EPISODE · Dec 26, 2016 · 53 MIN
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns on College Campuses & From the Dakota Access Pipeline
from KWMR Post Carbon Radio · host Bing Gong
We interview Helen Cane, who is a 21 year-old senior at Barnard College, a private women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. She is here in Point Reyes Station during the holiday season visiting her mom, Sarah Cane and aunt, Pamela Wright. Helen is a co-founder of the fossil fuel divestment campaign at Barnard College, called Divest Barnard, an effective year-long student campaign to convince Barnard’s administration and Board of Trustees to consider divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. She was instrumental in the research and writing of the 60-page Presidential Task Force on Divestment report to enable the Committee on Investments and, subsequently, the Board of Trustees, to make an informed decision about whether to seek divestment from companies that extract, process, distribute, and sell fossil fuels. Over the course of nine months, the Task Force weighed the financial and fiduciary responsibilities of the Board to grow the value of Barnard’s endowment and the moral and ethical issues surrounding Barnard’s responsibility to do its part to address the climate change issue. Our other guest is Will Parrish. A quote from a CounterPunch article by Cal Winslow: “Will Parrish is a young journalist in Mendocino County. He’s a rare type in his field these days. He is fearless, he takes on the hard targets, the biggest ones he can find, and he writes with passion and commitment. If we still have muck-rakers, literary crusaders in the best sense, he’s one.” In October, Will wrote an article in the North Bay Bohemian about SPO Partners in Mill Valley and other Bay Area financial institutions that are invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline
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We interview Helen Cane, who is a 21 year-old senior at Barnard College, a private women’s liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. She is here in Point Reyes Station during the holiday season visiting her mom, Sarah Cane and aunt, Pamela Wright. Helen is a co-founder of the fossil fuel divestment campaign at Barnard College, called Divest Barnard, an effective year-long student campaign to convince Barnard’s administration and Board of Trustees to consider divesting its endowment from fossil fuel companies. She was instrumental in the research and writing of the 60-page Presidential Task Force on Divestment report to enable the Committee on Investments and, subsequently, the Board of Trustees, to make an informed decision about whether to seek divestment from companies that extract, process, distribute, and sell fossil fuels. Over the course of nine months, the Task Force weighed the financial and fiduciary responsibilities of the Board to grow the value of Barnard’s endowment and the moral and ethical issues surrounding Barnard’s responsibility to do its part to address the climate change issue. Our other guest is Will Parrish. A quote from a CounterPunch article by Cal Winslow: “Will Parrish is a young journalist in Mendocino County. He’s a rare type in his field these days. He is fearless, he takes on the hard targets, the biggest ones he can find, and he writes with passion and commitment. If we still have muck-rakers, literary crusaders in the best sense, he’s one.” In October, Will wrote an article in the North Bay Bohemian about SPO Partners in Mill Valley and other Bay Area financial institutions that are invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns on College Campuses & From the Dakota Access Pipeline
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