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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The following message comes to you via Odette Shenfield from Fossil Free ANU. Please feel free to add your voice to their open letter - the campaign seeks support, and especially welcomes any
from members of the ANU community who feel for the Pacific. (PS Odette has also been visiting staff and videoing their brief statements in advance of next Tuesday’s meeting. Do contact her! The process is painless!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fossil Free ANU is a student-run campaign calling on the ANU to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. We’d like to invite you to sign our Open Letter from ANU staff in support of divestment.
We will be presenting the open letter to Council and the Vice-Chancellor in March. Names will not be disclosed until we reach a minimum of 100 signatures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By demonstrating that hundreds of staff from across the university want to work for an institution that is fossil free, we will show the ANU Council that this is an issue they cannot ignore in
2016. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Add your voice to the open letter here:
</span></b><a href="http://act.350.org/signup/ffanu-open-letter-2/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://act.350.org/signup/ffanu-open-letter-2/</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In 2014, the ANU made national headlines after divesting from seven socially irresponsible mining companies. The University stood by its decision despite unprecedented backlash from the Prime
Minister and other federal ministers, the Australian Financial Review, and the mining industry. However, this divestment decision included only<span style="color:blue">
</span>two</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Moreover recent research</span><a href="http://350.org.au/news/carbon-costs-erase-billions-from-major-funds/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">indicates</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> that had the ANU fully divested, they would have saved $53 million over the last three years. Investing in the fossil fuel industry
is not only unethical, it no longer makes financial sense.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The movement is rapidly growing, with
</span><a href="http://gofossilfree.org/commitments/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">over 500 institutions</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> worldwide making divestment commitments, including the University
of Oxford and Stanford University. The Australian Academy of Science and the ACT Government have both committed to full divestment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It is now time for the ANU to finish what it started, and become the first Australian university to commit to full divestment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dr Vicki Luker</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Executive Editor,
<i>The Journal of Pacific History</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">College of Asia and the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Australian National University ACT 0200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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