Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Fossil Free UC, Williams, Emily (Emily Lynn), Foran, John, Levin, Laurel, and Newman, Thomas B.
- Abstract:
- This collection documents the Fossil Free UC campaign, a University of California-wide effort to persuade the UC Regents to divest from Fossil Fuel assets. The campaign ran from 2011 to 2019, and this collection contains materials from across the campuses and campaigns.
- Extent:
- 1.07 Gigabytes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], UC Fossil Free Archive, UArch 139. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection documents the UC-wide movement to divest from Fossil Fuel company shares, and contains photos and written documents showing the progression of student protests and university response across the UC campuses. This includes items produced by students, various press outlets, and UC administration.
- Biographical / historical:
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Between 2012-2019, student activists led a UC-wide coalition– the Fossil Free UC campaign– to pressure the University to divest faculty and staff retirement funds from oil company shares. UCSB students were at the forefront of the movement, working closely with their peers at other campuses. Their grassroots campaign exposed the disjuncture between public perception of Santa Barbara as a haven for environmentalism and the University's investments in the fossil fuel industry. Through a strategic combination of demonstrations, letter-writing, and face-to-face conversations, students and supporting faculty made it clear that the UC was complicit and profiting from environmental destruction caused by oil companies.
- Acquisition information:
- Transferred by Andrea Serna, 2023.
- Arrangement:
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This collection was arranged by Andrea Serna into six series based on the source of the material;
- Series 1. Emily Williams;
- Series 2. John Foran;
- Series 3. Theo LeQuesne;
- Series 4. Thomas Newman;
- Series 5. Laurel Levin;
- Series 6. Unassociated.
- Fossil Free UC Archive Inventory, 2022 May 3 (XLSX)
- UC Fossil Free Archive Mission Statement, 2021 October 6 (PDF)
- Physical location:
- The majority of this collection is digital and lives on the Special Research Collections internal server. 1 box of materials is located at Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], UC Fossil Free Archive, UArch 139. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062