Climate activists disrupt Harvard-Yale Football game to protest fossil fuel investments

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Hundreds of students and alumni from Harvard and Yale disrupted the annual football game between the two universities on Saturday, November 23 to protest the school’s investments in the fossil fuel industry. The protest began during the game’s half-time show when 70 protestors took to the field. At its peak, the protest included up to 500 people. The disruption delayed the game for roughly an hour.

Calling on Harvard and Yale to divest fossil fuel investments, protesters held up banners that read “Nobody wins. Yale and Harvard are complicit in climate injustice.” Protesters chanted “disclose, divest and reinvest”, while police demanded via loudspeaker that they leave the field. According to reports, spectators and some players joined activists during the protest. The Harvard Crimson reports the protest continued until the police made arrests. According to a Yale spokesperson, police arrested 42 protesters.

Although some spectators joined the protest, others booed during the disruption. According to The New York Times, some attendees shouted: “Drag them off the field!”

The protest attracted widespread attention, including from Democratic presidential…