Solidarity Action for Fossil Free Week
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:45
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Day 3 of Fossil Free Week is dawning warm and promising. Yesterday we talked to hundreds of students who came through the camp - several hundreds of which signed Divest McGill's petition for the McGill board of governors to commit to divesting the university endowment holdings from fossil fuels.
Members of Divest McGill and students acting in solidarity are camping out in front of the administration building this week demanding that the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR) recommend an immediate freeze on all new fossil fuel investments and a commitment to divesting the university endowments from fossil fuels.
Today is Divest McGill's flagship Fossil Free Week event. Students will be coming to the camp to write notes to the university administration with the prompt "I want McGill to divest because..."
You can support Divest McGill's Fossil Free Week by writing your own note with the same prompt and tweeting a picture at @DivestMcGill and @FossilFreeCAN. You can also follow these two accounts for up to date information about events during the week and live-tweeting of each rally, workshop and action.
Don't have twitter? No problem, you can also email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In Solidarity,
Kiki Wood
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p.s. This week a groundbreaking new divestment report was released. The report, which is being released on the eve of a major UN summit in New York by a coalition of global leaders representing finance, health, philanthropic, municipal, education, entertainment, climate justice and the United
Nations and other sectors,finds that more than $2.6 trillion has now been pledged to be divested from the fossil fuel industry.
Here is a great quote by Leonardo DiCaprio, who spoke at the announcement: "Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem," said actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, who announced his commitment today. “After looking into the growing movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions, I was convinced to make the pledge on behalf of myself and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks."
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