🌎 Climate action • 💰 Endowment justice • 🗣️ Inclusive governance | Elect @maggiethomas315 to the Yale Corporation.
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Joined March 2020
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Yale, Stanford and MIT’s fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say theguardian.com/environment/…
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BREAKING: Student divestment campaigns at Yale, Vanderbilt, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford file legal complaints with state Attorneys General, claiming that investing in fossil fuels violates the UPMIFA. Read more @washingtonpost.
washingtonpost.com/education…
Yale Forward retweeted
A carbon neutral @Yale by 2030 is exactly why I am running to be the first climate leader elected to the Yale Corporation. Join us at @YaleForward!
OPINION | Mitchell & Smith: One might expect the wealthiest institutions on the planet to decarbonize as quickly as possible. It seems that Yale disagrees.
bit.ly/2Ij0QYT
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THREAD: We just released the Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard, the 1st ever study of top law firms' role in the climate crisis.
A large majority of top law firms are on the wrong side of history--and we have the data to prove it (1/8)
#ClimateScore
ls4ca.org/s/Law-Firm-Climate…
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@Harvard & @Yale wake up
and listen to @HarvardForward & morning @YaleForward
- Dan
@Harvard '88, @Yale parent
This is what academic leadership on #climatechange looks like: cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-to-…
@dan_kammen @DivestHarvard @DivestStanford @FossilFreeMIT @TomLevenson @TomDispatch
Yale Forward retweeted
Hey @YaleAlumni - Today is the last day to sign the petition to get my name on the ballot for the 2021 @yale corporation election. What are you waiting for??
yaleforward.org/sign
A good omen for the last day of our campaign: if Oxford and Cambridge can divest from fossil fuels, then so can we!
Sign the petition by midnight tonight to nominate climate champion Maggie Thomas to the Yale Corporation 👉 yaleforward.org/sign
theguardian.com/education/20…
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+++ Cambridge University to #divest from #fossilfuels
teapawt.net/Cambridge_Uni/status/1…
teapawt.net/GeoffreySupran/status/… #divestment @HarvardForward
@YaleForward @EllenD35 @Clara_Vondrich @gold_lgold @jamesbuchanan28 @stephentrew @tomasinsua #climatecrisis #climateemergency
Wow wow wow. Cambridge Uni to divest its £3.5b endowment from *all* fossil fuels & reinvest in renewable energy. My alma mater *finally* "puts its money where its brains are", as @billmckibben puts it, yielding to years of tireless student organising. 1/n theguardian.com/education/20…
Yale Forward retweeted
Wow wow wow. Cambridge Uni to divest its £3.5b endowment from *all* fossil fuels & reinvest in renewable energy. My alma mater *finally* "puts its money where its brains are", as @billmckibben puts it, yielding to years of tireless student organising. 1/n theguardian.com/education/20…
Yale Forward retweeted
.@billmckibben, @AndomForNY and I are hanging out this Thurs night @ 8pm ET to talk about @YaleForward's plan to make herstory by electing the first young woman climate champion to @yale's board of trustees - join us!
RSVP: yale.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
@YaleAlumni @YaleBlueGreen
Yale Forward retweeted
Shot: @HarvardForward gets 3 young alumni climate champs elected to the Board of Trustees via petition
Chaser: 1 month later Harvard limits the number of petition candidates who can serve on the board at any one time 🧐
thecrimson.com/article/2020/…
Yale Forward retweeted
It's official - I'm on the ballot for the Yale Corporation! In my lifetime, a woman has never qualified for the ballot via petition. It's clear @YaleAlumni - 4,491 to be exact - want to see Yale lead on climate, governance and so much more. Forward ➡️onto the election!
Yale Forward retweeted
Two basic concepts in climate I want the public to know:
1 Trend. If something gets worse every day, after some time it becomes unbearable and systems break.
2 Irreversibility. Humans can't "clean up" climate breakdown or ecosystem and biodiversity loss.
Yale Forward retweeted
If you're a @YaleAlumni who cares about climate action and you haven't yet signed the petition to get @maggiethomas315 on the ballot for the Yale Corporation election: What are you waiting for?!
🚨PETITION UPDATE🚨
4,197 @YaleAlumni have signed the petition to put @maggiethomas315 on the ballot! Can you help us find the last 197 alumni we need to reach our goal?
Join us ⏩ yaleforward.org/sign
Yale Forward retweeted
Big day for @HarvardForward who successful placed 3 young alumni on Harvard's board of Trustee's! @YaleForward is just 1500 @YaleAlumni signatures away from getting a young, climate champion (me!) on the ballot for the Yale Corporation - join us 🌎
nytimes.com/reuters/2020/08/…
Yale Forward retweeted
Fossil fuel divestment activists just succeeded in electing 3 new pro-divestment voices to Harvard's board of overseers.
Next up, @YaleForward! If you know an alumni, tell them to get involved!
Our warmest congratulations to our sister campaign @HarvardForward for successfully securing THREE spots on the Harvard Board of Overseers! 💕 Our work is only just beginning.
Yale Forward retweeted
Everyone come through to support Maggie Thomas and our friends at Yale Forward! Let's get a fossil fuel divestment ally on the Yale Board of Trustees!
Join us Thursday @ 6pm EDT AND Friday @ 5pm EDT for our weekly phonebank events! We are honored to co-host with the Yale Dramat on Thursday and the @yaleejc on Friday. We’re counting on all of you to reach our goal of 4,394 signatures. Head to yaleforward.org/events to register!
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This year's Overseers election has been unusually heated. In response to the implication that it's "buying" seats on the board, @HarvardForward writes, “We’re not trying to buy Harvard; we’re trying to democratize it.”
ow.ly/zMBz50AVPXD
Yale Forward retweeted
And if any Yalies are listening, sign the @YaleForward petition to get Inslee climate advisor Maggie Thomas nominated to the board. Forward, Yale, forward! yaleforward.org
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Dozens of volunteers who want to see their universities become more inclusive have helped us and @YaleForward reach thousands of alumni to get out the vote. This picture was taken on Thursday, when we made 800 calls together! Join us at the next phonebank: HarvardForward.org/events
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Or your Harvard nemeses! Whatever works!