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Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court
mdsolar writes A group of Harvard students, frustrated by the university's refusal to shed fossil fuel stocks from its investment portfolios, is looking beyond protests and resolutions to a new form of pressure: the courts. The seven law students and undergraduates filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts against the president and fellows of Harvard College, among others, for what they call "mismanagement of charitable funds." The 11-page complaint, with 167 pages of supporting exhibits, asks the court to compel divestment on behalf of the students and "future generations."
"Lee Goldstein, a clinical instructor in the Harvard Law School legal aid bureau, said that the issue of whether the students were legally qualified to sue, known as standing, could be fatal to the students’ suit, as it was to the earlier suit brought by Mr. Bonifaz and others."
"could be" is a way of putting it politely.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The only thing worse than a lawyer is a law student, they think they can use the courts for anything.
What happens if the investments in fossil fuel companies turn out the be the most profitable and the school loses money?
As Harvard's president said "the endowment is a resource, not an instrument to impel social or political change"
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
Every night from 9pm-5am turn off the electricty. Better yet, random rolling blackouts. Let them know what it's like to live somewhere where energy has to be rationed. Kids take it for granted