Moment of Protest #1

Yari Greaney ('15, MS '16) is one of the organizers of Fossil Free Stanford and the divestment campaign. This interview was conducted on the evening of November 16.

"I feel exhausted now. We’ve been 'on' all day. This morning, I felt super-nervous and excited. The closer [the event] got, the more nervous I got.

"Walking over to the Quad, my heart was pounding. At that point, we knew the doors were locked, which was a little disappointing, We really wanted the visual of everyone streaming into the President’s office. But it’s okay—we are now encamped on the Quad. It’s a more powerful space.

"When we're there circling the building, and the rally comes around the corner, cheering and shouting—it felt so big and so powerful. All I can think then is that we are winning, we are winning.

After that, once we set up, I just felt happy. We’ve been planning logistics for so many weeks for this. And then we are here!”