Friends,

Something amazing is unfolding on campuses across the country.

Yesterday morning, 48 students launched a sit-in at Yale University to demand their administration divest from fossil fuels, and yesterday evening 19 were arrested for refusing to leave the building. Students asked their administration to pick a side: the people or the polluters. The fossil fuel industry that’s wrecking our climate — or the students, alumni, faith leaders, Nobel Prize laureates, and communities demanding that they get serious about this planetary emergency.

These brave students at Yale are not acting alone — as spring warms up, young people at schools across the U.S. are turning up the heat. At Swarthmore and the University of Mary Washington, activists have been blocking administration buildings for weeks demanding that their schools stand on the right side of history. Now they need your help.

Join students, faculty, and alumni demanding their universities divest from climate catastrophe.

For years now, students, faculty, and community members at hundreds of institutions have engaged in dialogue with administrators and trustees. Their message has been simple: If it’s wrong for fossil fuel companies to wreck the planet, then it’s wrong for universities to profit from that wreckage.

To date, over 205 institutions have committed to some form of divestment, including Stanford University, the New School, cities like Seattle and San Francisco, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, and the Guardian Media Group. So why are universities like Yale digging in their heels?

Students aren’t taking no for an answer. They’re not backing down or going home. But their stand will be more powerful if they’ve got you behind them:

Add your voice to the groundswell of bold action for divestment.

From Yale to UC Berkeley, from Harvard to Bowdoin, students, alumni, faculty, and community members are bringing the heat. Wherever you are in the country, you can stand with them.

Thank you for being part of this moment,

Katie for the 350.org team