Protests, oil prices add fuel to the divestment fire

Grist
By Heather SmithFeb 14, 2015, 4:53 am90 pts
It was a move straight from the student activism playbook: On Thursday, Feb. 12, at 10 a.m., 34 students showed up and held a sit-in at Harvard’s Massachusetts Hall in honor of the upcoming Global Divestment Day. There were the usual sit-in discussions. Was the offer that the school’s president, Drew Gilpin…

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