What is Divestment? 

Divestment is the act of removing money from institutions that we do not support. In some instances, it is to hurt their finances, but it is also about delegitimizing the fossil fuel industry by shifting the conversation to political and economic injustices. While divestment from fossil fuels may not financially strain oil, gas, and coal, it shifts public support out from under them.

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The Demand

We call on Seattle Universty to halt investments of endowment funds in fossil fuel industries within the next three years. 
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Alliance Against Enviromental Racism

Making space for people of color to dig deep in understanding how the climate crisis affects us and our homelands.
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Get Involved

Want to get involved at whatever capacity you can? Here are actions you can take!
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campaign updates 

Click the letter below to read our full demand for President Sundborg to issue a public statement in support of divestment. 

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Update: Socially Responsible Investments Task Force
Friday, February 24, 2017

We just got word from a Board of Trustee member that the Board approved the Socially Responsible Investment Task Force's recommendations which include:
  1. The formation of a permanent committee to consider the ethical implications of SU's investment strategy.
  2. The commitment to no direct investments in fossil fuels. We didn't have direct investments to begin with because our endowment is invested through pooled commingled funds. These portfolios are assembled by our investment manager, Cambridge Associates, and include about $12,300,000 in fossil fuel companies.
While we welcome these recommendations, we believe that failing to take the proactive step of ceasing all investments in fossil fuels, commingled or not, is a quiet approval of the destructive practices of the industry, the assault on environmental protections by fossil fuel lobbyists-turned government agency leaders, and the continued violation of Indigenous treaty and human rights.

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