the University of Montana in Missoula.  To learn more about Reinvest Montana and their GDD action, please visit

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Regents: Whose Side Are You On?

Students at University of Santa Barbara called upon UC chancellors and Regents to support their students and our futures against the fossil fuel industry.

Authors are Jacob Soiffer, an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley; Alden Phinney, an undergraduate  student at UCSC; and Emily Williams, Campaign Director with the California Student Sustainability Coalition.   Californians demand real climate leadership. One week after the largest-ever anti-fracking

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Global Divestment Day Snapshot Part 1!

Schools across the country took action this past Global Divestment Day! Here's a recap of all the amazing actions that took place nationally.

                           

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Divest DU Celebrates Global Divestment Day!

Students at Denver University rally on Global Divest Day!

This blog was written by Erin Smith, a student leader on the Divest DU campaign. On Thursday, February 12th, Divest DU held a very successful semester kick-off event for Global Divestment Day. Over 100 students stopped by to learn more about Divestment

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Fossil Free CU’s Commitment

This post is written by Franky Navarrette, an organizer for Fossil Free CU’s Boulder Campus, the FFCU Tri-campus coalition and also works on the National Escalation Strategy Team (NEST) Core for the Divestment Student Network. They see Divestment as a

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Reflections from the Fall DSN Southwest Training

This last fall, I attended a regional Divestment Student Network training in Boulder, Colorado and was impressed by the passion and diversity of the attendees. I’ve been told that mine is a generation of slacked jaws and short attention spans,

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Voices for Divestment: Maria Celes Lasaca Abragan

Maria Celes Lasaca Abragan, Middlebury College ‘18

For every active divestment organizer, there are dozens of students who support the movement in quieter, but no less personal ways. Maria Celes Lacasa Abragan, a Middlebury first-year from the Philippines, is one of those students. Vignesh Ramachandran from Divest

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DSN Coordinating Committee Statement of Solidarity with Ferguson

Photo via 350 Massachusetts, taken by Pia Ward Dear friends, As many of you know, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri decided this week that police officer Darren Wilson will not be tried for shooting and the killing Michael Brown. People have

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