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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" size="4" face="Arial">Today is Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Day! <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bykEYrnAt_ltXmRNZcwan5uk5Qpj4waXOsRzvVHp0ws/edit?usp=sharing" class=""><font class="" color="#0432ff">Please
read and sign this letter of support,</font></a><font class="" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> written by</span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> the Fossil Free @ WHOI Core Team, to show our
Director and Board of Trustees that WHOI students support <b class="">urgent climate action by removing WHOI's investments from fossil fuel corporations.</b></span></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" size="4" face="Arial"><span class="" style="color:rgb(28,30,33); orphans:2; widows:2; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Students across the world, including over 50 campuses in the US, are taking unprecedented action today for</span><span class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" color="#0432ff"> </font></span><font class="" color="#0432ff"><a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fossilfueldivestmentday?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="text-decoration:none; orphans:2; widows:2; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="_5afx" style="direction:ltr; unicode-bidi:isolate"><font class="" color="#0432ff"><span class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi:isolate">#</span><span class="_58cm">fossilfueldivestmentday</span></font></span></a><span class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. </span></font><font class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2" color="#1c1e21">We
are demanding our universities </font><b class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" color="#1c1e21">divest from fossil fuel corporations</font></b><font class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2" color="#1c1e21"> that are poisoning our air, waters, and
land and reinvest in regenerative, community-controlled economies that put people first. For more information on the movement, see attached Boston Globe op-ed written by Harvard, Boston University, and Boston College students.</font></font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" size="4" face="Arial" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Mark Abbott and the Board of Trustees are aware of this growing movement, and we have already been in productive
communication. This letter will help demonstrate the body of support for the divestment movement and climate action at WHOI. Email me or Mara Freilich with any questions.</span></font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" face="Arial"><font class="" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" size="4">Finally, please take a moment to read about the </font></span></font></font><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6517089/wetsuweten-bc-pipeline-protests/" class=""><font class="" size="4" color="#0432ff">violent
invasion</font></a><font class="" face="Arial"><font class="" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" size="4"> of
</font><b class=""><font class="" size="4">sovereign</font></b><font class="" size="4"> </font></span></font><span class="" style="font-size:large; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" color="#202124"><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:pre-wrap"><b class="">Wet’suwet’en
territory</b> by <b class="">Coastal GasLink </b></span><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px; white-space:pre-wrap"><b class="">Pipeline</b></span><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:pre-wrap"><b class=""> and TransCanada</b>,
happening right now. You can support this nation</span><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:pre-wrap"> with a
</span></font></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNtxbSahBWHsa9Wy_sEelq8BAEp1mOsiiOzkvq9dE7ryMnGA/viewform" class="" style="font-size:large"><font class="" color="#0432ff">pledge</font></a><span class="" style="font-size:large; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" color="#202124"><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:pre-wrap">
or </span></font></span><font class="" color="#0432ff"><a href="https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/unistoten2020legalfund/" class="" style="font-size:large">donation</a><span class="" style="font-size:large; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="" style="letter-spacing:0.2px; white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></span></font></font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" size="4" face="Arial" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Onward!</span></font></div>
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<div class="" style="orphans:2; widows:2"><font class="" size="4" face="Arial" color="#1c1e21"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Lauren Dykman</span></font></div>
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