Letter to the Editor: Divest Nonetheless

It’s been three years since the Green Amherst Project first asked the board of the trustees to divest Amherst’s $2.1 billion endowment from the coal industry. In that time, the divestment movement has expanded to over 300 universities and numerous religious institutions, foundations and cities; the list of organizations already divested includes institutions both large and small, ranging from Stanford University and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. The divestm