Actor Sam Waterston was among the 42 protesters arrested at Yale Bowl Saturday in a climate change action that drew hundreds onto the field and disrupted the Yale-Harvard football game.
Waterston was among a group of about 150 students and alumni from Yale and Harvard who planned to storm the field at halftime after the bands played. Hundreds more joined as the protest unfolded, leading to a 40-minute delay in the start of the second half.
The Academy Award-winning actor, star of Law & Order, is a member of the Yale class of 1962. He was arrested Oct. 18 in a climate change protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. along with Jane Fonda, his co-star in Grace and Frankie.
“We reached out to him ahead of time because he had been involved in the Green New Deal protests,” said Nora Heaphy, a Yale junior who was an organizer of Saturday’s protest.
Heaphy said Waterston, 79, was eager to join the students and alumni in the core group, about two-thirds Yale and one-third Harvard.
The groups, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard and the Yale Endowment Justice Coalition, brought five banners out onto the field with their demands: That Yale and Harvard, with combined endowments of about $70 billion, immediately agree to divest their investments in companies producing and selling fossil fuels; and that the universities cancel the obligations of debt they hold for Puerto Rico, which remains in financial crisis.
Waterston is believed to be the oldest person arrested; all were charged with misdemeanors, Heaphy said.
Yale won the game in a 50-43 comeback win in double-overtime — a contest that ended in near darkness in part because of the protest delay.
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