Students are demanding universities divest from Israel—and dirty energy
by Mother Jones
Mother Jones— This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]
The Guardian—Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in GazaAs protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and...
KSBW—Columbia student protesters are demanding divestment. Here's what the university has divested from in the past. Student activists have successfully pushed Columbia to divest from several other areas in the past.
KIFI—Columbia student protesters are demanding divestment. Here’s what the university has divested from in the past. WABC, CNN By Clare Duffy and Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — One of the core demands over the past week by the pro-Palestinian student groups at Columbia University has been for the school to withdraw investment funds from what they describe as companies profiting from Israel’s military action in Gaza. Columbia’s endowment is worth