Sunrise Brown rallies for DIRE campaign

BY SAM LEVINE UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR

Carrying banners and singing along to protest songs, around 100 students, faculty and community members gathered on the Main Green Friday in support of Sunrise Brown’s DIRE campaign, which calls for the University to dissociate from the fossil fuel industry and increase its investment in the Providence community.

The group rallied on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center before marching to University Hall and delivering a copy of Sunrise Brown’s “Dissociate Now” report to University administrators. The report investigates Brown’s ties to “fossil fuel-affiliated and climate disinformation-affiliated organizations” and presents recommendations for the University’s dissociation from the industry.

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“The University received the report on Friday, and our next step will be to review it in full,” wrote University Spokesperson Brian Clark in an email to The Herald.

“We know this isn’t easy,” Isaac Slevin ’25, a Sunrise Brown organizer, told the crowd in his speech at the rally. “But we know that (this) is what it takes. … If Brown wants to live up to its values of sustainability and academic freedom … then we have to show out for” this campaign.