Our own student, Will Lawrence, has written a piece in Waging Nonviolence with Sally Bunner about the Power Up! Divest Fossil Fuels Student Convergence at Swarthmore College.
… After the fun and exciting work of starting divestment campaigns, students now face the long and challenging work of continuing them in the face of administrative obstacles. …
… To prepare for this important moment, students are gathering in Swarthmore, Pa., this weekend for the Power Up! Divest Fossil Fuels Student Convergence, where they will be sharing the skills necessary to strengthen their campaigns at home and the movement as a whole. Convergence organizers say they hope to focus on two particular threads — how the divestment movement can enact and advance an environmental justice analysis, and how divestment campaigns can coordinate to become more than the sum of their parts.
Read the whole article at Waging Nonviolence.
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