{"id":20447,"date":"2015-04-19T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20447"},"modified":"2015-04-19T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:44:42","slug":"500-attend-high-profile-mit-divestment-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/04\/19\/500-attend-high-profile-mit-divestment-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Attend High-Profile MIT Divestment Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fossil Free MIT<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fossilfreemit.org\/divestmentdebate\/\" title=\"Divestment Debate article\" target=\"_blank\">04.09.15 \u2013 500 Attend High-Profile MIT Divestment Debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn response to 3,000 nerds-turned-activists, MIT\u2019s administration hosts an unprecedented public debate on whether MIT should divest from fossil fuels, just days before Harvard students and celebrities begin a week of civil disobedience to confront their administration\u2019s stonewalling.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article featured the video clip below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cixiAcm3BYk?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you follow the URL  displayed at the end of the video, , you end up at the webcast of <a href=\"http:\/\/webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu\/spr2015\/Climate_Change\/09apr\/\" title=\"Webcast of the debate\" target=\"_blank\">Should MIT Divest? A Debate on Fossil Fuel Investment<\/a>.  From the links I have just given you, you will find a wide array of other links to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than my just complaining about the Koch takeover of MIT, I now realize that there may be active steps I can take to see if I can undo the damage.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mary Afable for cluing me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossil Free MIT has the article 04.09.15 \u2013 500 Attend High-Profile MIT Divestment Debate. In response to 3,000 nerds-turned-activists, MIT\u2019s administration hosts an unprecedented public debate on whether MIT should divest from fossil fuels, just days before Harvard students and celebrities begin a week of civil disobedience to confront their administration\u2019s stonewalling. The article featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20449,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20447\/revisions\/20449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}