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Research assignment: how many colleges, cities, and religious
institutions have now committed to selling their stock holdings in fossil
fuels? (It was 6, 17, & 12 respectively in '14)
We do not appear to be in any list that I examined.
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Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship
relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to
the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a
time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those
communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting
operations.
We are an international network of campaigns and
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depending on their local context, the majority of campaigns are asking
institutions to:
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Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil
fuel companies;
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Divest from direct ownership and any commingled
funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5
years
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End their fossil fuels sponsorship
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for social change here.
Now if only we can get MTSU to show up on the site
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