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"Harvard Students Block Campus Building To Push Fossil Fuel Divestment" [1]

"A group of Harvard University students are calling for the school to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies. Protesters began blocking the entrance to the main administration building Sunday night. ...

Students are blocking the entrance to Massachusetts Hall, Harvard's oldest building, preventing university president Drew Gilpin Faust from entering her office. The protesters want Harvard to sell off the fossil fuel stocks in its $36 billion endowment."

Kirk Carapezza reports for WGBH via NPR's All Things Considered April 13, 2015. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Demanding Divestment, Protesters Occupy Mass. Hall" (Harvard Crimson) [3]

"Tulane Students To Occupy President's Office in Fossil Fuel Divestment Protest" (New Orleans Times-Picayune) [4]

Activism [5]
Climate Change [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Public [8]
Source: NPR [2], 04/14/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/harvard-students-block-campus-building-push-fossil-fuel-divestment [2] http://www.npr.org/2015/04/13/399414399/harvard-students-block-campus-building-to-push-fossil-fuel-divestment [3] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/2/12/mass-hall-divest-harvard-occupy/ [4] http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2015/04/tulane_students_sit-in_divest.html [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [8] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81