demanding @yale divest from fossil fuels, military weapons, and other extractive & exploitative industries and invest instead in the city of New Haven
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Yale President Maurie McInnis was caught on a hot mic insulting a student who questioned Yale’s negotiations with Trump, calling her “pissed off”. Leaders who speak about students like this cannot be trusted to defend our values and resist capitulation.
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Over 300 Yale students, staff, faculty, and alumni rebuilt the historic “Lipstick” statue yesterday and rallied against settlement with the Trump administration, and for democratizing reforms of the University. Learn more at the link in bio. 📸: Greg Pak
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Yale Endowment Justice Collective retweeted
Hundreds of Yale students rallied around a cardboard replica of the famous Lipstick statue Friday afternoon, urging the university to avoid a settlement with the Trump administration over Yale’s admissions policies — and protesting recently implemented free speech policies restricting campus gatherings. newhavenindependent.org/2026…
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Yale community members protesting a potential settlement with the Trump administration deliberately broke the university’s tightened protest rules. Students, faculty members, and alumni called for Yale to end negotiations among other demands. chroni.cl/4iI2vWE
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Over 300 students, staff, faculty, and alumni turned out to Democratize Yale!
More than 100 students, faculty and alumni called on Yale to defend itself against the Trump administration. ctpost.com/news/education/ar…
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Around 250 Yale professors, students, alumni and faculty gathered on Cross Campus Tuesday afternoon for a teach-in and rally demanding administrators “democratize Yale,” as university President Maurie McInnis continues settlement talks with the Trump administration over the university’s admissions policies. newhavenindependent.org/2026…
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🔦 Yale Donated $1M to Friends of the IDF, Funding Soldiers Behind Gaza Atrocities
The Endowment Justice Collective (EJC) has revealed Yale University donated $1,000,000 to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in its 2024 tax filings – the largest such donation by any U.S. university. Yale Daily News cites a Yale spokesperson who confirmed that the “distribution” to FIDF was made in November 2023, one month after Israel launched its genocidal campaign. The money was funneled through a Yale donor-advised fund – a program where donors recommend grants but Yale must approve recipients.
➤ FIDF is a New York City-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds active-duty Israeli soldiers – committing genocide and other war crimes in Gaza – with cash, housing, and “adopt a brigade” programs. The EJC notes Yale had veto power but still approved the donation.
➤ The disclosure comes as Yale faces student pressure to divest from weapons makers. In 2024, 77% of undergrads voted for divestment, and in 2025 students filed a legal complaint with the Connecticut Attorney General, arguing Yale’s trustees breached fiduciary duty by permitting investment in arms companies.
➤ In response to the revelation, the Collective has launched a fundraiser for mutual aid in Gaza, supporting families in Khan Younis and Health Workers 4 Palestine.
Source: Endowment Justice Collective release (Sept. 19, 2025) — Instagram linked below
Breaking: Yale Endowment Justice (@YaleEJC) just reported (on IG) that @Yale University has donated $1 million dollars to the @FIDF, or the Friends of the IDF, the most genocidal army in the world. instagram.com/p/DOvjGeqjq8x/…
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This morning, EJC organizers disrupted “Debating Globalization,” a class taught by Citi board member Ernesto Zedillo, to urge Citi to take action on climate and commit to ending its financing of fossil fuel expansion at their Annual General Meeting tomorrow!
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Citi has pumped $285 billion into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016 — utterly incompatible with the urgency of the climate crisis. Zedillo refused to engage us in dialogue, but we know that business can’t continue as usual in the face of planetary arson.
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@Citi, @ValCookSmith - we demand transparency, accountability and action on climate, starting with an immediate end to the expansion of fossil fuel investments!
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Yale Endowment Justice Collective retweeted
By filing these complaints, we are asking our state attorney generals to investigate the legality of continued fossil fuel investments and compel our universities to divest.
@Yale, @Stanford, @MIT, @Princeton, & @VanderbiltU
It's time to divest. Now.
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Today, students at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Vanderbilt launched a coordinated legal campaign to force their schools to divest from fossil fuels -- a move that could not only set new precedent for the 5 colleges, but all institutional investors. grist.org/protest/the-campus…
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“We’re done waiting for our institutions to take the threat of climate change seriously. Action must come now.”
Check out this powerful op-Ed by our comrades at @DivestPrinceton about why we are asking our state AGs to investigate our university’s fossil fuel investments.
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"We are calling on our attorneys general to compel our schools to do the right thing and divest," said an organizer with @FossilFree5, a coalition of students urging @MIT, @Princeton, @Stanford, @VanderbiltU & @Yale to stop investing in fossil fuels. cdreams.news/3GWBzMe
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Students’ complaint argues it’s illegal for US universities to invest in fossil fuels theguardian.com/environment/…
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BREAKING: Student divestment campaigns at Yale, Vanderbilt, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford file legal complaints with state Attorneys General, claiming that investing in fossil fuels violates the UPMIFA. Read more @washingtonpost.
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This morning, divestment campaigns at Yale, Princeton, MIT, Vanderbilt, and Stanford -— the Fossil Free 5 — filed legal complaints against fossil fuel investments. Join our fight by signing our complaint at bit.ly/YaleDivestNow and visit fossilfree5.org to learn more.
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