“I go to Harvard, and I strongly believe in this institution’s mission I very firmly believe that Harvard is one of the greatest forces for intellectual good on earth,” Bhat said. Bhat ’23-’24, who has been involved in the divest movement for two years, said in an interview at the rally that he is frustrated with institutions’ failures to act to mitigate the effects of climate change. Newton did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the rally. Many of the speeches ended with a direct call for the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Harvard Corporation to dump the endowment’s holdings in fossil fuel stocks and options. In total, six current and former students delivered speeches and shared with attendees how the climate crisis has touched their own communities. “Harvard’s gates can’t keep out rising tides,” one poster read. In front of the John Harvard statue, students held several banners and signs with slogans in support of divestment. Students lined up outside the building holding up a blue sheet to represent water levels. Roughly 80 student protestors with Divest Harvard - a student organization calling for the University to sell its investments in the fossil fuel industry - staged a “visual waterline” outside University Hall to represent the rally’s focus on rising sea levels, floods, and hurricanes that have hit the United States in the past two months. In its first on-campus protest in 10 months, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard held a rally calling for Harvard to divest from fossil fuels on Tuesday afternoon.
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