This document discusses the Divestment Student Network, a youth-led organization working on climate justice and divestment campaigns. The network aims to build and sustain student power by connecting campus divestment efforts. It sees divestment as a solidarity tactic and wants to work on frontline solidarity, shifting analysis to collective liberation, and pursuing goals beyond graduation like concrete climate action. The network holds assemblies and encourages students to join working groups to strengthen campaigns and discuss collaboration over the next three years to maximize their impact.

1. Orange Square
Stories
from the
Divestment Student Network

2. Why do I care?

3. What is it?

4. Why am I involved?

5. WHY A YOUTH NETWORK?
Why is it important to have a network of students, led by students?

6. Building & Sustaining Student Power

7. Shifting Youth Power to work for
Climate Justice
• Divestment as a solidarity tactic
• Frontline Solidarity working group
• Changing our political analysis towards
collective liberation

8. Beyond Divestment
• Divestment as a tactic, not a movement
• What can 300 campuses do, together, to make
concrete change for climate justice?
• Beyond graduation

9. WHAT IS THE NETWORK?

10. The DSN Assembly

11. EXERCISE:
Using A Network of Students Working
on Climate and Environment
Get into small groups (2-4) to discuss questions

12. Questions
1. How could being part of a national network of
students help your campaign? (3 minutes)
Debrief: What are some themes that came up?

13. Questions
2. If you could be in a room with students from
around the country, what would you share? What
questions would you ask of other students? What
discussions would you want to have? (3 min)
Debrief: What are some ideas that were shared?

14. Questions
3. If we committed to work together for the next 3
years, what would be possible?
• What should our goals be?
• What strategies could we use to achieve them?
(5 min)
Debrief: What are the most exciting ideas? Themes?

15. WHAT NEXT?
What are we going to
do about it?

16. Join A Working Group

19. Questions?