Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S

We, university students declare non-violent rebellion against all academic institutions who've promised us futures but have been silent about the climate crisis

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

They say that 2019 is the year the world woke up. On March 9th, 2020, students will demonstrate that students around the world are not just awake: we are angry, and we are organized. Join us at NY City Hall at 10 AM

https://t.co/UVR0BXJz37

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

@NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo

[Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 @XR_NYC]

@KeithPowersNYC @CarlinaRivera @NYCMayor @SalazarSenate @dzarrilli @BKBoroHall @scottmstringer @Costa4NY @LoreeSuttonNYC @mayawiley

Fires, floods, hurricanes, disease
#ClimateEmergency is here and will only get worse

@NYCCouncil must #ActNow on Res. 864!

#WeWantToLive

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

28% of all new income from global GDP growth over the past 40 years has gone to the richest 1% (all millionaires).

In other words, nearly one third of the labour we've rendered, the resources we've extracted, the CO2 we've emitted has been done to make rich people richer.

[Olivia @olivepit_]

Hey @Chase, did you really thing you could be the #1 banker of fossil fuel companies AND the #1 banker of the 100 top-polluting corporations and get away with it? Playtime’s over. We’re coming for you. #StopTheMoneyPipeline #DivestChase @jpmorgan

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Truly wonderful Earth Day morning news, as American University divests from fossil fuels.
Students and faculty worked so hard here, over many years, through repeated setbacks--and now they've won a mighty victory!
https://t.co/crCPMTx0wr

[Yale Endowment Justice Collective @YaleEJC]

BREAKING: Oxford University divests from fossil fuels!

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and we're still waiting for Yale to catch up to its peer institutions, scientific consensus, and the rest of the world: fossil fuels are not the future.

https://t.co/4GWsHFNHf8

[Sunrise Harvard @SunriseHarvard]

BREAKING: Oxford just passed a motion banning investments in fossil fuels. https://t.co/L2C0vK3LO9

[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

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

So lemme get this straight.

When Native peoples stand unarmed to defend our land & all human life, we get answered with militarized force, jail, prison.

When white folks knowingly disregard human life during a health pandemic, not a single arrest.

[The YEARS Project @theYEARSproject]

April 22 will be the 50th anniversary of #EarthDay. We’ll been demanding a just society and a livable future for all. Join @_WeThePlanet_ and @pollutersout for a digital day of action: https://t.co/bp1jR3zx2X

[Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 @XR_NYC]

If only this were for real (sorry, it's not): "@Google" announcing that it will finally stop funding climate change deniers. https://t.co/IIFyvvfCeW #AGreenerGoogle

[Extinction Rebellion Western Mass @XR_WestMass]

We've proven our communities can respond with urgency when we tell the truth about the emergency we're facing. As we recover from COVID-19, let's turn that energy toward the other emergency that endangers all our lives. #flattenthecurve

[isra hirsi @israhirsi]

who said results can’t be a revolution? #DemDebate

[XR Youth US @xryouthus]

sending love and rage to all our youth rebels in self-isolation. keep looking forward, take time to rest, organize remotely. the fight for our future is still on.

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

Our educational institutions must #decarbonize #decolonize and #democratize. Stop profiting off the futures you sell and then steal from us. In solidarity with university occupations around the world. #nodegreesonadeadplanet

[If Not Us Then Who @IfNotUs_ThenWho]

Shout out to all the @XRUniversities and perhaps even some out in @xruniversityUS for screening indigenous films during their Decarbonise | Decolonise| Democratise takeover this week!
Raising the voices of those on the front line of this crisis.

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

They say that 2019 is the year the world woke up. On March 9th, 2020, students will demonstrate that students around the world are not just awake: we are angry, and we are organized. Join us at NY City Hall at 10 AM

https://t.co/UVR0BXJz37

[Richard Brooks ☀️ @R_BrooksStand]

“Divest or death. Which side are you on?”

Great read about the ongoing struggle to #divest Northwestern, one of the USA's premier universities, from fossil fuels.

@fossilfreenu @emmaeedmund @thedailynu @divesteddotorg
https://t.co/zti9bu8Rgt

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

@RozGaltz we don't! Please come!

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

3.Decolonize. Our institutions’ histories are intertwined with colonization. Universities, especially through use of People’s Assemblies, can help account for these injustices by defining and implementing strategies for a just transition.

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

They say that 2019 is the year the world woke up. On March 9th, 2020, students will demonstrate that students around the world are not just awake: we are angry, and we are organized. Join us at NY City Hall at 10 AM

https://t.co/UVR0BXJz37

[Extinction Rebellion Universities U.S @xruniversityUS]

2. Democratize. As the home of scientific experts, thought leaders from the humanities, and diverse demographics/opinions, our institutions are the perfect incubators to model People’s Assemblies, a form of participatory democracy that has repeatedly cut through gridlock.