Harvard and Yale students disrupt football game for fossil fuel protest

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Source: Guardian

Students and alumni from Harvard and Yale disrupted the annual football game between the two elite universities on Saturday, occupying the field in New Haven, Connecticut, at half-time and demanding the colleges divest from fossil fuels.

A group of more than 100 protesters planned to stall the high-profile game for as long as possible, probably resulting in their arrests.

. . . "They believe that they can engage with these companies and get them to change their fundamentally extractive business models, which we think comes from a place of naivety amounting to gross negligence," Nora Heaphy, an undergraduate at Yale, said.

"It's absurd to make those kinds of claims. So since then our campaign has moved away from administrative engagement, recognizing that it is often a stalling tactic."


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/harvard-yale-football-game-protest-fossil-fuels

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[cilla4progress]

1. Go,

millenials!!

[SunSeeker]

2. Impressive.

[ancianita]

3. YES! Because Climate don't care about games or universities or humans.

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4. "The President of @Yale is out there pleading with them. Holy moly. #harvardyale"

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[rzemanfl]

5. They couldn't do that in Alabama. n/t

[CTyankee]

6. I was there. Just got back.

Lot of people there were pretty pissed off. We were tailgating near one of the portals and heard about the protest and game delay. There was lots of confusion about what was going on until the word spread about the reason for the delay.

Both teams returned to the field. Then the protestors left. The game continued and Harvard won 29-13.

Unfortunately, I managed to choke on a cannoli and since the medic van was right at our gate I was seen by the medics. I choked up the remains of the cannoli, finally cleared my windpipe of phlegm (took a while) and returned to the game.

I'm fine now but I really wanted Yale to win. However, my cannoli choke was enough excitement for me. I'm just glad I wasn't hauled off to the ER

[iluvtennis]

7. Glad you are okay (..I like cannole too..). thanks for the onsite insight. nt

[doublethink]

9. Yahoo sports says game is tied 36 to 36 after 4 quarters? Overtime?

Yep says end of 4? Anyway hope you're feeling better.

[CTyankee]

10. YES! YALE WON 50-43 in 2 overtimes...

[doublethink]

11. Well I see that made you feel better !!!

Ye-aaa! Congratulations !

[CTyankee]

12. Yes. I have to see my ex husband at Thanksgiving and he is a Harvard man. Since the Harvard/Yale

game is always played the Saturday before Thanksgiving I have suffered thru many a gloat from him. Now I'll go with a big smile on my face...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. Wromg! Harvard blew its early lead (for the fourth time this season)

Yale won 50-43 in OT. Ten thousand men of Harvard were denied victory today.

[CTyankee]

15. Geez, I'd almost forgotten that old stupid song...

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

16. As a former Harvard student, I listened to it many times

Personally, I prefer "Fight Fiercely, Harvard"

[CTyankee]

18. I'm old enough to remember that one, too...it was kinda funny...

My ex used to talk about belonging to Pi Eta, some kind of frat...those were the old days before women arrived and spoiled everything for geezers like him...

[paleotn]

8. YES!!!

[certainot]

13. fantastic! there are 87 major unis supporting 260+ linmbaugh stations and all do denial

none of those schools have any excuse to continue broadcasting on those stations, which all deny global warming because they have to follow linmbaugh

[oldsoftie]

17. Fans demand game coverage on the biggest stations. Thats never going to change

Alumni sports associations carry WAY too much clout with universities. Because of the money they bring in. The die hard fans watch the TV broadcast but listen to the home announcers on radio.
Universities want ratings and they're not going to walk away from them because of Limbaugh. His audience isnt what it used to be anyway.

[certainot]

19. did the loudest station in colorado just decide between linmbo and CU buffs? he lost

limbaugh got demoted in colorado/850 KOA, possibly because of CU activism. they may not tell but he got moved to aa lesser signal. the activism there was light but long term and that may have been all iit took to force the station to decide

but linmbo's still on nearly 600 stations.

and it''s not up to alum and sports establishment. when student protests point out the absurdity of those associations the advertisers will head for the hills except for those who support trump and global warming. or they may there are plenty of other stations in many locations, and streaming.

and the radio licensing revenue is nothing compared with tv. in new mexico the licensing co actually pays the station! so is the uni getting less revenue? UNM actually advertises on that limbo station - they advertise their diversity and scholarship!

it doessn't fucking matter what they school 'leaders' do, it's whether the station can still get advertisers after the communities see the backlash and boycotts

[oldsoftie]

20. Might happen in some areas, but I just dont see it happening widespread

Students can protest all they want; alumni far outnumber them no matter what school. We are seeing more FM stations cover games, but AM still dominates. The one closest to me is #1 in ratings by a HUGE number. UGA isnt going to leave that station or the big one in ATL. Limabugh will die off before that changes (and that may be quicker than we think). And that goes for most of the colleges in the south & midwest.

[certainot]

21. i disagree. republican radio is piggybacking those stations to sell propaganda and a lot of alum

even the republican alum may be conservative but recognize linbaugh/russian radio has destroyed the party and is taking it down.

sports talk is huge with a lot of loud stations that can take up the slack in many places that can provide more talk time and sell more merchandise.

RW radio giant iheart/clearchannel was recently $20 bil in debt and still going because it's worth trillions to them. those 260 limbaugh stations piggybacking 87 universities is huge to them. and they're not going to let it fade before the planet burns.