News in Brief: May 5, 2014
5 May 2014 - 4:01pm
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by Jonathan Adams
Students for a Just and Stable Future and 350 Massachusetts – State House
Energy
Harvard Students Blockade University President’s Office in Demand for Divestment Meeting
2 May 2014 - 11:47pm
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by Jonathan Adams
Cambridge, Mass. - Demanding an open meeting with Harvard University President Drew Faust to discuss the school’s investments in fossil-fuel related industries, which they say has been denied to them since the fall, protestors blockaded her office on Wednesday.
Students Demand State Action to Reduce Fossil Fuel Investment
1 April 2014 - 3:41pm
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by Jonathan Adams
BOSTON/State House - Calling on Gov. Deval Patrick to do more to address the issue of climate change, hundreds of students and young people left their classes as part of a demonstration in front of the State House on Monday.
Around 300 protesters from across the Bay State gathered to demand that the state divest from fossil fuels and fossil fuel-related infrastructure, and to highlight the growing threat from climate change.
Area Students Fast, Call for Climate Action in the Wake of Typhoon Haiyan
19 November 2013 - 4:38pm
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by Sarah Betancourt
Cambridge, Mass. - Thirty college students and community members gathered in Harvard Square last night for a candlelight vigil for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, and to bring attention to the disaster climate change has wrecked upon the Philippines.
Divest Harvard Holds Rally Demanding University Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies
13 April 2013 - 3:53am
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by Tate Williams
Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard student activists, frustrated by recent talks with university trustees, are escalating their campaign to get the school to ditch its fossil fuel company investments.
About 100 students, alums and faculty held a rally outside the Harvard president’s office Thursday, delivering 1,300 petition signatures and pouncing on a comment one trustee made that activists found particularly distressing.
