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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
