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Wesleyan Students Launch Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In; Harvard Blockade Continues

HeadlineApr 17, 2015

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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