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College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
2013-05-10 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about South Africa's racist Apartheid regime got their schools to drop stocks in companies that did business with that government. In the 1990s students pressured their schools to divest in Big Tobacco. This time, the student activists are targeting a mainstay of the economy: large oil and coal companies....
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