Back in 2011, about a dozen Swarthmore students with little experience in advocacy launched the first college campaign to divest from fossil fuels after having learned about the strategy in their ...
Students from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard hold a rally two days before the university’s divestment announcement. (Campbell Erikson / Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard) EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was produced ...
When the Hayward City Council voted to divest $1.6 million from four seemingly unrelated companies in the city’s investment portfolio, pro-Palestinian activists claimed that the move was a major ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Students at dozens of colleges and universities across the country are occupying quads, lawns, and buildings in opposition to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, ...
Student protests against the Israel-Hamas war have roiled college campuses across the U.S. for weeks, with many protesters demanding divestment from companies with ties to Israel or weapons ...
While some colleges resort to arrests and suspensions to clear protests, Brown University has struck a deal with its students. NPR's Juana Summers talks with a student who was in the negotiating room.
On April 30, protesters disbanded their encampment when the university pledged to vote on divestment from companies affiliated with Israel. This shows a different way of doing things. Pro-Palestinian ...
A large sign marks the Grand Avenue entrance to Cal Poly’s university campus in San Luis Obispo. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com Financial and academic ties between the U.S. military ...
The fossil-fuel divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors like colleges and universities, governments, foundations and religious groups to rid their portfolios of investments in ...
Dozens of protesters have called for Minnesota’s state pension fund to sell off its holdings in Israel since the beginning of the war in Gaza. State leaders say they are bound to consider only ...
Silicon Valley and the entertainment and biotech sectors have secured California’s reputation as an investment nirvana. Here’s the other side of a coin: the state is a national leader in divestment ...
Environmentalists hope Monday will come to be viewed as an “economic tipping point” in the battle against climate change. More than 700 investors pledged to divest their holdings from fossil fuel ...