WAMC produced a story about the fossil-fuel divestment sit-in at Swarthmore College that appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.
The campaign has had some notable wins in the past year. But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit-in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard.
On the first day of an extended sit-in at the elite liberal arts college, dozens of students are crowded into a hallway outside the finance offices, learning a new protest song.
“We’re asking for our school to sell its holdings in the top 200 coal, oil and gas companies,” senior Sara Blazevic says. “Divestment is a way for our school, as a institution with a lot of social standing and a lot of clout, to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry.”
Read the whole article and listen to audio broadcast coverage, including the interview with Swarthmore student Sara Blacevic on WAMC’s website.
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