Undeterred Students Keep Up Second Week of Divestment Sit-Ins
(COMMON DREAMS) Nadia Prupis, April 20, 2016 — Students at three major American universities are digging in for a series of prolonged sit-ins and risking suspension and arrest to demand that their schools divest from fossil fuels.
NYU’s protest, which launched Monday, saw students with NYU Divest occupying the administrative elevator and lobby of the school’s Bobst Library to demand the Board of Trustees holds a vote on divestment at its next meeting and allows the group to give them a presentation.
Protests began at Columbia University and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst last week as students demanded their administrations dump “support of global climate disaster, exploitation, and human suffering.”