Fossil fuel divestment activists inspired by anti-apartheid struggle

The divestment movement against the South African government helped topple the apartheid regime there in the 1990s. Climate activists are borrowing from the same playbook. For more than a decade, they’ve been pressuring institutions and governments to pull money out of stocks, bonds and businesses that fund the fossil fuel industry. Today on the Big Fix, The World’s Anna Kusmer reports on activists who say the fossil fuel divestment movement is both inspired by and a continuation of the anti-apartheid struggle.

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