WesDivest

Fossil fuels and the Israeli occupation are destroying communities and Wesleyan University is profiting.

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

🤔🤔🤔 @mroth78

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Every trustee on every college board owes those fossil-fuel divestment activists they found so annoying a big thank you right now

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

This is an unclear commitment by Wesleyan. There has been no systems of accountability or transparency put in place to see this through. The 2030 date is far too late. @wesleyan_u and @mroth78 have also not responded to our demand to divest from the Israeli occupation.

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Huge! Dominoes starting to fall: now Wesleyan will divest its billion dollar endowment. Such thanks to @wesdivest and all who fought long and hard. Go Cardinals go!
https://t.co/EHj3Yq7DMw

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

A call for climate justice requires justice for labor.

#NoSurveillanceAtWes

[Wesleyan United Student/Labor Action Coalition @wesuslac]

If you have any affiliation with @Wesleyan_u, help us tell President Roth that we oppose the implementation of Workforce and any increase in workplace surveillance at Wes by giving him a call at 860-685-3500. See our script here: https://t.co/SspH3Z8qHj

#NoSurveillanceAtWes

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

We are in Usdan tonight as the @Wesleyan_u Board of Trustees are here for the February Board Meeting. While the meeting is closed to the public, we are handing out flyers as trustees enter the building to remind them why #divestment is so crucial

[Unist'ot'en Camp @UnistotenCamp]

Bulldozers have cleared up to #Unistoten territory escorted by RCMP. We are in ceremony and call on our ancestors to stand with us. We will stand our ground in the face of this illegal invasion. All eyes on Unist'ot'en yintah!

#Wetsuwetenstrong

Support: https://t.co/mPt2IkbcDS

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

There is a illegal raid happening on Wet'suwet'en land in the name of the fossil fuel industry and the Canadian government. Find out what’s been happening and follow thread; this is violent colonialism happening in real time.
#Wetsuweten
#WetsuwetenStrong

[Unist'ot'en Camp @UnistotenCamp]

RCMP are using chainsaws to remove the wooden gate.

Tactical officer couldn’t start one of the #Wetsuweten snowmobiles, so they had to tow it away.

#Wetsuwetenstrong

[Climate Justice Victoria 🌅 @CJusticeVic]

Check this out: #IndigenousYouthforWetsuweten made @democracynow world news!

"As human beings we all have a responsibility to that which gives us life" - @salishmemer

@Indigenous_ca @Gidimten @UnistotenCamp #WetsuwetenStrong

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

@noahkahan_ @wesleyan_u The figures are in thousands of dollars! The chart is representative of the university’s entire, $1.1B+ endowment. At present, Wes aims to allocate 4% of its endowment to natural resources.

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

Is Wes profiting off warmongering? When you invest $59,325,000 in “natural resources,” war can make you a lot of money. @wesleyan_u must say no to profits made off the deaths of Iranians and Iraqis by committing to plans for immediate divestment. No to fossil fuels, no to war!

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

YES! Where is the actual plan @mroth78?

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

@mroth78 @nytimes That's great. Climate change is one of those areas where time is not our friend, so a speedy announcement about divestment, even if took some years to fully play out, would be a powerfully useful intervention!

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

How can you claim to care about things like this when @wesleyan_u holds up to $59 million in fossil fuel investments and you have still made no actual commitments to divestment?

[Michael S Roth @mroth78]

US govt response to vulnerability: Aggressive indifference “Across the country birds have been killed and nests destroyed by oil spills, construction crews and chemical contamination, all with no response from the federal government” https://t.co/a2wqyCdkua via @NYTimes

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

Reminder: @mroth78 justifies @wesleyan_u's fossil fuel investments (up to $59 million!) by making the "you hate capitalism, but you have iPhone" argument, but for fossil fuel investments🙄

(and his Q&A page doesn't address student demands for divestment from Israeli apartheid!)

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

See @wesleyan_u students at 0:32 calling for Wesleyan's divestment from the fossil fuel industry and Israeli apartheid.
#NobodyWins

https://t.co/Ag9XcMJbr0

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

#NobodyWins when @wesleyan_u funds the climate crisis & Israeli apartheid.

@mroth78 we demand action, meaning real commitments to moving Wesleyan's money.

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

Congrats to @BrownDivest for their huge win this week! Divestment from the Israeli occupation is possible. Let’s make Wesleyan next.

[Brown University SJP @BrownDivest]

Today, @BrownUniversity's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies (ACCRIP) voted in favor of divesting from companies "facilitating human rights violations in Palestine."

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

working on it!

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

(link to this post)
https://t.co/8jdzdAayAM

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

Sound familiar? Yale uses anti-divestment rhetoric similar to Wesleyan, citing personal/consumer change, implying the institutions funneling millions to fossil fuel companies are somehow not at fault. Read this thread to see more, and read ours to see Wesleyan on divestment 👇

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

This statement from @Yale about why it won't divest from oil and gas companies, quoted by @emorwee in today's HEATED, is straight up climate denial.

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[WesDivest @wesdivest]

Roth states "divestment seems to me a distraction from the hard work of changing governmental policies, reducing institutional and personal energy use, and developing deep commitments to research on alternative energy sources", attempting to distance Wesleyan from the issue.

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

...and at other times attempting to detach the investment of millions in companies destroying the world from having any impact on perpetuating those problems.

[WesDivest @wesdivest]

...Palestinians calling for divestment to Hamas.

With this, we can see institutions like Wesleyan and Yale do what they can to delegitimize calls for divestment, at times creating toothless "reforms" to investment policy...