Fossil Free Cal camps outside California Hall, demands Dirks’ support for fossil fuel divestment

http://www.dailycal.org/2015/04/09/fossil-free-cal-camps-outside-california-hall-demands-dirks-support-for-fossil-fuel-divestment/


Fossil Free Cal, an environmental advocacy group on campus, staged an overnight campout in an effort to convince Chancellor Nicholas Dirks to publicly support its demand for the University of California to divest from fossil fuel companies.


Seven students, five of whom are members of the group, spent the night outside California Hall, camping from 7 p.m. Wednesday night to 10 a.m. Thursday morning.


Activists from the student community and the Bay Area spoke about the urgent need of mitigating climate change throughout the event, and the demonstration culminated in a “Breakfast for Divestment” that the group hoped Dirks would attend.