Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigns

Indigenous-led Campaigns

“Mazaska Talks”: 

“This umbrella organization sprung from the indigenous-led Seattle divestment campaign in January 2017…[and]  is intended as a network and resource hub for individuals across the country who want to divest their cities from banks that finance fossil fuel projects and related repression of indigenous and human rights.”

City and County Divestment Campaigns

• Multnomah County, Oregon, Resolution Adopting a Fossil Fuel Divestment Policy, September 24, 2015
• Ashland, Oregon 2014 Divestment from Fossil Fuel Resolution.
• “Divestment from Fossil Fuels: a Guide for City Officials and Activists,” Mayor’s Innovation Project, February, 2014.

Faith-Based Divestment Campaigns

• “Riverside UCC votes for fossil fuel divestment,” Hood River News, May 27, 2016.
•  “It’s Time to Go Fossil Free: We are United Methodists who believe it’s wrong to profit from wrecking God’s creation.”

 

 

Universities, Colleges and Community College Divestment Campaigns

• ‘WSU Must Divest Now!’ WSU Students Rally for Fossil Fuel Divestment,” The Daily Evergreen, April 24. 2023
• “Lewis and Clark College votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels,” Portland Business Journal, Feb. 13, 2018.
• “College Divestment Update 2017,” 350pdx, December 12, 2017.
• “PCC goes fossil-free, College has no current investment in oil, gas or coal companies, but new policy formalizes its commitment to divestment,” Portland Tribune, July 4, 2017. 
• University of Washington Student Divestment Presentation, October, 2016. 
• “UO plans to divest from fossil fuel holdings,” Eugene Register Guard, Sept. 13, 2016.
• “UW Regents vote to divest from coal companies,” UW News, May 14, 2015.