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For protesting Harvard’s refusal to divest from fossil fuels, campus police have told me I will be arrested if I return to the university—which is exactly what I plan t...
Oct 24, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
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Changing the path corporations and the 1 percent have set for our planet is going to take more than a march. It’s going to take a struggle.
Sep 24, 2014 / Wen Stephenson
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In a remarkable turn of events, a Massachusetts DA drops charges against climate activists—and then defends them.
Sep 8, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
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If you live in a toxic environment like this, surrounded by refineries, you’re probably not thinking about some future apocalypse. You’re living in one.
Jun 3, 2014 / Feature / Wen Stephenson
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“Environmentalism” has failed. The planet now needs a movement far more radical.
Apr 22, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
![Harvard Fossil Fuel Divestment Smackdown: The Faculty vs. President Faust](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/drew_faust_ap_img.jpg)
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A large group of Harvard faculty release an open letter to President Drew Gilpin Faust calling forcefully for fossil-fuel divestment.
Apr 10, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
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Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.
Apr 1, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
![Why We Must Divest From Fossil Fuels: A Student’s Open Letter to Harvard President Drew Faust](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/harvard_cc_img_2.jpg)
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Harvard graduate student Benjamin Franta implores President Drew Gilpin Faust to be honest about her opposition to divestment.
Mar 19, 2014 / Blog / Wen Stephenson
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The student-led protest was a dramatic demonstration of the youth climate movement’s growing resolve—and its sense of solidarity.
Mar 7, 2014 / Wen Stephenson
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There’s a growing effort to merge economic-justice and climate activism. Call it climate democracy.
Feb 6, 2014 / Feature / Wen Stephenson