DIRE: DISSOCIATE

Require all retirement plan vendors to offer fossil-free retirement plan options to faculty and staff at Brown.

Adopt a fossil fuel-free careers policy that bans fossil fuel companies from hosting recruiting events and attending career fairs, posting job vacancies, sponsoring events, and otherwise advertising to students through Brown.

Adopt a Fossil-Free Research policy, prohibiting fossil fuel companies, their affiliated foundations, and industry groups from funding research and donating to Brown University.

WHAT IS DISSOCIATION FROM BIG OIL?

DISSOCIATION GOES BEYOND DIVESTMENT FROM FOSSIL FUELS:
WE'RE DEMANDING THAT BROWN CUTS ALL TIES TO BIG OIL

DISSOCIATE NOW

On February 27th 2023, we released Dissociate Now: A Fossil Free Brown, which outlines how Brown is entangled with the fossil fuel industry and the case for severing its ties.

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OUR PROGRESS SO FAR

FOSSIL-FREE RETIREMENT

Because of Sunrise Brown's work, Brown University faculty can now opt-into a fossil-free retirement policy with virtually no ties to the fossil fuel industry.

FOSSIL FUEL RECRUITMENT BAN

In response to Sunrise's demands, the Center for Career Exploration at Brown has agreed to no longer invite fossil fuel companies to recruitment events at Brown. However, this isn't a complete ban; fossil fuel companies continue to mislead and recruit Brown students. We're continuing to pursue a complete recruitment ban in order to finally kick Big Oil off campus.

FOSSIL-FREE RESEARCH (FFR)

Since DIRE's launch, Sunrise Brown presented to the Advisory Committee on University Resource Management (ACURM), and their recommendation in favor of FFR was released in October 2024. President Paxson has yet to act on ACURM's recommendations, so we're in the process of garnering student and faculty support to pressure Paxson to take action.

OUR NETWORK OF SUPPORT

48 organizations from San Diego to Amsterdam have endorsed our demand for Brown to dissociate from the fossil fuel industry!

Brown Renewable Energy and Sustainability Society • Brown Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) • Brown Urban Mobility Project (BUMP) • Decolonization at Brown (DAB) • Farmlink @ Brown • Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) • Resource Generation @ Brown • Scholars at Brown for Climate Action (SBCA) • Students Against Koch Influence • Students for Educational Equity (SEE) • Student Labor Alliance (SLA) • Sustainable Business Society • Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS)

Cambridge Climate Justice • Campus Climate Network • Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI) • Climate Justice Cornell • Climate Justice UBC • Climate Justice UofT • Divest Princeton • Divest Vanderbilt • Duke Climate Coalition • End Fossil Leiden University & TU Delft • E-Town Sunrise • Exeter Shell Out • Fossil Free Northwestern • Fossil Free Penn • Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard • Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard Alumni • Green Action WashU • Green New Deal UC San Diego • SECS UIUC • Stanford True School For Sustainability • Sunrise American University • Sunrise Athens • Sunrise Dartmouth • Sunrise Gallatin Valley • Sunrise GW • Sunrise LA Youth (SLAY) • Sunrise NYU • Sunrise PVD • Tufts Climate Action • UC Green New Deal Coalition • UvA Rebellion (Amsterdam) • XR Youth Cambridge

"Scientific research provides a roadmap to navigating the climate crisis. At this critical point, we cannot afford to allow fossil fuel money to skew understanding of what post fossil-fuel environmental futures are possible and how to get there."

Climate Justice UBC (University of British Columbia)

"The housing crisis and the climate crisis are inextricably linked. As the climate changes, housing-insecure people are among the most severely impacted. HOPE strongly stands against Brown's complacency in the climate crisis through the University's ties to Big Oil, so we back the DIRE campaign's demands to cut these ties."

Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) (Brown University)