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April 17, 2015

Wesleyan Students Launch Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In; Harvard Blockade Continues 
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Students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut have occupied the office
of President Michael Roth to demand the university divest from fossil
fuel companies, the prison industry and the Israeli occupation of
Palestinian territories. The action marks the anniversary of President
Roth's own participation in a sit-in for divestment from South African
apartheid as a Wesleyan student in 1978. Their sit-in comes as students
at Harvard University demanding fossil fuel divestment continued to
block the entrance of an administration building after President Drew
Gilpin Faust offered to meet with them only on the condition they end
their blockade.

 

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