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"Students Occupy Oxford University in Fossil Fuel Divestment Protest" [1]

"Students occupied an administrative building at Oxford university on Monday in protest at the university’s decision to defer a decision on whether to dump its shares in fossil fuels.

Around 15 student activists peacefully occupied the Clarendon Building and unveiled a banner. One activist told the Guardian that two police vans and two squad cars arrived at the university. “There’s lots of police around. They’ve put two security guards inside here with us,” she said.

No attempt was made to remove the protesters and the security staff made no attempt to block the protesters from entering the building just as it closed for the day. Despite their stated intention to stay the night, the activists left the building at around 8pm."

Karl Mathiesen reports for the Guardian March 17, 2015. [2]

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Source: Guardian [2], 03/19/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/students-occupy-oxford-university-fossil-fuel-divestment-protest [2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/oxford-university-defers-fossil-fuel-divestment-decision [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/europe [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81