UC regents urged to divest in fossil fuels
By Joseph Perkins | Cal Watchdog
The scene brought to mind Tom Wolfe’s essay “Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers,” which was published all the way back in 1970, when young Jerry Brown was a member of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees.
Wolfe’s non-fiction essay was set at San Francisco’s Office of Economic Activity, where government functionaries – flak catchers – kowtowed to community activist types issuing one demand or another.
Fast forward to the recent meet-up of the University of California’s Board of Regents at the Sacramento Convention Center.
Outside the meeting room, a few dozen student activists from a group that calls itself Fossil Free UC noisily demanded that the regents – latter day flak catchers – divest the system’s $7.7 billion general endowment fund of fossil fuel investments.
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