BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN: UPDATES FROM A STUDENT DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGNER

By Sophie Ciurlik-Rittenbaum

I’m a student and divestment campaigner at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Halfway through my third year and, still pushing this campaign through, I think it’s time for an update.

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UEA: BANKING ON IMMORALITY

by Robyn Banks

If it’s not one thing it’s another with UEA. Weeks after their announcement that they’ve finally divested from fossil fuel companies, People and Planet UEA have discovered that the university has nearly £23 million invested with Barclays Bank. This won’t be particularly surprising to most – there is a branch on campus after all – but it shows the university’s ongoing decision to disregard the unfolding environmental and ethical situation of the world it operates in.

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