Divest 5C files legal complaint against Pomona College

On Monday, Oct. 30, Claremont’s Divest 5C filed a legal complaint against Pomona College. In their complaint, students called on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to review Pomona’s investments and force the administration to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. 41 faculty and staff members signed in support of Divest

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“Educating and Mobilizing”: Divest 5Cs takes a stand at NYC climate justice conference

On Saturday, Sept. 16, co-leader of Claremont’s Divest 5Cs Gianna Hutton González PO ’26 gathered alongside 70 other students in New York City for a youth climate justice conference and march to end fossil fuels. The conference was hosted by Fossil Free Research, a pro-divestment organization of a national coalition

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Faculty and students speak out against TIAA investments in fossil fuels

In accordance with an uptick in awareness about energy holdings at educational institutions, an April 20 Letter to the Editor in “The New York Review,” co-written by Pitzer College professor Dan Segal, criticizes the investments of professor pensions into the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA). TIAA is

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Pomona students approve ASPC referendum on fossil fuel divestment and disclosure

Nearly nine in ten Pomona College students believe the school should move toward complete divestment from fossil fuels, a March 29 referendum revealed. 88 percent of students voted in favor of a resolution to divest on the ballot, while 96 percent of those who voted agreed that the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee should disclose the percentage of Pomona’s endowment that remains invested in fossil fuels.

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Students demonstrate against CMC trustees’ fossil fuel investments

More than 100 students across the 5Cs protested Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s Oct. 1 acquisition of a stake in Sempra Energy Tuesday evening.

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