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This training document was created by 350.org to support divestment organizers planning sit-in actions. The document models a potential structure for the action, including roles like action leader, spokespeople, police liasion, and photographers.

This article features interviews with Divest McGill members and other community members who attended a rally for divestment outside of the James Administration building on October 22 2018. The article also highlights the new Intergovernmental Panel…

This article announces the Arts Undergraduate Society's endorsement of Divest McGill's petition for divestment from fossil fuels. The article describes discussion beween student represetatives about how divestment might impact the internship…

This opinion piece highlights the vested interests among McGill's Board of Governors, including executives from Bank of Montreal, Power Corporation of Canada, the National Bank of Canada, Metro, Inc., Bell Canada, and Air Canada.

This video captures the protest camp set up by Divest McGill outside the James Administration building to support the sit-in ongoing inside Principal Fortier's office.

This article describes the formation of a coalition of university groups in Quebec under the banner “La planète s’invite à l’université.” The coalition is mobilizing for climate strikes on March 15 and September 17. Small collectives from Université…

This article describes the submission of a letter signed by over 100 members of McGill's faculty, presented to the Board of Governors in support of Divest McGill's petition for divestment from fossil fuels.

This article describes a 'book blockade' action organized by Divest McGill outside of the James Administration building. The action calls attention to CAMSR's refusal to classify the fossil fuel industry as causing 'social injury.' It also draws…

Members of Divest McGill, along with other McGill students, joined local climate action organizations such as Extinction Rebellion Quebec and Greenpeace Quebec on Oct. 29 in front of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) office at 1 Place Ville Marie,…

Divest McGill and other campus groups gathered outside the James Administration Building on Dec. 1 to listen to speakers and gather signatures for a petition that urges McGill to divest from TC Energy—the fossil fuel company building the Coastal…