{"id":1707958,"date":"2022-10-23T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707958"},"modified":"2022-10-23T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:48:44","slug":"fossil-fuel-protestors-rush-field-and-refuse-to-leave-at-penn-yale-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fossil-fuel-protestors-rush-field-and-refuse-to-leave-at-penn-yale-football-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil Fuel Protestors Rush Field and Refuse to Leave at Penn-Yale Football Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffossil-fuel-protestors-rush-field-and-refuse-to-leave-at-penn-yale-football-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-22-at-4.24.08-PM-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Penn and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-yale-employee-nine-years-prison-admitting-stealing-million-university\">Yale <\/a>were getting ready to play the second half of Penn\u2019s homecoming football game, but there was a problem: dozens of protestors had taken up temporary residence at midfield and delayed the start of the half for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Penn students rush the field nearing the end of halftime of a Penn-Yale football game, protesting climate and community justice from Penn\u2019s administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LiPkDmC5VO\">pic.twitter.com\/LiPkDmC5VO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bella DiAmore (@belladiamore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/belladiamore\/status\/1583897573177556992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Penn vs. Yale football game delayed nearly an hour due  to on field protest by Penn students. I thought I saw everything until today! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T2GLONEeHR\">pic.twitter.com\/T2GLONEeHR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James schmidt (@jschmidt_james) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jschmidt_james\/status\/1583908819502931968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A student protest delayed the second half of the Penn-Yale homecoming football game by about an hour and a half. Good for them. Loudspeaker asking students to leave, with reminders that while this is not a sanctioned protest, it is allowed under university open expression rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdW1yiWEK3\">pic.twitter.com\/tdW1yiWEK3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rikker Dockum \/\u0279\u026ak\u0279\u0329\/ (@thai101) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thai101\/status\/1583912014526619649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The students did eventually exit the field, more than a few of them doing so in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Why? Well, apparently it had to do with the University\u2019s involvement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/perfectly-normal-just-stop-oil-activists-throw-tomato-soup-van-gogh-painting-glue-themselves-to-wall\/\">fossil fuel<\/a> investments. Additionally, the protestors were looking for the school to save the University City Townhomes. These are affordable housing units that are set to be redeveloped. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Most protesters left after an hour, but a handful remained to hold signs calling on Penn to divest from fossil fuel investments, save the UC townhomes affordable housing program, and pay local taxes in the PILOTs program. They were arrested by police. Good for the protesters!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rikker Dockum \/\u0279\u026ak\u0279\u0329\/ (@thai101) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thai101\/status\/1583912140481536000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, Penn Senior Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli wrote that the school does not have \u201cany influence\u201d over the redevelopment plan.<\/p>\n<p>PILOTs stands for \u201cpayments in lieu of taxes,\u201d and the push is for Penn to make payments to an Educational Equity Fund governed by the local school district and the City of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>One video posted by Fossil Free Penn, which was involved in the protest shows some fans trying to tear up their banners.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Seeing fierce pushes for progressive causes from Penn students shouldn\u2019t be that surprising. It\u2019s the same school that had transgender Lia Thomas on its swim team, which led to widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/three-time-olympic-gold-medalist-nancy-hogshead-speaks-against-trans-penn-swimmer-lia-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Penn led Yale through threequarters by a score of 13-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Follow on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Matt_Reigle\">@Matt_Reigle<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn and Yale were getting ready to play the second half of Penn\u2019s homecoming football game, but there was a problem: dozens of protestors had taken up temporary residence at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}