hunter cutting, ash len, ruga, katie hofmann, and jes derban ackerman. >> my name is nick, and i am here on behalf of (inaudible) asu and i look out and i want to thank anyone here representing this movement today and i would like to start by saying that divestment is important to us. there is a lot of phrases that can be used one that i particularly like is taxation without representation. and this is something that we need to address, failing to address this will go against everything that we as environmental studies etc., the students are learning and that has inspired us to lead a campaign of our own and we are in the process of drafting the resolution asking the demands that the other students across the country are and those demands are halting investments in any fossil-fuel related companies and withdrawing all investments in five years and moving towards the world that, you know, we wish this live in because this is a human rights issue and this is something that can't be ignored any longer and we urge you to divest as a city as well. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker please?

would like to express my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to speak here today, my name is ash len ruga and i am a senior here in the city. it is less than a year ago that i helped to launch the divestment fuel campaign and i made connections with students across the country. if not for this network of committed students and other allies i would not have sent that first e-mail. this is described as the cloud of apath. y, that hangs over the campus, although social injustice is a theme, the students have not been known to fight for it at least until now, the only explanation that i could fathom about this campaign is that i have finally given them hope and there is a solution to the crisis, it has worked before and so now they have a chance to play a role in shaping the future. i attributed the lack of climate activism that the students are unaware of our reliance or they were getting a degree in we messed up and it is up to your generation to fix it and we are too discouraged to act. through this campaign we have been able to address what is holding people back. our asking for petition