Cornell on Fire 6/12/24 Cornell on Fire 6/12/24

Cornell on Fire Weekly 6/12: On disruptive action

Our banner action last Friday calls for two confessions and a question: what constitutes disruptive action?

Cornell on Fire 5/30/24 Cornell on Fire 5/30/24

Poem: Extrapolation of the Facts

A poem by Cornell undergraduate Lee Linus Jing Wo, on the pretty lies of fossil fuels that lead us to our grave.

Cornell on Fire 5/29/24 Cornell on Fire 5/29/24

Cornell on Fire Weekly 5/29

In honor of Cornell’s 156th Commencement, we held a banner drop announcing a critical moment for climate accountability: will Big Red continue to echo Big Oil’s climate denial, disinformation, and doublespeak? This moment of reckoning for Cornell involves climate hypocrisy on multiple fronts. The hottest front now is artificial turf.

Cornell on Fire 5/23/24 Cornell on Fire 5/23/24

Cornell on Fire Weekly 5/23

Cornell the Corporation has outdone itself in embarrassing Cornell the University. In support of their newest construction project, lovingly named for an Oil Baron, Cornell has submitted a strikingly inept "summary of research" on artificial turf fields to Ithaca’s Town and City Planning Boards. Except the report is not authored by scientists, and it does not review the scientific literature.