"Divest MTA" activists are celebrating ten years of protesting and marches today but what is their message? Erica Butler CHMA spoke with two of the anti-oil and gas student group members who are demonstrating at "Centennial Hall" and who have asked others to show their support by joining them occupying space there:
Masked Anti Fossil Fuels "Divest MTA" - CHMA Erica Butler Report (bitchute.com)
Postering from the group seen around the campus...
Divest Mount Allison (@divest.mta) • Instagram photos and videos
Commentary found at the Facebook Event page...
"Mount Allison University is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university located in Sackville, New Brunswick. It has been ranked the top undergraduate university in the country for 18 of the last 25 years by Maclean's magazine. With a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio, the average first-year class size is 65 and upper-year classes average 14 students.Mount Allison University was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccalaureate to a woman . Mount Allison graduates have been awarded a total of 53 Rhodes Scholarships. American chemist James B. Sumner, who later won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, used to work at Mount Allison as a teaching fellow. Mount Allison also has one of the largest endowments per student in Canada.HistoryMount Allison University is a United Church-affiliated, but non-sectarian university which was established at Sackville, New Brunswick on January 19, 1843. The university was named after Charles Frederick Allison, in honour of his gift of land and money. Its origins were steeped in the Methodist faith. It was designed to prepare men for the ministry and to supply education for lay members. The university was chartered on April 14, 1849.Mount Allison's origins however go back to a boys' academy founded in June 1839 by a local Methodist merchant, Charles Frederick Allison. Charles Allison's grandfather had emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 18th century because of the after effects of a dinner with the local government tax collector. Wanting to impress the man, the family had set the table with their one valuable possession: silver spoons. After entertaining their guest, the Allisons were informed by the tax collector that if they could afford silver spoons, then they could certainly afford to pay more taxes. The Allisons left Ireland shortly thereafter. The offending spoons are now on display in the university library." [ the spoons are historic, not offending... not sure why this passage reads this way or who wrote it ]
