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Why These Penn Students Camped for 39 Days on College Green

Anyone who has walked by College Green in the past two weeks has likely noticed Fossil Free Penn’s colorful tents and banners strung up on trees. Between classes, students involved with FFP said that they have spent upwards of 12 hours at the encampment each day, with many sleeping in tents during the night.


Read more about the encampment: https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/09/inside-fossil-free-penn-encampment-two-weeks


More about their protest during Penn Football's homecoming game: https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/10/protest-homecoming-football-game-fossil-free-penn-franklin-field


And more on them ending the encampment: https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/10/encampment-removed-fossil-free-penn-protest-arrests



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