City Council support of MIT Divest’s campaign to divest MIT’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry

How it started

Nov 1, 2021 · Proposed by Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler and Zondervan, Mayor Siddiqui, Councillor McGovern, Vice Mayor Mallon, and Councillors Carlone, Simmons, Nolan, and Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Nov 1, 2021 · ✅ Order adopted as amended (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Roll call of Nov 1, 2021 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Nov 1, 2021