Posted: 02/23/2015 12:58 pm EST
For a week this April, a number of Harvard alumni will return to campus to support the undergraduate fossil fuel divestment movement, and to voice our own support for a change in Harvard’s investment policy. Last Friday, a number of alumni released the following letter to call for action at Harvard:
Dear fellow Harvardians,
We write in hopes that you might come to Cambridge for a couple of days this spring to join in the fight against global warming–in particular, to help students press our alma mater to divest its stock in the fossil fuel industry.
Those students have done a remarkable job in garnering overwhelming student support for divestment, and the faculty too have delivered a strong message. But so far the Corporation has not just refused to divest, they’ve doubled down by announcing the decision to buy stock in some of the dirtiest energy companies on the planet.
So the students have asked alumni to join in the cause. In particular, they’ve asked that we join in a teach-in on Sunday April 12, and then a rally in the Yard on the morning of April 13. Some of us will join the students in highly civil civil disobedience, sitting in peacefully and politely but firmly around Massachusetts Hall; others will rally in support alongside; and others of us, constrained by infirmity or schedule, will join in support on social media and via the phone and email.
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