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Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle

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The global boycott against South Africa’s apartheid regime is credited, in part, for helping to end it. Now, climate change activists are borrowing from the same playbook — pulling dollars from those who fund the fossil-fuel industry.

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Newcastle University cuts its ties to coal

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At Harvard Law, a highly visible push to divest from fossil fuels

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Divest Harvard Co-Founder Chloe Maxmin became an activist at age 12

Activists go up against Drew Faust as Harvard refuses to divest carbon

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Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th

For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix

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Harvard students increase the pressure on their administration to divest from fossil fuels

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In the 1980s, during Apartheid in Sound Africa, about 150 universities divested their endowments of stocks with companies that did business in South Africa. Today, a growing movement at American universities is pressing their institutions to divest in companies that do business in fossil fuels.

Students Fight for Colleges to Drop Fossil Fuel Holdings

President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney hardly mentioned climate change in the 2012 presidential campaign, but college students across dozens of campuses have launched a campaign of their own.  Their goal is to divest university endowments of holdings in fossil fuel companies. The move against pollution and global warming is a conscious nod to the […]